Areas of Interest
Information for Social Change has a special remit for examining issues of social justice in the wider information sector, however, the journal encompasses writing and debate from a range of related sectors and areas of interest. Previous topics have included:
- Libraries & Information in the World Social Forum context.
- Public finances and libraries.
- Blogs, wikis, Web2 and self-publishing.
- Neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism in the information and education context.
- Corporatism and the privatisation debate.
- Moral and ethical information issues.
- ICT, digital libraries and e-learning.
- Education and Libraries.
- Copyright, patents and traditional knowledge.
- Globalisation (e.g. World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS agreements).
- Perspectives on global issues, e.g. conflict and pacifism, ecological and green issues.
Information for Social Change adopts a flexible and pragmatic approach to vocational, professional and interest-based writing, encouraging descriptive and reflective writing alongside formal articles. To this effect ISC encourages contributions outside the strict parameters of academic writing, however, general guidelines apply to all submissions.
Book reviews, short commentary, event feedback, poems and other informal writings are also invited for inclusion in the journal; the ISC guidelines provide details for submission to the journal or Web site, submissions may also be discussed informally with issue editor(s) before a formal submission is made to the journal.
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