The ''Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology'' is a monthly peer-reviewed

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covering all aspects of

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published by

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on behalf of the

Association for Information Science and Technology The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the '' Journal of the Ass ...

. The journal publishes original research and rapid communications, as well as

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s and announcements of the association. Occasional special issues appear with contents focused on a single topic area.

History

The journal was established in 1950 as a quarterly entitled ''American Documentation''. The new journal was a publication of the

American Documentation Institute The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is a nonprofit membership organization for information professionals that sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the ''Journal of the Assoc ...

(ADI), which had formed in 1937 around a group of researchers and practitioners who were interested in the emerging technology of

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as a medium for the preservation and dissemination of documents and knowledge. Many of the same people and institutions were involved in a pre-war

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journal called ''The Journal of Documentary Reproduction'', which ran from 1938 to 1943, before being discontinued due to the imperatives of the war. ''American Documentation'' was an explicit continuation of and extension upon ''The Journal of Documentary Reproduction'', with a broader brief to cover documentation as a whole, then defined as "...the creation, transmission, collection, classification and use of 'documents'; documents may be broadly defined as recorded knowledge in any format." In the postwar years, rapid technological and social changes ushered in an "

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" which created many new problems and opportunities of special interest to documentation specialists, and in time documentation found itself at the center of the emerging field of

. The ADI's membership and scope increased rapidly, and in 1968 the members voted to change the organization's name to "American Society for Information Science", to reflect the changes in their membership and focus. As their official journal, ''American Documentation'' followed suit, and beginning with the first issue of 1970 it changed its name to ''The Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' and began publishing bimonthly.History of ASIS&T
Retrieved 02/10/2011. In 1991, the publication frequency increased to 10 issues yearly and by 1996, the journal was publishing monthly. In 2000, ASIS again voted to change its name, this time to The "American Society for Information Science and Technology", in order to recognize the further changes in membership and interests brought on by the rise of the internet and the mainstreaming of networked computing and information technology. The journal's name was subsequently also changed in January 2001 to ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology''. It obtained its current name in January 2014.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 2.687.

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23301643
ASIS&T publications
Information science journals Monthly journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies Wiley (publisher) academic journals English-language journals Publications established in 1950 1950 establishments in the United States