Call for papers on sustainable computing

The Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) has issued a Call for papers on Green IT/IS (sustainable computing) for a special issue in 2010:

Call for papers for a special issue of the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) on Green IT/IS (sustainable computing)

Guest co-editors
Michael Lane, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Lutz M. Kolbe, Georg-August-Universit ät Göttingen, Germany
Rüdiger Zarnekow, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Motivation and overview
The Information Communications Technology (ICT) industry has a critical role to play in ensuring a reduction in energy consumption and greenhouse emissions and environmentally responsible management of ICT for its entire lifecycle. Currently ICT accounts for about 2% of total greenhouse
emissions worldwide. This will increase substantially over the next 10-15 years as the adoption of ICT increases exponentially in developing countries (The Climate Group, 2008). Currently there is a dearth
of empirical research supported by hard data in this field where the technology and legislation is changing rapidly.

This special issue has two objectives
1. publish empirical research on the sustainable management of ICT in organisations and the role of ICT in enabling sustainable business practices to reduce environmental impact,
2. to articulate a research agenda for the Information Systems discipline to provide leadership in this emerging and important field.

Research questions
Academics from around the world are invited to submit to research papers which examine the management and role of ICT in achieving more sustainable practices at the organisational and individual level. Recognising the diversity of this emerging field we encourage submissions focusing
on all aspects of green ICT from hardware through networking, specific applications that can transform business processes to individual behaviours to reduce energy inefficient practices. Theoretical papers
as well as theory founded case studies are welcomed.

Some prospective topics on Green ICT include but not limited to:
· Application of IS theories, such as the resourced-based view in the field of Green IS
· Incentive systems to support sustainable ICT management
· Sustainable management of ICT infrastructure, operations and energy
· Management of the entire ICT hardware lifecycle to reduce environmental impact
· Management frameworks and key performance indicators for sustainable ICT management
· Processes and organisational structures enabling sustainable ICT management
· New ways of delivering ICT for more sustainable management of ICT – Virtualisation, SaaS, Utility computing, Cloud computing
· Building energy efficiency into the design of systems, applications and software
· Reducing environment impact by dematerialisation of activities through use of ICT– teleworking, telepresence, elearning
· Role of user behaviour in sustainable management of ICT
· Academic case studies on Green ICT or ICT resource management

Deadlines and submission dates
June 1st, 2009 Two page outline prior full paper deadline is optional - guest editors can advise on the suitability of a proposed paper submission
October 1st, 2009 Deadline call for papers January 1st, 2010 First review cycle completed April 1st, 2010 Second review cycle and final acceptance
May 1st, 2010 Camera-ready papers for productions Summer/fall 2010 Planned publication

Information for authors

Online submission details
http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
Author guidelines
http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

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ACS Digital Library Indexed

I wrote 22 November 2006:

... The first electronic edition of AJIS is now on-line ...

This morning I registered the AJIS with three indexing services. These all communicate via XML formatted data interfaces:

• OAI: The Public Knowledge Project's Open Archives Harvester. This is an Open Archives Initiative (OAI)-compliant archive of publications metadata. When indexed it should be possible to search for articles in AJIS from OAI systems around the world. I am not sure how long it will take for the metadata to be indexed.
• Google Scholar Gateway Plugin: This is an extra feature for the OJS system which provides an interface to allow Google to collect information about the journal papers. Google Scholar is a speclai part of Google's search system for academic publising.
• DOIs: CrossRef is a service which provides a lookup (resolver) for the Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) of each paper. DOIs are short, easy to reference identifiers for each paper.

For example the DOI for Roger Clarke's paper is:

10.3127/ajis.v14i1.12

That is:

10.3127 ACS (Publisher)
ajis AJIS (Journal)
.v14i1 Volume 14 Number 1
.12 Paper number 12

When entered in the CrossRef resolver this DOI produces the URL of the paper: <http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/12>.

For the DOIs OJS generates an XML file listing all the papers. Unlike the OAI and Google Scholar interfaces which are "live" and once set up just work; for each issue of each journal a batch file of DOI metadata has to be manually loaded to the CrossRef system. While this is not difficult, hopefully OJS will provide an automated interface in the future.

Here is what the entry for Roger Clarke's paper looks like:

<journal_article publication_type="full_text">
<titles>
<title>Key Aspects of the History of the Information Systems Discipline in Australia</title>
</titles>
<contributors>
<person_name contributor_role="author" sequence="first">
<given_name>Roger</given_name>
<surname>Clarke</surname>
</person_name>
</contributors>
<publication_date media_type="online">
<month>12</month>
<day>04</day>
<year>2006</year>
</publication_date>
<publisher_item><item_number>12</item_number></publisher_item>
<doi_data>
<doi>10.3127/ajis.v14i1.12</doi>
<resource><a href="http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/12" eudora="autourl">http://dl.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/12</a></resource>
</doi_data>
</journal_article>

If that all sounds complicated, it is. But apart from uploading one DOI file each time there is a new edition of the journal, everything should be automatic.

ps: For the philosophy behind all this, see my ANU talk.