"Biblioteka” is a nationwide research periodical published by the University Library in Poznań. The journal aims at creating a lively space for the discussion of relations between what is modern and innovative in libraries and the history and tradition of librarianship. The wide range of subjects covered in the periodical includes modern librarianship and media studies as well as the history of libraries and science of books as physical objects and library collections, research information and documentation. From 2004 ”Biblioteka” has been a peer-reviewed journal, and since 2021 the journal has been indexed in the scored journals list of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education with 40 points. The policy of the journal is to publish at least 50 per cent of articles that are authored by researchers from research centres other than the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. From the inception of publishing of the new edition of "Biblioteka”, i.e. from 1997 to 2019, the editor-in-chief was Dr. hab. Artur Jazdon and Dr. Aldona Chachlikowska was the secretary of the editorial board. From 2020, these positions are held by Dr. Małgorzata Dąbrowicz and mgr Justyna Łopaczyk, respectively
The range and scope of the journal
The annual publication "Biblioteka” is a nationwide research periodical. The title particularly attracts research articles that would present the results of research studies on broadly understood problems and issues in library and information science, such as the history of books, libraries and modern librarianship, bibliology (the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects) and research information and documentation as well as media studies. From 2004 ”Biblioteka” has been a peer-reviewed journal, and since 2021 the journal has been indexed in the scored journals list of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education with 40 points. The policy of the journal is to publish at least 50 per cent of articles that are authored by researchers from research centres other than the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The online version of the title is the original version of the journal. The archival numbers of “Biblioteka”: from No. 1(10)1997 to No. 10(19)2006, are available in their full version online on the Wielkopolska Digital Library platform. Abstracts of the published works are available in the international data base The Central European Journal of Sciences and Humanities. The title is indexed in: ERIH PLUS, Sherpa Romeo, and IC Journals Master List as well as in the MOST Wiedzy Repository, a publishing policy database of Polish scientific journals. The contents of the journal are available in: Directory of Open Access Journals, BazHum Muzeum Historii Polski, and Biblioteka Nauki on the Platforma Polskich Publikacji Naukowych (the Polish Scientific Publications Platform), and since 2007, in the AMUR institutional repository.
Open access policy
The journal provides open access to all of its contents in line with the principle that freely accessible research increases and enhances the global development of science and knowledge circulation. The editors encourage authors to publicise research published in the journal in open repositories (following their review process or submission of the final version to the publisher), provided that the link to the journal website's top page and the DOI number of the article are given.
The submission and publication of manuscripts is free for all authors.
History of the journal
This title has been published since 1997. The present edition of the periodical is a continuation of the journal with the same title published between 1960-1970 and included as part of the serial publication entitled Prace naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (online archive of full-text articles from the series is available in the Wielkopolska Digital Library). To mark this particular continuation, the new annual publication, different in both form and expanded programme policy, has a double numbering of volumes. Volume One has been given the number 1, while the continuity of the title is expressed in a successive number that refers to the total number in the series (given in parenthesis).
For more on the journal, see: Aldona Chachlikowska, Artur Jazdon, Biblioteka – rocznik Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Poznaniu – tradycja i współczesność. In: czasopisma naukowe bibliotek, archiwów, muzeów. Tradycje – role – perspektywy. Ed. Agnieszka Królczyk, Biblioteka Kórnicka Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Kórnik 2010, pp. 11-19.
Roczniki archiwalne "Biblioteki" za lata 1997-2006 dostępne są w Wielkopolskiej Bibliotece Cyfrowej.