Since I am one of the editors-in-chief (the other one is Krzysztof Janowicz), I prefer to refrain from discussing the rationale behind launching (yet another) Semantic Web journal. Let’s just say that a growing community requires a growing communication infrastructure, and let history deal with the rest …

But I’d like to point out that we have made a very conscious decision to run the journal under an open and transparent review process: with non-anomyous reviews which are made publicly available on the journal homepage.  And any researcher – not only those explicitly asked to review – can add reviews to submitted papers and thus influence the transparent decision process. We’ve already received a lot of positive feedback about this set-up, and we’re looking forward to seeing it in motion.

Besides the types of papers one usually finds in journals, such as traditional research papers and surveys, the journal will also sport short papers on ontologies, tools, and applications.

We’re looking forward to your contributions to this new and exciting endeavour!

Pascal Hitzler

IOS Press Amsterdam – in cooperation with AKA Verlag Heidelberg – has just launched a new book series called Studies on the Semantic Web. Publications within the series will be all kinds of Semantic Web related edited or authored volumes, and also excellent dissertations. The first three volumes are already in preparation.

The Editorial Board comprises some of the most prominent Semantic Web researchers word-wide and consists of Fausto Giunchiglia, Carole Goble, Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Frank van Harmelen, Pascal Hitzler (as Editor-in-Chief), Riichiro Mizoguchi, Mark Musen, Daniel Schwabe, Steffen Staab, and Rudi Studer.

If you are interested in publishing a book in the series, contact the Editor-in-Chief.