The Charleston Advisor

*The Charleston Advisor*
Discipline	Library science
Language	English
Edited by	George Machovec
Publication details
History	1999–2024
Publisher	The Charleston Company (1999–2022); Annual Reviews (publisher) (2022–2024) (United States)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Hybrid
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Charlest. Advis.
Indexing;
ISSN	1525-4011 (print); 1525-4003 (web);
LCCN	sn99008755
OCLC no.	41542348
Links
	Journal homepage;

The Charleston Advisor (July 1999 – July 2024)^[1] was a peer-reviewed publication that reviewed proprietary and free Internet resources that libraries license and make available to their patrons. The journal's tag line was "Critical reviews of web products for informational professionals."^[2] It was published quarterly.^[3]

Inspiration for the publication came from Katina Strauch, then Head of Technical Services at the College of Charleston.^[4] The publisher of the journal was Becky Lenzini, and the managing editor throughout its 25-year run was George Machovec.^[3]

The journal has won a Readers' Choice Award.^[5] It provided the ccAdvisor online review facility with the magazine Choice.^[6]

As of 2022^[update] The Charleston Advisor was sold by The Charleston Company to science publisher Annual Reviews.^[4] The last issue of The Charleston Advisor, a retrospective from its 25 year history, was published 1 July 2024 as Volume 25, number 5.^[7] Subscribers received permanent access rights to the archive of over 1,500 published articles.^[8]

A new digital publication called Katina is planned to succeed The Charleston Advisor beginning in November 2024. Katina is named after Katina Strauch, the founder of the Charleston Conference and the originator of the idea for The Charleston Advisor. Katina will contain library resource reviews and other content relating to open access and library and information science.^[8]^[3]

References

^ "The Charleston Advisor". Ingenta Connect. Ingenta. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ The Charleston advisor: critical reviews of web products for information professionals. WorldCat. OCLC 41542348.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hinds, Leah (1 July 2024). "Against the Grain Interviews: Rebecca Lenzini and George Machovec". The Charleston Advisor. 25 (5): 8–9. doi:10.5260/chara.25.5.05.
^ ^a ^b "Annual Reviews Acquires The Charleston Advisor | NISO website". National Information Standards Organization. June 1, 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^ "JSTOR's ebook program wins Readers' Choice Award from The Charleston Advisor". JSTOR. 31 October 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "Choice and The Charleston Company launch ccAdvisor". ALA member news. American Library Association. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "The Charleston Advisor: Volume 25, Number 5, 1 July 2024 Table of Contents". annurev.publisher.ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b Machovec, George (1 July 2024). "From Your Managing Editor: Special Retrospective Issue". The Charleston Advisor. 25 (5): 3–3. doi:10.5260/chara.25.5.01.