CALA Occasional Paper Series (OPS)

Purpose

An Occasional Paper may be a work stemming from the activities and interests of the Chinese librarianship; a paper delivered at a library conference; a bibliography, index, guide, handbook, research manual or directory; a report of a survey or study of interest to librarians of all types of libraries; a compilation of existing documents such as library policies or procedures; or a concentrated study or analysis of a single idea or concept.

An Occasional Paper is a less-than-book-length academic publication (around 50 pages) issued in the same format with regular intervals but not as rigid as that of periodicals. The submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by two reviewers who have expertise in the areas with the submitted manuscripts.

The paper/papers of the initial issues (2008) in OPS will be published in a digital format with open access and will be posted on the CALA web. The author(s) will hold copyright for the published papers. Each issue will include one or more papers that are on a similar topic.

Requirements for Submissions

1. All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced with a Times New Roman font of 12 points for the body and the title. The submission should be sent to the editor via an e-mail attachment in WORD.
2. The first page should include the title of the manuscript, author(s), contacting address(es), author(s)' position(s), and the author(s)' affiliated institutions. Author(s)' biographical notes (maximum 100 words per author) may be included also on the first page.
3. The second page and subsequent pages should contain the title of the manuscript, an abstract (100-150 words), and the text for the purpose of the "blind review" process.
4. The submitted manuscript should be in accord with the Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed.

To submit a manuscript to be published in the Occasional Paper Series, please send it as an e-mail attachment to Judy Jeng, editor of CALA OPS, at jjeng@njcu.edu. To become an Occasional Paper Series reviewer, click here.