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Maggie Albro; Jessica L. Serrao; Christopher D. Vidas; Jenessa M. McElfresh; K. Megan Sheffield; Megan Palmer – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2024
This article explores the application of journal quality and credibility evaluation tools to library science publications. The researchers investigate quality and credibility attributes of forty-eight peer-reviewed library science journals with open access components using two evaluative tools developed and published by librarians. The results…
Descriptors: Library Science, Periodicals, Access to Information, Librarians
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Mikulski, Richard M. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
This article studies how government documents librarians describe their field within scholarly publications. Treating published works as primary source texts, it examines language, themes, and self-depiction within academic publications authored by documents librarians, arguing that a qualitative analysis provides insights into the professional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Government Publications, Library Science
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Wenzler, John – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
This essay analyzes the debate about neutrality in the library literature and identifies a fundamental moral dilemma that generates debate. It then advances an argument in favor of library neutrality based on Wayne Bivens-Tatum's intellectual history of library values in "Libraries and the Enlightenment" and the ideal of liberal…
Descriptors: Library Science, Information Science, Access to Information, Ethics
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Scott, Rachel E. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2019
The importance of open access (OA) advocacy is well-documented in the literature of academic librarianship, but previous research shows that librarians' OA behaviors are less conclusive. This article compares the self-archiving practices of music librarians and musicologists to see how librarians rank in OA adoption. Availability of articles…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Music, Librarians