Las revistas de bibliotecología y ciencias de la información en América Latina

Fifty Latin-American academic journals on Library and Information Science were identified as being active between 1997 and 2001. Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico were most active, publishing 60% of these journals. Only five journals had been in publication 26 years or more, while 37 titles were less than 10 years old. Library associations and schools of library science with no graduate courses published more than half (58%) of them, while schools offerering graduate courses (Master and Ph.D.) and research centers jointly published 11 journals. These later journals are usually perceived as the best journals by academia. These Latin American journals are usually published semi-annually, and only a few appear in general bibliographic databases, though, INFOBILA indexes and disseminates most of them. Also identified was a tendency for these journals to become electronic publications with 20 journals offering full text, 4 providing abstracts, and 4 content indexes online