جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « روش شناسی تحقیق » در نشریات گروه « کتابداری و مدیریت اطلاعات »

The comparative study is considered as one of the most common and widely used methods in social science research, and the adoption of this research method has been growing in recent years. On the other hand, science, technology, and innovation policy-making in different countries (both developed and developing countries) have faced a lot of dynamics. This has prompted policy researchers to adopt a comparative approach, while examining successful and unsuccessful international experiences, to provide recommendations for better formulation of national policies. But this question is raised, what are the foundations and principles of comparative studies, and to what extent have they been complied with in science, technology, and innovation policy studies in Iran? In this research, by using related keywords and searching in selected scientific journals, we evaluated 82 Persian language comparative research related to science, technology and innovation policy. In general, comparative studies are based on four main foundations, including sampling considerations, construct equivalence, analysis approach (variable or case orientation), and issues of causality. Our findings show that most of the evaluated works were not faithful to the main foundations of comparative studies, the main reason for which is often the researchers' lack of familiarity and sufficient mastery of the methodological issues of comparative studies. As a result, considering the importance of the findings of this type of research for policymakers, failure to observe its principles on behalf of researchers can cause problems in the design and implementation of policies.

This paper introduces the method of discourse analysis, goals, and how to use it, as one of the qualitative research methods and according to the method of discourse analysis in various fields of humanities and social sciences could be used, in article The present paper also explored the use of discourse analysis in Information Science and Knowledge. This is a reveiw paper. For data gathering, related papers and literature to discourse analysis were used.
Findings: A literature review showed that linguistics has gone beyond the boundaries of discourse analysis and an interdisciplinary field of study is considered. So a meaning beyond the words that comes to mind is in linguistics.It seems that researchers focusing exclusively use the methods of discourse analysis to quantitative research methods and traditional linear distance and the attention they modern methods of study draw. It seems that the method of discourse analysis can show how concepts of Information Science and knowledge have been formed.

The aim of present research is reviewing research methodology of Master of Library and Information Science students’ dissertations in Islamic Azad University, North Branch of Tehran. Content analysis and bibliometrics are two methods used in this research. Findings of the research including 192 Dissertations with frequency of 243 research methods between 1992 and 2005 demonstrate that survey research method with 66.6 percent relative frequency was the most used methods in dissertations among 11 research methods, while historical, experimental and bibliometric research methods together account for 2.5 percent of total methods. It is necessary to be mentioned that during different periods of time other methods were used sporadically and survey research method was one of them.

Content analysis is a methodology for studing the content to identifying specified characteristics of messages. The method of content analysis enables the researcher to large amounts of textual information and systematically identify its properties. In this methodology two aims are predicted. 1)evaluating content capability to match the educational collection. 2)suitability of texts with mental ability. This article tries to define content analysis and introduce the ways in which researcher can provide a meaningfal reading content. Content analysis can also involve any kind of communication content analysis(speech, written text, interviews, journals, discussions, lectures, …).