《全國新書資訊月刊》刊載書評之探析

A Study on Book Review Published in New Books Monthly

國家圖書館《全國新書資訊月刊》於1999年1月創刊至2015年8月出刊200期止，共刊登2716篇文章，其中新書評介有964篇，本文即以964篇之新書評介，透過內容分析進行書目計量研究。探討的內容包括月刊歷年刊載文章及新書評介之篇數、年度分布、新書評介篇幅、書評作者身分別、被評介圖書所屬出版社、主題類別等。每年平均約登載160篇文章，其中新書評介約有5篇，占刊載文章總數39％；每年平均約登載160篇文章，其中新書評介約登載58篇；新書評介種數前20名之出版單位，僅國家圖書館為政府單位，其餘為一般商業出版社；新書評介的圖書類別以語言文學類最多；翻譯圖書被評介比例與申請ISBN翻譯新書出版總(種)數比例大致相同；新書撰寫評介之作者身分，以文字工作者最多。未來《全國新書資訊月刊》可鼓勵主題性書評之創作，使內容加深加廣；善用資訊科技，成為串連全國新書書評資訊的平臺；結合網路書評，傳遞豐富多元化之新書資訊。

New Books Monthly began publishing in January 1999 by the National Central Library (NCL). There are 200 issues containing 2,716 articles, including 964 book reviews as of August 2015. For exploring the bibliometric characteristics of book reviews, 964 book reviews are taken as population. The purpose of this paper is to understand the number of article and book review published in the Monthly every year, article length of book review, authorship of book review, publisher of the books reviewed, subject of the books reviewed and so on. The conclusions of this paper include: (1) 13 articles published in each issue by average, book review published each lasting an average of five, accounting for the total number of articles published in 39%; (2) published an annual average of 160 articles with 58 book reviews; (3) among the Top 20 publishers of books reviewed, the NCL is the only government agency, and the rest are commercial publishers; (4) the percentage of translated works being reviewed is approximately equal to that of translated works among total annual publications assigned with ISBN; (5) most authors of book reviews are freelancers. Suggestions for the future development of the Monthly include: to strengthen the subject bibliographies, to enhance content and scope, to use information technology to establish a platform for book reviews on new publications in Taiwan, to combine book reviews on Internet, to delivery abundant and diversified information for new books.