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An Assessment of Publisher Quality by Political Science Librarians

Author(s) -

Janice Lewis

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

college and research libraries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2150-6701

pISSN - 0010-0870

DOI - 10.5860/crl.61.4.313

Subject(s) - politics , quality (philosophy) , subject (documents) , association (psychology) , sample (material) , library science , selection (genetic algorithm) , collection development , sociology , perception , political science , psychology , computer science , law , chemistry , epistemology , philosophy , chromatography , artificial intelligence , psychotherapist , neuroscience

Publisher quality is one criterion used by collection development librarians in making book selection decisions. Few studies have assessed the perceptions subject specialist librarians have about the quality of academic publishers’ output in specific disciplines. The author surveyed a sample of members of the Association of College and Research Libraries Law & Political Science Section, asking them to assess the overall quality of political science books published by sixty-two academic presses and imprints. The results are reported, analyzed, and compared to a similar survey of members of the American Political Science Association. Many similarities are seen in the rankings, although, on the whole, librarians ranked university presses higher and commercial publishers lower than did political scientists.

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