Focus and Scope

The RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library and Information Science is a continuous publication linked to UNICAMP's Library System (SBU), focusing on disseminating only works in the area of Library and Information Science. It publishes unpublished articles, experience reports, ongoing research and reviews related to Information Science or that present results of studies and research on the activities of this area. The editorial process adopts a blind peer review, where the papers are sent to specialists for analysis, according to the criteria of its editorial policy. Information Science is an interdisciplinary area that studies phenomena related to the production, organization, dissemination and use of information in all fields of knowledge. Since 2016, the journal has adopted the bilingual language in its issues, that is, Portuguese and English.

Open Science

The Open Science movement proposes guidelines for collaborative, shared and public scientific practice. In line with the Open Science guidelines, the RDBCI adopts a series of practices, such as the open access policy, the code of good practices for publishers, and the use of social networks to disseminate published works. In addition, it requires the precise indication of the role of each of the authors in papers with multiple authorship, encourages the sharing of analysis datasets, instruments, statistical analysis scripts, scripts, and additional materials, made available in open online repositories, e.g. Zenodo, Figshare and OSF, if they cannot be published in the paper itself, and this information must be indicated in the manuscript. Consequently, articles reporting research should indicate and reference the availability of the content underlying the research design and results obtained.

RDBCI encourages publication of preprints on public platforms, such as Preprints, SciELO Preprints, and EmeRI, so that, if appropriate, they can be discussed openly before publication.

Also in line with open science practices, the journal offers to authors and referees options to open the peer review process, with or without identification of their names. Authors may authorize the disclosure of their names when submitting the article, and peer reviewers may authorize the disclosure of their names when filling out the Evaluation Form.

In case of publication of the evaluations that substantiated the decision to publish the article, they may be edited by the journal's editorial board.

The contribution of the section editors is duly credited in the published article. Reviewers receive a statement of their opinion on the manuscript and may also validate the activity in Publons or Reviewer Credit.

Target audience
Librarians, Information Scientists, Educators and Professionals connected to the information area.

Mission
Commitment to the scientific community to develop a periodical of excellence and quality to the area of Librarianship and Information Science, based on the knowledge and experience of professionals, acquired through research, innovation and development.

Frequency

The RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library and Information Science from volume 17 of 2019 on, will adopt the rolling pass system, making the publication of the article faster. There will be no issues, no periodicity as we currently use. We will publish approved articles in several sets in one volume per year. The full abstract and editorial will be published along with the last set of articles in the year's volume.

Policy on the Use of Tesaurus and Controlled Vocabularies for Indexing

The RDBCI: Digital Journal of Librarianship and Information Science in its Thesaurus and Controlled Vocabulary Policy adopts the TCI - Thesaurus of Information Science and for keywords the Thesaurus of UNESCO or the ERIC Thesaurus (Education Resources Information Center) when the term is not a meeting in the UNESCO Thesaurus.

The TCI is a "thesaurus capable of portraying the various areas of domains in an area and constructed taking into account the literary, use and structural guarantees. It was chosen by joining and evaluating existing thesauri to the area in this area. Which is based on the legitimacy of the bodies responsible for its creation, its consolidated use in the user community and the availability of access to them." (TCI, 2011).

Access can be made to "TCI".

"The UNESCO Thesaurus is a controlled and structured list of terms used in subject analysis and retrieval of documents and publications in the areas of education, culture, natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, communication and information. Continuously enriched and updated, its multidisciplinary terminology reflects the evolution of the Organization's programs and activities. The UNESCO Thesaurus contains 7,000 terms in English and in Russian, 8,600 terms in French and Spanish." (UNESCO, 2011).

• Access can be made to "UNESCO Thesaurus".

"The ERIC Thesaurus is a list of terms that represent research topics in the field of education. ERIC Thesaurus descriptors are assigned to all ERIC digital library documents to describe the content of the subject. The terms of the ERIC thesaurus represent the vocabulary used in the documents that make up the ERIC digital library collection." (ERIC, 2017).

• Access can be made to "ERIC Thesaurus".

JITA Classification Schema

The articles in RDBCI are classified using the taxonomy of the JITA Classification System, an exclusive tool for the Library and Information Science fields.

Source:  JITA.

Submission Quarantine Policy

The RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library Science and Information Science does not publish collaborations of the same author (s) for two consecutive editions, even if with co-authorship. The manuscript must wait a period of up to 06 (six) months for the new manuscript to be published.

Declaration about the Participation of Authors

The RDBCI, declares openness to the participation of authors outside the publication, avoiding being endogenous and adopting clarity in the institutional diversity of its authors.

History of the journal

RDBCI was created on September 13, 2003, being totally conceived in digital environment, and launched during the III Cycle of Lectures, organized by FEBAB and held in the auditorium of the Central Library of UNICAMP.

After 13 years, recognized by the acronym "RDBCI", i.e., until volume 13, the journal called Digital Journal of Library and Information Science, starts, from volume 14 (2016), to be initially renamed by its acronym as follows: RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library and Information Science / RDBCI: Digital Journal of Library and Information Science, with the extension of the title also in English: RDBCI : Digital Journal of Library and Information Science.

RDBCI, from January 2016 until December 2017, adopted the practice of Advanced Article Publication (AAP), also known as Ahead of Print (AOP). This measure minimized the problem of publication time between acceptance and disclosure of the approved article, precisely because of the great demand of submissions received by the Journal. We also consider it a way to give visibility and broaden access to already refereed articles, regardless of their editing and formatting for the final editing phase.

We emphasize that this modality is being widely used in many national and foreign journals that want to anticipate the publication of their articles and research already approved by the referees. Considering that the slowness of the return of opinions is one of the problems faced when the article is under evaluation process, such practice makes it possible for the Editor to speed up the works already evaluated and edited.

From volume 17 of 2019, RDBCI will adopt the rolling pass system, making the publication of the article faster.

The rolling pass is the publication of articles as they are approved. There are no issues, nor periodicity. There is no closed periodicity in months as we use nowadays. It is one volume per year.
This measure minimizes the problem of publication time between the acceptance and disclosure of the approved article, precisely because of the great demand of submissions received by the journal. We also consider it a way to give visibility and broaden access to already refereed articles, allowing them to be edited, formatted, DOIs validated, and published continuously.