New reviewing form for manuscripts

Hello!

Dariush Alimohammadi has proposed a new reviewing form for LPP manuscripts. It is more detailed than the current form. Parts of it are adapted from forms used by other journals, in various disciplines. Gail and I have talked about it, and we think it is a good idea and we should try it. I will e-mail the new form to everyone. I think we might be able to use both the simpler form that we now use and the new, more detailed one. The detailed form might be especially useful when an article has problems, or does not quite fit within LPP's scope.

Thanks, Dariush!

Reviewers for special issue

We have received eleven submissions for the special issue on libraries and google from the guest editors Jill Cirasella and Mariana Regalado. Those papers must now go through the peer review process. Please respond here or by e-mail if you would be willing to review one of those papers. They are on many different topics, including website design, the open source model, the web as a cataloging resource, reference, resource sharing, social software and socially-driven authority, and so on.

Volunteers? Please get back to me by next Friday, January 12. The deadline for reviewing the article is February 15 (more or less).

Thanks!

Happy New Year to everyone.

I had a very good suggestion from Alessia Zanin-Yost, which is to begin requiring LPP submissions to use a particular citation style. APA and MLA have been suggested. I would like to have a style that uses in-text citation rather than footnotes or endnotes, and MLA and APA both use in-text with "Works Cited" at the end of the article. Any ideas, preferences, or suggestions?

Thanks.