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
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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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 In consideration for the assignment
of copyright, the Publisher will supply twenty-five (25) offprints of each paper. Further offprints may be ordered at extra cost at proof
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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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.
