Policy
“Bilgi
Dünyasý” (Information World) is one of the official
publications of the Association of University and
Research Librarians (ÜNAK), and will regularly be
published twice a year. The articles to appear in the
learned journal should reflect original research work in
the scientific areas of information science,
documentation, librarianship and allied disciplines. It
would also be desirable to gain articles upon
investigations concerning recent innovations as a
consequence of rapid technological change in the fields
of information science. Moreover articles, which
predominantly aim at suggesting solutions to and
policies to resolve problematic issues of library
applications and information dissemination practice, are
also welcome.
“Bilgi
Dünyasý” is a refereed journal with blind review
practice. It consists of three conceptually separated
parts.
The
initial part includes articles reporting on original
research work and certain, preferably comprehensive
survey-type articles. The articles to be published in
this part are completely subject to a thorough reviewing
process by anonymous referees selected by the editorial
committee. The sole exception will be made to “invited
papers” asked by the editorship from eminent experts on
specified subjects.
Second
part includes “opinion papers” on certain important
topics and current issues within the realm of the
journal’s areas of specialisation. These will be
subjected to an “in-house review” process of the
editorship.
Third
part will finally be devoted to didactic material,
announcements, presentation of important issues and
matter like news concerning new technologies,
information centres and other crucial news about the
professional activities of journal’s subject areas –and
amongst also certain news concerning the Association and
its activities.
Articles and other sorts of writings that will be sent
to the editorship should neither be published elsewhere
before, nor be submitted to other journals
simultaneously.
Articles of which the intention is a publication in the
first part, will initially be examined by the editorial
board. They have to be written according to the criteria
being indicated in “Instruction to Authors”. Editorial
Board preserves the right to reject the article by own
initiative, or to directly ask the authors to make
certain, specified amendments before the stage of review
by the referees might start. In case that they will be
sent for a blind review, two referees will be asked for
their judgments and suggestions. Whenever needed or
necessary, a third referee might also take part in the
reviewing process.
By the
blind review process neither the referee nor the author(s)
will be informed about the identity of the other part.
In case of rejection or amendment proposals, the author(s)
will be informed in adequate detail or even provided by
a copy of referee report(s) –again without revealing the
identity of the referee(s).
In case
of affirmative reports from referees, minor punctuation,
grammatical, syntactical or even a few stylistic changes
can be fulfilled by the experts of the editorial board.
Major amendment proposals might however start the
process of evaluation anew, and the authors’ amendments
might therefore be subjected to the referee, who
suggested it.
It is
noteworthy that referees, who can’t finish the reviewing
tasks within their limitations of time will be replaced
with other referees.
As it
was mentioned above, contributions that would be
published in the second and third parts of the journal
are subject to the evaluation of the Board of Editors.
If the editors conclude, that an article, which was
initially thought to be published in the second part,
might better take place in the initial part of the
journal, then the article will be subjected to the
mentioned process of blind review by means of referees.
The
copyright of the published articles will be retained by
the Association of University and Academic librarians (ÜNAK),
and the authors should be aware of the fact, that
through sending the articles they therewith also
transfer the copyright of their articles to the ÜNAK.
Free
copies of the issues of Bilgi Dünyasý will both be sent
to authors, and to the referees.
Information World; is
indexed and abstracted in
LISA (Library and Information
Science Abstracts);
EBSCOHOST-LISTA (Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts);
IndexCopernicus
and
TUBITAK-ULAKBIM Social
Sciences Database.
Information World (Bilgi
Dünyasý) is an Open Access Journal and listed in
DOAJ (Directory of Open
Access Journals) and
E-Lis (E-Prints in Library and
Information Science).
Rules for Articles
The
articles to be sent should be prepared in triplicate,
and be written in Times New Roman on one side of paper
of size A4. They will be sent to
bilgidunyasi@unak.org.tr
e-mai address. The article should be recorded by
Microsoft word processors. The length of the articles
should not exceed 30 pages, whereby comments and
opinions should be kept within the limits of not more
than 15 pages.
The
articles should not be previously published elsewhere.
On a separate page, the name of the article and the
name(s) of the author(s) should be given, in addition to
the postal address, e-mail address, phone and telefax
numbers.
The
abstract of the article and keywords should be presented
on the initial page of the article.
Main
section titles should be written in bold characters;
subsection titles should be presented in italic. Tables
and graphs should be, and inserted into separate single
pages. Their appropriate places within the text should
be marked.
The
references in the main body of the article and within
the bibliography should follow the standards of American
Psychological Association (APA, 1994).The examples
stated below would help to illuminate. “According to
Saunders (1999), ‘partnerships with teachers ….” or “As
students used library resources more and acquired better
research-process skills, their responses improved (Dunn,
2002, p.30).” By references being set in the text, the
authors’ surnames will always be mentioned until 2
authors. By works with 3 to 5 authors, the surnames will
again be mentioned fully by the first reference, and
afterwards, following the surname of the first author,
the statement “and the others” should be inserted. For
works with 6 or more authors, all references will be
indicated with the surname of the first author and the
following statement “and the others”. However, the
bibliography should contain the full names of all the
authors.
The
bibliography should be arranged alphabetically.
