PUBLICATION IN COLLEGE-AND-RESEARCH-LIBRARIES - ACCEPTED, REJECTED, AND PUBLISHED PAPERS, 1980-1991

The authors examine characteristics of authorship, editorial decisions, and reviewer assessments for accepted and rejected papers for College & Research Libraries (C&RL) based on over a decade of internal records (private correspondence and reviewer assessments) made available to them. Noting the wider literature dealing with publishing in refereed journals, this study makes comparisons to that literature and suggests directions for future research. The authors found that C&RL editors and reviewers conducted their work without major disagreement or rancor. Refereeing has indeed served the journal's readership well.