About the Journal
Young Information Scientist (YIS) is an open access journal published by the VÖB (Association of Austrian Librarians) based in Vienna, Austria. YIS publishes exclusively short versions of dissertations and theses in the field of library and information science. All submissions are subject to a double blind peer review. Accepted contributions will be published on an ongoing basis and are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license if not stated elsewhere in the article.
Preferred subject areas: Information Retrieval, Information Behaviour (Information Seeking & Use), Information Management, Information Architecture, Knowledge Representation, Classification & Indexing, Bibliometrics, Information Ethics, Information Literacy, Open Access, Open Science, Digital Libraries, Digital Preservation, Library & Information Science (as a discipline).