Aims & Scope

IKR publishes research and evidence-based practice that offers a clear theoretical, empirical, methodological, technical or professional contribution to library and information science.

Scope

• Information behaviour, needs and literacy
• Knowledge organization, cataloguing and classification
• Information retrieval, search and discovery
• Academic, public, school, special and community libraries
• Archives, records management and digital preservation
• Digital libraries, repositories and cultural heritage information
• Scholarly communication, open science and bibliometrics
• Research data management and data stewardship
• Metadata, linked data, ontologies and knowledge graphs
• Library systems, user experience and accessibility
• Information policy, ethics, privacy and intellectual freedom
• Artificial intelligence and emerging information technologies

Local descriptions without a clear question, method, evidence or transferable contribution are outside scope.