The International Information & Library Review publishes high quality critical and analytical articles and to provide a forum
for the examination of significant developments in the broad field of information which are international in nature and relevant internationally
when related to national or local activities. Special attention will be paid to: *information policies *critical reviews of
services, products and systems developments in particular fields *major programs of international organizations, such as FID, IFLA,
and UNESCO *international cooperation.
SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts must be written in English. All new
manuscripts must be submitted to the journal Web site (http://ees.elsevier.com/iilr).
Authors are requested to submit the text, tables, and artwork in electronic form to this address. In an accompanying letter, authors
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is accepted. Authors are requested to include a cover letter, manuscript, tables, and figures, as well as any ancillary materials. Authors
unable to submit an electronic version should contact the Editorial Office
References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further
sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same Author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a," "b", "c", etc. placed after the year of publication.
Examples
Journal Article:
Kaegbin, Paul. (1982). On the role of libraries in the process of education. International Library Review, 14(3),
335-341.
Specific Edition of a book:
Moore, Nick. (1987). How to do research (2nd ed.). London: Library
Association Publishing Ltd.
Contribution in Collected Work:
Ramachandran, R. (1987). The librarian, bookseller
and publisher relationship in the context of the changing environment. In A. Thuraisingham (Ed.) The new information professionals
(81-91). Brookfield, VT: Gower.
Please note that the references require surname and given name, not initials.
Authors will
be asked to proof read their articles. Please note that printers errors only can be corrected at this stage.
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stage. The Publisher will not put any limitation of the personal freedom of the author to use material contained in the paper in other
works.
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