LATEST SERVICE INFORMATION

2009 Impact Factors Released (Posted: 18 June 2010)
Thomson Reuters have released their Journal Citation Reports for 2009. As the Journal of Maps was not citation listed until late 2009 it was not eligible to receive an impact factor until this year. We are very please to announce that this is currently 0.935.

Technical Note: Presenting 3D models in GeoPDFs (Posted: 7 May 2010)
The application of GeoPDFs is drawing increased interest from the geospatial community particularly now that it is an approved standard of the Open Geospatial Consortium. The ability to incorporate coordinate systems (and so undertake real world measurements), switchable layers and attribute data make for a much richer, interactive, experience. As a result we are publishing increasing numbers of GeoPDFs. One area of PDF development is the ability to include 3D models. We will be publishing our first 3D model in the coming months and in order to increase interest have now published the following technical note detailing their production using ArcGIS and Adobe Acrobat:

Brennan-Horley, C. (2010) Technical Note: Embedding 3D content in PDF maps

Ordnance Survey OpenData (Posted: 2 April 2010)
Ordnance Survey have now released a series of datasets under a Creative Commons style licence that simply requires attribution when used; authors can manipulate the data in whatever way they see fit, including commercial use, and also with no "hit" for derived data. Data can be grabbed from OS OpenData and data.gov.uk. MySociety have already produced some derivative products (e.g. WGS84 version of CodePoint) and include the licence. And, if it isn't by now obvious, maps based upon these datasets can be published by JoM.

2010 Student Edition (Posted: 15 February 2010)
The latest Student Edition of the Journal of Maps has been published, resulting from presentations at the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society's Annual Student Meeting.

Best Map 2009: Best Map Awarded to Evans et al (Posted: 31 January 2010)
The award for the 2009 "Best Map" goes to David Evans (Durham University), David Twigg (Loughborough University), Brice Rea (University of Aberdeen) and Chris Orton (Durham University) for their mapping of the Tungnaarjokull (Iceland) glacier landsystem. Academically, it provides a "snapshot" in time recording landforms generated as a result of the 1995 glacier surge, presenting them within historical and process-oriented contexts. In terms of collaborative techniques, it combines excellent cartographic presentation, digital elevation model generation, stereoscopic photo-interpretation and ground truthing "in the field." It typifies the excellence of inter-disciplinary research work and is therefore a worthy winner.

Purchase details can be found here: http://www.journalofmaps.com/about.php?helpfile=smartyMapPurchase.html

Best Map 2008: Purchase Sahlin and Glasser Map (Posted: 9 March 2009)
A full litho print run of the "Best Map 2008" award winner has now been completed and is ready for purchase. There are a limited number of folded copies available for sale at £6 including worldwide delivery (surface mail). One hundred flat (unfolded) copies are available, principally targeted at library collections; please contact the editor if you wish to purchase an unfolded map.

Purchase details can be found here: http://www.journalofmaps.com/about.php?helpfile=smartyMapPurchase.html

Journal of Maps to be available in Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index (Posted: 18 February 2009)
The Journal of Maps is pleased to announce that it's application has been accepted (pending technical evaluation of the journal’s electronic format) for inclusion in the following Thomson Reuters products beginning with volume 1, 2005:

Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) including the Web of Science
ISI Alerting Service
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (CC/PC&ES)
Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences

Indexing is scheduled for later in 2009. This is an important step for the journal and remained a high priority in our development. Not only does it show the establishment of the journal internationally, but also significantly increases our exposure to researchers across the world. For organisations that require citation listing, authors will now be able to submit manuscripts for publication.

Journal of Maps to be available from EBSCO Publishing (Posted: 28 January 2009)
The Journal of Maps has recently entered into a content licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing, the world's most prolific aggregator of full text journals, magazines and other sources. EBSCO distributes the full text, via subscription to libraries, of over 77,000 periodicals, reference books and databases. Keyword search databases enable the user to retrieve items at the article or chapter level. The full text of the Journal of Maps will soon be available on EBSCO Publishing's databases.

Metadata collection and archival (Posted: 06 August 2008)
The Journal of Maps is pleased to welcome Tony Mathys (EDINA) as the metadata officer. Authors wishing to publish data with their article/map will be required to complete a short metadata record that will accompany the data itself. The metadata record is standards compliant and will be archived at GoGeo.

Journal of Maps Archival (permanent news item)
The Journal of Maps has been asked to participate in the UK Web Preservation Programme. The programme has been selecting sites, as part of initial trials, to represent aspects of UK documentary heritage that will remain available to researchers in the future. With JoMs Creative Commons licensing model, and strict PDF publishing, a complete archived copy of the journal will be stored in the British Library's permanent collections.

The Journal of Maps also mirrors all of its content at the UK Mirror Service. This is a complete copy of our data directories and is the most up-to-date archive of our collection.

Publication of Data (permanent news item)
The submission guidelines detail that the Journal of Maps is able to publish research data alongside the article. Examples include Stokes et al and Dunlop and Clark. Data deposition and data repositories are of increasing importance in funded research, however if the data "follows the article" then the benefits of "immediacy" are both data preservation and dissemination of outputs. Mike Smith (editor) details some of these points in a blog on data publication.

Maps Pending Publication (permanent news item)
The Journal of Maps realises that spatial output underpins much research and that authors often wish to publish in tandem both the cartographic output, as well as the interpretations based upon them. The latter usually form part of a research paper in a subject specific journal. To aid this process, the Journal of Maps is happy to receive and review map submissions and then temporarily withold the maps from publication (for a period of upto 1 year) until authorised to do so by the authors. If you would like to know more about this process please email the editor.

Open Access and Copyright (permanent news item)
JoM is dedicated to open-access publishing, whilst protecting the work of the journal and the author. To this end, whilst all our material is copyright, we operate within the framework of Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation dedicated to flexible protections/freedoms. Please follow the link (right) to see our license and read this page for a more detailed discussion.

Submission of Maps Incorporating Ordnance Survey Data (permanent news item)
Due to copyright restrictions of OS data, we are currently unable to publish maps licensed through EDINA. Please read this page to find a more detailed discussion.