Welcome to the ASIS&T Digital Library
An online collection created to foster the study and practice of information science. The ASIS&T Digital Library consists of regularly published journals and annual publications from The Association for Information Science and Technology, an association of information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information.
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What is this all about?
The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, a fully refereed, scholarly and technical periodical, has been published continuously since 1950. Edited by Blaise Cronin, Indiana University, JASIST publishes reports of research and development in a wide range of subjects and applications in information science and technology. It serves as a forum for new research in information transfer and communication processes in general, and in the context of recorded knowledge in particular.
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology comprehensively reviews and synthesizes yearly trends in the different branches of information science. ARIST ceased publication in 2012.
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, is the bi-monthly newsletter with developments and issues affecting the field, pragmatic management reports, opinion pieces, and news of people and events in the information science community.
Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meetings printed continuously since 1963, contains the contributed papers presented at the annual meetings. Information Today, Inc. publishes the print Proceedings each year for ASIST.
Current JASIST Issue
- Metrics Ă la mode
- Published online on May 07, 2013
- Information organization and the philosophy of history
- Published online on Apr 23, 2013
- What happens to computer science research after it is published? Tracking
CS research lines - Published online on Apr 02, 2013
- Key factors in the transfer of informationârelated competencies between academic, workplace, and daily life contexts
- Published online on Apr 08, 2013
- Effects of awareness on coordination in collaborative information seeking
- Published online on Apr 09, 2013
Featured JASIST Article
- Bias in peer review
- Published online on Dec 10, 2012
Society News and Highlights
NAME UPDATE:
It's official! The American Society for Information Science and Technology is now the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
CONFERENCES:
NEW! The 76th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology "Beyond the Cloud: Rethinking Information Boundaries" -- November 1-6, 2013, Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Register now! Click here. For a complete list of conferences, please visit the ASIST conference page for more information.
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