Filipino Librarian: Library Student Journal

The first issue of Library Student Journal (LSJ) is out. It's an "international peer-reviewed journal for future information science professionals." The editorial explicitates what the previous description does not: LSJ is an open access journal.

Eli Guinnee, the founding editor, writes that "a combination of volunteer staff, server space from the University at Buffalo, and small donations from a variety of sources allows LSJ to publish without cost to authors or readers." He believes that "libraries can be publishers, and librarians can take advantage of our diverse skills and the many resources at our disposal to be directly and actively involved in the publishing of high quality scholarly information... We hope to be, in our own little way, an example of the future of scholarly publishing: open and free."

One feature of LSJ that I'd like to highlight is the fact that readers can actually leave comments on the articles. A few open access journals are already doing this, but not a lot.

The contents of LSJ's first issue include the following in both html and pdf versions:

Articles

Internet filtering and the adolescent gay/lesbian patron
Holt, David Brian
The role of skepticism in human-information behavior: a cognitive-affective analysis
Giarlo, Michael J.

Essays

Babies and libraries: serving the youngest patrons of a community
Oser, Cynthia
Internet filters in public libraries: do they belong?
Gottschalk, Lana
Its IM time: a case study of instant messaging reference for teens at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Slimon, Licia

Editorials

Open (and free) for business: letter from the editor, September, 2006
Guinnee, Eli
Why content analysis should be used more in library and information studies research
Robinson, Leith

Reviews