About JLSC

History

The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication was launched in 2012 by Founding Co-Editors Isaac Gilman and Marisa Ramírez. Since then, the journal has grown and evolved, and many librarians and scholarly communication practitioners have helped shape and guide the journal in editorial roles or as members of the Editorial Board. The current and past Editorial Team and Board members are listed under our Editorial Team.

Scope

The scope of the journal was revised for clarity by a working group of Editorial Team and Board members in the spring of 2025 and is described under the Scope.

Publication Frequency

The journal is published online continuously in annual general issues. Articles included in special issues are published at one time, and the issue is then closed to additional articles.

Open Access Policy

JLSC provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

In order to lower barriers to publication for authors, JLSC does not charge submission or any other form of author fees.

Archiving Policy

The journal’s publisher, Iowa State University Digital Press, focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived to ensure long-term availability. JLSC is indexed by the following services:

Scopus, ProQuest (ProQuest Central), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and Google Scholar. In addition, the journal is available for harvesting via OAI-PMH.

To ensure permanency of the journal, JLSC utilizes the Portico archiving system to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration. 

If the journal is not indexed by your preferred service, please let us know by emailing editors@jlsc-pub.org. 

As a condition of publication in Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, all authors agree to the following terms of licensing/copyright ownership:

  • First publication rights to original work accepted for publication is granted to Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication but copyright for all work published in the journal is retained by the author(s).
  • Works published in Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). By granting a CC BY license in their work, authors retain copyright ownership of the work, but they give explicit permission for others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy the work, as long as the original source and author(s) are properly cited (i.e. a complete bibliographic citation and link to the JLSC website). No permission is required from the author(s) or the publishers for such use. According to the terms of the CC BY license, any reuse or redistribution must indicate the original CC BY license terms of the work. Exceptions to the application of the CC BY license may be granted at the editors’ discretion if reasonable extenuating circumstances exist. Such exceptions must be granted in writing by the editors of the Journal; in the absence of a written exception, the CC BY license will be applied to all published works.
  • Authors may enter into separate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work, with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
  • Authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication as soon as the issue is available; post-print versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website.

It will be the responsibility of the authors to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their manuscript. Authors will be required to provide written evidence of this permission upon acceptance of their manuscript.

JLSC policies and other non-article website text are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). To the extent possible under law, the creator of the JLSC logo and wordmark has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights (CC0). This work is published from: United States.