Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

SLLIM is a journal for all those concerned with librarianship, information management, records management, information technology and any other related discipline. It aims to provide a forum for the up and coming library and information professionals of Sri Lanka to present their research findings. At the same time it will function as a bridge between the Sri Lankan professionals and the international researchers, educators and library professionals in academic, public, school and other types of libraries in communicating a variety of professional issues. SLLIM will publish articles, reports, reviews and short communications on:

  1. Ongoing provincial, national, regional and international projects
  2. Current research
  3. Theories and their applications
  4. Training and education

General principles

Contributions may comprise: previously unpublished research-based papers; news or reviews of current developments; descriptions of practical projects or innovations; surveys of the documentation (both print and non-print) on particular subject areas; literature surveys; policy reforms; technological issues which affect library and information provision; reviews and notices of items which may not otherwise come to the Editor's attention.

 

Section Policies

State of the Art Reports

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Invited Papers

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Refereed Papers

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Conference Papers

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Publication Frequency

The journal is published twice a year.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Editorial Advisory Board

Prof. G E Gorman, Ph.D. FCLIP, FRSA
Professor of Library and Information Management
School of Information Management
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand

Prof. Russell Bowden, MLS, MA, FCILIP, Hon. FLA, Hon. FIInfSc, FIMgt, Hon. Fellow IFLA
115/1A, Parakum Mawatha
Banglawatte
Pannipitiya
P.O. 10230
Sri Lanka

Professor Peter Clayton  
Associate Professor
School of Information Management and Tourism
University of Canberra
ACT 2601
Australia

Prof. Diljit Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Prof Jagtar Singh, Ph.D.
Dean, Faculty of Education and
Head Department of Library and Information Science
Punjabi University
Patiala - 147 002 (Punjab)
India

Penny Moore, Ph.D.
Education Research Consultant
Wellington 4
New Zealand

Lucy A. Tedd, BSc, MCLIP
Lecturer, Department of Information Studies
University of Wales Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth SY 23 3AS
Wales
United Kingdom



Sri Lankan Journal of Librarianship and Information Management ISSN 1800-3044

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