Title<\/strong>:\u00a0Collaborative Librarianship<\/em><\/p>\n ISSN<\/strong>: 1943-75281<\/sup><\/p>\n Website<\/strong>:\u00a0Collaborative Librarianship<\/em> Home<\/a><\/p>\n Purpose, objective, or mission<\/strong>: The publication website identifies three mission points: To \u201cpromote sharing of ideas, best practices, opportunities, challenges and successes involving collaborative librarianship; sustain an open-access journal where professional librarians can publish articles (peer- and non-peer-reviewed) on a range of subjects relevant to librarianship, but that involve collaboration at their core; to promote sharing of ideas, opportunities, challenges and successes involving new kinds of partnerships, joint projects, and innovative approaches to collaboration that benefit all members within in the information supply chain.2<\/sup><\/p>\n Target audience<\/strong>: LIS professionals, LIS instructors, and LIS students3<\/sup><\/p>\n Publisher<\/strong>: Independently published, and sponsored by the Colorado Library Consortium, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Regis University, and the University of Denver4<\/sup><\/p>\n Peer reviewed<\/strong>? Yes5<\/sup><\/p>\n Type<\/strong>: LIS scholarly6<\/sup><\/p>\n Medium<\/strong>: Online7<\/sup><\/p>\n Content<\/strong>: The publication\u2019s website indicates that it provides articles relating to a wide range of issues including library-to-library cooperation; sharing resources and expertise; library-to-business partnerships; local, regional, national, and international collaboration; professional, consortium and association partnerships; the history of library collaboration; open access and online availability; better and best practices.8<\/sup><\/p>\n Frequency of publication<\/strong>: Quarterly.9<\/sup><\/p>\n Location of submission guidelines<\/strong>:\u00a0Author Guidelines – Instructions for Authors<\/a><\/p>\n Types of contributions accepted<\/strong>: The journal accepts for submission field reports that focus on innovative collaborations and address best practices. Field reports are usually 2,500 to 5,000 words in length. The journal also accepts scholarly articles on library collaborations at the local, national, or international level that approach their topics historically, quantitatively, qualitatively, analytically, theoretically, philosophically, or practically. Published scholarly articles are usually of at least 5,000 words.10<\/sup><\/p>\n Submission and review process<\/strong>: The submission may not be under consideration for publication by another publisher nor have been previously published. Submissions should include a short abstract, a title, list of authors and affiliations, an introduction, the body of the paper, conclusions, and references. Submissions should adhere to the style guidelines provided on the website and uploaded as Microsoft Word or RFT files.11<\/sup><\/p>\n Editorial tone<\/strong>: Depending on the section, articles may\u00a0be scholarly or more professionally informal.12<\/sup><\/p>\n Style guide used<\/strong>:\u00a0The Chicago Manual of Style<\/em>13<\/sup><\/p>\n Potential LIS authors will find\u00a0Collaborative Librarianship<\/em>\u00a0an appealing avenue for publication. Because collaboration is increasing across the LIS community, \u00a0professional interest in innovative ideas on this topic is\u00a0high. Since the publication is a venue for both practical\u00a0and scholarly articles, authors may expect to reach both professional and academic audiences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publication circulation<\/strong>: The publication does not provide details on circulation.<\/p>\n Audience location and language or cultural considerations<\/strong>: The publication is sponsored by library consortiums and universities in Colorado, and part of its mission is to meet goals identified at the June 2008 general meeting of the\u00a0Colorado Academic Library Consortium,\u00a0including the promotion of the knowledge\u00a0infrastructure of\u00a0Colorado; the maintenance and development of the Colorado library system; and the transmission of lessons learned in the Colorado library community to the rest of the United States.14<\/sup>\u00a0The publication is written in English.15<\/sup><\/p>\n Reader characteristics<\/strong>: The journal does not provide information about individual characteristics about the readers. Persons of interest can subscribe via email to receive notification of new issues. The publication is geared toward librarians located in both the education and professional fields. The journal appears to be content neutral, appealing to readers interested in the collaborative aspect of the LIS field.16<\/sup><\/p>\n Knowledge of LIS subject matter<\/strong>: Because most readers work in the\u00a0LIS field, authors will not have to explain familiar LIS concepts.17<\/sup><\/p>\n Because collaboration exists over practically, if not entirely, all fields in the LIS profession, potential authors can view\u00a0Collaborative Librarianship<\/em>\u00a0as a great source for potential publication. While some readers may not be directly involved in an author\u2019s particular\u00a0LIS field, collaborative ideas can be shared and valued.<\/p>\n Last updated<\/strong>: May 7, 2020<\/p>\n Publication analysis About the publication Title:\u00a0Collaborative Librarianship ISSN: 1943-75281 Website:\u00a0Collaborative Librarianship Home Purpose, objective, or mission: The publication website identifies three mission points: To \u201cpromote sharing of ideas, best practices, opportunities, challenges and successes involving collaborative librarianship; sustain an open-access journal where professional librarians can publish articles (peer- and non-peer-reviewed) on a range of subjects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"parent":2954,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2063","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3395,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2063\/revisions\/3395"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About the publication\u2019s submission guidelines<\/h3>\n
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