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College & Research Libraries

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*College & Research Libraries*
Publication details
Discipline	Library Science
Language	English
Edited by	Wendi Arant Kaspar
History	1939-present
Publisher	Association of College and Research Libraries (United States)
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	1.626 (2017)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4	Coll. Res. Libr.
Indexing
ISSN	0010-0870
LCCN	42016492
OCLC no.	2354797
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

College & Research Libraries is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Association of College and Research Libraries.^[1]

History[edit]

It was established in December 1939 and was published quarterly for its first 18 years, then bimonthly since 1956. It publishes articles that are intended to help academic librarians build an intellectual framework to serve the needs of collegiate users. The current editor in chief is Kristen Totleben (University of Rochester). The previous editor-in-chief was Wendi Arant Kaspar (Texas A&M University Policy Sciences and Economics Library).^[2] The journal is open access since 2011.^[3]

Abstracting and indexing information[edit]

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Social Sciences Citation Index, America: History and Life, Academic Search Premier, FRANCIS, PASCAL, EBSCO Education Source, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Information Science and Technology Abstracts, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library Literature and Information Science, and MLA - Modern Language Association Database.^{[citation needed]}

According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.626, ranking it 36th out of 88 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".^[4]