Dear colleagues, A year ago, today (August 7, 2013) we launched Judaica Librarianship on the Digital Commons network (bepress), at http://ajlpublishing.org. Since then, we uploaded three back issues of the journal (Vols. 14, 15, 16/17) and published our first volume online (Vol. 18). All in all, fifty-five articles are available online of which most are freely available (Open Access). I am excited to report that articles from these volumes have been downloaded 6,775 times and the current number of unique users who visited the site-from 72 countries around the world-is 2,061. Wow!
The homepage of AJL Publishing features the "Paper of the Day", the "Top 10 Downloads", and "Recent Additions". Users can also run a full-text search on the content of all articles and receive email or RSS notifications for their specific searches. On the journal level (click "Judaica Librarianship" on the homepage or go to http://ajlpublishing.org/jl/), users can access additional information about the journal and search content by volume number (slider on the left-hand bar). On the article level, users can read abstracts / author information and download the content, and also share it via social media (hint... please use it to increase altmetrics) or follow the author across the Digital Commons network. Volume 19 is scheduled for publication in 2015. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2014 (see Call for Papers on the homepage). All research and essay articles go through double-blind peer review. Happy anniversary and happy reading! Rachel Rachel Leket-Mor Editor-in-Chief, Judaica Librarianship Association of Jewish Libraries http://ajlpublishing.org Judaica Librarianship Editorial Board Rachel Leket-Mor, Arizona State University Libraries (Editor-in-Chief) Zachary Baker, Stanford University Libraries Pearl Berger, Yeshiva University Libraries Annette Goldsmith, University of Washington Arthur Kiron, University of Pennsylvania Libraries Roger Kohn, Library of Congress James Rosenbloom, Brandeis University Libraries Barry Dov Walfish, University of Toronto Libraries
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