About the Journal

FOCUS AND SCOPE

Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação is a quarterly publication of the Escola de Ciência da Informação (ECI) of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). It was launched in 1996, replacing the Revista da Escola de Biblioteca da UFMG, published from 1972 to 1995. It disseminates scientific articles in Information Science and its interdisciplinary dialogues with Librarianship, Archival Science, Museology and related areas, with the following prerequisites :

I - They must be unpublished, that have not been published and/or sent for evaluation in other journals or annals of events.

II - They must be written in one of these languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish.

Collaborating with the principles of academic multilingualism, all articles must contain the title, abstract and keywords, also in English.

III - Composition of authorship, regardless of professional affiliation and place of origin:

a) In the case of individual authorship, the author must have, exclusively, the title of Doctor.
b) In case of co-authorship, only one (1) of the authors may be in the condition of master or doctoral student, the others being obligatorily doctors.
c) In the case of multiple authorship (above three authors) the contribution of each author to the article must be presented.
d) Articles by graduates are not accepted in the journal.

IV - They must contain research results in the area of Information Science, explicitly highlighting objectives, procedures and analyses, and must not be a mere report of experiences or a bibliographic review.

V - They must follow the formal aspects indicated in the Guidelines for Authors.

At the time of submission, they should not be identified with the names of the authors in the original text. The authors of the manuscript must indicate their full names in the field established in the submission system, and it is also mandatory to inform the level of education, the ORCID number, institutional affiliation, the curriculum link (lattes for Brazilian authors) and the summary of the biography.

VI. This Journal is committed to ethics and quality in publishing. The Editorial Code of Conduct maintains Standards of ethical behavior expected of all parties involved in publishing in our journal: the author, the journal editor, the reviewers and the editor

VII. Opinions and perspectives expressed in the text, as well as the accuracy and origin of quotations, are the sole responsibility of the author(s), and contribute to the promotion of:

Princípios FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable – localizável,
accessible, interoperable and reusable).
DEIA principles (diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility).

VIII. This Journal is commited to ethics and quality in publishing. The Editorial Code of Conduct supports standars of ethical behavior expected of all parties involved in publishing in our journal: the author, the journal editor, the reviewers and the ditor.

IX. All articles received will be submitted to the software Checkforplagiarism, to evaluate similarities.

Proposals submitted simultaneously to another national or international journal will not be accepted.

X. The author maintains the copyright over the published article and the journal the right of first publication.

XI. The author must, at the time of submission, complete the Formulário sobre Conformidade com a Ciência Aberta about the Open Science and attach it to the submission, in the "Pre-evaluation discussion" field..

XII. In submissions with multiple authors, at the end of the manuscript the roles of each author must be informed in accordance with the taxonomia CRediT (informed below).

Manuscripts that are outside the editorial requirements of the Journal will be returned to the authors. In this set, there are texts that do not deal with a central issue in the field of Information Science and its interdisciplinary dialogues, mainly with Librarianship, Archival Science and Museology, and do not present significant contributions to the analysis of the theme addressed. Manuscripts will also be rejected that: are merely descriptive, without developing a theoretical and methodological analysis of the issue addressed; whether experience reports or fragments of dissertations and theses; do not present empirical elements or sufficiently developed arguments that support their analyzes and conclusions.

The Editorial Board may decide to publish an article, document, review, interview or special editions by order, with the purpose of collaborating with some more pressing debate in the area. This article or document will only be evaluated by the Editorial Board.

Free Access Policy

The Perspectives in Information Science Journal provides public access(Open Access) to all its content, and follows the principle of open science, making access to research free of charge, in addition to generating a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with an increase in reading and citation of the work of a given author. For more information, visit thePublic Knowledge Project - Open Journal System, a project that developed this system to improve the quality of academic and public research production, distributing the OJS, as well as other software to support the publication system of public access to academic sources.

Articles submitted to the Journal are published under Creative Common license (CC By).

Evaluation Policy

Submissions are evaluated based on the criteria listed below:

Adequacy to the scope of the Journal
Compliance with guidelines for authors
Formal structure of work
Correctness, clarity and coherence of language
Adequacy and quality of tables, graphs and illustrations
Conceptual structure of work
Scope and relevance of the content in relation to the area
Clarity and articulation of concepts and ideas
Update of concepts
Originality
Other aspects that the reviewers deem relevant

Papers submitted to Perspectivas em Ciência da Informação are forwarded to members of the Editorial and Advisory Boards who decide on their acceptance or refusal, without knowledge of their authorship (blind review).

Taxonomia CRediT

Function	Definition
Conceptualization	Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation	Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal Analysis	Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyse or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition	Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation	Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology	Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration	Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources	Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software	Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision	Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation	Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing – original draft	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing – review & editing	Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages.