Knowledge Politics — a UK think-tank “dedicated to exploring the implications and possibilities of the development of an ‘information society’, and to influencing the debate over its meaning and future” — has announced a new journal.

Knowledge Politics Quarterly

The journal describes itself as:

Knowledge Politics Quarterly (KPQ) is an academic journal produced by the think-tank Knowledge Politics. It is edited by Craig Berry (Department of Politics, University of Sheffield). KPQ publishes original articles by established scholars, graduate students and non-academic practitioners. The topics covered by KPQ include the media, the internet, broadcasting, technological development, the social, political and economic implications of ICTs – in terms of theory, policy or practice

They accept “anything ranging from 3000-word ‘opinion’ pieces and 10,000-word+ empirically-based articles” with 8000 words generally recommended.

Though it doesn’t appear that they have a journal policy on publishing under an open content licence, their copyright policy does allow for its use:

Authors retain all copyrights at all times, and as such are free to publish their articles in other fora. KPQ also accommodates the use of ‘Creative Commons’ licenses.

The one article I downloaded (see below) Fred Flagg, “The Academic Library and the Commons” (no mention of Creative Commons or copyright issues) merely had the (c) symbol and no use of an open content licence. Thus readers can only expect to exercise their fair dealing rights and whatever rights may be implied by being in a webjournal.

Based on their first issue, they appear to only offer the articles as PDF files and not as webpages, which is a little curious because this makes the journal that much less accessible to its readers (and to search engines).

The first issue (October 2007) contains:

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Editorial

Notes on contributors

ARTICLES:

Robert Hassan PhD
Temporalized Democracy and a Future Politics

Laura Kyrke-Smith
Information Intervention and the Case of Kosovo: Realising the Responsibility to Protect

Claudia Magallanes-Blanco PhD and Leandro Rodriguez Medina
A Feminist-Dialogical Analysis of Independent Video-Makers on the Indigenous Zapatista Rebellion

Alberto Masetti-Zannini
Web 2.0 and International Development NGOs

OPINION:

Fred Flagg
The Academic Library and the Commons

BOOK REVIEW:

Laura White
Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction edited by Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006)

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