ISSN 1851-1740
online version
ISSN 1514-8327
printed version

About this journal

• Basic Information
• Information Services
• Copyright

Información, cultura y sociedad is an academic and peer-reviewed journal published without interruption since 1999 by Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas - INIBI, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.  With a biannual frequency (June and December), it publishes originals papers regarding the production, registration, preservation, circulation, diffusion and the use of information. The aim of the journal is to be an area of confluence for the Librarianship and Information Science professionals or any other field concerned in this issue, with a view to building an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and exchange. Despite the fact that the journal intends to be a channel for the diffusion of Ibero-american researches, it is also open for the international community. 

ICS is published every six months, on June 10 and December 10 of each year.

The articles published in Información, cultura y sociedad are indexed or summarized by:

• SCOPUS 

• RedALyC 

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• DIALNET 

• Library & Information Science Source (EBSCO) 

• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO)

• Library Literature Information Science Full text (EBSCO)

• Fuente Académica Premier (EBSCO)

• Fuente Académica Plus (EBSCO)

• Fuente Académica (EBSCO)

• Informe Académico (Gale-Cengage) 

• Academic OneFile (Gale-Cengage)

• Hispanic American Peridodicals Index (HAPI)

• Ulrich’s periodicals directory 

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) 

• Latin-REV: Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

• ERIHPLUS

• Filo:Digital. Repositorio institucional (FFyL-UBA)

• Repositorio Digital Institucional (RDI-UBA)  

• E-LIS  

• Núcleo Básico 

• ERIHplus 

• MIAR 

The journal is included in LATINDEX system catalog.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Información, cultura y Sociedad remains committed to the Open Access to scientific information policy, considering that scientific publications as well as publicly funded researches must circulate freely, free of charge and with no restriction along the Internet. This journal is based upon the principle that offering society an open access to researches encourages a greater knowledge exchange along the world.

Therefore the publishing of the articles in the journal is free of charge as well as the access to their contents.

It also allows publishing the evaluated and accepted version in a pre-print repository.

AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH DATA

Información, Cultura y Sociedad adheres to data sharing policies of investigation. We expect that all data supporting the article’s research is archived in a public and accessible repository. Authors must inform the availability of data using a bibliographical citation included in the final section Bibliographical references (see Authors guidelines). In case of absence of sharing data, this must be also informed (October 2019).

POLICY ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION

Información, cultura y sociedad is part of the institutional repository Filo:Digital of the Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. The magazine is digitally archived and its preservation is warranted.

Información, cultura y sociedad it is also filed by the Sistema Nacional de Repositorios Digitales (SNRD) of Argentina and by the institutional repository of the Universidad de Buenos Aires RDI-UBA, among others.

The LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is currently in the process of being enabled, which guarantees the magazine a permanent and secure archive. (November 2019)

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors publishing in this journal acknowledge the conditions below:

1. Authors retain the copyright of their work while they transfer the right of the first publishing to the journal, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) Licence, which allows third parties to reproduce them under the condition that express mention is given to the author and to its original publication in the journal.

2. Authors may enter into other contractual and independent arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version of the article published in this journal (for instance, it can be published in an institutional repository or in a book). In any case, an express mention should be given to its first publication in the journal.

3. It is permitted and encouraged to publish online the articles (for example, on institutional or personal pages)

Self-archive policy

This journal allows the deposit in repositories, institutional pages or others, of all versions of the article.