The Effects of Political and Social Turmoil on LIS Research in the Arab World

dc.audienceAudience::Audience::Library Theory and Research Section
dc.conference.date16-22 August 2014
dc.conference.placeLyon, France
dc.conference.sessionTypeLibrary Theory and Research
dc.conference.titleIFLA WLIC 2014
dc.conference.venueLyon Convention Centre
dc.contributor.authorClick, Amanda B.
dc.contributor.authorDrewry, Josiah M.
dc.contributor.authorKhalifa, Mahmoud
dc.contributor.translatorde Rivaz, Floriane
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-24T08:10:43Z
dc.date.available2025-09-24T08:10:43Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractMuch of the Arab world has experienced significant political upheaval over the past few years, and government, academic and public libraries across the region have responded to these changes in different ways. Our goal was to investigate how the current circumstances have affected the LIS field, and how LIS practitioners are involved in responding to and documenting these changes. These questions are only part of a larger investigation that we conducted, in which we examined the main topics and author affiliations of 15,000 articles from 39 top and international LIS journals in English and 769 articles in 7 Arabic-language journals between 2004 and 2013. We looked at the publication patterns of LIS researchers in the Arab world, as well as scholars outside of the Arab world studying the region. We wanted to learn not just about what is being studied, but by whom. In this paper we address the following research questions: What do LIS professors and other practitioners across the Arab world study? Do they collaborate with each other, and with scholars elsewhere in the world? How were research topics affected by the Arab Spring?en
dc.description.abstractUne grande partie du monde arabe a connu un bouleversement politique important ces dernières années et les bibliothèques nationales, universitaires et publiques ont réagi à ces changements de diverses façons. Nous avons cherché à étudier la façon dont les circonstances actuelles ont affecté le domaine de la recherche en sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (SIB), et quels ont été les réponses et apports des chercheurs en SIB face à ces changements. Ces questions ne sont qu’une partie d’une étude plus large que nous avons menée sur les principaux sujets et sur les institutions de rattachements des auteurs de 15 000 articles issus de 39 revues de SIB parmi les mieux classées et de niveau international en anglais et 769 articles issus de 7 revues en langue arabe entre 2004 et 2013. Nous avons observé les formes de publication des chercheurs en SIB du monde arabe, ainsi que d’universitaires extérieurs au monde arabe qui s’intéressent à la région, en cherchant à connaître non seulement quels sujets sont étudiés mais aussi qui les étudie. Dans cet article, nous traitons des questions suivantes : qu’étudient les professeurs d’universités et les autres chercheurs en SIB du monde arabe ? Est-ce qu’ils collaborent entre eux, et avec des universitaires d’autres régions du monde ? Quel impact le “Printemps arabe” a-t-il eu sur les sujets de recherche ?fr
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dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/5259
dc.language.isofr
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 Unported
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
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dc.subject.keywordArab world
dc.subject.keywordlibrary & information science research
dc.subject.keywordscholarly communications
dc.subject.keywordArab Spring
dc.subject.keywordsystematic review
dc.titleThe Effects of Political and Social Turmoil on LIS Research in the Arab Worlden
dc.titleLes effets des troubles politiques et sociaux sur la recherche en Sciences de l’information et des bibliothèques (SIB) dans le monde arabefr
dc.typeArticle
ifla.UnitSection:Library Theory and Research Section
ifla.oPubIdhttps://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/833/

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