Journal Guide

Journal of Radical Librarianship (ISSN 2399-956X) is an open access journal publishing high quality, rigorously reviewed and innovative scholarly work in the field of radical librarianship. It also publishes non-peer reviewed reports, commentary, and reviews. The scope of the journal is any work that contributes to a discourse around critical library and information theory and practice. The subject areas listed below should be regarded as indicative rather than exhaustive.

For the peer-reviewed section, there are currently fifteen editors with responsibility for articles in their subject area:

• Politics and social justice  -  Ian Clark, Stephen Bales, Molly Mann, John Pateman
  
• Information literacy  -  Lauren Smith, Molly Mann
• Digital rights  -  Simon Barron
• Anti-racist theory, critical race analysis, anti-colonial studies  -  David James Hudson
• Scholarly communication  -  Kevin Sanders, Stuart Lawson
• Equity, diversity, and inclusion  -  Lauren Smith, Edgardo Civallero
• Gender variance, queer theory, and phenomenology  -  Mary Catherine Lockmiller
• Political economy of information and knowledge  -  Stuart Lawson, Kevin Sanders, Stephen Bales
• Cataloging and metadata  -  Whitney Buccicone
• Technology and data  -  Lindsay Cronk, Simon Barron, Sinziana Paltineanu
  
• Critical pedagogy  -  Jeremy McGinniss, Sinziana Paltineanu
  
• Sustainability and environmentalism  -  Edgardo Civallero

The special collection 'Race and Power in Library and Information Studies' consists of five research articles published in 2019 that were edited by Gina Schlesselman-Tarango and David James Hudson.