Scientific periodicals in the field of libraries and Information published in Arabic databases

The aim of this research is to study scientific periodicals in the field of libraries and information published in Arab databases, which number (64) periodicals, comprising (21036) articles by the end of 2018, and to identify the most prominent numerical, qualitative, and spatial trends, and the most available Arabic databases for these periodicals In the field of "library and information science", it was monitored through (6) Arab databases (Al-Hadi, Dar Al-mandumah, Al-Marefa, Al-Manhal, Obeikan, Askzad). The study relied on the survey method, and the bibliometric approach and some descriptive methods and percentages were used to identify the trends of those articles in the study community, and some bibliometric laws related to measurements of intellectual production, such as the Bradford Law, were applied to identify the most published periodicals for articles in the field of "library and information science" "
      The study reached many results, the most important of which was that the Al-Hadi database ranked first among the rules that were most available for these periodicals with (95%), followed by the Dar Al-mandumah database with (65%), while Askzad ranked third with (30%), while the "Al-Maarifa" database ranked fourth with (12%), and the "Obeikan" database ranked fifth with (3%), and it was found that the most published periodicals are "Modern Trends in Libraries and Information". It came at the fore in the specialized periodicals in which library and information science articles were published with a number of (1048) articles, at a rate of (4.9%). Because our Arab production lacks such studies.