Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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Former names
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American Documentation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology |
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Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
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J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. |
| Discipline | Information science |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Javed Mostafa |
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Publication history
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1950–present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
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1532-2882 (print) 1532-2890 (web) |
| LCCN | 00212816 |
| CODEN | JASIEF |
| OCLC no. | 45266164 |
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The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed academic journal of information science published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Association for Information Science and Technology. Occasional special issues appear with all article contents focused on a single topic area.
The journal publishes original research and rapid communications generally falling in the following categories:
The journal also publishes book reviews and announcements of the association.
The journal was established in 1950 as a quarterly entitled American Documentation. The new journal was a publication of the American Documentation Institute (ADI), which had formed in 1937 around a group of researchers and practitioners who were interested in the emerging technology of microfilm as a medium for the preservation and dissemination of documents and knowledge. Many of the same people and institutions were involved in a prewar American Library Association journal called The Journal of Documentary Reproduction, which ran from 1938-1943, 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 "information explosion" 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 information science. 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.
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