فصلنامه نقد کتاب اطلاع رسانی و ارتباطات
پیاپی 11 (پاییز 1395)

Ahmad Shabani is a longtime member of the faculty of information science and knowledge studies, working in Isfahan University. Graduated from Islamic Azad University and as a full professor, he can be considered as an author with many works in this field. Zohre Mir-Hosseini, also an associate professor of, and graduated from, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran, is one of experts in the field. Thus, they deserve to write an introduction to Information Science and Knowledge Studies. But Despite the professionality of the authors and book values, there are objections which writers can accept and apply to bring perhaps a better and more beneficial book to the community of information science in future. Book Review starts from content and goes to some writing and grammatical mistakes at the end. The final comment about the book comes at the end of review.

Different standards articulated with regard to the emergence of new information environments in the world of libraries and archives like Web. Each of these standards attempt to store the information content appropriately. Thus, several research and publications has been done in this regard which this book is part of this category. The aim of the book is presentation of the most famous and useful storage and protection standards. The method used in this book, includes overviews and descriptions which utilizes various sources and is written by Sandy. In most cases Book lacks the analytical and comparative aspect in relation to the introduced standards. One of the remarkable aspect of the book is gathering library and archive standards besides each other, since the ar- chiving issue got less attention in many sources related to information. Also the book offer contents in eloquent prose which it can be another achievement for its author.

This article reviews the book “distance learning and digital libraries”. But major challenges of current essay is emphasis on translated articles or gathered articles with shallow depth which sometimes overlapping each other. There is little cohesion in the material presented in the book, in other words it can be said that the book has no hierarchical or thematic order. Addressing the role of librarians in e-learning is the central point of the book which is very inconspicuous part in the similar texts. Another point should be mentioned is that in this book the Conclusion section are similar in most of the articles and repetitive phrases are used. Although this book is one of the few texts which specifically referred to the centrality of the role of librarians in e-learning, but what comes as weaknesses could be addressed in later editing work. However, this book can be used for undergraduate and graduate students in field of Information Science and Knowledge Studies.

In present time the volume of publications increasingly grows, and researchers’ access to information is difficult and in some cases have been anxious for these issues, Abstract play key role in coping with the consequences of accelerated or blast of information. Also, abstracts summarizing information to help in the process of storage, dissemination and retrieval. And besides it play a constructive role in access to information. Therefore, Regional Information Center for Science and Technology in order to help researchers and experts, presented the latest scientific and technical information in the shortest time, into the “Handbook on how to set Abstract in periodicals” in 1394, has been published by Persian letter publishing. In this paper, after introduction we introduce the author of the book, the book, position of this book among similar and book reviews.

Media psychology is the scientific study of interaction between humans and media. More than study of the relationship between humans and media, it studies communicative behaviors of the human in the range of individual and social behaviors. The field of study is regarded as the forty-sixth branch of psychology in 1986 by the American Psychological Association (APA). But after over 30 years old, it gets no proper attention in Iran yet. Media psychology book, written by Dr. Fatemi- Rad et al (1395) is the third book with this title which is published in Persian. Although, we hoped this book fill the void of many topics in this field and turn to a credited source for students and researchers, but according to the style of writing, and the fact that this book is not documented and analytical, it vanished the expectations. We hope that this works continue.

Book Azerbaijani newspaper: first Comics newspaper in Iran; comprises reprinted 23 issue of the newspaper Azerbaijan that has valuable role in constitutional period in informing the community and fighting authorization. By using humor in the simple and understandable texts, Azerbaijan newspaper showed corruption and failure of tyrants. This reprinted publication may be a valuable resource in history class, to show the peasantry struggle against the feudal system in Azerbaijan. The newspaper as the first comic newspaper in Persian and Vanguard newspaper of Azeri Turkish, introduce the audience by social and political events of the era via humor and show the importance of comic newspaper in evolution of social media.

Harold Lasswell thinks public policy is designed as a program of objectives, values and actions. Austin Reni define it as determined line of actions or expressed wishes. It can be said that the public policy guide decision-makers in society. Media policy is one of the areas of public policy which has not taken attention in the scientific literature in the field of policy and media in our country so far. In this paper, we introducethe author and the book media policy that can be said is one of the first books written in this field. The author is PhD in media management and has remarkable background in theoretical issues management by many articles and books. His Book media policy is one of books in this field of studies in the country. In this book, the author tries to present theoretical concepts in the field of media policy in 12 chapters. This article is critique of this book tried with both positive and negative approach review the structure and content of the book.

Press, news and views related to Books are the best Mirror of cultural developments. Identifying the contents related to Books in Persian press is effective in historical analysis, evaluating the position of individuals, policy and futurology. The subject of current criticism is useful and valuable from this perspective. However, there are shortcomings in the work of the author and the publisher.

Research on Publication are of neglected research eras in Iran. Most of the early practitioners in publication and excellence in this industry have not documented their experiences. The lack of a comprehensive university education in publishing is another significant shortcomings. Hence, the publication in Iran and especially oral history publication of Iranian, especially publication of books, has many data to offer. Because of shortcomings, some researchers, in last two decades, have been done few studies often in the form of oral history. Collection of Fame of Iran Publication is one of the most recent study on this issue, in the form of Brief monographs, offer to reader the cultural, social, political and familial context of Fame Publishing in Iran and their practices in publishing and printing, distribution and sale of books. Thus, this series is new documented source for the history books in Iran. Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses reveals what problem happened in this kind of research. Providing first-hand and revealing hidden data, as well as dealing with the intricacies of the publishing profession, are the strengths of the collection, which could be strengthened in the next editions. But, less attention to the editing issues is one of remarkable shortcomings which is necessary to be solved in continuation of the series.

History of translation in Iran: From Antiquity to the end of the Qajar period would be introduced and criticized in this article, based on two approaches: A) general introduction of the book and its position in translation studies; B) Review the book, particularly on the basis of some theories of translation. In this book, the researcher was looking for cultural transmission from different aspects and functions of research. For this reason, the translation has been studied in the context of society and major events affecting it. The possible impact of translation on some social aspects also has been proposed. Many data collected and analyzed in the context of social and cultural events. Authority Thesis and its relation to the rise and fall of translation and knowledge transfer can be considered the most important result of this data. In fact, the director of research and the culmination of the investigation is demonstrating the correlation between these two variables in book. The combination of evidence and social events among with historical data that is often associated with literary masterpieces (along with fascinating narration of writer) made it an attractive book for every reader. Making questions and research gaps, combined with theorizing made the useful for researchers of translation studies, sociology, history, scientometrics, planners and policy makers of science and technology dissemination and transfer and interdisciplinary studies.

Narrating the experience is a perfect tool to share them with others as a result or process and the narrative research is a strategy of research by which the researcher will study people’s lives. This paper introduce critic and valuate the book “narrative in social science: the introduction of qualitative methods”. Book has logical structure that starts from history and ends in applications. The study scope of this book is wide and the further expansion of the volume of the book was possible, but author had valuable practices in this regard so tried to offer comprehensive outlook. References of the book is not mentioned at the end there is just inter textual reference. The absent of A thematic profile makes difficult to access the content of the book. The audience of this book can be professors, students and researchers in various fields of social sciences (the subject of biographies), including sociology, communications, psychology, management, economics and science of knowledge and information.

The main purpose of this article is responding to criticism of the book “Introduction to scientometrics (principles, concepts, relations and roots) ” published in numbers 7 and 8 in Quarterly Review of Books information and communication. In order to provide the best possible confrontation of critic claims with reality, this critic’s article is based on the critic text order. In addition, this article respond to the reviews that critic cites against other writers without scientific backing. In total, reasoning, documentation and evidence suggests that all citations and translations done in the book, was right and the author’s analyzes and models are innovations in the book, and all are in common views on the foundations of scientometrics. In return, the critic slip on «providing false data», «ignoring the strengths of the book», «ignoring the operational definitions and explanations of the author», «misrepresent the concepts and ideas» and «an attempt to conceal the innovations of the Book». Also, “stated incomplete and unfinished sentences of the book, ‘’ misperceptions of the author’s analysis”, “neglect the issues of co-citation”, “ neglecting phenomenon of instability in the web links” and “the introduction of non-cash previously about the book” are other signs that his criticism is not compassionate. In addition, there is evidence of “inappropriate use of words”, “ expression of background of the author with no relevant to the text book “ and “harsh tone and language when writing Review”, all are critical evidence that the critic not only failed in criticism but also violate the author’s right.

Information literacy is a term that has been used by librarians and other groups. It should be noted that the word “literacy” is more general than information literacy; and literacy has various types. Among them, in this book, three types of literacy including information literacy, scientific literacy and academic literacy got more attention. Information literacy has its own self-winding path through history and there are speculations about it in future. The book, which is under current criticism, by respecting the historical context of information literacy efforts, presents the future of information literacy in the light of changes in technology, specially its relationship with research and also, build a stronger link between information literacy and research area.

In 2001, for the first time, a list was published to introduce more than 7,000 researchers who are best in one of the 21 key areas of science and social sciences, based on Essential Science Indicators used in the areas with the most citations. Thomson Reuters most recently has changed its approach in selection of top researchers. In this paper, after introducing the ISI as the basis for highly cited researchers, we introduce the highly cited researchers based on new method; and after comparison of current and former method, the highly cited researchers in Iran in 2014 and 2015 will be introduced.

social networks can be used as a tool for introducing research, communication, sharing knowledge and experiences and scientific production management of researchers. The growth of social research networks and the extent of this type of media and its role in the development and facilitate of scientific services and research activities, led many researchers to join and create specialized profiles in these networks. This study used library method and aimed to introduce social research networks and their capabilities. After study and review literature we found, Research gate, academia and Mendel’s are most important social networks. Some most important features of social research network are ability to self-identification, identify other researchers, interaction and communication, dissemination of information, information sharing, information search, information management, keeping up to date research, evaluation research activities and network settings. Thus, social research network has changed the researchers work practices, accelerated the process of sharing knowledge and created new patterns of scientific interaction and communication.

this article aims to analyze the underlying philosophical assumptions of Folksonomy and the benefits and problems of using it as a new approach to organizing knowledge. Traditional knowledge organization systems follow the assumptions of positivism philosophy and its function facing challenges in the current web environment. Folksonomy, broadly to say, is based on philosophical relativism and Hermeneutics. This approach allows users to tag and organize Web documents, and despite of opportunities of participation in the web-based collaborative environment for individuals and professionals knowledge, suffers from problems of relativism.