Following up on the town hall notes circulated last week, we (the current active editors of the Code4Lib Journal) are seeking a stable, long-term infrastructural home for the journal.
Our current Wordpress-based platform has become increasingly difficult to sustain and limits our ability to support core editorial workflows, improve the publication experience, and plan for the journal's future. As the scope and complexity of our work continues to evolve, we need a more reliable and maintainable foundation to support both day-to-day operations and longer-term development.
We are currently working through the special issue and hope to resume regular publication in early 2027, making this a timely moment to transition to new infrastructure.
To that end, we are putting out a call for institutions or organizations that may be interested in hosting the journal. We invite people who are interested in supporting a well-loved, long-standing journal (since 2007) that has provided tremendous value to the information professions.
We are particularly interested in environments that support established journal platforms (e.g., OJS) and can offer ongoing technical stability, maintenance, and a collaborative approach to stewardship.
If your institution maintains journal infrastructure and may be open to supporting Code4Lib Journal, we would be glad to hear from you. Please contact us at c4lj-articles_at_googlegroups.com<mailto:c4lj-articles_at_googlegroups.com> with a brief note about your organization, the platform(s) you support, and what a potential hosting arrangement might look like by May 15, 2026.
We're happy to follow up with more details about our current setup and workflows. Please forward to any channels you think appropriate.
-Code4Lib Journal Editors
Edward M. Corrado, Naval Postgraduate School
Mark Eaton, City University of New York
Péter Király, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)
Jamie Patrick-Burns, EBSCO Information Services
Kirsta Stapelfeldt, University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC)
Mark Swenson, Winnetka-Northfield Public Library District
Received on Thu Apr 09 2026 - 13:18:17 EDT