International Journal on Digital Libraries
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Aims & Scope
The International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) examines the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management, preservation, and dissemination of digital information via global networking. It covers all aspects of digital libraries (DLs), from large-scale heterogeneous data and information management & access to linking and connectivity to security, privacy and policies, to its application, use, and evaluation. The scope of IJDL includes, but is not limited to: The FAIR principle and the digital libraries infrastructure Findable: Information access and retrieval; semantic search; data and information exploration; information navigation; smart indexing and searching; resource discovery Accessible: visualization and digital collections; user interfaces; interfaces for handicapped users; HCI and UX in DLs; Security and privacy in DLs; multimodal access Interoperable: metadata (definition, management, curation, integration); syntactic and semantic interoperability; linked data Reusable: reproducibility; Open Science; sustainability, profitability, repeatability of research results; confidentiality and privacy issues in DLs Digital Library Architectures, including heterogeneous and dynamic data management; data and repositories Acquisition of digital information: authoring environments for digital objects; digitization of traditional content Digital Archiving and Preservation Digital Preservation and curation Digital archiving Web Archiving Archiving and preservation Strategies AI for Digital Libraries Machine Learning for DLs Data Mining in DLs NLP for DLs Applications of Digital Libraries Digital Humanities Open Data and their reuse Scholarly DLs (incl. bibliometrics, altmetrics) Epigraphy and Paleography Digital Museums Future trends in Digital Libraries Definition of DLs in a ubiquitous digital library world Datafication of digital collections Interaction and user experience (UX) in DLs Information visualization Collection understanding Privacy and security Multimodal user interfaces Accessibility (or "Access for users with disabilities") UX studies
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INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
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ImpaQ AnalysisInternational Journal on Digital Libraries (ISSN: 1432-5012) is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal in the field of Management, published by Springer Verlag in Germany. The periodical holds a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 1.70, ranking in quartile Q2 of Web of Science (ESCI), a Scopus SJR indicator of 0.448 (Q2), an H-index of 42.
The journal enforces rigorous peer evaluation with an annual output of approximately 8 scientific articles. In terms of accessibility and author fees, it operates under the Hybrid model with an estimated APC of $2,866 USD. It serves as a benchmark publication platform for academics, researchers, and doctoral candidates seeking global research visibility.
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