WILU Conference, Toronto

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A Journal Whose Time Has Come

• Communications in Information Literacy
• www.comminfolit.org

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Editors-in-Chief

• Stewart M. Brower
• Coordinator of Information Management Education
  Services
• Health Sciences Library
• University at Buffalo
• sbrower_at_buffalo.edu
• Christopher V. Hollister
• Coordinator of Library Instruction
• Arts Sciences Libraries
• University at Buffalo
• cvh2_at_buffalo.edu

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Brief history
2004 2005 Brower Hollister co-author a study (with Pirrung Tysick)
May 2005 Brower proposes journal project
July October 2006 Hollister develops editorial guidelines recruits for editorial board
October 2006 Brower installs Online Journal Systems develops site Hollister announces CIL circulates first call for authors
October 2006 Elsevier announces discontinuation of Research Strategies
December 2006 First manuscript received
May 2007 Inaugural issue published
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About

• Peer-reviewed
• Open Journal Systems
• Open access
• Creative Commons licensing
• No author fees
• PBS model of financing
• Editorial independence

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Practicalities

• Reviews 2 8 weeks
• Editing, editing, editing
• Layouts proofs
• Browser issues
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• 33 acceptance rate
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• Dedication, patience sense of humor

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Indexing

• BISON (University at Buffalos OPAC) WorldCat
• Ulrichs Periodicals Directory
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
• Google Scholar
• Library Literature Information Science
  Full-Text
• LISA Library Information Science Abstracts
• LISTA Library, Information Science Technology
  Abstracts
• ERIC Education Resources Information Center
• Education Full-Text

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Future

• Revised author guidelines
• Information literacy news
• Special issues
• Print-on-demand
• Marketing publicity

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Motto

• Have something to say, and say it well.
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Mechanics

• www.comminfolit.org