Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) is an independent, professional, refereed electronic journal dedicated to advancing knowledge, theory, and research in information literacy. CIL is committed to the principles of information literacy as set forth by the Association of College and Research Libraries. CIL is also committed to the principles of open access for academic research.

CIL uses the Open Journal Systems journal management and publishing system.

 

Section Policies

Editorial

Editorial content is at the discretion of the journal editors. The editors may invite selected authors to submit editorial content.

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Articles

All articles submitted for publication will undergo peer review.

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Publication Frequency

CIL is published a minimum of two times per year. Some articles may be released in advance of an issue's publication, but all articles are assigned an individual volume and issue number.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...