College & Research Libraries
DisciplineLibrary Science
LanguageEnglish
Edited byWendi Arant Kaspar
Publication details
History1939-present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
Yes
1.626 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Coll. Res. Libr.
Indexing
ISSN0010-0870
LCCN42016492
OCLC no.2354797
Links

College & Research Libraries is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.[1]

History

It was established in December 1939 and was published quarterly for its first 18 years, then bimonthly since 1956. It publishes articles that are intended to help academic librarians build an intellectual framework to serve the needs of collegiate users. The current editor in chief is Kristen Totleben (University of Rochester). The previous editor-in-chief was Wendi Arant Kaspar (Texas A&M University Policy Sciences and Economics Library).[2] The journal is open access since 2011.[3]

Abstracting and indexing information

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Social Sciences Citation Index, America: History and Life, Academic Search Premier, FRANCIS, PASCAL, EBSCO Education Source, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Information Science and Technology Abstracts, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library Literature and Information Science, and MLA - Modern Language Association Database.

According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.626, ranking it 36th out of 88 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".[4]

See also

  • Category:Library science journals

References

  1. ↑ "Publications". Association of College & Research Libraries. Retrieved November 6, 2022.
  2. ↑ "About C&RL". Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Straumsheim, Carl. "Historians clash over open access movement". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  4. ↑ "Journal Citation reports". Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 7 September 2018.


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