''IFLA Journal'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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that covers the fields of
librarianship
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and
information science
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. It publishes original research, case studies, and essays on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The
editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is
Steven Witt (
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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). It was established in 1975 and is published by
SAGE Publications
SAGE Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in Newbury Park, California.
It publishes more than 1,000 journals, more than 800 books ...
on behalf of the
(IFLA).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
Academic Premier
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,
Compendex
Ei Compendex is an engineering bibliographic database published by Elsevier.
The name "Compendex" stands for COMPuterized ENgineering inDEX.
It covers scientific literature pertaining to engineering materials.
It started in 1884 under the name ...
,
Inspec,
Library Information Science Abstracts,
Library Literature and Information Science
Library Literature and Information Science is a bibliographic database that indexes over 410 library and information science periodicals published internationally. It also covers books, chapters within books, library school theses, and pamphlets. ...
,
Scopus
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, and
Sociological Abstracts
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.
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SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Library and information science journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1975
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