Legal Reference Services Quarterly is peer-reviewed journal featuring scholarly research and practical insights into law library management and legal information studies globally.
As an essential forum for daily problems and issues, through our Practical Insights column, Legal Reference Services Quarterly will assist you in your day-to-day work as it has been helping law librarians and members of the legal professional for more than four decades. As part of our mission, Legal Reference Services Quarterly is dedicated to fostering serious, in-depth scholarly exploration of issues pertaining to legal information and research services. In addition, Legal Reference Services Quarterly just launched a new column, Librarians as Model Thinkers , to promote active thinking and occasionally, perhaps, unconventional thinking to help assess our past, examine our present and forecast our future collectively, utilizing widely accepted thinking concepts and intellectual models developed in different disciplines.
Here is a sample list of topics for which we continue to seek quality submissions year-round.
- Research data management and law libraries.
- Knowledge management and knowledge transfer in law libraries.
- Technology, data, and legal research.
- Global open access to information, data, tools, and standards.
- Law library management in a hybrif work and learning environment, including but not limited to space, design, strategic planning, recruitment and retetnion, impact, and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Innovative service development in teaching, reference, research, outreach and engagement, scholarly communication, user interface (re)design, metadata, discovery systems, and access services.
- Technology and legal information services in areas such as data visualization, artificial intelligence; big data; empirical research; data analysis and management; digitalization, database evaulation and mangement; implementation of technologies; and open-source tool development.
- Value maximization of archives and special collections in the digital environment.
- Libraries and vendor relations.
- Studies' in information-seeking bahavior, pedagogies, active learning, legal informatics, bibliometrics studies, and research methodologies.
- Copyright and information/data privacy
- Libraries and access to justice.
- Libraries, information, and design thinking.
- Misinformation and disinformation, "face news", evaulation criteria, and opportunities for libraries.
- Critical law librarianship, critical legal research, and critical legal information literacy.
- Other areas that may be helpful to the law library and legal information process (If unsure, please discuss with Alex Zhang ([email protected]) whether your research idea of project may fit into our journal's scope).
Special thematic issues of the journal have covered such topics as:
- Federal regulatory research-selected agency knowledge paths
- Law library collection development in the digital age
- Teamwork and collaboration in libraries-tools for theory and practice
- Public services issues with rare and archival law materials
- Teaching legal research and providing access to electronic resources
- Emerging solutions in reference services-implications for libraries in the new millennium
- Law librarians abroad
- The political economy of legal information
- Symposium of law publishers
- The legal bibliography-tradition, transitions, and trends
- Practical approaches to legal research
Peer Review Policy: All review papers in Legal Reference Services Quarterly have undergone editorial screening and peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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