About Information Discovery and Delivery
Information Discovery and Delivery explores information discovery and access for digital information researchers. This includes educators, knowledge professionals in education and cultural organisations, knowledge managers in media, health care and government, as well as librarians.
This journal was previously published as as BLL Review until 1977 (ISSN 0305-6503). interlending Review 1978-2982 (ISSN 0140-2773). Interlending & Document Supply 1983-2016 (ISSN 0264-1615). Information Discovery and Delivery 2017-current.
Submission information
Accepted manuscript types and word counts
- Original Article — up to 3000 words
- Literature Review — up to 8500 words
- Editorial — up to 3000 words
Please see the article types and word counts section on the about this journal page for more information. The word count includes all text, figures and tables. When estimating your total, please allow 280 words for each figure or table. Read more about the article types for this journal.
Reference style
Use the Harvard reference style. Read more about the reference types for this journal.
Keywords
Please include up to 6 short, relevant keywords that describe the main topics of your paper. When you submit to the journal, you’ll be able to choose keywords that describe the main topics of your paper from a list of recommended keywords, or you can add your own.
Peer review type
Double anonymous peer review. All submissions are sent to at least 2 independent and anonymous reviewers.
Open access options
This is a hybrid journal. Hybrid journals are subscription journals but offer all authors the option to publish their work open access. If you choose to publish open access you will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC). Alternatively you can opt for the green open access route and self-archive your article (at no cost to the author). Read more about our open access options.
Accepted languages
This journal only accepts manuscripts written in UK or US English.
Accepted submission files
Article files should be provided in Microsoft Word format.
There are currently no open calls for papers for this journal. New calls are posted as they become available.
Open access articles
Metrics snapshot
- 2025 Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate)
- 2.6
- Downloaded articles in the last 12 months
- 115549
Publication timeline
- Time to first decision
- 110.7 days
- Acceptance to publication
- 39 days
- Acceptance rate
- 21.9%
