Communications in Information Literacy: An Example of Librarians as Publishers

Abstract

Seeing a clear need for a scholarly journal devoted entirely to information literacy, two librarians developed a plan for the creation of Communications in Information Literacy. Putting this plan into action required writing author guidelines, recruiting an editorial board, installing open source journal publishing software, creating a workable business model, and petitioning bibliographic databases for indexing. The process described in this column can serve as a model for other, similar efforts.

KEYWORDS:

• Communications in Information Literacy
• open access
• Open Journal Systems
• publishing

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