Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Last updated ISSN 0022-2232
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Librarianship and Information Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Library Science and Administration
- Library Science and Information Literacy
- Web and Library Services
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Library Science and Information Systems
- Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0022-2232, 0961-0006, 1741-6477 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,650 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,946 |
| Publishing since | 1991 |
| Journal website | lis.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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