30 أكتوبر 2014

7th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries



This is the seventh year of the conference which brings together different disciplines on library and information science; it is a multi–disciplinary conference that covers the Library and Information Science topics in conjunction to other disciplines (e.g. innovation and economics, management and marketing, statistics and data analysis, information technology, human resources, museums, archives, special librarianship, etc). 

The conference invites special and contributed sessions, oral communications, workshops and posters. 

Target Group 

The target group and the audience are library and archives professionals in a more general sense: professors, researchers, students, administrators, stakeholders, librarians, technologists, museum scientists, archivists, decision makers and managers. 

Main topics 

The emphasis is given to the models and the initiatives that run under the budget restrictions, such as the Information Management and the innovation, the crisis management, the long-term access, the synergies and partnership, the open access movement and technological development. 

The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 

1. Information and Knowledge Management 

2. Synergies, Organizational Models and Information Systems 

3. Open Data, Open Access, Analysis and Applications 

4. Multimedia Systems and Applications 

5. Computer Networks and Social Networks, 

6. Health Reference and Informatics 

7. Information Technologies in Education 

8. Decision making in service innovation 

9. Data Mining, content analysis, taxonomies, ontologies 

10. STM information development 



Special Sessions – Workshops 

You may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretar@isast.org or from the electronic submission at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html 

You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the proposed sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractsubmission.html 

Registrations are registration forms are available from: http://www.isast.org/qqml2015registration.html 

Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways 

a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation; 

b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words); 

c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words); 

In all the above cases at least one of the authors ought to be registered in the conference. 

Abstracts and full papers should be submitted electronically within the timetable provided in the web page: http://www.isast.org/

The abstracts and full papers should be in compliance to the author guidelines: http://www.isast.org/ 

All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference. The papers of the conference will be published in the website of the conference, after the permission of the author(s). 

Student submissions 

Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations. 

Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2015 Conference and Student Research Presentations to: the secretariat of the conference at: secretar@isast.org 

Important dates

First call of proposals: 29th of September 2014 

Deadline of abstracts submitted: 20 December 2014 

Reviewer’s response: in 3 weeks after submission 

Early registration: 30th of March 2015 

Paper and Presentation Slides: 1st of May 2015 

Conference dates: 26-29 May 2015 

Paper contributors have the opportunity to be published in the QQML e- Journal, which continues to retain the right of first choice, however in addition they have the chance to be published in other scientific journals. 

QQML e- Journal is included in EBSCOhost and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals). 

Submissions of abstracts to special or contributed sessions could be sent directly to the conference secretariat at secretar@isast.org. Please refer to the Session Number, as they are referred at the conference website to help the secretariat to classify the submissions. 

For more information and Abstract/Paper submission and Special Session Proposals please visit the conference website at: http://www.isast.org or contact the secretary of the conference at : secretar@isast.org