 It was established in 1976 as the "Canadian Journal of Information Science", obtaining its current title in 1993.The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, ERIC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Scopus.According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.111, ranking it 82nd out of 85 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science."