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{{Short description|Academic journal of information science}}
{{Infobox journal
| title = Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
| cover = Jasis.gif
| image_size = 100px
| editor = [[Steve Sawyer (professor)|Steve Sawyer]]
| discipline = [[Information science]]
| formernames = American Documentation, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
| abbreviation = J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
| publisher = [[Wiley-Blackwell]]
| country =
| frequency = Monthly
| history = 1950–present
| openaccess = 
| license = 
| impact = 2.687
| impact-year = 2020
| website = https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23301643
| link1 = https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23301643/current
| link1-name = Online access
| link2 = https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/23301643
| link2-name = Online archives
| JSTOR = 
| OCLC = 949940497
| LCCN = 2013203451
| CODEN = JAISCR
| ISSN = 2330-1635
| eISSN = 2330-1643
| ISSNlabel2 = Journal of the American Society for Information Science
| ISSN2 = 0002-8231
| CODEN2 = AISJB6
| eISSN2 = 1097-4571
| LCCN2 = 75-640174
| OCLC2 = 1097324898
| ISSNlabel3 = Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
| ISSN3 = 1532-2882
| eISSN3 = 1532-2890
| CODEN3 = JASIEF
| LCCN3 = 00-212816
| OCLC3 = 709977329
}}
The '''''Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology''''' is a monthly [[peer-reviewed]] [[academic journal]] covering all aspects of [[information science]] published by [[Wiley-Blackwell]] on behalf of the [[Association for Information Science and Technology]]. The journal publishes original research and rapid communications, as well as [[book review]]s and announcements of the association. Occasional special issues appear with contents focused on a single topic area.

==History==
Established in 1950 as the quarterly journal ''American Documentation'', the new publication was produced by the [[American Documentation Institute]] (ADI), which had formed in 1937 around a group of researchers and practitioners interested in the emerging technology of [[microform|microfilm]] as a medium for the preservation and dissemination of documents and knowledge. Many of the same people and institutions were involved in a pre-war [[American Library Association]] journal called ''The Journal of Documentary Reproduction'', which ran from 1938 to 1943, before being discontinued due to the imperatives of the war.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1002/asi.5090010101 |title=Special notice to former subscribers of the journal of documentary reproduction |journal=American Documentation |volume=1 |pages=1–2 |year=1950 |last1=Tate |first1=Vernon D.}}</ref>

''American Documentation'' was an explicit continuation of and extension upon ''The Journal of Documentary Reproduction'', with a broader brief to cover documentation as a whole, then defined as "...the creation, transmission, collection, classification and use of 'documents'; documents may be broadly defined as recorded knowledge in any format."<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1002/asi.5090010102 |title=Introducing American Documentation. A quarterly review of ideas, techniques, problems and achievements in documentation |journal=American Documentation |volume=1 |pages=3–7 |year=1950 |last1=Tate |first1=Vernon D.}}</ref>

In the postwar years, rapid technological and social changes ushered in an "[[information explosion]]" which created many new problems and opportunities of special interest to documentation specialists, and in time documentation found itself at the center of the emerging field of [[information science]]. The ADI's membership and scope increased rapidly, and in 1968 the members voted to change the organization's name to "American Society for Information Science", to reflect the changes in their membership and focus. As their official journal, ''American Documentation'' followed suit, and beginning with the first issue of 1970 it changed its name to ''The Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' and began publishing bimonthly.<ref>[http://www.asis.org/history.html History of ASIS&T] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018105558/http://asis.org/history.html |date=2012-10-18 }} Retrieved 02/10/2011.</ref>

In 1991, the publication frequency increased to 10 issues yearly and by 1996, the journal was publishing monthly. <ref>Smith, L. C. (1999). ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' (JASIS): past, present and future. ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'', 50(11), 965–969.</ref> In 2000, ASIS again voted to change its name, this time to The "American Society for Information Science and Technology", in order to recognize the further changes in membership and interests brought on by the rise of the internet and the mainstreaming of networked computing and information technology. The journal's name was subsequently also changed in January 2001 to ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology''. It obtained its current name in January 2014.

==Abstracting and indexing==
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
{{columns-list|
*[[Chemical Abstracts Service]]<ref name=CASSI>{{cite web |url=http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp |title=CAS Source Index |publisher=[[American Chemical Society]] |work=[[Chemical Abstracts Service]] |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[CINAHL]]<ref name=CINAHL>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebscohost.com/nursing/products/cinahl-databases/cinahl-complete |title=CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List |publisher=[[EBSCO Information Services]] |work=[[CINAHL]] |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[Current Contents]]/Social and Behavioral Sciences<ref name=ISI>{{cite web |url=http://mjl.clarivate.com/ |title=Web of Science Master Journal List |publisher=[[Clarivate]] |work=Intellectual Property & Science |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[EBSCO Information Services|EBSCO databases]]<ref name=MIAR>{{cite MIAR |title=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology |issn=2330-1635 |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[Ei Compendex]]<ref name=Compendex>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/online-tools/engineering-village/contentdatabase-overview |title=Content/Database Overview – Compendex Source List |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |work=Engineering Village |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[FRANCIS]]<ref name=MIAR/>
*[[Inspec]]<ref name=Inspec>{{cite web |url=http://www.theiet.org/resources/inspec/support/docs/loj.cfm?type=pdf |title=Inspec list of journals |format=[[PDF]] |publisher=[[Institution of Engineering and Technology]] |work=Inspec |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[Library and Information Science Abstracts]]<ref name=MIAR/>
*[[Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts]]<ref name=MIAR/>
*[[Modern Language Association Database]]<ref name=MIAR/>
*[[ProQuest|ProQuest databases]]
*[[Science Citation Index Expanded]]<ref name=ISI/>
*[[Scopus]]<ref name=Scopus>{{cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100307484 |title=Source details: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |work=Scopus Preview |access-date=2022-02-18}}</ref>
*[[Social Sciences Citation Index]]<ref name=ISI/>
}}
According to the ''[[Journal Citation Reports]]'', the journal has a 2020 [[impact factor]] of 2.687.<ref name=WoS>{{cite book |year=2021 |chapter=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology |title=2020 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=[[Clarivate]] |edition=Science |series=[[Web of Science]] |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/23301643}}
*[https://www.asist.org/publications/ ASIS&T publications]

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