The ''Journal of Library Administration'' is a

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that covers

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. Established in 1980, the journal is published 8 times a year by

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. The

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is Gary M. Pitkin, from the University of Northern Colorado.

Controversy

In March 2013, the editor-in-chief, Damon Jaggars (

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), along with the entire

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, resigned in protest of the limited

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offered by the publisher under its

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licensing terms. The board had been negotiating with the publisher for authors' right to publish under an

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model. However, the best offer made for publishing under a

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involved a nearly $3,000 fee per article, which was unacceptable by Jaggars and the board. Board member Chris Bourg later wrote of a "crisis of conscience about publishing in a journal that was not open access" especially in light of the suicide of open access activist

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in CSA databases,

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, and

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References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Journal Of Library Administration Library science journals Academic journals established in 1980 English-language journals Routledge academic journals