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Sunday, October 12, 2008

Launch of a peer-reviewed blog

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is peer-reviewed, it's OA, and it's new as of last week.  But is it a journal or a blog?  It deliberately blurs the boundary.  (Thanks to Walt Crawford.)  From the about page:

We are six librarians working in academic, public, and school libraries across the United States. In addition to essays by its founders, In the Library with the Lead Pipe will feature articles by guests representing special libraries and archives, as well as educators, administrators, library support staff, and community members.

In the Library with the Lead Pipe is intended to help improve our communities, our libraries, and our professional organizations. Our goal is to explore new ideas and start conversations; to document our concerns and argue for solutions. Each article is peer-reviewed by at least one external and one internal reviewer....

From the inaugural post (October 7):

...Our current plan is to publish a new post every Wednesday. Each post will be peer-reviewed by at least one external and one internal reader.

If things go well, we may step things up to twice a week, especially if we add new folks to our team or find a lot of guest writers whose work we want to publish....