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Issue 64 of Cartographic Perspectives, the journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), is available online (PDF) as a test of a potential move to an all-digital, open-source publication. (It’s also a very interesting read on its own merits.) Not to say that Cartographic Perspectives has had no online presence before: back issues, from the beginning to the fall of 2007, are also available in PDF format. Via Cartogrammar and Maps-L.

Previously: Cartographic Perspectives: Maps and Art.

The Journal of Terrestrial Observation is a new peer-reviewed journal that is published simultaneously online and as a hardcopy quarterly. Its mission is “to examine the multi-disciplinary theories, models, technologies, and applications associated with earth observation in the broadest sense. The Journal will cover a wide range of topics including satellite remote sensing, aircraft reconnaissance, and proximate sensing utilizing in situ instrumentation.” Via Slashgeo.

I’ve been spending some time reading through Matthew Edney’s annotated bibliography of scholarly literature on the history of cartography; a new revision went online at the Coordinates web site last week. The list is bigger than some of my comprehensive exam reading lists, and the annotations pull no punches. It’s giving me a few ideas for future reading, though I’d never have enough time to get through even the recommended stuff. Via MapHist and Map the Universe.

Cartographic Perspectives, the peer-reviewed journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society, now (as of yesterday) has a blog. Writes John Krygier in the blog’s first (and so far only) entry: “I plan to post abstracts and summaries of articles, essays, methods pieces, and reviews in forthcoming issues of CP to this blog, each with its own entry. This will serve to promote the work published in CP and allow comments and responses to the work. I will also report on developments such as full text availability [ … and] calls for submissions.” Via Map History/History of Cartography.

Previously: Cartographic Perspectives: Maps and Art.

The winter 2006 issue of Documents to the People, the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, is a special issue on map librarianship. It’s available for download as a PDF file (3 MB). Via Maps-L.

Meanwhile, though dated Summer 2006, Vol. 1, No. 3 of e_Perimetron (previously) was announced earlier this month. Via MapHist.

The most recent issue of the Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France concerns cartography; most of the articles appear to be about early modern maps, though there’s one about the Internet as well. The table of contents, introduction…  •  Continue reading this entry.

What is map art? While I’ve posted a few entries on the subject of maps and art, it’s not something I’ve really stopped to think about. An artist’s work or installation incorporates maps. Good enough for me: post it. But…  •  Continue reading this entry.

e_Perimetron is a new quarterly web journal, the focus of which is the application of geospatial technologies to old maps. The first issue, for example, has articles that transform old maps to conform to known coordinates, assign projections to portolans,…  •  Continue reading this entry.

The latest issue of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Cartographers is a special issue on “Critical Cartographies.” The essays examine the political aspects of cartography, in particular, the implications of passing the power to make maps from an expert…  •  Continue reading this entry.

The Journal of Maps has announced plans for a special issue on transport, scheduled for the fall. The call for papers (PDF) explains the scope and submission guidelines….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Issue two of the Journal of Maps (see previous entry) is now online, as is a call for papers for their upcoming poster session at GESS 2006— the conference of the British Geomorphologic Research Group — in June….  •  Continue reading this entry.

A few quick links for the Map Site Directory: Via MapHist, I’ve learned about the British Cartographic Society and its journal, The Cartographic Journal. ArcDeveloper is a new blog that should be of interest to ESRI GIS developers. Via Spatially…  •  Continue reading this entry.

According to a post on MapHist by the journal’s editor, Coordinates, the journal of the ALA’s Map and Geography Round Table, is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (about which I posted on MetaFilter a couple of…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Thomas Klöti passes on links to the home pages of the Swiss-based Cartographica Helvetica, a German-language journal about the history of cartography, and the forthcoming International Conference on the History of Cartography, which takes place in Berne in July 2007….  •  Continue reading this entry.

Coordinates is the journal of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. It’s an online journal; articles are published irregularly rather than on an issue-by-issue basis, and, even better, it’s freely available, in HTML and PDF…  •  Continue reading this entry.

Richard writes to draw our attention to a new online scholarly journal, the Journal of Maps, which launched last year and had their first issue this month. From their about page: The Journal of Maps is a new inter-disciplinary online,…  •  Continue reading this entry.