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Research Facilities in Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Rouhollah K. Ramazani
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The appearance of new research facilities, as the spread of the very notion of modern research, is a recent development in Iranian society. In contrast with the social sciences and humanities, the physical sciences probably can show more extensive research facilities, as evidenced by the visible array of modern facilities ranging from spectrophotometers, chromatographic units, polarizing microscopes to electronic microscopes in addition to a growing number of libraries and laboratories. This article, however, is not concerned with research facilities in the physical sciences, even if some of these are of indirect interest to researchers in the social sciences. Nor will this article treat certain other facilities which may be of more direct interest to some social scientists, such as industrial research laboratories and standard testing laboratories. The scope of this article is limited to research facilities in the social sciences and humanities, but even in this limited area it is merely a preliminary study. This article will attempt (1) to identify the major research facilities in the social sciences and humanities; (2) to indicate broadly the overall research atmosphere in Iran today; and (3) to note a few practical points, hopefully useful to interested researchers.

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Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , October 1969 , pp. 53 - 61
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1969

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References

page note 541 See Gaver, Mary V., “Iranian Libraries,” Library Journal, Vol. 78, No. 9, May 1953, pp. 772-776Google Scholar. For a more critical article see Galloway, R. Dean, “Library Experiment in Iran,” Library Quarterly, Vol. 30, July 1960, pp. 188-200Google Scholar. For more comprehensive accounts see Thompson, Lawrence S., “Awakening Library Consciousness in the Middle East,” Library Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, April 1954, pp. 154-168CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Holloway, Michael P. “Patterns of Library Service in the Middle East,” Library Trends, October 1959, pp. 192-208Google Scholar.

page note 542 See the table on Iranian libraries in Iraj Afshār, Kitāb-khāneh-hāye Irān, (Tehran, 1966).

page note 602 In 1961-62 we read a paper on this problem at Princeton University which was subsequently published in The American Behavioral Scientist of March 1962 under the title of “Modernization and Social Research in Iran.”