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Mission of the journal: Semestral publication edited by the Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología of the Universidad de Antioquia, whose mission is to contribute to the progress of libraries and information science, specially in Latin America, by means of the publication of works of investigation, tests of reflection, articles of spreading and theoretical and applied studies of optimum quality, written and guaranteed by authors and national and foreign arbitrators, who present the state and the new tendencies of the discipline and the development of the profession.

Area of interest of the journal:
Library science, documentation, archivist, information science.

History:
The Inter-American Library Magazine of the Inter-American School of Library Science is a publication of the University of Antioquia.

The publication is of semestral character and began in 1978 in printed form; it also has an online version in the electronic data bases of H.W. Wilson since 1999 and in the data base Academic Report of Thomson Gale since 2005. It has a Website where the summaries of articles and the notes of the magazine appear. http://bibiotecologia.udea.edu.co/revinbi

The Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología goes to all those professionals in the area of library science, documentation, archivists and information science. For the evaluation of its articles it counts with a publishing and scientific committee that endorses the quality of the contents of the publication. The abbreviation in its title is Rev. Interam. Bibliot. which must be used in bibliographies, bibliographical footnotes, legends and references.

The articles published in Revista Interamericana de Bibliotecología are summarized and abstracted by:
• CLASE: Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
• INSPEC
• LATINDEX
• ISA: Information Science Abstracts
• LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts
• Library Literature Index
• Wilson Omnifile Full Text Select and Omnifile Full Text Mega
• Thomson Gale: Academic Report
• Publindex
• E-lis

Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología ©2006.
All rights reserved. The partial or total reproduction is prohibited by any means from the present edition without written permission of the holders of the copyright.
It is left nevertheless, specifically authorized to the reproduction of the summaries and key words in English and Spanish of articles. Also, the reproduction of its texts with exclusively educational purposes for its use in the classroom is permitted.

Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología and CODI (Comité para el Desarrollo de la Investigación) from the Universidad de Antioquia finance the publication of the journal.