"High-quality, library-related scholarly communication research has been historically difficult to discover. The Idealis aims to fix that."
New open-access journal, The
Idealis, has this statement under the heading Liberating Research on the homepage of their website. Founding editors, Stacy
Konkiel, Nicky Agate, and Lily Troia, gather the "very best scholarly
communication literature from across the Web, working with authors to make
their research available, ensuring that librarians are connected to excellent
research that’s relevant to their work" (from About section).
Their current focus is limited to academic librarians
interested in scholarly communication but the journal intends to broaden the
scope to other areas of librarianship as well. In their Discover section, they offer a long list of
essays and articles with wide ranging topics including Orcid annual report,
humanities and social science creative commons, evolution of scientific
communication, social media, and others. They plan to expand past
articles to "create a carefully curated journal full of research that is
relevant first and foremost to the needs of library practitioners" with "difficult
to access research in all forms–articles, books, code, data sets,
presentations, white papers, and more." You can subscribe for new research alerts, submit library-related
research, or apply to be an editor.
Full post can be found at Chronicle of Higher Education.
*Picture taken from home page of the website.
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