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.
All reviews and articles are published open access and under CC-BY-4.0 international license. All reviews and articles receive peer review and copy editing by someone with disability expertise. Similarly, we try to intentionally provide culturally competent peer review around other identity categories whenever possible. We use collaborative open review processes for all articles.
ISSN 3069-1109
Frequency
- Submissions: rolling submissions
- - Articles: open for submissions of completed manuscripts starting July 2025
- - Book reviews: open for submissions
- Published issues:
- - Article: rolling publication starting late 2025
- - Book reviews: rolling publication started 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