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Bias in Publishing? Gender Trends in Academic Library and Information Science Monograph Publications
Recasting the Narrative: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2019 Conference, April 10–13, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio
(2019)
Abstract
For academic librarians, especially those in tenure-track positions, publishing is a necessity for tenure and promotion. While librarians and other information professionals publish in a number of formats, the publication
of a scholarly monograph is undoubtably one of the highest levels of achievement and generally well regarded
in the tenure and promotion process. As librarians, we understand that the monograph publication process and
monograph publishers themselves can be skewed toward particular viewpoints and that these biases can limit
the topics and types of items that are published, as well as who gets published. Although a lot of literature has
been completed on gender biases in academic publishing, not many have examined monograph publications
and none have looked specifically at library and information science (LIS) monographs. This study seeks to fill
that gap through a critical look at the publication trends of academic LIS monographs, and more specifically, the
gender of creators (authors and editors). The study addresses the following questions:
• Is there a gender gap in LIS scholarly monograph publishing? If so, what does it look like?
• How does gender affect co-creatorship (co-authored or co-edited works) in LIS scholarly monograph
publishing?
• Does gender have an effect on the topics published in LIS scholarly monograph publishing?
Disciplines
Publication Date
March, 2019
Editor
Dawn M. Mueller
Publisher
Association of College and Research Libraries
ISBN
9780838946183
Publisher Statement
This paper was presented at the ACRL biennial conference on April 12, 2019, in Cleveland, OH.
Citation Information
Ngoc-Yen Tran and Erin Nevius. "Bias in Publishing? Gender Trends in Academic Library and Information Science Monograph Publications" Chicago, ILRecasting the Narrative: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2019 Conference, April 10–13, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio (2019) p. 518 - 528 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/yen-tran/23/
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