Aims & Scope

The Journal of Academic Librarianship and Information Research (ALIR) is a peer-reviewed open-access quarterly journal dedicated to the field of library and information science, published by the University of Tehran.

The journal investigates the functions of academic libraries and university information services from both a historical and present-day perspective, analyzing the role of information in cultural, social, organizational, national, and international developments.

Subject areas suitable for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Academic libraries
  • Academic librarianship
  • Information representation and retrieval systems
  • Indexing
  • Abstracting
  • Information and communication technology
  • Information Evaluation and measurement
  • Information organization and classification
  • Library classification theories
  • Data processing
  • Information systems design
  • Electronic document management
  • Digital libraries
  • University Libraries and the Web
  • Information and communication theories
  • Information transferring
  • Information economics
  • Information society
  • Information policy
  • Information seeking behavior
  • Social and cultural impacts of information
  • Information marketing
  • Academic management information systems (AMIS)
  • Informetrics
  • Bibliometrics
  • Scientometrics
  • Altmetrics
  • Citation analysis
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Abstracting & Indexing

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Subjects & Keywords

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.


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This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 4,000,000.00 IRR. Learn more.

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