{"id":14943,"date":"2022-03-17T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=14943"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:43:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:43:29","slug":"call-for-submissions-upcoming-issue-of-medical-reference-services-quarterly-deadline-wed-aug-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/call-for-submissions-upcoming-issue-of-medical-reference-services-quarterly-deadline-wed-aug-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Submissions: Upcoming Issue of Medical Reference Services Quarterly (Deadline Wed., Aug. 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(via\u00a0Jonquil D&#8217;Souza Feldman\u200b,\u00a0<em>Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em>\u00a0Editor-in-Chief)<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Poitier, who passed away in January 2022, was the first Black actor\u00a0to receive an Oscar for Best Actor. He helped alter racial perceptions that\u00a0existed in Hollywood and in society in general back in 1964. Yet, in the 48\u00a0years since this achievement, racial oppression and inequality, dismissal,\u00a0and police brutality have persisted. The fight for racial justice continues\u00a0but it is hoped that the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion has\u00a0made progress in the past year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Medical Reference Services Quarterly<\/em> is inviting manuscript\u00a0submissions for a special issue on Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and\u00a0Access (DEIA) initiatives in health sciences libraries. If your library has\u00a0developed DEIA-focused programs, individually or in partnership with your\u00a0institution, please consider submitting a paper for publication in\u00a0Volume 42, No. 1 (2023). Poster and paper presentations from the Medical\u00a0Library Association&#8217;s 2022 annual meeting that have been developed into an\u00a0article are welcome. The submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of\u00a0the\u00a0Editorial Board as well as other invited reviewers.<\/p>\n<p>What will we be looking for? Librarians in 2022 don&#8217;t see DEIA work as\u00a0separate from their day-to-day work and so they continue to develop\u00a0services and programs that promote DEIA values. But it&#8217;s not enough to\u00a0describe the formation of a library DEIA committee or partnership with an\u00a0institutional committee, development of LibGuides, or staff education\u00a0activities. The papers we end up publishing will demonstrate a true shift\u00a0in the culture at the authors&#8217; institutions. If it turns out that there are\u00a0not enough papers that illustrate this outcome, then more work needs to be\u00a0done, and we will delay this special issue.<\/p>\n<p>The submission deadline is\u00a0<strong>Wednesday,\u00a0August 31, 2022<\/strong>. Manuscripts on other topics\u00a0related to programs and new service initiatives in health sciences libraries are always welcome. Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/authorSubmission?show=instructions&amp;journalCode=wmrs20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for more information about the journal and the\u00a0&#8220;Instructions for Authors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Please e-mail questions directly to Jonquil D&#8217;Souza Feldman, MALS,\u00a0AHIP, Editor-in-Chief,\u00a0MRSQ, at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mrsqeditor@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mrsqeditor@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via\u00a0Jonquil D&#8217;Souza Feldman\u200b,\u00a0Medical Reference Services Quarterly\u00a0Editor-in-Chief) Sidney Poitier, who passed away in January 2022, was the first Black actor\u00a0to receive an Oscar for Best Actor. He helped alter racial perceptions that\u00a0existed in Hollywood and in society in general back in 1964. Yet, in the 48\u00a0years since this achievement, racial oppression and inequality, dismissal,\u00a0and police brutality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-and-requests","category-scholarly-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}