Chief Editor: Dr Bernard Montoneri, Taipei, Taiwan
ISSN: 2187-0608
Journal DOI: https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl
Contact: editor.literature@iafor.org (Do not send manuscripts to this editor address. They will not be responded to. Submissions can only be made through the Submit Manuscript Page.)
The IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship is an internationally reviewed and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated with IAFOR’s international conferences on literature and librarianship. Like all IAFOR publications, it is freely available to read online, and is completely free of publication fees for authors. The first issue was published in April 2012, and the journal continues to publish annually.
Indexing
The IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship is indexed in Scopus (from 2019). Please see link to Scopus for source details: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100942399
Full indexing: Scopus, SCIMAGO, DOAJ, SHERPA/RoMEO, ROAD, Google Scholar, Scilit, Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson), Dimensions, LENS.ORG, MIAR, TROVE, WorldCat, EBSCO – Library & Information Science Source, Ulrich's™, ScienceGate, scite__ and Mir@bel. DOIs are assigned to each published issue and article via Crossref
Latest Issue
Volume 12 – Issue 1: Published June 7, 2023. Issue's theme: “World Fairy Tales and Folklore”.
Submissions are CLOSED
Volume 12 Issue 1 – Themed Issue: World Fairy Tales and Folklore
Volume 12 Issue 2 (regular issue)
Submissions open: Monday June 5, 2023
Submissions closed: Wednesday August 2 (9am JST), 2023
Target Publication: November 24, 2023
Please note: Submissions that do not respect our Author Guidelines, ignore our Aims & Scope or have evidence of Plagiarism (checked with iThenticate), are NOT reviewed and will be returned to the author(s). If a manuscript is returned to an author(s) because of the above, no further submission is allowed for that issue of the journal. Furthermore, submissions will not be reviewed unless there is sufficient referencing to the current, worldwide, mainstream literature (usually within the last 10 years, unless seminal works, and with scholarly references). Please avoid the use of websites and popular sources.
The journal published one issue in autumn 2022.
Volume 11 Issue 1
Submissions opened: May 27, 2022
Submissions closed: August 1, 2022
Publication: October 28, 2022
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