LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2010 | Volume:13 | Issue:1 (49)|Papers Count:14

The purpose of this research is to assess the organizational intelligence of the library personnel of both Ferdowsi University and Astan Quds. A population of 100 librarians (47 at Astan Quds and 53 at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad) were surveyed through a questionnaire based on seven skills of Albrecht. Forms to respond to and prevent from a dullness conceptualization uses organizational intelligence, Albrecht presents a model which has seven dimensions: Strategic perspective, Common faith, Orientation to change, Unity and agreement, Morale, the application of knowledge and performance pressure. Each of these dimensions one of the research hypotheses.The main hypothesis of the study is that there is no meaningful difference between the organizational intelligence of the library at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and the library of Astan Quds Razavi. The main hypothesis along with six other models strategy perspective were rejected. The resulted mean of strategy perspective at the libraries of Astan Quds Razavi were (15.2) and at the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad was (19.7). The information was collected through questionnaires. It should be emphasized that organizational intelligence must be of great importance to the managers of libraries and every criterion of organizational intelligence should be measured, periodically examined, and reevaluated in their libraries. This would promote their organizational intelligence subsystem.

This article aimed to investigate the barriers regarding the provision of open access to Iranian scholarly journals from their publishers' perspective. To that end 250 publishers categorizing in different subject fields were selected using a random sampling method. Data were collected through questionnaire. Analysis of 104 completed questionnaires showed that there is significant difference among publishers in different subject areas (Humanities, Engineering, Pure, Medical and Agriculture sciences) towards the priority of financial, infrastructural and cultural issues. But there was no significant difference between that of capital-based and non-capital based publishers as well as between academic and non-academic publishers. Results also indicated that financial, infrastructural and cultural barriers have not had the same impact as deterrent factor.Publishers highlighted some propositions to improve open access to Iranian scholarly journal such as: financial support by the mother organization, third party supports, government support and so on.

The rate of published articles in Medicine, such as other fields, has considerably increased. So it necessitates evaluating the capabilities of databases in indexing medical journals. Searching and retrieving Persian medical articles was carried out via Magiran, Iranmedex and Scientific Information Database (SID). As Precision and recall are used for evaluating search engines, this study considered the relative recall of aforementioned databases in dentistry. For this, we selected 29 keywords in dentistry and searched them in the 3 mentioned databases. Results showed that Iranmedex has the highest recall (0.72) and Magiran's recall is higher than Sid's.

Using ISI Statistics and Scientometrics Indicators, the present study surveys the Islamic Azad University (IAU) Scientific Production from 1990 to 2007. The number of IAU names indexed in ISI Web Of Science is more than 100. During this period with doing Authority control for retrieving all of IAU names, 1961 scientific papers were retrieved from WOS Data Bases, 1249 out of 1961 scientific papers indexed under the name of ISLAM AZAD UNIV. IAU possesses 2.23% of Iran Scientific production in 2000, that this number promoted to 7.15% in 2007.1937 out of 1961 were indexed in SCIE, 56 titles were indexed in SSCI and only 4 titles were indexed in A& HCI.1717 out of 1961 were produced in the Article format, and 99.95% of all these Scientific Production were produced in English, IAU Authors have published most of their Scientific Productions in Cooperation with researchers in USA, Canada And Germany."Rustaiyan, A" with 94 scientific production is in the first place among other IAU Authors. The Subject Category of "Chemistry, Multidisciplinary" indexed 240 out of 1961 titles published by IAU. The journal "Applied Mathematics& Computation" has published 144 out of 1961 titles during these years. "Iranian Polymer Journal" published only 19 out 1961 of IAU's scientific production that this Journal was in the 10th place among journals Published by IAU during 1990 to 2007.

This study aims to compare self-citation rate of published articles in two Iranian journals, Faslname-ye Ketab and Faslname Ketabdary va Etela' rasany which are indexed in PJCR's ISC during 1382-1386. In this research, some indexes such as number of author self–citation, percentage of author self-citation, number of articles with author self-citation, also type of self-cited documents in each journal, self- citation live, the ratio of journal self-citation, journals impact factor before and after omitting self-citaion and the functionality of journals after omitting self-citations were calculated and analyzed.The results indicated that self-citation ratio in both journals is pretty low. On the whole, Faslname-ye Ketabdary va Etela' rasany has got more self-citaion rather than Faslname-ye Ketab, although the ratio of self-citations in the second one is largely more than the first in 1385, but this result was vice versa in 1386. Also, this survey showed the impact factor which results to change journal rank after omitting self- citation.

The present causi-experimental research was performed to find practical solutions to activate school libraries in Zahedan and to improve reading habits among the students as well. To test our 3 hypotheses, 6 high schools were randomly selected out of 16 public high schools which had library. These hypotheses were as follows: 1. Answering to the textbooks queries on the basis of nontextbook sources and instructional supplements leads to increase reading habits.2. Employing concerned and specialized librarians in school libraries influences the improvement of reading habits.3. organizing some classes in the school library equipped with appropriate instructional sources leads to activate library itself and to improve reading habits.To test the above hypotheses, first, two groups (experimental & control) were selected. Each group consisted of 120 students who were randomly selected from different grades. Pretests and post-tests marks of the two groups were recorded and then K square test was used.Findings showed that regarding each on of the hypotheses there was a meaningful difference between the groups.

The level of reading ability is one of the major indicators of cultural development in a country. Thus, it is essential to identify factors affecting reading habits advancement. Not only women represent half the society, but because of their strong relations among their family members, they play a significant role in transferring reading habits to other members of the family.In the present study, by distributing questionnaires among 363 working women and housewives in Shiraz, researchers investigated the factors influencing reading habits of women in Shiraz.Findings show that major factors include: the level of parents reading, the level of reading in childhood and younghood, age marriage status, reading eagerness of husbands, access to information and computers are among the most important factors influencing reading habits of this study subjects. Finally, suggestions and recommendations are made based on the present research.

Using correspondence analysis, this study aims to evaluate the Iranian Medical Universities websites based on six criteria obtained from Alexa Internet.41 medical universities websites affiliated to The Ministry of Health and Medical Education were identified on the Web. The research findings provide an evaluation of medical universities websites status in terms of their functions and performance on the Web. Results show that most of universities websites did not act successfully on the Web regarding the six criteria. The investigated websites had a weak function in traffic rank and most of them were ranked top of 100'000. As a whole, Tehran and Shiraz universities acted more successful in comparison to others whilst Qom university was weak regarding most of the criteria. Correspondence analysis classified 41 websites into 3 groupings which were related based on some attributes.

As a sub-discipline of the knowledge economy, knowledge management is a new concept and method of management. It works for converting intellectual assets of workers and staff members in the organization into higher productive forces-competitive power and new value. The conventional functions of a library are to collect, process, disseminate, store and utilize information resources to provide services for the society. Nowadays, managing knowledge will become an important subject facing libraries. The purpose of this paper is to Measure the efficiency of knowledge management and innovation in order to improve service quality in public and academic libraries of Yazd using two stage DEA. Knowledge management is input and innovation is output in stage one. Innovation and service quality are input and output in stage two respectively. Finally, these libraries are ranked by using Copland technic.

Effective measurement and exact analysis of service quality is the first essential step to promote libraries performance and media resulted in improving methods of services in these centers. The study was carried out as a strong tool in nonlinear modeling using obtained data from customer's expectations and perceptions to explore using procedure and artificial neural networks in Yazd central library. On these studies student's expectation's and perceptions provided in Yazd University were measured using LibQual standard questionnaire then were analyzed the results by ANN. The result shows a gap analysis has more ability at evaluating service quality in university libraries to the performance or perception model. This confirmed the positive role of expectation at evaluating service quality in universities libraries. we also got better results using data collection about expectations and perceptions as an entry in ANN to the preceding models. This indicates that there are better models for evaluating service quality in case of using new procedure like artificial neural networks.

Today, the open access movement is a revolutionary and effective movement that is popular in scientific societies. The nature and goal of this movement, i.e, open access to scientific findings have a close relation with the major goal of libraries and librarianship, i.e., information accessibility to users without any censorship or bias. The well-known sources of open access movement are: open access archives and repositories, E-prints and open access journals. One of the open access archives and repositories is institutional repositories. This source is a carrier that recognizes, registers, organizes and preserves the digital output and make it accessible to all.In this article, after a brief discussion about open access movement and its resources, institutional repositories are defined as a modern and effective tool to institutional information accessibility.The features, existential philosophy, content, benefits and challenges of these resources are also discussed.Some of the famous open access softwares that are needed to create the institutional repositories are introduced and finally discussed about the role of libraries and librarians as a chief people responsible to collect and provide access to institutional information in creation and promote the use of this resources.

The survey employs deep log analysis techniques, a more sophisticated form of transaction log analysis, and Data mining algorithms (Association Rules) to demonstrate what usage data can unfold about information seeking behavior of Information center of UTS University in Australia. To meet this goal, we work with the raw server log data which had been gathered on the server. The information seeking behavior of nearly several millions of users is analyzed in respect to the extent to which they penetrate the site, the number of visits made, as well as the type of items and content they viewed or downloaded and when they connected to the web site. The users are broken down by their field of study, geographical location, type of databases they used, the number of items viewed in a session and type of products downloaded. This Article will offer a good knowledge about how IT managers can make their decision to subscribe Databases or change their policy in a better way.