Journal of eScience Librarianship

About JeSLIB

The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) (ISSN 2161-3974) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal advancing the theory and practice of librarianship focusing on services related to data-driven research in science, technology, engineering, math, social sciences, medicine, and public health. JeSLIB explores the many roles of librarians in supporting eScience and welcomes articles by contributors from all areas of the globe related to education, outreach, collaborations, policy, tools, and best practices.

JeSLIB publishes articles as they become available for publication, following a thorough review process. Articles are collected together into issues throughout the year, with occasional special issues.

Current Issue: Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2026

Editorial

Editorial for Special Issue: 2025 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit

Jennifer Chaput, Yijing Angel Tang, Wei Zakharov, and Heather Charlotte Owen/p>

Full-Length Paper

Investigating and Addressing the Needs of Research Support Staff

Alissa Link Cilfone and Jen Ferguson

Building a Lightweight Dataset Catalog in Digital Commons

Claire Warner, Amy Reese, and Marla Hertz

The hunt for research data: Development of an open-source workflow for tracking institutionally-affiliated research data publications

Bryan M. Gee

Investigating Graduate Mentor Perspectives on Data Information Literacy and Stewardship in Undergraduate Engineering Research Projects

Joreen Arigye, Wei Zakharov, Carla B. Zoltowski, Sarah Sewell, and Senay Purzer

Strengthening Data Management Systems: Insights from the Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Project's Institutional Pilots

Matthew Murray, Briana Wham, Matthew Harp, Matthew B. Carson, and Sara Gonzales

Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data

Deb McCaffrey, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Venice Bayrd

The Repository of Last Resort? Exploring the Role of Institutional Repositories in the Data Repository Ecosystem through Researcher Perspectives

Cara Key, Diana E. Park, Jane Nichols, Clara Llebot, and L.K. Borland

eScience in Action

Identifying Restricted Data Repositories Supporting Mediated Access via Data Usage Agreements

Mary K. Oberlies and Megan Potterbusch

Building Open Qualitative Science with Open Curriculum

Nathaniel D. Porter and Sebastian Karcher

Commentary

Resilient by Design: Assessment Strategies for Data Services from RDAP 2025

Rose Fredrick

Forging Resilience and Building Capacity: Professional Development in Early-Career Research Data Services

Samantha Harmon

Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers

Venice Bayrd, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Deb McCaffrey

Latest News Posts

Volume 15, Issue 1 Special Issue: Research Data Access and Preservation 2025 of the Journal of eScience Librarianship is Now Available

Posted by Julie Goldman on 2026-01-30

We are excited to announce our Special Issue highlighting works related to the Research Data and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2025. The JeSLIB Editors thank the guest editors, Jennifer Chaput, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Yijing Angel Tang, University of Colorado Boulder, Wei Zakharov, Purdue University, and Heather Charlotte Owen, University of Rochester, for their dedication and [...]

Posted by Julie Goldman on 2025-09-26

The latest issue of the Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) has been published! This issue’s focus is on the myriad of changes facing the current research environment. From AI to DEI, change is happening, and librarians must meet it head on…including the JeSLIB editorial team. In this new issue we highlight one major change to the journal. In December 2024, Lisa Palmer, Distribution [...]

Posted by Julie Goldman on 2025-09-25

Early this summer, JeSLIB had the privledge of presenting at the annual conference for the International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) in Bristol, United Kingdom! The 50th Annual Conference of IASSIST brought together professionals from around the globe working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching. The theme [...]