About this journal

Aims and scope

From 2021, this journal no longer accepts submissions. Please submit to Journal of Library Resource Sharing.
 
2018 Impact Factor: 0.667 in Information Science & Library Science
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Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services provides a forum for the international exchange of ideas and experiences among members of the library collection management, technical services, vendor and publishing communities throughout the world. It is a comprehensive publication designed to bring together many of the specializations within the broad areas of library collection management and technical services including, but by no means limited to, acquisition of materials in academic, public, school and special libraries; cataloging and authority control; outsourcing of technical services operations; electronic publications; gifts and exchanges. In reflecting the broad, practical and theoretical foundations of the discipline, LCATS publishes articles based on the practical work experiences of librarians, vendors and publishers as well as research reports and papers on theory.

Peer Review Statement: All papers in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services have undergone editorial screening and peer review.

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Abstracting and indexing

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services is indexed in the following: EBSCOhost; Academic Search Complete; H.W. Wilson; Inspec; Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA); TOC Premier; Elsevier BV; Scopus; Gale; Informit; OCLC; ArticleFirst; Ovid; Personal Alert; ProQuest; Periodicals Index Online; Thomson Reuters; and VINITI RAN.

 

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