Civil discourse in scholarly communications: an editorial responsibility?

Designing scholarly communications

This paper presents suggestions for the design of a scholarly communications system for the IFIP Working Group 8.2 (WG8.2) community. Learned societies such as IFIP have long been important in the system of scholarly communications. With the affordances of the Internet, WG8.2 can play a larger role in promoting scholarly communications to achieve multiple goals: dissemination and archiving of q...

Guest editorial: social media in scholarly communication

[email protected] 1 École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI), Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC (Canada) 2 School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA) 3 Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, M...

Risk and Responsibility In the GMO Discourse

The Library as an agent for transforming scholarly communications

Responsibility Modelling for Civil Emergency Planning

This paper presents a new approach to analysing and understanding civil emergency planning based on the notion of responsibility modelling combined with HAZOPS analysis of information requirements. Our goal is to represent complex contingency plans so that they can be more readily understood, so that inconsistencies can be highlighted and vulnerabilities discovered. In this paper, we outline th...