(Adapted from the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)

As part of our commitment to authors and the research community, HML will honor name and pronoun change requests from our authors. This includes, but is not limited to, name changes because of marriage, divorce, gender affirmation, and religious conversion. HML will not require any form of proof or supporting documentation beyond what is needed to confirm the author’s identity and will only note that a non-substantive change was made to the published article.

HML can only make changes to the article (including all of its formats on the HML website) and journal webpage. HML cannot make updates to copies that have already been downloaded, nor can we make changes in indexes/databases that have picked up the original metadata, nor are we able to update citations to articles in which a name change has occurred. HML will not notify co-authors of the change to the article; authors may choose whether or not they wish to alert their co-authors.

Any misuse of this policy will be considered misconduct, and HML reserves the right to investigate and act against misuse.

How to request a name change: Authors who wish to change their name on any work previously published in HML are asked to fill out this form.