''First Monday'' is a monthly

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covering research on the

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Publication

The journal is sponsored and hosted by the

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. It is published on the first Monday of every month. In 2011, the journal had an acceptance rate of about 15%. The journal has no article processing charges and no advertisements.

History

According to the chief editor, Edward Valauskas, the journal emerged before the open access model emerged:

“We didn’t call it open access in 1995 but we were certainly a precursor to the whole notion of open access. We felt very strongly that the journal should have all its content made freely available and we insisted with he Danish publisherMunksgaard that the scholars who contributed would retain copyright of their work that they published in the journal. We felt it would encourage scholars to contribute and then re-use their content in lots of different ways".

''First Monday'' is among the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet. It originated in the summer of 1995 with a proposal to start a new Internet-only, peer-reviewed journal about the Internet by eventual

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Edward J. Valauskas Edward J. Valauskas (born October 3, 1950) is an American librarian, educator, and editor-in-chief of the academic journal ''First Monday''. Career Valauskas has taught at the School of Library and Information Management, Emporia State Universit ...

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, a Danish publisher. Munksgaard agreed to publish the journal in September 1995. The first issue appeared on 6 May 1996, the first Monday of May, also the opening of the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference in Paris. The first issue was distributed at that conference on diskette as well as released on the Internet from a server in Copenhagen at the address www.firstmonday.dk. In December 1998, Munksgaard sold the journal to three of the editors: Edward J. Valauskas, Esther Dyson, and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. The server was moved from Copenhagen to the University of Illinois at Chicago's Library. The first issue based on a server in Chicago appeared 4 January 1999.

Conferences

The first ''First Monday'' conference took place 4–6 November 2001 in

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at the International Institute of Infonomics. To celebrate ''First Monday’s'' 10th birthday in 2006, a conference took place at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 15–17 May 2006. The theme of the conference was ''Openness: Code, science and content.'' Over 200 participants from over 30 countries took part in the meeting. Papers from the Conference were published in the June and July issues. The conference was sponsored by The Open Society Institute, The

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, The University of Illinois at Chicago University Library and The Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maastricht.

References

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A discussion with the journal's founder in 2006
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