Dear all,

After consulting the organizing persons of MTSR'05
(http://www.metadata-semantics.org/), they have agreed to have a
special track on MTSR'05 on "Open Research: Concepts and Tools". The
following are the very special characteristics of the track:

- Extended abstracts (2-3 pages) have to be submitted before September
15th, using the regular submission system, and indicating that the
paper goes for the OR track (as a comment somewhere in the form).

- Papers will be subject to a quick evaluation for appropriateness to
the topics of the track.

- Accepted extended abstracts will be presented using the on-line
discussion rooms of MTSR'05 (at this point, we can include some form
of "parallel" review by other people in the Yahoo list of OR)

- Registration payment is required only for those authors that want
they papers to be included in the post-proceedings of the conference,
after extension and revision.

The topics may be conceptual (economic models, ethics, reflection on
refereeing systems, etc.) but also technical (systems for open
journals, experiences in running open journals, metadata for open
journals, analysis of impact, proposals for new metrics). The
important issue with the papers is that they are interesting to open
research-interested people.

The track will only be possible if some of us agree to elaborate the
extended abstracts in that short time frame. This is why I kindly ask
you to put a reply to this message if you have the intention to submit.


All the best,

Miltiadis.