Note from the publisher

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(2003), "Note from the publisher", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 59 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/jd.2003.27859aaa.001

Note from the publisher

Emerald acquires VINE

Emerald is pleased to announce the acquisition of VINE from the Library Information Technology Centre based at the South Bank University, London.

VINE is a well-respected library journal in the field of information management, electronic information provision, e-publishing and knowledge management. Employing a thematic approach, the journal publishes definitive overviews of important topics for information and library services. The stress is on informative, well-researched writing that will be of immediate practical use to its busy, influential readership.

The journal will continue to be published quarterly with four paper issues, four Internet updates and an Internet archive. The first issue to be published by Emerald will be Issue 127. For further information please visit: www.emeraldinsight.com

Editorial Board

We are delighted to announce that Amanda Spink has agreed to join the Editorial Board of Journal of Documentation.

Amanda is Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are in theoretical and applied studies of human information behaviour, and in interactive information retrieval, including studies of digital libraries and the Web.

Literati Club invites applications for 2003 Research Fund Awards

Past and present authors, editors and Editorial Board members are invited to submit applications for the Emerald Research Fund Awards 2003.

As part of Emerald's commitment to recognise and reward the scholarly research community's contribution to Emerald journals, we have pledged to use a proportion of the fees received from copyright organisations to fund research which increases the effectiveness of the knowledge creation and transmission process. In our unique Authors' Charter we pledge to:

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  … recoup copyright fees from Reproduction Rights Organisations (dependent on 90 per cent or more of copyrights being assigned to Emerald in 90 per cent or more of journals – Reproduction Rights Organisations figures) to reinvest in new initiatives and author/user services. Emerald will provide a research grant/award of 25 per cent of copyright fee revenue up to £25,000 per annum to its author community.

Last year we supported three projects based both in the UK and internationally. Previous winners have included:

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   Yochanan Altman and Yehuda Baruch of the Universities of North London and East Anglia respectively. Strategies for revising and submitting papers for refereed journals.

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   Rodney McAdam, Renee Reid and Gren Armstrong of the University of Ulster. Transferring best practice innovation management to SMEs in areas of social deprivation.

3. 3.

   Paul Sturges of Loughborough University. The role of information and communication in national liberation struggles: fieldwork in Namibia.

The Research Fund Awards committee will consider proposals based on the objective of increasing the effectiveness of the scholarly knowledge creation and transmission process. We particularly encourage projects which relate to initiatives in the developing world. Dissemination of knowledge for social good, with a specific orientation towards benefit for the developing world, reflects Emerald's policy towards corporate social responsibility.

There is no application form but proposals should be structured as follows. Each proposal should:

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  have a one-page summary stating specific goals, outcomes and benefits of the research;

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  display clearly a statement of purpose and intent;

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  state clearly the methodology(s) applied and explicitly describe the research process;

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  state expected research outcomes and expected impact and possible application;

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  specify the expected timescales of the research process; and

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  not exceed 1,700 words.

Completed and interim research will be published on the Emerald Literati Club site and drawn to the attention of relevant journal editors. Researchers are asked to include publication plans for other media as appropriate.

The deadline for submission is 28 February 2003; presentations will be made at the Literati Club Awards for Excellence in April. We will consider proposals which require funding that does not exceed £5,000. The award may be used to defray research expenses, such as travel and postage costs.

Please send submissions and all queries in writing to: Charles Parker, Literati Permissions and Research Executive, 60/62 Toller Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD8 9BY, UK.

Please see our Web site for further details at: www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister/err_fundawards.htm

We also feature the diary of one of our Research Fund Award winners at: www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister/diary.htm