Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi, established in 2003, is a registered journal with ISSN 1693-7740 (print) and ISSN 2477-0361 (online). It is a periodical journal managed by an journal management team of the Library of Universitas Gadjah Mada. Published twice a year, Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi focuses on the research process in library and information science, documentation, archives, as well as research findings and, where applicable, their practical applications and significance. Since its first publication, Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi has published up to volume 12. Since July 9, 2016, all volume can be accessed online. Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi is indexed by both national and international indexer institutions such as: Indonesian Scientific Journal Database (ISJD - National), Indonesian Publication Index (IPI - National), Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO, Google Scholar, CrossRef (International), and Indonesia One Search (National) and several other indexer institutions.
Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi has been accredited as a scientific journal by the Ministry of Research-Technology and Higher Education Republic of Indonesia: 51/E/KPT/2017 PERIOD: 2017-2022.
Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi has made a major contribution in supporting the development of information and library science, bureaucratic reformation, good governance, and public policies in Indonesia. Starting from 2017, manuscript submission process and any other management process will be completely managed by an online syetem. The consequence of this full online process is there will be some publication delays and fewer articles. While in the previous volumes Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi published less than 10 articles, starting from 2017 Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi publishes a minimum 10 articles per volume. Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi follows a national standard of scientific journal and aims to expand the academic service to the international level.
During its publication, Berkala Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi has increased the number of article included in every volume. The current volume publishes 10 articles and this will remain the same in the future publication. The process of increasing the number of articles can be seen as follows: Volume 11, No 1, 2015 (5 articles), Volume 11, No 2, 2015 (7 articles), Volume 12, No 1, 2016 (9 articles), Volume 12, No 2, 2016 (10 articles), and Volume 13, No 1, 2017 (10 articles).