aim: the aim of this study is to identify a framework of needed expertise for publishing academic electronic textbooks according to the characteristics of this kind of books. therefore the final result focuses on needed experts through the consensus method. method: delphi technique using the researcher made questionnaire was done in four rounds. the research population was composed of forty exp...

background and objectives:regarding the important role and position of journals in presentation of the most up-to-date scholarly information, the scientific and meticulous evaluation of such sources is very essential. te present research was carried out to determine the citation status in the articles of the journal of qom university of medical sciences. methods:this research, as a descriptive-...

The authors analyze the creator-publisher relationship in the book and software industries, which can benefit from digital distribution. This can be called pure electronic commerce, which refers to a transaction that uses information systems to avoid physical exchange and occurs entirely in a digital form. Using coordination and transaction cost theories as a theoretical framework, the authors ...

Citation indicators are increasingly used in book-based disciplines to support peer-review in the evaluation of authors and to gauge the prestige of publishers. However, since global citation databases seem to offer weak coverage of books outside the West, it is not clear whether the influence of non-Western books can be assessed with citations. To investigate this, citations were extracted fro...

In this feature authors review recently published books on subjects of interest to readers Beleid en Maatschappij.

We propose a novel unsupervised method for separating out distinct authorial components of a document. In particular, we show that, given a book artificially “munged” from two thematically similar biblical books, we can separate out the two constituent books almost perfectly. This allows us to automatically recapitulate many conclusions reached by Bible scholars over centuries of research. One ...

MARRIAGE FOR THE MARRIED By Dr. Mary Macaulay. (Delisle, 12s. 6d.) Here are two books about love and loving relationships written by two worldly wise and experienced people. While one is about love outside marriage, and the other about it within the marriage-bond, both authors base their books on the belief that each person is seeking in life a satisfying loving relationship with another, and this

Every now and again I come across an extraordinary book that changes in some ways how I think, and this is one of those books. It is hard to describe because at a basic level it appears strange that it exists at all; it is basically a book of book reviews, and how useful could that possibly be? The principal author, as well as one ‘with’ author, are general practitioners working in North London...