Project Title:  Digital Contexts: Studies of Online Research and Citation
Editors:  Colleen Reilly, Doug Eyman, Joyce R. Walker, & James P. Purdy

The editors of Digital Contexts: Studies of Online Research and
Citation, an interdisciplinary collection of articles on online
research and citation practices, are seeking 15-25 page contributions
that consider the multiple ways that digital technologies are shaping
the practices of research and citation. Scholars in disciplines
including (but not limited to) Writing Studies, English, Rhetoric and
Composition, Sociology, Library & Information Science, and Data
Management are invited to submit abstracts (500 words or less) that
describe their research projects and potential articles.  Proposals
should be submitted by September 15, 2005.  Upon recommendation by the
collection editors, authors will be asked to submit finished articles
by January 15, 2005.

The purposes of this volume are four-fold:

1.  To identify and explore inter-disciplinary research regarding
online research and citation practices.

2.  To better understand how electronic research practices work to
shape the production and circulation of knowledge within and outside
of academia.

3.  To identify effective strategies for teachers, administrators, and
academic professionals to employ when doing online research and when
training scholars to interact in these online information spaces.

4.  To consider approaches for creating online resources that allow
for effective research in digital spaces.

The editors are interested in qualitative, quantitative, theoretical,
and/or rhetorical research that explores online technologies and the
research and citation practices associated with their use.  Specific
topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Empirical studies of research or citation practices

- Historical study of the evolution of technologies designed to assist
scholars in their access to and use of information resources

- Research that specifically examines the teaching and training of
scholars to use electronic resources

- Case studies of successes and failures of pedagogical
implementations of online research resources

Submission Instructions

Queries about submissions can be directed to any of the editors:

Joyce R. Walker                 University of South Florida St. Petersburg                       jwalker2@stpt.usf.edu
James P. Purdy                   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                       jpurdy@uiuc.edu
Colleen Reilly                       University of North Carolina at Wilmington                       reillyc@uncw.edu
Doug Eyman                        Michigan State University                                                  eymand@earthlink.net

Proposals should be sent via email (by September 15, 2005) to Joyce
R. Walker at jwalker2@stpt.usf.edu.  Proposals will be reviewed by the
editors by October 1, 2005.