The School of Information Student Research Journal (SRJ) aims to showcase excellent graduate student scholarship in the library and information sciences, archival studies, informatics, and records management.

Adhering to a rigorous editorial process, the SRJ upholds critical standards of scholarship with regard to the conceptualization, execution, references, and overall value of published manuscripts. As a scholarly journal, the SRJ publishes research-oriented manuscripts which follow the conventions of scholarly discourse.

Our editorial process

The SRJ uses a double-blind, peer reviewed process. This means that your work is reviewed by several editors who are completely unaware of who you are.

The editor-in-chief (EIC) makes the initial decision to accept your piece for review, after which it gets passed to the managing editor (ME). The ME then passes your work along to the editorial team, making sure beforehand that anything that could identify you has been removed.

Your piece then gets read for copy and content (our editors review things like grammar, spelling, and structure, but also the larger themes and arguments that you employ). After this, all the editorial feedback gets consolidated in something called a Consolidated Referee Report (or “CRR”). The CRR contains guidelines for revision—the changes you will need to make for your piece to be published. Finally, the editor-in-chief sends you this CRR, at which point you will begin revising your draft.

This process can happen several times, with new CRRs being created for you every time you submit an improved version of your draft.

If your work is accepted, we work with you to polish it into its best possible form. Our goal is never to simply publish a student’s work; our goal is to give you the best understanding of the peer review process as possible.