Libri
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Editors-in-Chief:
Kendra S. Albright
Über diese Zeitschrift
Starting 2024, LIBRI will be transferred to Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons license CC-BY (authors retain rights). There will be no publication costs for the authors. The Open Access transformation is based on Subscribe-to-Open, an alternative model that enables the full Open Access transformation of journals through the continuation of existing subscriptions. The prerequisite for successful transformation is that subscriptions are continued to the same extent as before. The editors of LIBRI and the publisher De Gruyter would therefore like to thank all subscribers for their support, which has made the transformation to Open Access possible.
LIBRI was established in 1950 and is a leading international scholarly journal which investigates the aspects of library and information studies from both a historical and present-day perspective and analyses the role of information and knowledge in cultural, organizational, national and international developments.
LIBRI reports on current trends in library and information studies worldwide and describes their resulting transformation from the introduction of new information and communication technologies, multidisciplinary approaches, changing practices, and evolving methods. Background information and the latest research findings in library and information studies are made accessible to academics, practitioners, and a broader public. Topics that are covered include, but are not limited to:
- Libraries (national, public, academic, school, special, etc.) and other information environments
- Information and knowledge management
- Information behaviour
- Information needs, seeking, searching and use
- Information retrieval
- Emerging technologies, including AI, AR, VR etc., from an Information Science perspective
- Information for development (developing and industrialized countries)
- Indigenous knowledge
- Literacy (media, information, etc.)
- Data science, data analytics, big data and their impact on organisations (e.g., customer related data; social science perspective
- Digital libraries and repositories
- Data science, data management, data curation and virtual research environments (VREs)
- Information ethics, policy and law
- Scholarly communication
- Open science, open access and related topics
- Health information
- Information science
- Information services
- Information in society
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Information organization and representation
- Freedom of access to information and freedom of expression
- Archives & preservation
- Cultural heritage
- Book and publishing theory and history
- LIS education
- International and comparative LIS research
- Research methodologies in LIS
- Theory submissions
(We do not publish articles on scientometrics, bibliometrics, webometrics, altmetrics etc., as there are a number of specialist journals that does so.)
Please see here for detailed instructions for authors.
Articles are in English and conform to the highest academic standards. For further information, contact the editors at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri
| Journal Impact Factor | 0.8 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 0.9 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 0.26 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 1.9 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.309 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.686 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
You can easily submit your manuscript online. Simply go to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/libri and you will be guided through the whole peer-reviewing and publishing process. Before preparing a manuscript, please read the journal’s Detailed instructions for authors and have a look at our Ethical Guidelines. Please note that your manuscript may be checked for plagiarism via Crossref Similarity Check.
All contributions go through a double-blind peer review with at least two external reviewers.
Libri follows Tier 2 of our Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to provide a data availability statement. Please refer to the Data Sharing Policy for guidance on how to write a data availability statement.
Your benefits of publishing with us
- Instant golden OA (CC-BY) in S2O without APCs (authors retain rights)
- Wide indexing and abstracting
- High quality manuscript processing through Thomson Reuters ScholarOne
- Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
- Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
- Professional sales and marketing activities
Editors
Kendra S. Albright, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
Theo J. D. Bothma, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Advisory Board
Naresh Agarval, Simmons University, Boston, MA, US
Arsey Aydinoglu, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Syeda Hina Batool, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, US
Albert Boekhorst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Jacumã-Conde, PB, Brasil
Jenny Bossaller, University of Missouri, MO, US
Fiona Bradley, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Jenny Bronstein, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Hanadi Buarki, College of Basic Education, Ardiya, Kuwait
Nadia Caidi, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Michèle Cloonan, Simmons College, Boston, MA, US
Tina Du, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Kristina Eriksson-Backa, Turku, Finland
Kasey Garrison, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
John Gathegi, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US
Anne Goulding, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Peter Heisig, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden
Carl Gustav Johannsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dick Kawooya, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, US
Jinmook Kim, Kangnam University, Yongin, South Korea
Sung Un Kim, Washington, DC, USA
Albina Krymskaya, Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
Guoqiu Li, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Irene Lopatovska, Pratt University, New York City, NY, US
Peter Lor, Pretoria, South Africa
Filiberto Felipe Martínez Arellano, University Center for Library Science Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Suvodeep Mazumdar, Sheffield, UK
Maria Musoke, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda
Tony Olden, University of West London, London, UK
Hermann Roesch, TH Köln Technology, Arts, Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Abebe Rorissa, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, US
Diljit Singh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ana Maria Talavera-Ibarra, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), San Miguel, Peru
Anna Maria Tammaro, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Irina Trushina, Russian Library Association, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Ana Vasconcelos, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Sirje Virkus, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
Nosheen Fatima Warraich, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Michael Widdersheim, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, US
Hassan Zamir, River Forest, Illinois, US
Yao Zhang, Tianjin, China
Yin Zhang, Kent State University, Kent, OH, US
Lihong Zhou, Wuhan University, China
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- EBSCO Discovery Service
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- Google Scholar
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