About the Journal

Informaatiotutkimus (or, Information Studies, and Kirjastotiede ja informatiikka until 1995) is a scholarly journal established in 1981 and is published by Informaatiotutkimuksen yhdistys ry (or, Association of Information Sciences).

The journal publishes original articles, review articles, book reviews, thesis abstracts, and other works related to Library and Information Sciences (LIS). Informaatiotutkimus is the only Finnish peer-reviewed journal of its field. The journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs).

From 2008 to 2017 the journal was published both as an online Open Access journal and in print format as a yearbook. Since 2018 the journal has been published only as an Open Access journal. All previous volumes since 1981 are available online.

  • ISSN 1797-9129 (Online)
  • ISSN 1797-9137 (Print)

The journal is funded by the association’s membership fees and support payments, and the state subsidies allocated by the Ministry of Education and Science for scholarly publishing and distributed by The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. In addition, the association benefits from the guidelines and training provided by the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing.

Publication types

The journal publishes papers related to Library and Information Sciences. The publications can be e.g. (publication types used by the ministry of education and culture in annual publication data gathering in parentheses):

  • articles (A1/A2)
  • review articles (B1)
  • interviews (B1)
  • discussions (B1)
  • reports (B1)
  • book reviews (B1)
  • papers introducing the activities of the Association of Information Sciences (B1)
  • thesis abstracts (B1)
  • news and other contemporary issues from conferences and in relation to new literature (B1)

Open Access -policy

The journal is an Open Access journal (Golden OA), that uses the OJS System provided by TSV. The author may self-archive the publisher’s PDF (VoR) to the author’s institutional repository or other similar service, as long as the original address (DOI) is mentioned.

The journal is registered on DOAJ.

Copyrights

All publications in the journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

The author(s) retain copyright so that the journal has the original publication right. You can freely use articles in education and other non-commercial contexts if the source is mentioned in full, including the author(s), title, journal and issue, and article DOI.

Research data

The journal recommends that the authors follow FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) in their data management, and also if the data and research process allows, open their data using e.g. Finnish open science services. At least the metadata should be open: you can produce and publish metadata in the Fairdata.fi service Etsin.

We also recommend the Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD) and The Language Bank of Finland, both of which make long-term archiving of research data possible.

See FSD pages for instructions on how to cite data.

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