LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES

By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ACQUISITIONS & TECHNICAL SERVICES's largest topics are Library Collection Development and Digital Resources, Library Science and Information Systems and Library Science and Information Literacy, together about 40.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

From 2021, this journal no longer accepts submissions. Please submit to Journal of Library Resource Sharing. 2018 Impact Factor: 0.667 in Information Science & Library Science ©2018 Clarivate Analytics, 2018 Journal Citation Reports® Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services provides a forum for the international exchange of ideas and experiences among members of the library collection management, technical services, vendor and publishing communities throughout the world. It is a comprehensive publication designed to bring together many of the specializations within the broad areas of library collection management and technical services including, but by no means limited to, acquisition of materials in academic, public, school and special libraries; cataloging and authority control; outsourcing of technical services operations; electronic publications; gifts and exchanges. In reflecting the broad, practical and theoretical foundations of the discipline, LCATS publishes articles based on the practical work experiences of librarians, vendors and publishers as well as research reports and papers on theory. Peer Review Statement: All papers in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services have undergone editorial screening and peer review. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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ScopusINSPECPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, EBSCOhost, Academic Search Complete, H.W. Wilson, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), TOC Premier, Elsevier BV, Gale, Informit, ArticleFirst, Ovid, Personal Alert, Periodicals Index Online, Thomson Reuters, VINITI RAN

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Impact

Impact factor

0LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2018

0.67Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

31OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

180OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Downloads per year (publisher)

8,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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ISSN

1464-9055

Electronic ISSN

1873-1821

Latest issue on the website

Volume 40, Issue 3-4 (2017)

Official links

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