Reference Services Review

Reference and instructional services for libraries in the digital age

ISSN: 0090-7324


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Aims & Scope

Reference Services Review (RSR) is a leading journal dedicated to the enrichment and advancement of reference knowledge and the improvement of professional practice.

Ranging from case studies to conceptual papers, its articles cover all aspects of reference and library user services in a digital age. Articles draw upon traditional areas of inquiry within the fields of information studies and education, as well as from newer interdisciplinary perspectives such critical pedagogy.

The journal raises questions, explores new frameworks for user services, advances fresh analyses and research and proposes solutions to diverse operational issues facing librarians and information professionals.

Reference Services Review is valued reading by the majority of North American library schools with its ‘au courant’ focus, and articles can be published in Gold or Green open access if an author so chooses.

Reviewers for the journal include distinguished practitioners, managers, administrators, educators, and scholars from library and information studies and higher education, as well as other fields.

"RSR editors and reviewers provide a quick and efficient service to first time authors"

Ann Manning Fiegen, California State University San Marcos, California, USA

This journal is abstracted and indexed by: 

• ArticleFirst;
• Book Review Index;
• Computers & Applied Sciences Complete;
• Current Abstracts;
• Current Index to Journals in Education;
• Education Full Text;
• Information Science & Technology Abstracts;
• FRANCIS;
• The Informed Librarian;
• INSPEC;
• ISI: Social Science Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
• Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA);
• Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts;
• Library Literature and Information Science;
• Library Literature and Information Science Full Text;
• OmniFile Full Text Mega;
• OmniFile Full Text Select;
• zetoc

This journal is ranked by: 

Scopus; The Publication Forum (Finland); BFI (Denmark); CORE Rankings; ISI: Social Sciences Citation Index

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