The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
Call for Papers for a Quick Turnaround Issue ‘Assembled 2016’
Deadline: November 25, 2016
The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://www.jvwresearch.org/) is an online, open access academic journal that engages a wide spectrum of scholarship and welcomes contributions from the various disciplines and approaches that intersect with virtual worlds research. Virtual worlds ignite a continuously evolving area of study that spans multiple disciplines and the JVWR editorial team looks forward to engaging a wide range of creative and scholarly research.
Note: this is a good opportunity for authors for a quick turnaround of papers with November 2016 decision on publication and January 2017 actual publication.
MOTIVATION AND SCOPE
The Assembled issue is a place for various papers, on the topic of the journal – that are being collected during the year and published usually once a year.
Authors who would like to submit directly to the ‘Assembled’ issue should do so by adding the words “submitted for Assembled” in the “Comments for Editor” on the 1st step of the submitting process.
POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- 3D fun
- Mini robots
- Social networks that change our mind
- Artificial limps
- New forms of hardware
- Augmented and mixed environments
- Wearables
- User generated content
- 3D printing
- Visual data streaming
- Immersive technologies
- Shopping from home
- Projections of the real
- Wireless people
- Portable friends
- The Internet of Things
- Virtual currencies
- E-readers
- …
- And more
See past Assembled issues:
Assembled 2010
Assembled 2011
Assembled 2012
Assembled 2013
Assembled 2014
Assembled 2015
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit original scholarly papers of 3000-5000 words including footnotes, references, and appendices. Interested authors should submit a full paper by the deadline indicated below. All submissions should be made via the JVWR publishing system (see www.jvwreserach.org > About JVWR > For Authors). All submissions will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published online in the Volume 9, Number 3 (2016) of the Journal.
DEADLINES AND TIMETABLE
Issue editor(s) are to be announced.
If you wish to enhance your editing experience with this quick turnaround issue – please send email request to #TheJVWR coordinating editor tzafnat.shpak AT jvwresearch.org
November 25, 2016: Authors submit full paper
November 30, 2016: Editors return initial decision
December 20, 2016: Authors submit final revision
December 31, 2016: Camera ready
January 5, 2017: Publication
FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact: info@jvwresearch.org