New issue of Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS) published

April 1, 2025

The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science (CJILS/RCSIB) is an open access, refereed, scholarly periodical published three times per year by Western Libraries, University of Western Ontario on behalf of the Canadian Association for Information Science.

Vol 48, No 1 (2025)

Table of Contents

Articles

Everyday Life Information Behavior, Health Information Seeking, and HIV and STI Awareness Among People Who Inject Drugs (PWID)
Nafiz Shuva, Radia Taisir, Parvez Sazzad Mallick

A Bibliometric Analysis of Canadian LIS Scholars and Practitioners’ Research Contributions
Jean-Sébastien Sauvé, Madelaine Hare, Geoff Krause, Constance Poitras, Poppy Riddle, Philippe Mongeon

The Library Project as a Tool for Supporting Change: Mindful Documentation to Question the Relationship to Time and Space
Isabelle Fabre, Susan Kovacs

Research Notes

Canadian Publications in Library and Information Science: A Database of research by LIS academics and practitioners in Canada
Jean-Sébastien Sauvé, Madelaine Hare, Geoff Krause, Constance Poitras, Poppy Riddle, Philippe Mongeon

Special section – Current issues in scholarly publishing

Unraveling current issues in scholarly publishing
Madelaine Hare, Leigh-Ann Butler

Investigating the Use of Plain Language Summaries in Canadian Science Journals
Lynne Bowker

On (Conflating) Predatory Journals and Predatory Practices: Presenting the Tool ‘Compass to Publish’ and the (Im)possible Scalability Debate
Christophe Dony

Low-Key Load-Bearing: Defining the National Role of Canada’s Library Publishing Programs
Sonya Betz, Emma Uhl, Mike Nason

Towards Sustainable and Coordinated Methods for Estimating Open Access Costs at Canadian Higher Education Institutions
Madelaine Hare, Leigh-Ann Butler, Stephanie Savage

Diamond open access and open infrastructures have shaped the Canadian scholarly journal landscape since the start of the digital era
Simon van Bellen, Lucía Céspedes

Making the case for multilingual scholarly communication
Lynne Bowker, Mikael Laakso, Janne Pölönen

Machine Translation in Scholarly Publishing: A Scoping Review
Philips Ayeni, Emanuel Kulczycki, Lynne Bowker

Bibliodiversity of Small Academic Publishers: The Role of Open Access for Impact and Visibility
Roberto Cruz Romero, Dimity Stephen, Stephan Stahlschmidt

(Via Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)