Editorial about Book Prices: In the first draft of this column I had the following comment about Beck’s book on Combinatorial Games: The books is expensive and not online. I assume that the author is more interested in getting the material out to people who want to read it rather than in making money. Yet the book has a high price tag and is not online. The entire math-book-publishing business ...

The literature on health in people who identify as sexual minorities is scattered in many types of resources and disciplines. To help address the need for relevant, well-organized information for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and health care providers, this study first identified books published in a ten-year period and then examined the topics, the number of books published pe...

Using information on thousands of books written in the medieval Islamic world, I document a sustained decline in innovative intellectual production starting in the 12th century CE. I show that this decline coincides with an increase in the percentage of books dedicated to religious topics and in the proportion of authors employed in religious occupations. These findings are consistent with hist...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: information has a big portion in the success of every research system. although journals are the main resources for researchers, the increasing price and number of them have made difficult duties for libraries in providing information needs. methods: in this descriptive survey, data gathered using a check lis...

Scientists have a long history of writing for a general audience [1]. By communicating ideas and discoveries to the wider public, popular science books can generate debate, influence culture, and inspire future researchers. They can also provide new skills and opportunities, and in some cases a second career, for their authors [2]. Writing scientific papers is a central part of academic life, b...

research library engaged in the effort to become more productively involved in the entire life cycle of knowledge: its creation, critique, and dissemination. If the library, following Carlyle, once found itself at the heart of the university by virtue of its manifestation as a collection of books, the library of the future, according to these authors, is better understood as a place of conversa...