[Creation of new OA library journal: LIS Critique, by ZM.Muela-Meza &
JA.Torres-Reyes (31.05.2008, UANL, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico)] Creation of a
new Open Access journal:
Library and Information Science Critique:
Journal of the Information Sciences Recorded in Documents
(LIS Critique)
by:
Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza
zapopanmuela@...
http://zapopanmuela.googlepages.com/
Founder of Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the
Information Sciences Recorded in Documents
Assistant Profesor in LIS undergraduate programs
Founder of the Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC)
of the School of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL) at the
Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), north-eastern Mexico
http://cinfodoc.uanl.ffyl.googlepages.com
http://www.filosofia.uanl.mx
http://www.uanl.mx

&
Jose Antonio Torres-Reyes
joantreyes@...
http://joantreyescv.googlepages.com/
co-founder of Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the
Information Sciences Recorded in Documents
Assistant Profesor in LIS undergraduate programs
co-Founder of the Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC)
of the School of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL) at the
Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), north-eastern Mexico
http://cinfodoc.uanl.ffyl.googlepages.com
http://www.filosofia.uanl.mx
http://www.uanl.mx

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
31 May 2008

Dear colleagues,

The undersigned, (Dr. Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza (PhD Information Studies,
University of Sheffield, England) and Jose Antonio Torres-Reyes (PhD candidate
in Scientific Information, Granada University, Spain), assistant professors
with full time tenure teaching at the the undergraduate program of Library and
Information Science and doing research at the Centre of Research in Information
Sciences Recorded in Documents at the School of Philosophy and Letters at the
Nuevo Leon Autonomous University in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, north east of Mexico)
have created the Open Access scientific peer reviewed journal: Library and
Information Science Critique: Journal of the Information Sciences Recorded in
Documents, or LIS Critique for short (ORIGINAL SPANISH: Critica
Bibliotecologica: Revista de las Ciencias de la Informacion Documental) . And
the purpose of our message is to inform you about, in case that would like to
make contributions to our journal.

STATEMENT ON THE AUTHORS' RIGHTS. The authors of contributions will be the
only holders of their full moral authors' rights and copyrights of their work
and no one at LIS Critique will usurp their moral authors' rights or copyrights
(neither the journal, nor the editorial board or any other member of the
journal). If the authors wish to publish their works in other journals they can
do it; authors are the authors and they could do with their work whatever they
freely wish to do.

In the next sections we present the guidelines of contributions for LIS
Critique and the requirements for authors.

GUIDELINESS OF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Overall aim of the journal

Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Information Sciences
Recorded in Documents is projected as the most important public space and with
worldwide impact in OPEN ACCESS format totally free of charge without any costs
for any of the stakeholders involved for the fostering of the social critique;
critical debate; and critical thinking about the most candent issues caused by
public policies emerged from capitalism and neo-liberalism which deprive
humankind on a global scale from a free, free of charge, democratic, and
egalitarian production, organization, dissemination, and use of information
recorded in documents, not only at the core of Library and Information Science
(LIS) or Librarianship, but also in other sciences of information recorded in
documents such as Archival Science, Information Science, and others and through
their corresponding institutions of information recorded in documents throughout
the world.

Particular aims

1. What distinguishes LIS Critique from all other existing journals is the
CRITIQUE concept which is not only part of the title of the journal, but
CRITIQUE IS THE JOURNAL'S MAIN ELEMENT. All contributions should be focused from
a social critique perspective rigorously founded, either with empirical research
data or from the literature to underpin the issues addressed.
For non critical contributions authors already have most of the other journals
in the world (epistemologically speaking and with no offence or disrespect to
anybody), but LIS Critique is a critical journal and critique, or being critical
from the onset is its distinctive seal.

2. Contributions to LIS Critique must analyse, synthesise, and propose (in a
critical fashion) sound alternatives to the barriers which currently deprive
humankind from a free, free of charge, democratic and egalitarian production,
organization, dissemination and use of information recorded in documents, either
in library and information science, or archival science, or information science,
or in other sciences of information recorded in documents, theoretically
speaking, or through their corresponding institutions of information recorded in
documents where authors work, in the case of practical cases.

3. Although the lines of research or ideas for contributions of all authors are
part of their own free and unhampered choice, some examples of lines of research
and/or approaches are suggested for authors that they may try to explore (of
course, critically) when they submit contributions to the journal):

· Critique to the self-called ideologies of the "information society"
and "knowledge society"
· Critique to the established, and monopolistic research methodologies
and methods in information recorded in documents.
· Critique to pseudoscience and charlatanism in LIS and information
recorded in documents with critical and skeptical thinking.
· Critique to the irrational systems of theft of the general intellect
such as copyright, patents, and others that impose unreal barriers to
production, organization, access of information recorded in documents.
· Critique to the neo-liberal systems of education in LIS, and
information recorded in documents where the intrusiveness of powerful
neo-liberal elites monopolize the direction of the curricula towards their own
particular views and distort the analytical and critical cognitive development
of students; sometimes they also affect LIS students and education through the
abuse of their bureaucratic power they keep under custody illegally.

Critique to the social injustices at the heart of labour issues on the
sciences of information recorded in documents: LIS, librarianship,
documentation, archival science, etc.: e.g. sexism, racism, discrimination,
homophobia, nepotism, abuse of power, sexual harassment, opression, etc.
· Critique to the salary tabulations or critique to their none
existence, in which librarians, archivists, information scientists and all other
professionals of information recorded in documents, are dealt in inhuman and
unworthy ways.
· Critique to the access barriers to information recorded in documents
and their correlations with politics and society.
· Critique to the hegemonic and privative systems of science
bibliometrics such as the monopolies of ISI of Thomson Corporation (Citation
Indexes), Elsevier Science (Scopus databases), etc.
· Critique to traditional epistemology of the sciences of information
recorded in documents and proposing alternative critical epistemologies.
· Critique to evaluation processes for the effective performance of
the institutions of information recorded in documents.
· Critique to the neo-slavery of the traditional and pay-per
production/access/use publishing with alternatives from the Open Access
revolution of information recorded in documents.
· Critique to privative information and communication technologies,
i.e. software and proposals of free software for the development of the
processes of organization and services of information recorded in documents
without having the downsize to pay onerous prices to privative software
monopolies.
· Critique to the public policies of information that affect
negatively particularly public libraries.
· Critique to the neo-liberal commodification of information recorded
in documents.
· Critique to any other issues that arise through the scientific
development of LIS and other sciences of information recorded in documents.

These are only suggestions, but it does not mean that authors must contribute
following these themes or issues suggested here, they are free to choose the
issues of their free choice, but what it is requested is that they do it through
a systematic critique or with a social critique approach of the subjects or
topics they address.

4. In principle LIS Critique will accept most of the submissions authors
contribute since one of its main ideas is to challenge the mainstream (and even
Open Access) onerous and monopolistic journals by trying to cover the wider
demand of authors that have been rejected from traditional journals and even
from Open Access ones, but priority will be given to those authors that approach
their contributions in a critical manner; with a social critique focus; to
develop the critical and skeptical thinking in the journal is an essential part.

Cognitive typology of the journal


The journal comprises three cognitive categories in which authors'
contributions will be classified:

1. Scientific peer reviewed articles.
2. Non scientific essays, but peer reviewed (or semi-peer reviewed)
3. Term and research papers from undergraduate or masters' students, non
scientific but peer reviewed (or semi peer reviewed or non peer reviewed at all)

Sections of the journal

1. Scientific peer reviewed articles.
2. Non scientific essays, but peer reviewed (or semi-peer reviewed)
3. Term and research papers from undergraduate or masters' students, non
scientific but peer reviewed (or semi peer reviewed or non peer reviewed at all)
4. Book reviews
5. Literary space (poems, stories, etc. related to the thematic of the
journal).

Frequency

Initially LIS Critique will be published quarterly (4 issues published one by
one on each of the following months: January, April, July, October during the
year). Each year will comprise a volume and so on and so forth.

Citation style

APA, American Psychological Association will be used. See examples here:

http://especializacion.una.edu.ve/paginas/normasapauniversidad.pdf

http://www.uninorte.edu.co/observatorio/documentos/Apa_Edicion5.pdf

Infrastructure

The journal will be edited in PDF and published in a dedicated Web site in
Google Pages, http://critica.bibliotecologica.googlepages.com/ , (but the
editorial board is working on infrastructure alternatives, be some website in a
free software server, or in some institution where a member works, but what it's
being sought from the onset is independence from any institution to avoid that
any institution tries to usurp the authors' and journals' rights; and to assure
mobility of the journal beyond any institutional restrictions. However, in order
to guarantee to the worldwide public a true and permanent Open Access to the
journal content, once each issue is published will be archived straight away to
E-LIS, while the editorial board will figure it out how to obtain better Open
Access and free of charge journal management systems based on free software.
Hence, the idea of using Google Pages as website is merely for an informative
place and to link all the issues uploaded in
E-LIS, so the infrastructure matters are not much of a consequence.

You may check the advancements of the journal here at the journal’s website:
http://critica.bibliotecologica.googlepages.com

Centre of Research in Information Recorded in Documents (CINFODOC, at UANL,
Mexico)

http://cinfodoc.uanl.ffyl.googlepages.com

Languages of the journal:

Spanish (original), and English. Spanish is the original language because the
authors of the project, Muela-Meza and Torres-Reyes, crafted it from the onset
having the Latin American (Spanish speakers) public in mind. But English is also
included to go beyond Latin American boundaries and have a truly global scale
focus and impact.

When will the first issue be published?

It is planned to be published shortly, so if you already have some papers to
submit, there is a good chance to begin submitting now. It is also planned to
take pre or post prints from E-LIS and other Open Access repositories as long as
they meet with the guidelines explained above and as long as authors authorize
their publication.
If you'd like to know about the authors' academic profiles please check our full
CVs:

Muela-Meza's:
http://zapopanmuela.googlepages.com/

Torres-Reyes's:
http://joantreyescv.googlepages.com/

Or even better, check our contributions (publications and pre-prints) at E-LIS:

Muela-Meza's:
http://eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Muela-Meza,_Zapopan_Mart=n.html

Muela-Meza's:
http://eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Torres-Reyes,_Jos=_Antonio.html

Thank you very much for your attention and we hope that you would submit your
contributions to the our journal, first, most important and worldwide critical
journal in library and information science and other sciences of information
recorded in documents in totally full , free, free of charge, democratic, and
egalitarian Open Access for all: authors' and the public reader.

«Omnia Sunt Communia!»
(«All the things belongs to everyone in community!»)
-- Luther Blisset, novel Q
Torino: Inaudi, 1999,
[free, free of charge, democratic, and egalitarian access online here]
http://www.wumingfoundation.com/italiano/downloads.shtml

Sincerely truly yours,

Assnt. Prof. Dr. Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza, PhD, MLS, LIS-B.A.
Founder ofLibrary and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Information
Sciences Recorded in Documents
zapopanmuela@...
http://zapopanmuela.googlepages.com/

Doctor in Information Studies
University of Sheffield, England, UK
ex grantee scholar Mexican CONACYT
Master in Library Science
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
ex grantee scholar Fulbright - (PROMEP-Garcia Robles-Laspau)

Assistant Profesor in LIS undergraduate programs
Founder of the Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC)
of the School of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL) at the
Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), north-eastern Mexico
http://cinfodoc.uanl.ffyl.googlepages.com
http://www.filosofia.uanl.mx
http://www.uanl.mx

E-LIS Mexico Editor:
http://eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Muela-Meza,_Zapopan_Mart=n.html

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Assnt. Prof. Dr. Jose Antonio Torres-Reyes, PhD, MLS, LIS-B.A.
co-founder ofLibrary and Information Science Critique: Journal of the
Information Sciences Recorded in Documents
joantreyes@...
http://joantreyescv.googlepages.com/


http://joantreyescv.googlepages.com/
PhD and Master Degree in LIS Scientific Information
Granada University, Spain
ex grantee scholar ALBAN Program European Union

Assistant Profesor in LIS undergraduate programs
co-Founder of the Research Centre in Documental Information (CINFODOC)
of the School of Philosophy and Letters (FFyL) at the
Nuevo Leon Autonomous University (UANL), north-eastern Mexico
http://cinfodoc.uanl.ffyl.googlepages.com
http://www.filosofia.uanl.mx
http://www.uanl.mx

e- prints in E-LIS:
http://eprints.rclis.org/view/people/Torres-Reyes,_Jos=_Antonio.html








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Dr. Zapopan Martín Muela Meza, PhD, MLS SUNY-Buffalo, B.A.LIS UANL
Doctor en Estudios de la Informacion
University of Sheffield, Inglaterra

...y para que al morir se pueda exclamar
ˇtoda la vida y todas las fuerzas
han sido entregadas a lo más hermoso del mundo,
a la liberación de la humanidad!

-- Nikolai Ostrovski
(novela Así se templó el acero,
Moscú: Editorial Progreso,
1969, p. 268, cap. 3, 1a parte)

Solo son verdaderas personas
quienes arrancan al hombre
las cadenas que sujetan su razon.

--Maximo Gorki
(novela La Madre, cap. XVII, parte I)


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