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IAIDQ's Information and Data Quality Newsletter

IAIDQ Newsletter Submission Guidelines

Version 2 — March 11, 2008

The guidelines below take effect on May 1, 2008.

The IAIDQ Newsletter is a publication of the International Association for Information and Data Quality.

Newsletter issues are released quarterly: January, April, July, and October.

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

  1. The newsletter is accepting contributions for:
    • IDQ Articles — 800 to 1200 words
    • IDQ Stories — 600 to 850 words
    • Tips / Best Practices — 400 to 650 words
    • News from Members — 50 to 80 words
  2. Contributed material must deal with Information Quality or Data Quality, and may address IDQ topics and concerns from organizational, process, technical, and technological perspectives.
  3. Contributors are encouraged to provide a short (one paragraph) "About the Author" write-up and a headshot or photo. The contributor acknowledges that the Editorial Board may edit the write-up at its discretion.
  4. The Editorial Board reserves the right to review, revise, and request revisions to all contributed material.

FORMATS

  1. Contributions are accepted in editable electronic medium (preferably MS Word .doc format, although plain text files are also accepted).
  2. Images, photos, and graphs can be submitted in *.jpg and *.png formats, or embedded in the MS Word document.

OWNERSHIP and RIGHT TO DISTRIBUTE

  1. Copyright of contributed material remains with the original author. The author is requested to specify the appropriate copyright clause that will be printed together with the material. For example: "Copyright © 2008 IAIDQ" OR "This material site is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."
  2. By submitting or contributing material to the newsletter, the author grants IAIDQ the right to reproduce and distribute the material in all forms of printed and electronic media, including but not limited to locked PDF files and html pages on the IAIDQ website, without royalties or fees payable to the contributor.

TIMELINES

  1. Submissions that are received on or before the 10th of the month preceding the scheduled release of a newsletter issue will be considered for the next issue (e.g., submissions received on March 10 will be considered for the April issue).
  2. As a courtesy, the editorial team will send contributors a copy of the edited work, in the newsletter's format / layout prior to publication.