Library Partnership Rating: a case study about an open, community-built rubric to evaluate journal publishers

This case study describes the formation of Library Partnership Rating (LPR), a librarian-created rubricbased system to evaluate journal publisher practices. The LPR Rubric stems from the library profession's values and helps identify practices that demonstrate shared values between libraries and values-driven journal publishers - the 'partners' in Library Partnership. The authors invited collaboration with university presses, learned societies, open access advocates, values-driven international publishers and publishing organizations, and other librarians. The resulting rubric is relevant and applicable as a decision-making tool for both libraries and publishers. In this case study, the authors describe the iterative process of creating the rubric, how they incorporated the value of community into the development process (including attention to equitability and solicitation of publisher feedback) and next steps.