Elos. Revista de Literatura Infantil e Xuvenil is a scientific publication published annually, but continuous flow, edited by the LITER21 Research Group (GI-1839-Galician Literature. Children’s and Young Adult Literature.  Literary, artistic, intercultural and educational research) at the Institut of Education Sciences-University of Santiago de Compostela.
It is sponsored by: the University of Santiago de Compostela; the Thematic Research Network ‘Las Literaturas Infantiles y Juveniles del Marco Ibérico e Iberoamericano (Iberian and Latin American Children’s and Young Adult Literature)’ – LIJMI; the project ‘Investigación en Literatura Infantil e Xuvenil (Children’s and Young Adult Literature Research)’, which takes place at the Centro Ramón Piñeiro para la Investigación en Humanidades, under the dependency of the Language Policy Secretariat at the Xunta de Galicia; and ELOS-Galicia. Asociación de investigación en Literatura Infantil e Xuvenil (Children’s and Young Adult Literature Research Association).
Established in order to foster the discussion and reflection of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, a forum for critical analysis, the diffusion of research, and the visibility of this literary system.
To achieve these objectives, this Journal presents four sections: Miscellaneous, original research papers relating to Children’s and Young Adult Literature, which focus on historiography, literary theory, the analysis of literary works, translation, literary education and anything linked to this; Monographic Section, whose papers follow the same structure and formal aspects that apply to the articles in the Miscellaneous section, but which respond to a specific topic that will be announced together with the corresponding call for papers; Reviews, critique relating to monographs, studies, journals, and any other material of a scientific nature, published in the last two years relating to the Journal’s thematic; and To Find out More, a repository of critical papers or monographs of individual or collective authorship, considered relevant to the study and knowledge of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, such as profiled bibliographies that provide direction for further research in this field, and contribute to its development.
Elos. Revista de Literatura Infantil e Xuvenil is indexed in ERIH+, ESCI, REDIB and MIAR and is published in Galician, Spanish, English and Portuguese.  The Web page can also be viewed in Galician, Spanish and English.