Full Text Research Article: “Publishing in Discipline-Specific Open Access Journals: Opportunities and Outreach for Librarians”

April 16, 2013 by Gary Price

The following article appears in the Vol 39 No 1 (2013) issue of The Journal of Academic Librarianship. This special issue of JAL is devoted to open access. and is available at no charge.

Title

Publishing in Discipline-Specific Open Access Journals: Opportunities and Outreach for Librarians

Authors

Robert Tomaszewski
Concordia University
Sonia Poulin
Concordia University
Karen I. MacDonald
Kent St. University

Source

The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Vol 39 No 1 (January 2013)

Abstract

Open access (OA) journals promote the opportunity for peer-reviewed journal articles to be freely accessible. In recent years, the number of OA journals has exploded in all disciplines. Previous studies have identified print-based pedagogical discipline-specific journals outside the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) for librarians to consider as vehicles for publishing articles related to subject-based Information Literacy (IL). The present study explores the presence of discipline-specific pedagogical journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and presents a table of OA journals with their acceptance rates and review times. Pedagogical OA journals are highlighted as a potential opportunity for librarians to pro-actively reach out to faculty within a discipline and contribute towards the OA movement.

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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