The aim,  structure  and scope

The “EBIB Bulletin” is a professional journal, addressed to librarians and scientific information professionals representing different types of libraries and other institutions as well as to other professionals. The journal aspires to be a specific platform for exchanging views on access to information, the organisation of intellectual resources of science, culture and education and promoting the opening up of these resources.

The 'EBIB Bulletin' consists of thematic issues. Proposals for their topics are submitted by readers and editors. The structure of the 'EBIB Bulletin' includes the following sections:

  • Thematic articles
  • Studies, theories, visions, opinions (articles beyond the main topic of the issue)
  • Messages
  • Reports
  • other sections created as needed (e.g. Interviews, Worth knowing).

As a professional but not scientific journal the “EBIB Bulletin” is not peer reviewed. Each issue has a professional editor responsible for the selection and verification of materials to be published, contacts with editorial board, authors and proof readers and final quality of the issue.

Publisher: The EBIB Association

ISSN: 1507-7187

Frequency: 6 issues per year

Policy of open access

The journal is published in the open access model, under the free Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. The published content is visible on the Internet, which contributes to the transparency of the evaluation of the journal and the authors' output. 

The "EBIB Bulletin" does not charge authors and does not pay editors for their work. The editorial work is carried out on a voluntary basis.

Indexing

The journal ihas been registered in DOAJ since 2003.
The articles are indexed in Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (EBSCO). Each text is labelled with metadata, therefore it is indexed by standard search engines and Google Scholar.

History

In 1998 by the group of volunteer librarians from several scientific and public libraries launched the EBIB platform. Its most important part was the Electronic Information Bulletin for Librarians (EBIB) over time called “EBIB Bulletin”.  It was the first professional journal in Poland published only in the electronic form. Since the first issue in April 1999 it has been published in an open model.

In the years 2001-2010 the journal was published under the auspices of thw Polish Librarians Association. Since 2011 its publisher is the EBIB Association. Initially, 10 issues were issued annually, and from 2018 onwards, the frequency of the bimonthly magazine was assumed.