Library and info science journals that are OA

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  Posted by Stephen Francoeur (he/him) on April 12, 2010 at 12:24 pm

  Let’s start a thread here listing OA journals in library and info science.

• Maura A. Smale (she/her)

  Participant

  April 12, 2010 at 1:48 pm

  Absolutely!

  Here’s the LIS listing in DOAJ: http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=129 (100 journals as of today)

  American/Canadian LIS OA journals that I know of include:

  (PR = peer-reviewed)

  Code4Lib: http://journal.code4lib.org/

  Collaborative Librarianship (PR): http://www.collaborativelibrarianship.org/

  Communications in Information Literacy (PR): http://www.comminfolit.org

  CRL News: http://crln.acrl.org/

  D-Lib Magazine: http://www.dlib.org/

  Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (PR): http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/

  Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (PR): http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP

  Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (PR): http://www.istl.org/

  Journal of Electronic Publishing (PR): http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

  Library Philosophy and Practice (PR): http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/lpp.htm

  Library Student Journal (PR): http://www.librarystudentjournal.org/

  Practical Academic Librarianship (PR): http://journals.tdl.org/pal

  And of course, CUNY’s own Urban Library Journal (PR): http://lacuny.org/ulj/
  Scott Voth (he/him)

  Member

  April 15, 2010 at 4:15 am

  Hi – I could put the list on a wiki page if you think that’s appropriate
  Jill Cirasella (she/her)

  Member

  April 16, 2010 at 1:15 pm

  I think that sounds like a great idea, Scott! Thanks!
  Scott Voth (he/him)

  Member

  April 17, 2010 at 8:16 am

  I created a new page called “OA Journals in Library and Information Science” on the wiki. Here is the link: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/OA_Journals_in_Library_and_Information_Science

  Tagged it under Open Access (OA) and Library Science.
  Maura A. Smale (she/her)

  Participant

  April 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm

  Awesome, thanks Scott!