First Monday (journal)
Encyclopedia
First Monday is an open-access electronic peer-reviewed
scientific journal
for articles about the Internet
.
. It is published on the first Monday of every month.
to Munksgaard, 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. At the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference in Paris, the first issue was distributed on diskette as well as over the Internet from a server in Copenhagen. In December 1998, Munksgaard sold the journal to a group 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.
The first First Monday conference took place 4–6 November 2001 in Maastricht
at the International Institute of Infonomics. To celebrate First Monday’s tenth 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 Conference. Papers from the Conference were published in the June and July issues of First Monday. This conference was sponsored by The Open Society Institute, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The University of Illinois at Chicago University Library and The Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maastricht.
The original First Monday site was www.firstmonday.dk, operated by Mondo Media for Munksgaard in Copenhagen
. The journal moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago at the end of 1998; the January 1999 issue was the first issue published in Chicago. The First Monday servers have been hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago for over a decade.
Peer review
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scientific journal
Scientific journal
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for articles about the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
Publication
First Monday is sponsored and hosted by the University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
The University of Illinois at Chicago, or UIC, is a state-funded public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, near the Chicago Loop...
. It is published on the first Monday of every month.
History
First Monday originated in the summer of 1995 with a proposal to start a new Internet–only, peer–reviewed journal about the Internet by eventual editor-in-chief Edward J. ValauskasEdward J. Valauskas
Edward J. Valauskas is an American librarian, educator, and Internet publisher.-Career:Valauskas is an instructor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University of Illinois...
to Munksgaard, a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
publisher. Munksgaard agreed to publish the journal in September 1995. The first issue appeared on 6 May 1996, the first Monday of May. At the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference in Paris, the first issue was distributed on diskette as well as over the Internet from a server in Copenhagen. In December 1998, Munksgaard sold the journal to a group 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.
The first First Monday conference took place 4–6 November 2001 in Maastricht
Maastricht
Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border...
at the International Institute of Infonomics. To celebrate First Monday’s tenth 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 Conference. Papers from the Conference were published in the June and July issues of First Monday. This conference was sponsored by The Open Society Institute, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The University of Illinois at Chicago University Library and The Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), University of Maastricht.
The original First Monday site was www.firstmonday.dk, operated by Mondo Media for Munksgaard in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
. The journal moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago at the end of 1998; the January 1999 issue was the first issue published in Chicago. The First Monday servers have been hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago for over a decade.