About This Journal
The
Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship publishes, promotes, and builds community around cultural heritage digital library work, especially critical approaches to these and similar topics:
- Selection for Digitization
- Metadata Remediation / Context for Harm Reduction
- Digital Humanities / Digital Scholarship
- Collections as Data
- Digital Library Technology
We are particularly interested in work that integrates feminist, antiracist, anticolonial, queer, and other critical frameworks to digital librarianship.
Open Peer Review Process
Because we believe critical approaches to digital librarianship require community-building among practitioners and scholars, the
JCDL will operate under an open peer review model. Inspired by both
Code4Lib Journal and
In the Library with the Lead Pipe, our process is as follows:
- Authors submit article through submission portal
- Reviewed by editors to determine appropriateness for the JCDL
- Assigned 2-3 reviewers (see our reviewers here)
- Intro email to author and reviewers, so everyone knows who they’re working with
- 1st round of review and, if relevant, proposed revisions are offered to author
- Optional phone call/Zoom call with reviewers and author
- If reviewers recommend revision, author implements changes, or explains why not
- 2nd round of review and, if relevant, proposed revisions offered to author
- If reviewers recommend revision, author implements changes before submitting to editors for final decision.
- Editor, in conversation with reviewers, makes final decision about inclusion in JCDL
- Final copy editing and typesetting
- Article is published as soon as it's ready and is retroactively included in next issue of JCDL
