Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Core: Using a Sustainable Method for Constructing a Core Journal List

Aubele, Joseph and Gardner, Gabriel Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Core: Using a Sustainable Method for Constructing a Core Journal List. Serials Librarian, 2021. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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The desire to identify which journals are core to a discipline is important to librarians and departmental faculty alike. Whether for purposes of accreditation, decisions related to retention, tenure, and promotion, or the assessment of a library’s collection, core lists are highly valued resources. Applying a previously tested, mixed-methods approach, the authors created a five-tiered list of criminal justice and criminology journals from which 151 titles were identified as being core to the discipline. In an effort to assess the reliability of their results, the authors also compared the results of their study to a list created by criminal justice scholars.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: Core journals; scholarly communication; collection development; academic libraries; academic librarians
Subjects: D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JA. Acquisitions.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JB. Serials management.
Depositing user: Gabriel Gardner
Date deposited: 22 Dec 2021 19:23
Last modified: 22 Dec 2021 19:23
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/42524

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