Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries

Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is published by Taylor & Francis. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Health Sciences Research and Education, Library Collection Development and Digital Resources and Web and Library Services, together about 44.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is a peer-reviewed professional journal devoted to the access, evaluation, and management of electronic resources in the medical library environment. This journal will be an essential resource for academic medical school libraries, hospital libraries, and other health sciences libraries. The material in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries will complement articles published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly, which highlights the reference and bibliographic instruction aspects of electronic resources. Topics addressed by this journal: Collection development and selection of electronic resources Electronic document delivery in medicine and health care Enhancing electronic resource user services Print versus electronic or combination formats Site licensing-what librarians need to know Delegating work that involves electronic/digital acquisitions Cataloging-e-books, e-journals, and other electronic formats The merger of serial and book formats in the electronic library Coping with electronic misinformation, fraudulence, and shams on the Internet "E-core" lists in medicine, allied health, nursing, pharmaceutical science, mental health, and other health care fields The library's role in medical informatics Access issues and solutions for electronic journals The impact of electronic resources and the Internet on user services Electronic reserves The role of medical libraries with PDAs Archiving issues for electronic formats Cost analyses of digital resources Database/journal publisher relations and medical libraries Regular columns in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries include: eJournals Forum-discusses all aspects of electronic journals Information Rx-reviews of databases and electronic resources in clinical practice PDAs @ the Library-covers all aspects of using PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) in medical libraries and clinical practice The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is the source for practical, up-to-date information about important developments and issues related to the provision and use of electronic resources in medical libraries. Peer Review Policy: All manuscripts submitted to Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries are peer reviewed using a rigorous, double anonymized process; reviewers are assigned based on subject expertise. The Editor accepts or rejects manuscripts based on the recommendation of two peer reviewers.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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INSPECCINAHLPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, De Gruyter Saur, IBZ, EBSCOhost, Academic Search Complete, Education research Complete, FRANCIS, Library, iNformation Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), MasterFILE Complete, TOC Premier, Elsevier BV, ArticleFirst, Ovid, Aerospace Database, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Engineering Research Database, LISA: Library & Information Science Abstracts, Materials Research Database, METADEX, VINITI RAN

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

0.9Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.16LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.16Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

0.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.17Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

69OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.17OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

27,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Acceptance rate (publisher)

37%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

23 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1542-4065

Electronic ISSN

1542-4073

Latest issue on the website

Volume 23, Issue 2-3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website