''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

that publishes papers in the fields of

Information Science Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of informatio ...

and

Library Science Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, an ...

. The journal's Editor is Anne Goulding (

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well kno ...

). It has been in publication since 1969 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

History

Originally titled the ''Journal of Librarianship'', the journal was first published by the Library Association (UK) in 1969. Edward Dudley was the first Chairman of the Editorial Board. David Stoker (Editor 1991 - 2001) documented the founding of the journal in his first Editorial, describing how Dudley persuaded a largely sceptical Library Association of the need for a research-based journal, given post-war developments in scientific and technical literature and the parallel growth in both the number of libraries and advances in

librarianship Library science (often termed library studies, bibliothecography, and library economy) is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and ...

and

information science Information science (also known as information studies) is an academic field which is primarily concerned with analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval, movement, dissemination, and protection of informatio ...

.Stoker, David (1991).
Quo JOLIS?: the aims of the ''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science''
, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 23 (1): 5-8.

Bowker-Saur Bowker-Saur was a publisher and former operating company owned by Reed Elsevier plc. Bowker-Saur served business and library markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa with book, journal, directory and online database products. The company had it ...

acquired the ''Journal of Librarianship'' in 1990 and along with the new publisher came a new name - ''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'' - as well as a new format and design. The journal was owned briefly by

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts CSA (formerly ''Cambridge Scientific Abstracts'') was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007. CSA hosted databases of ab ...

from 2002 before SAGE Publications took over its production in 2004. Jonathan Furner provided an overview of the publication and printing history of the journal in the 40th anniversary issue in 2009.

Scope

''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'' publishes original papers and review articles, viewpoints and book reviews which reflect aspects of

and

focusing on the results of research and reports of significant developments in working practice. The Editorial Team is committed "to publishing quality research papers from scholars and practitioners around the world which will be of interest to those practising and studying librarianship and information science".Goulding, Anne (2009).
"Editor's Note"
''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'', 41 (3): 135.

Online editions

''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'', including the full backfile from 1969, is available online. Forthcoming articles published online ahead of the print issues of the journal are available through OnlineFirst.

Abstracting and indexing

''Journal of Librarianship and Information Science'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases:

SCOPUS Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...

, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

Journal Citation Reports ''Journal Citation Reports'' (''JCR'') is an annual publicationby Clarivate Analytics (previously the intellectual property of Thomson Reuters). It has been integrated with the Web of Science and is accessed from the Web of Science-Core Collec ...

'', its 2012

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...

is 0.286, ranking it 67 out of 84 journals in the category ‘Information Science & Library Science’.

References

External links

* {{Official website, 1=http://lis.sagepub.com/ SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals Library and information science journals