aserl-collection-strategy Mailing List: Service Opportunity: Library Partnership Rating Journal Scoring - Spring 2026

[Rebecca Crist, ASERL (rebecca]

 

 

Sharing on behalf of our friends in license reviews. While the ASERL Eleven Reviews project focuses on specific contract language, the LPR project focuses more on the parent publishers’ operations. If you have any questions about the LPR, please contact Robin or Rachel.

--Rebecca

 

From: Sinn, Robin N [LIB] <rsinn [at] IASTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:52 AM

Hello ASERL friends,

 

Library Partnership Rating, co-founded by Rachel Caldwell and Robin N Sinn, is seeking volunteers to help score or evaluate several journal publishers.

 

LPR uses a rubric to evaluate journal publisher practices for alignment with library values. For background, see our publication list.  

 

We’re looking for librarians to score two journal publishers during Spring 2026. 

 

Evaluation generally happens over 6 weeks. It consists of 

• A group training session, approximately 1.5 hrs long

• A week to work on a practice evaluation

• A second group training session to talk through questions that arose during practice

• If you agree to continue, you will have one month to evaluate two journal publishers using the LPR Rubric, 

• A final wrap-up meeting occurs once all the scores are submitted. Feedback is welcome.

 

An evaluation typically takes 1.5-3 hours per publisher. Scorers receive attribution but their completed rubrics remain anonymous. LPR provides a letter describing the work to include in your evaluation folders.

 

Are you interested in evaluating two journal publishers? Complete this form to let us know. 

 

Thank you for your interest in Library Partnership Rating!

 

Rachel and Robin

Rachel Caldwell, UMass Amherst

and Robin N Sinn, ISU

 

 

Robin N Sinn | Interim Associate University Librarian

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Iowa State University |University Library

202 Parks Library

701 Morrill Rd

Ames, IA 50011-2011

515.294.3311

rsinn [at] iastate.edu

www.lib.iastate.edu

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7609-9594