Books Publishing at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences Case Study

Document Type : Original Article

Author

قسم المکتبات جامعة الاسکندرية

Abstract

This research aims to study the academic publishing program at Naif Arab
University for Security Sciences and to analyze the phenomena related to it
regarding production, manufacture and distribution in order to evaluate the
experiment and identify points of weakness and strength and hence, suggest
ways to develop them in the future.
The researcher used the bibliometric bibliographic method in the first part
of the research to study the bibliographic features of the books issued by Naif
Arab University for Security Sciences and to analyze their numerical and
qualitative trends. The researcher also used the field case study in the second
part, which is related to the policies and rules adopted for the academic
publication of Naif Arab University for Security Sciences and methods of
managing the publishing processes and stages like: production, industry and
distribution. The researcher dealt with the most important difficulties facing the
publishing program.
The study concluded that the University's publishing policy is mainly
directed towards the social sciences and the majority of the production has a
precise thematic harmony, which revolves around the fields of security sciences
and complementary or supporting topics of security and social fields such as the
fields of Islamic religion, applied sciences, psychology, information systems and
programming, arts and science, and security.


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