''Philobiblon'' is a biannual

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published by the

Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca The Lucian Blaga Central University Library of Cluj-Napoca ( ro, Biblioteca Centrală Universitară "Lucian Blaga" din Cluj-Napoca) serves Babeș-Bolyai University in Romania. History The library was founded in 1872, at the same time as Franz Jo ...

, Romania, in collaboration with Cluj University Press (Presa Universitară Clujeană). It was established in 1996 as a continuation of an irregular publication entitled ''Biblioteca și Învățămîntul'' (''Library and Education''). The subtitles and publication frequency of the journal have changed several times: ''Bulletin of the Lucian Blaga Central University Library'' (1996−2008), ''Journal of the Lucian Blaga Central University Library'' (2009−2010), and currently: ''Transylvanian Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Humanities''. Until 2011 it was published annually (except for 1996−1997, when it was also published twice a year).The program of the journal has changed, completed over time: see the initial program (1996) and the next (2011) ''Philobiblon'' is available electronically through

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and

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databases, as well as in print. The journal was ranked in 2011 by the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research in Higher Education in seven Humanities categories as a periodical having serious chances to gain international import: Arts; Philosophy; Architecture; History of Science; Historiography and Theory of History; Romanian Language and Literature; Foreign Languages and Literature.

Scope

Until 2011, issues of the journal were thematic, engaging several areas of academic research in the

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and

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. As of 2011, the journal changed its profile, appearing with two issues per year as an academic journal of multidisciplinary research in humanities, covering research at the confluence of various branches of the humanities and social sciences and promoting the contemporary synergy of sciences (such as, for example,

medical humanities ''Medical Humanities'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of medical humanities. The journal presents the international conversation around medicine and its engagement with the humanities and arts, social sciences, hea ...

). Selected articles from ''Philobiblon'' are translated into

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in a series of biannually published

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entitled ''Hermeneutica Bibliothecaria''.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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), ProQuest databases,

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, and

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.philobiblon.ro/ Multidisciplinary academic journals Babeș-Bolyai University Publications established in 1996 Biannual journals English-language journals Academic journals published by university presses