Communications in Information Literacy: An Example of Librarians as Publishers.

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 jo...

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Publicado en:Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 320 - 326
Autores principales: Brower SM, Hollister CV
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct-Dec2010
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Sumario: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.