About the Journal

"Ialam" journal is a scholarly and refereed journal published by the Arab Federation for Libraries & Information (AFLI) twice a year and specializes in publishing scientific research and studies in Arabic, with the possibility of publishing in English or French, after review by referees from academics specialized in the field of libraries, information, and documents. The review is conducted in a blind review method so that the reviewer does not know the identity of the researcher and the researcher does not know the identity of the arbitrator, to ensure the impartiality of the review process.
The journal opens the door to the study of issues directly related to information and knowledge, its institutions, management, legislation, systems, technologies, schools, and everything related to the formulation, processing, dissemination, publishing, and distribution of information and knowledge content and dealing with its media, tools, and systems, in addition to individuals, groups of workers and users.
The journal seeks to broaden the vision of the information and knowledge society and its management, through scientific reviews of new books. The journal publishes abstracts of research in English, with the possibility of publishing research translated from living languages into Arabic.

Objectives of the Journal

  1. Supporting and encouraging scientific research in the field of libraries, information, and knowledge.
  2. Publishing and documenting a selection of Arab scientific production rich in various fields of information and knowledge, its systems, services, and technologies, represented by a large number of studies, research, and scientific experiments carried out by specialized researchers, and presenting them to interested researchers, educators, and workers in the fields of libraries and information.
  3. Highlight the problems of information and knowledge services and the skills and knowledge that must be possessed by workers in information facilities and knowledge institutions or in libraries, information and knowledge schools, and archival studies.
  4. Presenting Arab educational and training experiences, its problems, solutions and issues, and studies of development and creativity in teaching methods, training and research, and the activities of libraries, information centers, knowledge departments, and scientific departments in Arab universities and training institutes in the field of libraries, information, and knowledge.
  5. Transferring international experiences in the field of libraries, information, and knowledge, comparing them with Arab experiences in the same field, and reviewing opinions on them.
  6. Introducing the leading Arab projects in the field of libraries, information, and knowledge, and ways to support various scientific research.