About This Journal
About DisLIS
Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All members of the Editorial Board either have disabilities or have extensive experience with disability-centered work.
Our publishing focus is to center the experience of disability within information work in a variety of settings including but not limited to K-12 schools; LIS programs; public, academic, special, or other types of libraries or archives; focusing on the experiences of library or archive workers or users, or people who work with libraries in other ways. Works published may take a variety of forms including book reviews, peer-reviewed scholarly articles or case studies, poetry, and recorded interviews.
Our hope is that by disseminating these experiences, we can provide comfort and a sense of community and a community of care for disabled people. We also hope that by sharing these insights with the broader world, nondisabled people come to a greater understanding and appreciation of their disabled neighbors and the variety of shapes, sizes, sounds, appearances, and movements that encompass the human experience.
Frequency
- Submissions: once a year for reviewed articles and rolling book reviews
- - Articles: first issue submissions 2025
- - Book reviews: open submissions starting spring 2024
- Published issues:
- - Article: first issue 2025/26
- - Book reviews: rolling publication starting summer 2024
Estimated Review Timeline
- 3 weeks from submission to being assigned a reviewer
- 3 weeks for feedback from reviewer
- 3 weeks for author to incorporate reviewer feedback
- 3 weeks for copy editing
- 3 weeks for publishing