"Brains, Minds and Media" -- open access eJournal -- call for submission

[Soeren Lorenz]

******** Apologies for multiple postings ********
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--------------- CALL FOR SUBMISSION ---------------
--------- eJournal Brains, Minds & Media ----------
------------- Journal of New Media in -------------
----- Neural and Cognitive Science Education ------
-------- http://www.brains-minds-media.org --------
-- Deadline for inaugural issue:  March 31, 2005 --
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Dear Colleague,

you are invited to submit contributions to the novel open-access online
Journal 'Brains, Minds & Media' (BMM). The concept of BMM is novel,
because it allows authors not only to publish articles, but also
high-quality media, such as visualizations, simulations or tutorials in
the neural and cognitive sciences. The main focus of BMM is in the field
of teaching and education technology.

BMM is not only free for recipients but currently also free for
contributors (no author fees).

We are currently preparing the inaugural issue of BMM and invite
interesting contributions. Deadline is March 31st.


SPECIFIC AIMS OF BMM:
- promote an intelligible and thorough understanding of neural and
cognitive concepts
- adequately represent knowledge beyond papers and textbooks with
visualizations and interactive media
- assure citability, content quality and technology standards with
professional review and publication systems
- assure fast peer-review and publication process (< 3 months)

We encourage combined submission of a mandatory short paper and
(optional) elaborated, high-quality media (visualizations, simulations,
tutorials and the like), which may be browser-ready, but can also be
proprietary. Papers on the use and effect of new media in the neural and
cognitive sciences and reviews are also welcome. Theoretical and
empirical contributions complement the scope.

THE THEMATIC RANGE of the journal spans neural, cognitive or behavioural
phenomena or their software and hardware models.

SECTIONS
- MATERIALS. Tried and tested topical material and corresponding
educational scenarios (e.g. visualizations, simulations, content
packages, tutorials)
- TOOLS. Generic software tools designed for the neural and cognitive
sciences or widely applied and their use in education
- STUDIES. Empirical or theoretical (formal) studies either on education
in the neural and cognitive sciences or on the neural and cognitive
basis of learning
- THEORY. Texts on foundations of either of the forenamed issues
(including reviews and viewpoints)
- NEWS. Announcements, Reports, Material Reviews, Commentaries

EDITORIAL BOARD
* Martin Egelhaaf (in chief), Dept. of Neurobiology, Bielefeld University.
* Robert Cannon, Inst. for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University
of Edinburgh.
* Stephen Grossberg, Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston
University.
* Jeff Yoshimi, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts,
University of Carlifornia, Merced.
* Johannes Zanker, Dept. of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of
London.


MORE INFORMATION about the journal as well as preview articles can be
found at http://www.brains-minds-media.org


Submissions can be sent to editors at brains-minds-media.org.
Submission deadline for the inaugural issue: March 31, 2005.

If you have any questions, please contact info at brains-minds-media.org.

Thank you!

Your organizational team,

Soeren Lorenz and Wolfram Horstmann

Bielefeld University
Department of Neurobiology
P/O-Box 100131
33501 Bielefeld
Germany

FURTHER PARTNERS
* Bielefeld University Library
* Academic Library Centre "HBZ" of State NRW, Germany
* Initiative "Digital Peer Publishing" State Government NRW, Germany
(funding)