Please see “about the journal” to see what kinds of subject matter is appropriate for submissions. Authors may opt for peer review. All authors, peer-reviewed or otherwise, will receive substantive advice for revisions. Where the recommended revisions are substantial, authors may be paired with a mentor on request. We feel the voices of a diversity of librarians, wherever they work, however experienced they are with publishing, are important to the profession. We want to help you get your voice out there.
Please provide your manuscript to the editors (jclp.group
Articles will be published in HTML format. References, if included, should be provided in a consistent citation style of the authors’ choice. However, the author could also simply provide links to relevant material in the body of the article. As long as the references are clear, that is all that really matters.
If you’d like us to change your name as it appears on prior publications, please let us know what to change it to and whether you’d like us to include a reference to a prior name.
As part of our commitment to sharing the voices of librarians, this journal is open access, requires no author-side fees, and publishes articles as soon as they are ready rather than bundling them into issues.
We have a new AI Usage Policy as of September 2025.
JCLP Artificial Intelligence Usage Policy
As a journal that encourages out of the box thinking, we expect submitted manuscripts to be based on the original thoughts of humans. While people can use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to broaden their exploration of information resources, we would like prospective authors to disclose what AI tools were used in that process and how they used them. This disclosure can take place in the email when the manuscript is given to the editorial team of JCLP.
If submitted content does not read as if it comes from an authentic human voice, we may ask the author(s) for clarification. We reserve the right to reject submissions for any reason.