About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Journal Ciência da Informação is a quarterly publication of original and unpublished material, related to Information Science or that presents results from studies and research about activities of the information sector in science, technology and innovation. Information Science is understood as an interdisciplinary field concerned with the study of phenomena related to information and knowledge production, organization, dissemination, preservation and use in all fields of knowledge.

The activity of the information sector covers components of multiple sectors and subsectors, such as education, culture, research, telecommunications and informatics, in their aspects related to scientific and technological information and information technology.

Peer Review Process

1. Papers will be submitted for approval to renowned specialists in the subject matter. The papers will be sent to review without authorship identification (informed through the journals online management system, Open Journal Systems - OJS) to ensure a proper blind peer-review process.
2. Papers will be sent to reviewers, whom shall have at least Doctoral degree, in the shortest time possible. The article selection process involves Ad Hoc peer review as well as from the Editorial Board, the latter deciding which articles will be published from the approved ones. The Table of Contents will follow an alphabetical ordering of authorship by last name, unless an alternate order has been chosen by the Editor responsible for the issue.
3. Exceptionally, papers already published in international journals may be accepted. In this case, they will be subject to the same peer-review process. The author shall present written authorization from the journal that published the work, followed by a copy of the article.
4. Author: individual responsible for the intellectual or artistic property of the document. Do not confuse with collaborator.
   1. For articles with multiple authorship, the author order must be informed and a written publishing authorization declaration from each must be presented;
   2. Main author minimal degree: Doctorate.
5. The papers will be published in their original language of submission, with preference to papers in Portuguese, English and Spanish. Submissions in alternate languages may not be processed.
   1. All submissions shall have their titles, abstracts and keywords translated to Portuguese, English and Spanish.
6. The journal reserves the right to perform normalization, orthographical and grammar changes in order to maintain the academic level of the language whenever possible, respecting author style. The final versions of documentos will be available within the system at the multiple stages of the editorial process.
7. The works published become property of the journal Ciência da Informação, total or partial reprints being subject to written authorization of Ibict’s Director. An indication must be made of the original source of publication.
8. Each author will receive two hard copies of the journal, if a printed version is available.
9. The authors are responsible for the views expressed in their articles.
10. The journal will classify reviewed submissions according to the following sections:
    1. Articles: this section includes complete and unpublished reports of concluded research or studies and similar contributions.
    2. Experience reports: includes communications and descriptions of activities performed by information systems, services or units.
    3. Literature review: includes critical analysis of books, recently published periodicals, theses and dissertations.
    4. Opinion paper: includes original and unpublished work with a point-of-view characteristic.

Publication Frequency

Journal Ciência da Informação is a triannual journal, publishing three issues per year, grouped by volume.

Usually, the first issue is published from January to April. The second, from May to August. The third, from September to December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

There are no subscription, submission, review, editing or publication fees.

History

CIÊNCIA DA INFORMAÇÃO, IBICT'S SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

Lena Vania Ribeiro Pinheiro, January 2016

The first issue of Ibict's journal Ciência da Informação was launched in 1972 and represents a hallmarck not only in the field, but for the Institute as well. It was a decade were post-graduate courses were created, including Ibict's Information Science program, in 1970, the first Masters in this discipline in Brazil and Latin America, and a stage where few scholarly and scientific journals were published in our country.

In an interview for the 25^th Anniversary issue of this journal, Professor Hagar Espanha Gomes¹, one of the founders, recognized that the Masters program was crucial to the launch of Ciência da Informação. Actually, the relationship between national scholarly and scientific production and post-graduate programs is essential, so much that cientific and technological production is proven to be concentrated in Masters and Doctoral programs of universities.

Intially, the journal was biannual, from 1972 (v.1, n.1) to 1991 (v.20, n.2), during which were published 38 issues, moving to triannual in 1992 (v.21, n.1) and up to date, in 2015 (v.44, n.1), during which have been edited 67 issues, in a total of 105 in its editorial lifecycle. Ciência da Informação has kept regular its frequency of publishing, a fundamental quality in a scholarly or scientific journal, for more than 40 years, after which it went through editorial difficulties and had its frequency affected. Today, almost two years later, it is very close to being solved. In the year 2000, 19 thematic issues were published, mostly dedicated to new positions, such as digital preservation, open access to scientific information, digital libraries, Information Society, electronic publishing, information and globalization, questions that are on the international research agenda in the field and require sepecific public policies. Eight commemorative issues were published along the way, related to the Institute's anniversary, the Information Science Post-Graduate Progam and Ciência da Informação itself.

Research and studies on Brazilian scientific journals in the field of Information Science point journal Ciência da Informação as the most cited or among the most cited in the field^{2 3 4}, besides being the journal that edited the most articles about scientific journals⁵.

Adds to its relevance the fact that this journal has been adopted as a research study source of its discipline, because it is a consolidated journal, with merits acknowledged by the scientific community of Information Science, entrusting it to play such role, considering the absence of a national database in the field, complete and current.

The journal itself has been object of research, for example, when it was analysed in its 32 years of circulation (1972-2004)⁶. The results pointed out, among many positive qualities that justify its relevance: highly exogenous; significant activity of renowned international authos, specially those qho collaborated, as professors or presenters, in the Information Science Masters Program; and its inclusion in multiple indexing services, both national and international.

Ciência da Informação editors, aware of tools that increase access and research in its content, as well as to agile electronic and network processes, developed content indexes in two moments. The first, with collaboration of Professor Jaime Robredo, of UnB, from 1972 to 1984, and the second, from 1972 to 1993, Ibict teamwork, published in vol.23 n.1 1994, pages 17 thru 158, an issue in which only the editorial and two articles were published.

The need to make available Ibict's journal online came along with the advent of the Internet and plans for Ciência da Informação to adopt the electronic format began in 1996. In 2004, the journal became fully electronic, reproducing in full all of its content, past and resent. To this goal, Ibict made use of Open Journal Systems (OJS), which assists in the management of the editorial process for publishing peer-reviewed journals, open source software developed by the Public Knowledge Project.

Ibict's scientific journal integrates several print and electronic archives in the world. Its potential for content dissemination and universal access reaches several segments of the field in national and international communities. Its content represents much of the Brazilian research in Information Science, as well as a fraction of the field's development in Iberoamerica. Authors and editors have worked har to intensify scientific communication and collaboration with fields of knowledge, with presence of contribution or interdisciplinarity in teaching and research environments. In short, Ciência da Informação fulfills its destiny, layed out 44 years ago, of publishing advances in research, continously and without interruption, with the innovation that the field and contemporary science require.

References

¹GOMES, Hagar E. Entrevista a Lena Vania R. Pinheiro. Ciência da Informação, Brasília, v. 25, n. 3, p. 292-295, set./dez.1996. Available at: http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/624/627. Accessed on: 07/04/2016.

²OHIRA, Maria Lourdes B.; PRADO, Noêmia Schoffen. Bibliotecas virtuais e digitais: análise de artigos de periódicos brasileiros (1995/2000). Ciência da Informação, Brasília, v. 31, n.1, p. 61-74, jan./abr. 2002. Available at: http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/978. Accessed on: 07/04/2016

³OHIRA, Maria Lourdes B.; PRADO, Noêmia Schoffen; SCHMIDT, Luciana. Profissional da informação no limiar do século XXI: enfoque nos periódicos brasileiros em biblioteconomia e ciência da informação (1995/2002). Encontros Bibli: Revista Eletrônica de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, Florianópolis, v. 9, n.17, p. 34-58, 2004. Available at: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2004v9n17p34. Accessed on: 07/04/2016.

⁴VILAN FILHO, Jayme Leiro; ARRUDA, Raíza Veloso; PERUCCHI, Valmira. Análise das citações aos periódicos científicos brasileiros das áreas de Informação. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v.18, Edição especial, p. 115-127, dez.2012. Available at: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/33254. Accessed on: 07/04/2016.

⁵MENEZES, Estera M.; COUZINET, Viviane. O interesse das revistas brasileiras e francesas de biblioteconomia e ciências da informação pela revista eletrônica no período 1990-1999. Ciência da Informação, Brasília, v. 28, n. 3, p. 278-285, set./dez. 1999. Available at: http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/831. Accessed on: 07/04/2016.

⁶PINHEIRO, Lena Vania Ribeiro; BRASCHER, Marisa; BURNIER, Sonia. Ciência da Informação: 32 anos (1972-2004) no caminho da história e horizontes de um periódico científico brasileiro. Ciência da Informação, Brasília, v. 34, n.3, p.25-77, set./dez. 2005. Número especial: Ibict 50 anos. Available at: http://revista.ibict.br/ciinf/article/view/1084. Accessed on: 07/04/2016.

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