The Desirable Features and Weaknesses of Iranian Academic Textbooks Publishing in Social Science Fields
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The Desirable Features and Weaknesses of Iranian Academic Textbooks Publishing in Social Science Fields Sepideh Fahimifar1 · Alireza Isfandyari‑Moghaddam2 · Mohammad Reza Vasfi1
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Abstract The present study investigates the Iranian faculties’ attitude toward knowing the desirable features and weaknesses of academic textbooks. The survey research method was used and the data were collected by a semi-structured interview. The population consisted of Iranian faculties in the fields of management, geography, sports science and economics, and maximum variation sampling was used as a sampling method. Findings showed that when choosing academic books, faculties pay attention to several aspects including the use of a book, book credits, those materials added to the original text such as a table, diagram, figure, original content issues, book content, book appearance, and its distribution. The weaknesses presented by faculties can be divided into two parts: the weaknesses of compiled books and the weaknesses of translated books, which are related to publishers and authors. Besides, other weaknesses are lack of expert authors, the non-strength of book physical structure, inappropriate layouts, non-fluency, and literal translation. This is the first study to analyze the desirable and weakness point of Iranian academic book publishing and attempt to show selection criteria of academic book publishing as there is no evaluation systems of academic books in Iran. Keywords Academic textbooks · Publishing · Academic books · Shortcoming and features
* Sepideh Fahimifar [email protected] Alireza Isfandyari‑Moghaddam [email protected] Mohammad Reza Vasfi [email protected] 1
Department of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Department of Knowledge and Information Science, Hamadan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Hamadan, Iran
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Introduction Although the tendency toward holiness in traditional textbooks of universities and schools has led to the loss of creativity and other training tools have played little role in student learning, textbooks are accounted the most significant source in the social sciences’ and humanities’ scope [1]. Although scholars and researchers prefer to seek articles instead of books, they cannot leave the book [2]. They supplement each other [3]. Scholarly books are the most significant publication studied in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) especially in terms of monographs and edited books [4–6]. Moreover, it is essential for researchers in other sciences such as hard science [7]. Evaluation of scholarly books especially textbooks is so difficult and it is not similar to the evaluation of journal articles because of the lack of metric assessment [8]. Evaluation systems of scholarly books in each country use various metrics to assess them. In book evaluation systems, scholarly books have been asses
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