The Journal of Academic Librarianship

The Journal of Academic Librarianship is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a broad range of topics that deal with academic libraries. The editor is David Kohl. The journal publishes book reviews, analytical articles, and bibliographic essays. Many of the articles include statistical analyses of issues and trends relating to academic libraries and some are speculative about the future role of college and university libraries.

Origin, Editors, and Publisher

The Journal of Academic Librarianship was first published in March 1975 and has been a bimonthly publication ever since. It was initially edited by Richard M. Dougherty and William H. Webb. The publisher of the journal is Elsevier, which is located in Radarweg29, 1043 Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. Readers in the U.S. can research the publisher at the nearest Regional Sales Offices in the U.S., which are listed on the publisher’s website: http://www.elsevier.com

Scope and Major Topics

The journal covers American as well as international issues concerning academic librarianship in theory and practice and seeks to offer viable solutions.The latest issues of the journal include articles on international academic librarianship in such countries as Spain, India, the U. K., and South Africa. This is a major shift from the 1970s, since American issues are the focal point of the journal at that time. In terms of discipline, article topics relate to Information and Library Science, consisting of many sub fields. With the development of digitization and technology, the recent issues focus more on interactions between users and technology in the fields of e-publishing, administration and management, user services, online bibliographical instructions, and workings and applications of particular programs such as Web 2.0., Endnotes, database, and software in the U.S. and other countries around the world. In terms of methodology, studies published in the journal adopt quantitative approaches, so most of studies examining theoretical frameworks, models, and assumptions are substantiated and demonstrated by statistical data from cases studies.

Access

In addition to the physical publication, the entire Journal of Academic Librarianship is accessible in full-text on its web site. Even without logging in, users can obtain both HTML and PDF formats of the journal at:http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jacalib. It is also available through major databases such as EBSCO, ScienceDirect, and Wilson Library Literature& Information Science Full Text. EBSCO offers all the journals from March 1975 to the present, while ScienceDirect has holding from January 1993 to the present, and Wilson Library Literature& Information Science Full Text starts from November 1984 and continues to the present.