Editorial

EBLIP Gets an Upgrade

Lorie Kloda

Editor-in-Chief

Associate University Librarian, Planning and Community Relations

Concordia University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2018 Kloda. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons‐Attribution‐Noncommercial‐Share Alike License 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the same or similar license to this one.

DOI: 10.18438/eblip29427

Welcome to volume 13 of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP). After 12 years of publication, supported by University of Alberta Learning Services, the journal is getting a new look thanks to an upgrade to the Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3. OJS is an open access platform developed by the Public Knowledge Project, and which has been used to host EBLIP since its inception. The OJS platform consists of both the public-facing journal website with all past and current issue contents of the journal as well as the journal management system for the editorial team to manage the editorial workflow from manuscript submission to publication. With this upgrade, our editorial team has a new interface with enhanced features, and more importantly, you, the reader, have an improved interface for engaging with the contents of EBLIP. Authors also have a slightly new workflow for the submission, review, and copyediting process.

There is no change to the contents of the journal or to our policies and procedures. The upgrade to OJS 3 allows for additional features and flexibility in the way we process and publish the journal. Each issue, which is published quarterly, will still consist of a combination of research articles, review articles, evidence summaries, classics, commentaries and other publication types. These publications are available in both HTML and PDF formats. The journal website should also be easier to navigate and to read on a desktop, laptop, or mobile device. I hope you enjoy the upgrade, and welcome any feedback you have about it.

In this issue the Editorial Board welcomes a new Associate Editor (Research Articles), Ann Medaille. Ann is one of two Associate Editors responsible for research article submissions. Rebekah (Becky) Willson has stepped down at the end of her term to focus on her position as Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and she continues to be associated with the journal as a peer reviewer. Becky is also co-chair of the Local Organising Committee of the 10^th International Evidence Based Library and Information Conference, which will take place in Glasgow in the summer of 2019. I would like to thank Becky for all her work over the past three years with EBLIP, and her continued involvement.