Information For Librarians

CREATE: Contemporary Research in Education and Teaching welcomes the support and participation of librarians, information specialists, and academic institutions in promoting access to high-quality scholarly resources. As an international peer-reviewed open-access journal, CREATE contributes to the global dissemination of educational research and supports the advancement of teaching and learning through unrestricted access to scientific knowledge.

We encourage research librarians to include CREATE among their institution's electronic journal holdings, library databases, research guides, and digital resource collections. By listing the journal within library catalogs and discovery systems, librarians help increase the visibility, accessibility, and impact of scholarly works published in the journal while supporting researchers, faculty members, and students in accessing relevant educational literature.

CREATE is committed to the principles of open-access publishing, ensuring that all published content is freely available to readers worldwide without subscription fees or access barriers. This publishing model aligns with the mission of academic libraries to facilitate equitable access to knowledge, promote information sharing, and support lifelong learning across diverse educational communities.

Librarians play a critical role in advocating for open-access initiatives by helping researchers identify reputable publication venues and by promoting the use of freely accessible scholarly resources. Through collaboration with libraries, CREATE seeks to expand the reach and impact of educational research at both national and international levels.

Libraries are encouraged to add CREATE to their electronic journal collections, institutional repositories, subject guides, and academic resource portals. Such inclusion enhances resource discoverability and provides students, educators, and researchers with access to current studies, innovative teaching practices, educational technologies, and policy-related research.

The journal welcomes collaboration with university libraries, research centers, and information services that seek to broaden access to scholarly publications and strengthen academic communication within the field of education and teaching.

CREATE recognizes the importance of preserving scholarly content for future generations. Libraries and information institutions are encouraged to support digital preservation initiatives that ensure the long-term accessibility, integrity, and availability of published research. Sustainable archiving practices contribute to the continued dissemination and utilization of scholarly knowledge in education and related disciplines.

It may also be of interest to librarians that CREATE is managed through the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform, an open-source journal management and publishing system widely adopted by universities, research institutions, and scholarly publishers around the world. OJS provides comprehensive support for manuscript submission, peer review, editorial workflow management, publication, indexing, and archiving.

Libraries seeking to establish or support scholarly publishing initiatives may find OJS to be a reliable and cost-effective solution for hosting academic journals managed by faculty members, research groups, or institutional publishing units. The platform promotes transparency, efficiency, interoperability, and adherence to international scholarly publishing standards.

By supporting CREATE and other open-access scholarly publications, libraries contribute to strengthening research visibility, fostering academic collaboration, and promoting knowledge exchange across disciplines and geographic regions. Access to quality educational research helps institutions enhance teaching effectiveness, inform policy development, and support evidence-based decision-making within educational settings.

CREATE welcomes opportunities for collaboration with university libraries, academic consortia, information centers, and research organizations. Through shared efforts to improve access to scholarly information, libraries and journals can work together to advance educational research, support academic excellence, and foster a culture of open and responsible scholarly communication.