About This Journal
Purpose and Scope
The Journal of Graduate Librarianship (JGL) is the first scholarly journal dedicated exclusively to matters pertaining to graduate librarianship: library services and associated expertise delivered to graduate/postgraduate students and/or their faculty, regardless of discipline. Written, edited, and governed by graduate librarians, JGL publishes peer-reviewed articles (which may report on research, critically examine professional practice, or engage with theory), as well as shorter editor-reviewed contributions (brief reports on initiatives, successes, lessons learned, epiphanies, reflections, etc.).
JGL publishes articles on all aspects and types of graduate librarianship, and seeks to advance the qualities contained in the acronym SHOP: Shared Honest Open Practice. While JGL provides a podium for the dissemination of research, it also offers a large, welcoming kitchen table, where the graduate librarian community can gather, share, and learn. Please note: Our primary intended audience is practitioners of graduate librarianship, not graduate students in library and information science programs.
Frequency
JGL currently publishes one issue per year. Publication is incremental, with individual articles posted as they become ready.
Open Access
JGL 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 and ideas. JGL does not charge article processing charges (APCs) or any form of author-facing fees. JGL is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
Publisher
JGL is published by the Charles C. Sherrod Library of East Tennessee State University as part of Digital Commons@East Tennessee State University.
Journal Policies
Section policies and policies about copyright, peer review, originality, etc. are listed on the Journal Policies page.