Archival & Social Studies is a digital, free, and peer-reviewed journal on archival science.

It focuses on:

A creative use of theory, practice, concepts, uses, paradigms, models, etc., drawn from other disciplines, in order to solve current issues in archival science and recordkeeping. These disciplines include traditionally related areas –librarianship, information science, information studies, law, diplomatics, history…-, as well as more sophisticated approaches –sociology, anthropology, philosophy, informatics, arts, mathematics…
A creative use of theory, practice, concepts, uses, paradigms, models, etc., drawn from archival science and recordkeeping, in order to solve issues in related disciplines, and/or to show how this use contributes to a successful management of data, information, documents, records, and related entities, in different environments.

Therefore, it encourages an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. In this sense:

It studies the whole range of issues related to recordkeeping, archives, records, documents and information, from the point of view of different disciplines.
It deals with core concepts for archival science and recordkeeping -authenticity, evidence, context, relationship, metadata, accountability, memory, etc.-, from the point of view of different disciplines.
It deals with with core concepts for other disciplines -librarianship, information science, law, sociology, anthropology, informatics, arts...-, from the point of view of archival science and recordkeeping.

It publishes articles, dealing with its areas of interest. These include, but not exclusively:

Theoretical and practical issues, covering a broad range, from creation to access and dissemination
Case studies
Conceptual and terminological analysis
Scientific methodology
Qualitative and quantitative analysis
Improved curriculum
New and/or creative uses in recordkeeping
Creative use of technological tools in recordkeeping
Rigorous use of technological tools in recordkeeping
Archives on the Internet and distributed environments
Theory and practice in non-global communities of practice and local cultural traditions
Oral history and other approaches to “non-standard” documents and records
Philosophy of archives, history of archives…

It publishes:

Articles
Notes
Books review
Archives on the Internet
Classics

Language
The journal's language is English.

Frequency
Six-month