Changes in
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| New
publishing schedule. Several years ago, CONNECTIONS
came out in April and October. Over time, we slowly moved
the dates forward so that work on the journal could be
done when school wasn't in session. The later dates also
had the advantage that the final issue in a volume could
contain all the remaining abstracts from a given calendar
year. But there was also a problem: the second issue of
any given year would actually arrive in subscribers'
hands in the next calender year. That's the case with the
issue you are reading right now. This confuses some
people, who think they missed out on an issue, while
others think the issue is just horribly late. (Had a
little trouble with this issue, Steve? <nudge>
<nudge>.) So we're making a change. But rather than change the actual schedule, what we're really changing is the labeling. The first issue of each volume will now be sent to the printers in January, and the second will be sent in July. So is this issue the first issue of volume 21? No. We could have done that, but then volume 20 would have only had one issue, which seems improper and might have lead some indexing organizations to drop CONNECTIONS. So what we are doing is publishing two issues nearly back to back. We have quite a few manuscripts in the queue, so we can afford to do this. However, we obviously cannot have abstracts in both issues, and it makes little sense to have two separate Ties & Bonds separated by a just a few weeks, so this issue will not contain either of those regular features -- look for them in 21(1). |
| Should
CONNECTIONS continue as a hard-copy journal, or should it
go 100% webzine? If we eliminate the paper version,
we can cut INSNA dues in half. We can also put out more
issues per year and we can give CONNECTIONS a special
positioning in the market -- it could become the
place to publish papers containing color graphics,
animation, software, etc. I'm strongly in favor of it and
would like to implement this step in 1999. What does the
membership think? |
| Editorship
of CONNECTIONS. In the last issue, I reported a plan
to have Candy Jones (jonescq@bc.edu) take over my INSNA
subscription functions while I took over her duties as
Editor of CONNECTIONS. The INSNA board has now approved
that switch, so with this issue I officially begin my
tenure as editor. |
| INSNA
membership. Candy Jones (jonescq@bc.edu) and her
assistant Lorie Flacker (flacker@bc.edu) handle all
membership and subscription functions, as they have been
doing for several months now. Please contact them
directly. |
/netnew3.jpg) Sitges 1998 Conference. The ‘98 International Social Network conference will be held in Sitges (near Barcelona, Spain). The dates are Thursday, May 28 to Sunday, May 31, with some workshops on Wednesday, May 27. The meetings are jointly organized by:
Registration information can be found on the INSNA web site, and also on the next pages in this issue. |
| Steve Borgatti INSNA Coordinator |