Reference & User Services Quarterly
Last updated ISSN 1094-9054
Reference & User Services Quarterly is published by American Library Association in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
Is your paper a fit?
The surest way to know is to compare your own abstract against what this journal has actually been publishing, rather than against its aims-and-scope page. Paste your abstract and Journal Hunt will tell you how close Reference & User Services Quarterly is — and show you journals like it.
What it publishes
Recent work in Reference & User Services Quarterly concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Library Science and Information Literacy
- Library Science and Administration
- Web and Library Services
- Library Collection Development and Digital Resources
- Race, History, and American Society
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Digital Games and Media
- Themes in Literature Analysis
- Digital and Traditional Archives Management
- Music History and Culture
Key facts
| Publisher | American Library Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1094-9054, 2163-5242 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,749 |
| Publishing since | 1997 |
| Journal website | www.rusq.org/ |
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.
Journals like Reference & User Services Quarterly
Other established journals in social sciences, if this one is not the right home for your paper: