About this journal

Legal Reference Services Quarterly is peer-reviewed journal featuring scholarly research and practical insights into law library management and legal information studies globally.

As an essential forum for daily problems and issues, through our Practical Insights column, Legal Reference Services Quarterly will assist you in your day-to-day work as it has been helping law librarians and members of the legal professional for more than four decades. As part of our mission, Legal Reference Services Quarterly is dedicated to fostering serious, in-depth scholarly exploration of issues pertaining to legal information and research services. In addition, Legal Reference Services Quarterly just launched a new column, Librarians as Model Thinkers , to promote active thinking and occasionally, perhaps, unconventional thinking to help assess our past, examine our present and forecast our future collectively, utilizing widely accepted thinking concepts and intellectual models developed in different disciplines.

Here is a sample list of topics for which we continue to seek quality submissions year-round.

• Research data management and law libraries.
• Knowledge management and knowledge transfer in law libraries.
• Technology, data, and legal research.
• Global open access to information, data, tools, and standards.
• Law library management in a hybrif work and learning environment, including but not limited to space, design, strategic planning, recruitment and retetnion, impact, and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Innovative service development in teaching, reference, research, outreach and engagement, scholarly communication, user interface (re)design, metadata, discovery systems, and access services.
• Technology and legal information services in areas such as data visualization, artificial intelligence; big data; empirical research; data analysis and management; digitalization, database evaulation and mangement; implementation of technologies; and open-source tool development.
• Value maximization of archives and special collections in the digital environment.
• Libraries and vendor relations.
• Studies' in information-seeking bahavior, pedagogies, active learning, legal informatics, bibliometrics studies, and research methodologies.
• Copyright and information/data privacy
• Libraries and access to justice.
• Libraries, information, and design thinking.
• Misinformation and disinformation, "face news", evaulation criteria, and opportunities for libraries.
• Critical law librarianship, critical legal research, and critical legal information literacy.
• Other areas that may be helpful to the law library and legal information process (If unsure, please discuss with Alex Zhang ([email protected]) whether your research idea of project may fit into our journal's scope).

Special thematic issues of the journal have covered such topics as:

• Federal regulatory research-selected agency knowledge paths
• Law library collection development in the digital age
• Teamwork and collaboration in libraries-tools for theory and practice
• Public services issues with rare and archival law materials
• Teaching legal research and providing access to electronic resources
• Emerging solutions in reference services-implications for libraries in the new millennium
• Law librarians abroad
• The political economy of legal information
• Symposium of law publishers
• The legal bibliography-tradition, transitions, and trends
• Practical approaches to legal research

Peer Review Policy: All review papers in Legal Reference Services Quarterly have undergone editorial screening and peer review.

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

EDITOR
Alex Zhang – Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law, Associate Dean of Information Services, Duke University Law School, USA

BOARD OF EDITORS
Megan Austin - Law Librarian and Editor, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Hyla Bondareff – Electronic Resources Librarian and Lecturer in Law, Washington University School of Law Library, USA
Andrew Christensen – Head of Digital Initiatives and Outreach, Washington and Lee University School of Law Library, USA
Julienne Grant - Instructor & Reference Librarian, Louis L. Biro Law Library, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, USA
Peter Hook – Associate Director, Kresge Law Library, University of Notre Dame Law School, USA
Aaron S. Kirschenfeld - Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Digital Initiatives Law Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Law, USA
Margaret Kribble – Research & Knowledge Manager, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, USA
Jane Larrington – Associate Director & Head of Public Services, Pardee Legal Research Center, University of San Diego School of Law, USA
Brittany L. Menton - Research Analyst, Lewis Roca, USA
Nicholas Mignanelli – Research & Instructional Services Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research, Yale Law School, USA
Sara V. Pixon  - Head of Public Services, Law Library of Louisiana, USA
Marcelo Rodriguez – Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, USA
Anna Russell – Alaska Branch Manager, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Library, USA
Sarah Slinger – Head of Instructional Services Law Librarian & Adjunct Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law, USA