The ''Journal of Library Administration'' is a peer-reviewed

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that covers library management. It was established in 1980 and is published 8 times a year by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Gary M. Pitkin (

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Controversy

In March 2013, the editor-in-chief Damon Jaggars ( Columbia University) and the complete

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resigned in protest of the limited

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offered by the publisher under its copyright licensing terms. After negotiations by the editorial board with the publisher on behalf of authors committed to open access, the best offer made for publishing under a

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was payment of nearly $3,000 by the author for each article, which was judged unacceptable by Jaggars and the board. Board member

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wrote of a "crisis of conscience about publishing in a journal that was not open access" after the suicide of open access activist

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in CSA databases,

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, Education Resources Information Center, Inspec, and

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Journal Of Library Administration Library science journals Publications established in 1980 English-language journals Routledge academic journals