ISSN 1853-9912
online version
ISSN 1666-2938
printed version

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Palabra clave (La Plata) (ISSN 1853-9912) is a semi-annual electronic publication (April and October), edited by the Department of Library Science of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences of the National University of La Plata, in the city La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The fascicles are published in digital format in the months of April and October.

The purpose of the magazine is to offer a specialized means of communication that contributes to the development of Library and Information Science (LIS), through the publication of high-quality and rigorous academic works. It is aimed at researchers, teachers, managers, officials, professionals and students of the BCI, particularly – but not exclusively – from the Ibero-American area.

The articles published in Palabra clave (La Plata) are indexed or summarized by:

• Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas (CAICYT-CONICET

• SHERPA/RoMEO

• Ulrich Directory

• EZB Elektronischen Zeitschriftenbibliothek

• ERIH Plus European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Science

• MIAR  Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas

• LatinREV Red Latinoamericana de Revistas Académicas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

• CAPES-Qualis

• Dialnet

• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

• RedALyC Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe

• REDIB Red Iberomericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico

• EBSCO Fuente Académica Premier

• GALE Cengage Learning

• LatAm Studies Estudios Latinoamericanos

• BibLat Bibliografía Latinoamericana en revistas de investigación científica y social

• CLASE Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades

• LISTA Library

• Information Science & Technology Abstracts

• Scopus

• Google Scholar

• E-LIS

The journal is included in LATINDEX system catalog.

Open access policy

The acceptance of the manuscript by the journal implies the non-simultaneous submission to other journals or editorial bodies and the non-exclusive transfer of the authors' economic rights in favor of the editor, who allows reuse, after editing (postprint), under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License . The work can be shared, copied, distributed, altered, transformed, generated a derivative work, performed and publicly communicated, provided that: a) the authorship and the original source of its publication are cited (magazine, publisher and URL of the work). ; b) is not used for commercial purposes; c) the same license terms are maintained.

The transfer of non-exclusive rights also implies authorization by the authors for the work to be deposited in the institutional repositories of the UNLP ( Sedici and Memoria Academica ) and disseminated through the databases that the editor considers appropriate for its indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the publication and its authors.

Likewise, our institution promotes and supports the diamond open access movement to academic scientific literature. Its editions have no charges for the author or the reader, encouraging authors to deposit their contributions in other institutional and thematic repositories, with the certainty that culture and knowledge are a good for everyone and for everyone.

Data availability policy

Key word (La Plata)  promotes the transparency and reproducibility of published research so that other researchers can replicate the studies described in their articles, either to corroborate or refute the results obtained, in accordance with what is established by the National Law 26,899 on open access institutional digital repositories

To promote the reproducibility of the results, the journal requires that the authors make available, without restrictions, the data sets with which they have carried out the research described in their article. If there are limitations derived from ethical or legal causes, the authors must indicate how other researchers should access said data.

All information and research data sent to  Palabra Clave  will be uploaded and made available in SEDICI , the repository of the National University of La Plata, in order to increase compliance with the FAIR principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable ( The data must be findable and accessible, must be in systems capable of interoperating, and must be able to be reused in other research).

Authors are encouraged to deposit data in the Repositorio de datos de investigación UNLP, available from 2023, or in any other research data repository (such as FigShare, Mendeley Data or Zenodo), prior to send the contribution to the magazine. In this way, when submitting the article, only the URL where the research data is located should be indicated.

Authors are requested to use formats that maximize the accessibility and reusability of the data (for example, if tabular data is used, it is suggested to use a spreadsheet). If necessary, it is recommended to publish, along with the data, the algorithms or treatments (pipelines) that must be carried out on said data for their correct interpretation. 

Copyright notice

The acceptance of collaborations by the magazine implies the non-exclusive transfer of the authors' economic rights in favor of the editor, who allows reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The transfer of non-exclusive rights also implies authorization by the authors for the work to be hosted in the institutional repository Memoria Académica and disseminated through the databases that the editor considers appropriate for indexing, with a view to increasing the visibility of the magazine and its authors.

This site is financially supported by the Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.