19th International CODATA Conference
Category: Open Communication
Data Science Journal
F.
J. Smith
The Queen's University of
http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~FJ.Smith/
In 2002 CODATA launched its new journal: "Data Science Journal". Details
including the aims of the journal and its scope with the first published papers
can be consulted on the internet at the journal website:
http://www.datasciencejournal.org
(currently http://www.codata.org/dsj/index.html)
The first aim of the new journal is that it should be a quality journal, publishing papers about data and databases, but not publishing the data themselves, covering a range of subjects similar to the papers found already at CODATA conferences and workshops. The papers published in the journal in 2002, 2003 and 2004 can be viewed at the journal website above. To ensure that the quality of the papers meets the standard normally found in other international journals, all papers are refereed by at least two referees. To make the journal available to as wide a range of scientists and engineers as possible in both the developed and developing world, the journal is primarily an electronic journal accessed freely over the internet. However, the journal has the same structure as a printed journal, and after it has been refereed and accepted, each paper is attributed a set of page numbers with a volume number and year of publishing as in other learned journals. To be successful an essential requirement is that the data community of scientists and engineers send data papers to the journal; so I invite the authors of papers to the Berlin Conference to submit their papers to the journal. Details of how to submit can also be found at the above web site.