International research conference
THE PERIODICALS AND A CHANGING SOCIETY
The 200th Anniversary of the Lithuanian Periodical Press
Vilnius, 19–20 October 2023
The periodical press, as a means of mass communication, reflects the collective relationship with a society. It is the fourth estate governing humankind without any laws or punishments and responsible to readers and the state. East, Central and North Europe regions entered the age of the periodical press at different times–mid-17th c. to early 19th c. – however, all of them strived to adapt to the changing conditions of the period in a modern way. The predecessor of periodicals “Nusidavimai Dievo karalystėje” (News in the Kingdom of God), published in 1823, in Tilžė (Lithuania Minor, the kingdom of Prussia), was a part of this consistent process of development and change of information and communication. It has its origins in the continuous publications and calendars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Prussia. The volume of the world press grew day by day, and the repertoire of Lithuanian periodicals also expanded (in 1760, a newspaper in Polish was launched in Vilnius, in 1802 the first newspaper in French was published, in 1810 – in German, in 1841 – in Hebrew, 1862 – in Belarusian). Societies were changing simultaneously by immersing themselves into a multidimensional informational existence, and the press became an integral part of the image of a modern person. The first digital periodical in Lithuania was launched in 1998, nowadays, we have dozens of them. The periodical press has transformed itself in a digital age; new ways of publishing, new forms and formats to present information have been invented. The conference is dedicated to celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Lithuanian periodical press and discussing the research on historical change of periodicals and their heritage, specific features of contemporary publishing and dissemination of the periodical press, highlighting the most important changes in publishing of contemporary periodical press faced by network societies in the Baltic States and neighbouring countries.
Conference organizer
The Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University
Partners
The Association of Lithuanian Serials
Crossref
Conference language
English
Conference format
Online
Key dates
Until 31 March 2023 – Final deadline for proposals of individual paper abstracts
Until 15 May 2023 – Assessment and notification of acceptance
Until 30 June 2023 – Publication of the program
19–20 October 2023 – Conference date
Call for papers
We invite you to submit papers on the following topics:
- Theoretical approaches to periodical research. Changes in the concept of periodical, continuous, serial publications. Methodology and sources of periodical research. Critical communication and information, book studies, source studies, interdisciplinary perspective. Formation of the bibliographic resource base for periodicals and the state of the art today.
- History, historiography and bibliography of periodicals. Predecessors of periodicals (calendars, manuscript newspapers, dissertation theses, silva rerum) and changes in repertoire in the 16th and 19th centuries. Periodicals of the period of the National Revival. Discoveries in the history of the periodical press changing the understanding about the period, significant events for the press, etc. Synthetic results of the research on history and bibliography of periodicals.
- Heritage of periodicals, its communication, digitalisation and research. Historical collections of periodicals and continuing publications, their development and composition. Heritage genres of periodicals, artistic decoration. Specialised digital resources of the heritage of periodicals, their creation and use. Technological and methodological issues of digitalisation of documentary heritage. The relevance of press research to processes of digitalisation.
- Data analytics in research on periodicals. The concept of data and specificity in the publishing of periodicals. Opportunities and experiences in content analysis of the data of periodicals.
- Periodicals and society groups. Periodical research from an ethnic, religious, regional, national, local identity or target audience analysis points of view. Illegal press of the Soviet period. Periodicals of emigrants. Periodicals of minorities. Users (readers) of periodicals.
- Market of periodicals. State and business interests in shaping the periodical press market by ensuring access to different genre and purpose press. Dimensions of internationality, nationality and regionalism.
- Periodicals and digital publishing. Emergence of the digital content of the periodical press, digitalisation of management of publishing processes, new models of publishing business.
Submission guidelines / Registration
Please submit your proposals and register online through the conference website https://www.ibsc2023.kf.vu.lt/en/.
The time allocated for presentations is 20 minutes (max. 2500 words). Proposals for papers must include a title, an abstract (max. 250 words), and a short biography of the presenter (max. 50 words).
Planed paper publishing
Articles based on the papers will be published in the scholarly journal “Knygotyra” (Book Science) for 2024. The journal is peer-reviewed, open access and has been indexed in Scopus since 2018. Attendance of the conference is free of charge.
Conference organizing and programme committees
Organizing committee
- Assoc. prof. dr. Tomas Petreikis (chair), Vilnius University, Young Academy of the Lithuanian Academy of Science
- Assoc. prof. dr. Nijolė Bliūdžiuvienė(deputy chair), Vilnius University
- Assoc. prof. dr. Rima Cicėnienė, Vilnius University
- Assoc. prof. dr. Vincas Grigas, Vilnius University, the Association of Lithuanian Serials
- Prof. emeritus habil. dr. Domas Kaunas, Vilnius University, Lithuanian Academy of Science
- Prof. dr. Aušra Navickienė, Vilnius University
- Dr. Martyn Rittman, Crossref (United Kingdom)
Programme committee
- Assoc. prof. dr. Tomas Petreikis (chair), Vilnius University, Young Academy of the Lithuanian Academy of Science
- Assoc. prof. dr. Nijolė Bliūdžiuvienė (deputy chair), Vilnius University
- Assoc. prof. dr. Rima Cicėnienė, Vilnius University
- Prof. habil. dr. Sławomir Gawroński, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow (Poland)
- Assoc. prof. dr. Vincas Grigas, Vilnius University, the Association of Lithuanian Serials
- Prof. dr. Heiko Hartmann, Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig) (Germany)
- Prof. emeritus habil. dr. Domas Kaunas, Vilnius University, Lithuanian Academy of Science
- Assoc. prof. dr. Aile Möldre, Tallinn University (Estonia)
- Prof. dr. Aušra Navickienė, Vilnius University
- Dr. Teuvo Laitila, University of Eastern Finland
- Dr. Johanna Lilja, The Nationl Library of Finland
- Prof. dr. (HP) Arvydas Pacevičius, Vilnius University
- Prof. habil. dr. Iwona Pietrzkiewicz, Pedagogical University of Cracow (Poland)
- Dr. Martyn Rittman, Crossref (United Kingdom)
- Prof. dr. Rita Vaičekauskaitė, Klaipėda University (Lithuania), the Association of Lithuanian Serials
- Prof. dr. Zoran Velagič, University of Osijek (Croatia)
- Prof. dr. Viesturs Zanders, University of Latvia
Secretariat
- Kristina Gedvilaitė
- Margarita Kunkytė
Programme
| October 19 (Thursday) MS Teams |
| 9:00–9:20 |
Opening of the conference, welcome speeches |
| 9:20–15:10 |
Parallel sessions |
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1 session. History, historiography and bibliography of periodical Moderated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aile Möldre |
2 session. Heritage of periodicals and digitalisation Moderated by Dr. Teuvo Laitila |
| 9:20–9:45 |
Tiiu Reimo Estonia The Emergence of the Estonian Language Periodical Press |
Arvydas Pacevičius Vilnius University, Lithuania Dissemination of Scientific Periodicals in Lithuania in the First Half of the 19th Century: the Case of Vilnius University |
| 9:45–10:10 |
Monika Łękawska Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland From Spy to Editor – Newsboys of Elżbieta Sieniawska née Lubomirska, Castellan of Kraków (d. 1729) |
Eglė Akstinaitė-Veličkienė Vilnius University Library, Lithuania Ex amore erga Vilnam: J. Kazlauskaitė's Bibliographical indexes on Vilnius periodicals |
| 10:10–10:35 |
Birutė Railienė Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania Wiadomości Brukowe (1816–1822) in Vilnius – the First Satirical Weekly Paper in Lithuania |
Liisa Näpärä, Erno Liukkonen National Library of Finland, Finland Unlocking the Potential of Creating Customized Datasets from the Periodicals |
| 10:35–11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:25 |
Dragana Grujic University of Belgrade, Serbia Bibliographers as Editors of Serbian Journals During the 19th Century |
Rima Cicėnienė Vilnius University; Wroblewski Library of the LAS, Lithuania Non-print Periodicals in the Wroblevski Library: what does the Collection Tell about the History of Publishing in Lithuania? |
| 11:25–11:50 |
Greta Kėvelaitienė Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library, Lithuania Shapirographed Periodical Literature in Panevėžys region (1918–1945) |
Tuula Pääkkönen National Library of Finland, Finland The Years of Digitization and Usage of Periodicals in National Library of Finland |
| 11:50–12:50 |
Lunch time |
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3 session. Periodicals and society groups Moderated by Dr. Rima Cicėnienė |
4 session. Market of periodicals and publishing statistics Moderated by Prof. Dr. Zoran Velagič |
| 12:50–13:15 |
Teuvo Laitila University of Eastern Finland, Finland Finnish Nationalist Newspaper Representations of Border Karelian women, 1899–1914 |
Aile Möldre Tallinn University, Estonia Serialised Novels in Estonian Newspapers in the Beginning of the 20th Century: From Development to Corruption of Literary Taste? |
| 13:15–13.40 |
Aušra Kairaitytė-Užupė Vilnius University, Lithuania On the Margins of Periodicals: Informal Publications of the Lithuanian Youth of the Nineties |
Sławomir Gawroński University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland The Economic Future of the Printed Press in Poland |
| 13.40–14.05 |
Fausta Kepalienė, Aušra Navickienė Vilnius University, Lithuania The Open Access Journals and Lithuanian Scholars' Publishing Behaviour |
Tomas Petreikis Vilnius University, Lithuania Quantitative Changes in Publishing of Lithuanian Scholarly Journals in 2015–2022: Statistics and Science policy |
| 14.05–14.30 |
Gordana Djokovic University of Belgrade, Serbia Academic Publishing and Open Science at the University of Belgrade (Serbia) |
Nijolė Bliūdžiuvienė Vilnius University, Lithuania Statistics Data on Periodicals Publishing Industry Between Keepers and Users |
| 14.30–15.00 |
Closing discussion of the first day of the conference |
| October 20 (Friday) MS Teams |
| 9:00–9:10 |
Opening of the second day of the conference |
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5 session. Periodicals and digital publishing Moderated by Prof. Dr. Rita Vaičekauskaitė |
| 9:10–9:35 |
Martyn Rittman Crossref, United Kingdom The Research Nexus: Mapping the Complexity of Research Outputs |
| 9:35–10.00 |
Vincas Grigas Vilnius University, Lithuania An Exploratory Study into Maturity of Scholarly Journals Publishing Technologies in Lithuania |
| 10:00–10:25 |
Arūnas Gudinavičius, Vincas Grigas Vilnius University, Lithuania Scholarly Journal Publishers in Small Language Country: the Case of Lithuania |
| 10:25–11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:25 |
The guest speaker's presentation Andrius Šuminas Vilnius University, Lithuania Geographical Disparity in Editorial Boards of Lithuanian Scientific Journals: an Overview of Different Science Disciplines |
| 11:25–11:50 |
Iryna Kuchma EIFL, Lithuania Supporting Diamond OA in Lithuania |
| 11:50–12.15 |
Alvida Kasiulytė Martynas Mažvydas National library of Lithuania International Standard Serial Numbering (ISSN) in Lithuania |
| 12.15–12.45 |
Closing discussion of the second day of the conference |
Contacts
Conference contact information
Secretary of the Conference organizing committee Kristina Gedvilaitė, e-mail:
Correspondence address
Department of Book, Media and Publishing Research
Faculty of Communication
Vilnius University
3 Universiteto Str.
LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania
Social partners