iConference 2021

Dates: March 2021

Location: Virtual

Host: Renmin University School of Information Resource Management 

Submissions and Registration: https://www.conftool.com/iconference2021

Final Versions Reminder

Doctoral Colloquium materials and Chinese Papers final versions are due Jan. 19. 

Award finalists named

Congratulations go out to the newly named Award nominees. Visit our Awards webpage for details on this year's finalists for the Lee Dirks Award for Best Full Research Paper, the Best Short Resarch Paper Award, and the Best Poster Award.

Registration now open

Registration is open. Get your registration for iConference 2021 today!

• Visit our Registration Page for pricing and other details.
  
• Or, go direclty to ConfTool to make your purchase with your ConfTool user account.
  

Online Format: What this means to you

iConference 2021 will be entirely online, taking place during the last two weeks of March (March 17-31). All presentations will be be made remotely, and all colloquia and meetings will be virtual. 

Conference tracks

Use the links below to find more information about our conference tracks. Our detailed program scheduled will be made public in mid-January.

• Full Research Papers
  
• Short Research Papers
• Chinese Papers
• Posters
  
• Workshops
  
• Sessions for Interaction and Engagment
  
• Virtual Interactive Sessions
  
• Archival Education
  
• Doctoral Colloquium
  
• Early Career Colloquium
• Student Symposium
• Doctoral Dissertation Award

iConference 2021 Full Research Papers and Short Research Papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series and will therefore be indexed by major services such as Web of Science and Scopus. Posters will be published in the open access Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS). 

General questions about iConference 2021 should be directed to iconference2021@ischools-inc.org.

About the iConference Series

Since 2005, the iConference series has provided forums in which information scholars, researchers and professionals share their insights on critical information issues in contemporary society. An openness to new ideas and research fields in information science is a primary characteristics of the event. Attendance has grown every year; participants appreciate the inspiring sense of community, high quality research presentations, and myriad opportunities for engagement.

The iConference series is presented by the iSchools, a worldwide association of Information Schools dedicated to advancing the information field, and preparing students to meet the information challenges of the 21st Century. Affiliation with the iSchools is not required—all information scholars, researchers and practitioners are welcome at the iConference.

The following is a list of sample topics from past conferences:

• information behavior
• social, cultural, health and community informatics
• human-computer interaction
• education in Library and Information Science
• information systems
• social computing
• information policy
• knowledge management
• information retrieval
• information services
• information organization
• digital curation and preservation
• bibliometrics and scholarly communication
• history and philosophy of information
• participatory cultures
• digital youth
• social computing
• human computer interaction
• knowledge infrastructures
• computer-supported cooperative work
• data, text and knowledge mining
• computational social science
• digital humanities
• network science
• information and communication technology for development
• data science
• information economics
• information work and workers
• user experience and design