Information For Librarians

The Journal of Humanities and Arts Perspectives (JHAP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journaldedicated to publishing high-quality research in the humanities and arts. This guide provides essential information for librarians on how to integrate JHAP into institutional repositories, promote access, and support researchers in utilizing the journal’s content.

About JHAP
  • Scope: JHAP publishes original research, theoretical essays, book reviews, and critical analyses across diverse fields, including literature, philosophy, visual and performing arts, history, cultural studies, and media studies.
  • Open Access Model: All content is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, ensuring unrestricted access, sharing, and reuse with proper attribution.
  • ISSN: 2759-8764
  • Publisher: Jandoo Press
Institutional Integration and Access Indexing and Discovery

Librarians are encouraged to index JHAP in institutional repositories, library catalogs, and discovery services to enhance visibility and accessibility for researchers and students. JHAP is indexed in:

  • DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • CrossRef (ensuring each article is assigned a DOI)
  • Institutional Digital Repositories (depositing articles in compliance with open-access mandates)

For libraries using federated search tools (e.g., EBSCO Discovery Service, ProQuest, WorldCat, Google Scholar), JHAP metadata can be harvested via OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

Cataloging and Metadata

Librarians may use the following metadata formats for cataloging JHAP in library systems:

  • MARC21 and Dublin Core metadata formats are available for integration into library catalogs.
  • Persistent DOI links are provided for each published article, ensuring permanent accessibility.

For metadata records and MARC files, please contact contact@press.jandoo.ac.

Supporting Researchers and Faculty Encouraging Faculty and Student Engagement

Librarians play a key role in promoting JHAP within academic institutions. Recommended strategies include:

  • Including JHAP in subject guides for humanities and arts disciplines.
  • Promoting JHAP to faculty and graduate students as a venue for publishing their research.
  • Incorporating JHAP articles into course reading lists and institutional syllabi.
Assisting with Open Access Mandates
  • Many funding agencies and institutions require researchers to publish in open-access journals.
  • JHAP complies with Plan S, UNESCO Open Science recommendations, and institutional OA policies.

Librarians can guide faculty and students in archiving preprints and accepted versions in institutional repositories under JHAP’s repository policy.

Digital Preservation and Archiving

JHAP ensures the long-term preservation of its content through trusted digital archiving programs:

  • CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) – Preserves journal content in a global distributed network of libraries.
  • LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) – Enables institutions to store and validate copies of JHAP’s content.

Librarians may contact JHAP to establish institutional agreements for automated content archiving and backup strategies.

Licensing and Copyright Information

JHAP operates under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows:

  • Unrestricted reuse, redistribution, and adaptation of published content, provided appropriate credit is given.
  • Institutional and subject repositories to host published articles without embargo periods.

Librarians can confidently distribute JHAP content through institutional networks while ensuring proper attribution.

Integration with Library Services Linking JHAP to Institutional Portals

Librarians may integrate JHAP into:

  • Library websites and subject-specific resource pages.
  • Learning management systems (LMS) such as Moodle, Blackboard, and Canvas.
  • Institutional academic networks and research repositories.
MARC and Metadata Harvesting
  • DOI-based linking: Ensures persistent access via CrossRef.
  • Full-text deposits: Available for institutions using digital repositories.

For XML metadata feeds and MARC records, contact contact@press.jandoo.ac.

Contact and Collaboration Opportunities

JHAP welcomes collaborations with libraries, digital preservation initiatives, and institutional research offices. Librarians are encouraged to:

  • Recommend JHAP to faculty and research groups.
  • Partner with JHAP for special issues, institutional research projects, or OA policy alignment.
  • Host JHAP content in institutional repositories for wider accessibility.