Current Issue: September 2026
Article • September 2026
Evolving Trends: A Bibliometric Analysis of Academic Librarians’ Publications at Twelve AAU Member Universities
Pete E. Pascuzzi, Jason B. Reed, Greenley Goedde Creech
The goal of this bibliometric study was to explore the broader publication patterns of academic librarians in both information and library science (ISLS) and interdisciplinary research for the years 2009 to 2023. Web of Science data were collected for 12 academic libraries. The results showed that while the number of ISLS publications has dropped, ...
Article • September 2026
Teaching Source Evaluation to Undergraduate Nursing Students: Comparing the CRAAP Test and the Source + Beyond the Source Framework
Caitlin Ratcliffe
Given the drawbacks of checklist approaches to source evaluation, this study compared a networked method, the Source + Beyond the Source framework, with the CRAAP Test in a one-shot library class for undergraduate nursing students. In one pre-test and two post-tests, participants evaluated websites promoting misinformation and disinformation, reliable consumer health websites, and ...
Article • September 2026
Passing Rates, Course Grades, and Research Instruction: An Eight-Year Study of Community College Students
Stephanie C. Gillespie
This study investigates the impact of targeted one-shot research instruction (RI) on course grades and passing rates of 50,901 community college students across various research-based courses over eight years. It examines RI’s impact on different student status types, whether RI is associated with higher outcomes of both college-ready (CR) and ...
Article • September 2026
On the Ranking of University Libraries
Sami Cuhadar, Coskun Polat
This study aims to compensate for the absence of a system for ranking university libraries. It contains detailed research, including the compilation and analysis of opinions, interviews with 13 librarians in six countries, and the identification of fundamental metrics for ranking university libraries. The primary goal is to develop concrete criteria for ranking university libraries in Türkiye, which can serve as a ...
Article • September 2026
Investing in the Future of International Studies Librarianship: Building an Internship Program
Barbara Alvarez, Leigh Billings, Fe Susan Go, Jeffrey Martin, Kamala Nautiyal, Sujira Prayoonhong, Beth E. Snyder
Academic libraries face a scarcity of qualified candidates necessary to enrich and sustain the field of international studies librarianship. Factors contributing to the problem include general limited awareness of this specialty as an occupation, and a lack of professional training opportunities focused on cultivating and blending technical skills with the linguistic and cultural knowledge essential for the job. This case ...
Article • September 2026
Discovering Fat Studies Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis
Emily Gilbert, Paula R. Dempsey
This study engages with information literacy with respect to the marginalizing experience of fat oppression. The aim is to illuminate assumptions underlying research and scholarship into the lives of people living in larger bodies and to investigate how researchers can discover studies founded on either a medicalization or fat studies paradigm. A bibliometric analysis reveals where fat studies literature is published and indexed, as well as how ...
Article • September 2026
Investigating International Academic Librarian Attitudes on Copyright Reform in Support of Open Access
Stephanie Savage, John Willinsky
This paper reports on the results of a survey of academic librarians from 19 countries on their attitudes toward copyright reform in relation to open access to research. In addition to querying general attitudes toward the advancement of sustainable open access, the survey asks respondents about their level of agreement for three current copyright reform proposals in support of open access. The results of this research demonstrate endorsement from the academic librarian community for professional associations, in particular, to ...