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These are 2 important mails - respectively from Lucie Lamoureux (12 Nov. 2012) and from Sarah Cummings (19 Nov. 2012), shared on the mailing list, informing everyone about the status of the journal.
Dear all,
The Knowledge Management for Development Journal (KM4D Journal) was created back in 2005 and has been an important place for KM4Dev Community practitioners to document and share their experiences. The Journal was self-published from 2005 until 2008 with the online Open Journal System, with occasional hard copy printing when ad-hoc funding allowed. This meant that the Journal was free and open, which was in line philosophically with the KM4Dev Community. But the four years of self-publishing were also quite demanding on the Editorial Team, who did everything from A to Z, on top of their full-time work.
As of 2009, we had the opportunity to have some much appreciated editorial support through funding from the IKM-Emergent research programme. At the same time, Taylor and Francis/Routledge were interested in taking the Journal on board and the Editorial Team took the very difficult decision to no longer have a free and open access Journal (although authors copies are made available 2 years post-publishing). This allowed us to have assistance from professional editors and publish regular hard copies, mostly free of charge for the KM4dev Community upon demand, but we have struggled with this decision ever since.
The IKM Emergent funding is coming to an end, as is the agreement with Taylor and Francis, so we have decided to revert back to the Open Journal System platform. But a lot of work still needs to be done on the platform to bring it back up to snuff. Here is where you can find all of the Journal related links: http://wiki.km4dev.org/KM4D_Journal. We will keep everyone posted on developments here, on the KM4dev Mailing list, but also on the KM4D Journal group on the website (aka Ning): http://www.km4dev.org/group/km4djournal
The next issue - which will be the first back on the old/new platform - will be the December 2012, Climate Change and Knowledge Management Issue 8 (2), with Carl Jackson and Pete Cranston as Lead Editors.
Since the switch back to the old system will again entail a lot more editorial work, we would like to extend the invitation to anyone who has the interest (and a bit of spare time :-)) to please contact us here: KM4DJ-editors@dgroups.org
All the best,
Lucie Lamoureux, Senior Editor,
for the other Senior Editors: Ivan Kulis, Ewen Le Borgne and Denise Senmartin,
and for the Editor-In-Chief, Sarah Cummings
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