Focus and Scope

Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL (ISSN 2150-086X, online) is an international peer-reviewed publication focusing on research, trends, and issues in academic librarianship and libraries which publishes twice a year (fall/winter and spring/summer). The intended audience includes faculty and staff of academic libraries and students and faculty in library science programs. Codex focuses predominantly on academic librarianship in the U.S. but welcomes English-language articles from abroad. Codex also welcomes reviews of books and software that pertain to its focus and scope.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Reviews

Reviews can either be comprehensive (1000-2000 words) or brief (350-750 words). Codex is interested in book and software reviews.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Bibliographies

Annotated bibliographies are welcome for submission. Bibliographies must be relevant to librarianship and contain an introduction explaining the rationale of the bibliography, target audience, how materials were selected, and contain meaningful annotations. Annotations should highlight strengths and weaknesses of titles but not read like a review.

A minimum of ten (10) resources is required. Authors are encouraged to include all manner of resources in their bibliographies.

Annotated bibliographies should follow the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Conference Proceedings

• The proceedings have not been and are not going to being published somewhere else first, in order to grant Codex first rights of publication.
• Codex will not peer-review the proceedings, as it is assumed that they have already been reviewed (as part of their acceptance to the conference).
• The proceedings will need to be formatted in APA style, in adherence with Codex's publication style preference.
• The proceedings must fit the scope of Codex (that is, libraries/librarianship, preferably academic, but others will be considered).
• Robust content is encouraged (that is, include PowerPoints, media, and live links).
• It is preferred that the individual entries in the proceedings be submitted separately, though they will be represented as one whole document (for ease of accessing individual titles and for making it clear that individual authors/presenters retain access to their copyrights).
• A conference agenda should be included.

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

In order to maintain the highest possible quality of content, Codex employs a blind peer-review process for articles. Reviewers use a rubric developed by the editorial and advisory boards to evaluate submitted articles and make recommendations to the editorial board as to the "publishability" of those articles.

Reviewers utilize a set of guidelines based on the following criteria:

• Relevance (significance)
• Originality (innovation or novelty)
• Methodology (attention to detail and logic)
• Presentation (including organization and style)
• Documentation (interpretation, replicability, citations)

Reviewers will make one of several recommendations to the editorial board regarding the publishability of an article:

• Accept, no revisions needed
• Accept with revisions as indicated by reviewers
• Reject with the suggestion that further work might warrant resubmission (will include specific feedback from reviewers)
• Reject outright on the grounds of significant technical, ethical, professional, and/or conceptual difficulties or incompatibility with the journal's scope and focus (will include specific evidence to support the rejection plus suggestions for future submissions to the journal or alternatives)

Authors whose articles are accepted for admission will be expected to make adjustments/correctionsbased on reviewer comments, where applicable. All authors submitting articles will receive feedback regarding their articles whether accepted for publication or not.

Publication Frequency

Codex is published annually in the late summer/early fall. Articles are published collectively and simultaneously.

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.

Generative AI Statement & Policy

Codex recognizes that genAI has permeated the research landscape. To that end, let us be clear regarding the use of genAI in submissions to the journal. We will accept submissions that disclose the use genAI tools for data analysis, editing, or translations. We will accept the use of genAI tools such as are applied in imaging approaches to generate or interpret the underlying research data.

We will not accept accept submissions that use genAI tools to create or alter images. We will not accept submissions that cite genAI tools as authors or co-authors. 

Any use of genAI in a submission should be disclosed in the Comments to the Editor box in the submission process. Disclosures should include the genAI tool(s) used; the role the tool(s) played in the submission; any prompts used; and inputs/outputs that were used and any modifications made to inputs/outputs in the process. The importance of attestation and transparency regarding the use of genAI is significant. 

Additionally, any article found to be using genAI to favor publications or preference the surfacing of a work (in terms of SEO) will be rejected out of hand. 

ISSN: 2150-086X