Editorial: Journal News, Issue Preview, and Acknowledgments

The 101st Issue of the Journal and its Editorial Concerns

Investigating User Search Tactic Patterns and System Support in Using Digital Libraries Now, the journal has reached its 101st issue. Founded 29 years ago (1991) by the Iran Public Libraries Foundation, it began publishing under the title of Payam-e Ketabkhane (in English, Message of Librarianship). In 2009, the journal got a scientific promotion from the Ministry of Science, Research and Techn...

Editorial – preview

Streptomycetes are the main source for a huge repertoire of small molecules, which are in use as antibiotics, anti-fungals, antiparasitics, or as antitumor and immunosup-pressive drugs. As outlined in minireviews and original articles within this special issue, cloning, designed mutations , the comparisons of transcripts, proteomes and metabolites have provided considerable insights into the bi...

Editorial – preview

The vast chemical diversity of the oceans, revealed in full by recent screening molecular tools, opens new, exciting scenarios for research, which bring together some of the best brains in marine science and in the business. As much of sea life – particularly in deep waters – is still untapped, the exploitation of ocean diversity for industrial and medical purposes yields vast promises, reflect...

IRSA Delivery and Editorial Team Acknowledgments

Editorial Volume 7, Issue 1

JALDA, therefore, would like to show inclination towards the view that the reality of the world is not a fixed entity standing out there to be measured by our pre-fabricated ‘scientific’ instruments. In line with Haghshenas’ argumentation, not only can theories and instruments shrink to ornamental entities but also they can turn into what Karl Popper calls pseudo-science, knowledge of an ‘ideol...