Aims and Scope
The JLISR aims to provide a scholarly forum for all aspects of librarianship and information science. It publishes rigorous works that address issues in librarianship, information science, communication, information technology, documentation, and archive studies. As a leading scholarly journal in library and information science in Taiwan, JLISR aspires to broaden its international reputation. Beginning from 2011, an extended English abstract is required for all articles published by JLISR. We would also like to extend our welcome to English submissions from across the globe.
Key journal audiences
- Scholars, educators and advanced students in field of Library and Information Science.
- Reflective practitioners in the profession of information services.
- Scholars and researchers in related subject areas such information and knowledge management, education, communication studies, and information policy.
Copyright and Licensing
- The Author represents and warrants that the submission (Article) is his/her original work, and the all or part of Article submitted to Journal of Library and Information Science Research (JLISR) has not been published in any other journal or been made available or communicated to the public on the Internet. And to the best of the Author’s knowledge, the Article does not contain anything that infringes any third party’s copyright or violates any academic ethics.
- If the Article (submission) being accepted by the JLISR, hereinafter referred to as the Journal, the Author grants a free and non-exclusive license of the Article to the Publisher (including co-publisher) of the Journal and the Library Association of the Republic of China (LAROC) (Taiwan) to
- publish the Article in the Journal and its derivative issues;
- reproduce and distribute the Article in printed, electronic or any other medium;
- collect the Article in its database and provides the database in electronic form through single PC version, Internet, wireless network or any other way to transmit the Article publicly;
- the Publisher can also sublicense its right described above to any other database provider.
- The Author and Publisher both acknowledge that the copyright of the Article still remains with the Author after signing the Copyright License Agreement.
- In addition to the above, readers of JLISR may use the articles under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) model as open access attribution.
Download Copyright License Agreement File
Authors whose submissions are accepted for publishing in JLISR should download, and sign the Copyright License Agreement letter. For co-authored articles, each author must sign an individual authorization letter.
Open Access Policy
Open access policy: In the spirit of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), this journal 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. Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose according to the Creative Commons Attributions CC BY-NC under Creative Commons Attributions 4.0
Archiving policy
Archiving policy: LAROC will also have the right to digitally archive the publication and provide immediate open access to its content via the Journal website. Each accepted manuscript is assigned a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). All metadata is openly available for harvesting by indexing services via OAI-PMH and journals are registered with Open Archives. In particular, the different versions of the accepted manuscripts, including submitted, accepted, and published versions, are deposited within the database of the submission system of JLISR. The published version of the accepted manuscripts is also deposited on the JLISR website maintained by LAROC. The digital files of JLISR articles have been simultaneously created a repository with the National Central Library’s “Taiwan Periodical Literature” database (https://tpl.ncl.edu.tw/NclService/JournalQuery). Additionally, the authors are free to deposit all versions of their manuscripts in an institutional or other repository of their choice. However, it is our expectation that authors should be aware of the followings:
- Do not make any commercial use of post-prints.
- PDF format should be adopted for the archival version.
- Any archival version of the article should have a clear statement of its relationship with JLISR and the volume information.
Peer Review and Editorial Process
The Editor-in-Chief of the JLISR invites editorial board members to recommend reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief selects the reviewers based on the suggestion of the editorial board members who are relevant to the field of the manuscript and also seek experts in the relevant field who are from the Ad hoc members. The manuscript is reviewed by two to three reviewers, in a double-blind review system. The detailed review process and the reviewers' results are as follows.
The Judgement Table of JLISR
JLISR iPress Submission and Review Flowchart
