Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información

Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información (ISSN 0210-4210, e-ISSN 1988-2890) is a scholarly journal published by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) through its publishing arm, Ediciones Complutense. It is affiliated with the Unidad Departamental de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (Departmental Unit of Library and Information Science) of the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información (Faculty of Information Sciences) at UCM. The journal focuses on information and documentation sciences as applied to social communication and its specialised areas, including the Internet and digital information, journalism, television, radio, cinema, photography, advertising, and public relations. Founded in 1976, the journal was published annually until 2020, when it moved to a biannual publication schedule. It publishes research articles, reports, notes, and bibliographies. At least 50% of each issue must consist of scientific content. The journal is aimed at scholars and professionals in information and documentation disciplines. It accepts submissions in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF format, requires web addresses and DOIs for references where possible, and follows a blind peer-review process. The journal provides an OAI-PMH interface (version 2.0) for metadata harvesting, supporting interoperability with repositories and platforms. Metadata formats include Dublin Core, MARC, MARC21, and RFC1807. The journal's content is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Its editorial office is located at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain. The principal contact is Alicia Parras Parras of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. As a university press publication, the journal operates under the institutional ownership of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It is a state-owned academic publication, not a commercial enterprise. The journal has published volumes since 1976, with recent volumes including monographic issues on topics such as documentation and fashion (Vol. 49, 2026), film criticism (Vol. 48, 2025), and advertising documentation (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2021).

Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información was founded in 1976 as a publication of the Unidad Departamental de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (Departmental Unit of Library and Information Science) at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It began as an annual journal, publishing one volume per year. The journal's early volumes, starting with Vol. 1 in 1976, established its scope: documentation applied to information sciences and documentary techniques in general. For several decades, the journal maintained an annual publication frequency. It published Vol. 2 in 1978, Vol. 3 in 1978, and continued steadily through the 1980s and 1990s. By the 2000s, the journal had become a well-established academic outlet in Spanish library and information science. It published Vol. 28 in 2005, Vol. 29 in 2006, and so on. In 2020, the journal transitioned from an annual to a biannual publication schedule, as stated in its author guidelines: "de periodicidad anual hasta 2020 y semestral a partir de esa fecha" (annual until 2020 and biannual from that date). This change reflected the growth in submissions and the journal's increasing output. The journal has published numerous monographic issues on specialised topics. Recent examples include "Monográfico: Documentación publicitaria" (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2021), "Monográfico: Documentación fotográfica" (Vol. 44, No. 1, 2021), "Monográfico: Documentación radiofónica" (Vol. 43, 2020), "Documentación cinematográfica" (Vol. 42, 2019), "Documentación y Memoria Histórica" (Vol. 45, No. 2, 2022), "Periodismo y algoritmos: de la era de la información a la era del algoritmo" (Vol. 45, No. 1, 2022), "Imágenes para la ciencia: la divulgación científica a través del audiovisual. Historia, perspectiva y futuro" (Vol. 46, No. 1, 2023), "El problema de validar las fuentes de investigación en la información científica y periodística" (Vol. 46, No. 2, 2023), "Monográfico: La crítica especializada y el análisis cinematográfico en nuestro país: fuentes de información, historia, presente y futuro" (Vol. 48, 2025), and "Monográfico: Documentación y Moda" (Vol. 49, 2026). The journal is published by Ediciones Complutense, the publishing house of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. It provides an OAI-PMH interface for metadata harvesting, facilitating interoperability with digital repositories. The journal's content is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Its editorial office is located at the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información, Ciudad Universitaria, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

• 2026

  Monographic issue on documentation and fashion published (Vol. 49).

• 2025

  Monographic issue on specialised film criticism and analysis published (Vol. 48).

• 2023

  Issues on science communication through audiovisual media (Vol. 46, No. 1) and validating research sources (Vol. 46, No. 2) published.

• 2022

  Monographic issues on journalism and algorithms (Vol. 45, No. 1) and documentation and historical memory (Vol. 45, No. 2) published.

• 2021

  Monographic issues on photographic documentation (Vol. 44, No. 1) and advertising documentation (Vol. 44, No. 2) published.

• 2020

  Publication frequency changed from annual to biannual.

• 1978

  Vol. 2 and Vol. 3 published.

• 1976

  Journal founded; Vol. 1 published.

A scholarly, peer-reviewed academic journal affiliated with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, focusing on information and documentation sciences applied to social communication.

• Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información (journal)

  Peer-reviewed academic journal publishing research articles, reports, notes, and bibliographies on information and documentation sciences.

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