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 should state that the manuscript, or parts of it, have not been and will not be submitted elsewhere for publication. Please note that an editable file is needed for production purposes after acceptance, and we ask that you submit source files in the case that your manuscript 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

For in-depth information about submitting electronic artwork visit http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions

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.

Copyright
Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if it is accepted for publication, copyright in the article, including the right to reproduce the article in all forms and media, shall be assigned exclusively to the Publisher. The Copright Transfer Agreement, which may be copied from the pages preceding the Information for Authors or found on the journal home page, should be signed by the appropriate person(s) and should accompany the original submission of a manuscript to this journal. The transfer of copyright does not take effect until the manuscript is accepted for publication. Please refer to http://www.elsevier.com/copyright for more detailed information on copyright.

Exceptions
It is the policy of Academic Press that authors need not obtain permission in the following cases only: (1) to use their original figures or tables in their future works; (2) to make copies of their papers for use in the clasroom teaching; and (3) to include their papers as part of their dissertations.

Offprints
The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
Additional paper offprints and copies of the issue can be ordered at a specially reduced rate using the order form sent to the corresponding author after the manuscript has been accepted. Orders for reprints (produced after the publication of an article) will incur a 50% charge.

Additional points to note:


• Use two carriage returns to end headings and paragraphs.
• Type text without end of line justification hyphenation, except for compound words.
• Do not use lower case letter "1" for "l" or letter "O" for "0". (They have different typesetting values.) Distinguish between opening and closing quotes.
• Be consistent with punctuation and only insert a single space between words and after punctuation.
• Distinguish between hyphens between words, dashes in ranges of numbers and parenthetical dashes.
• Please advise on any special characters you have had to use, e.g. Greek letters, and mark them on the manuscript.