JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)
Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:9|Papers Count:8

Purpose: Providing non-textbooks for new literates is an effective strategy for continuing education and promoting literacy. For this purpose, it is necessary that these books must be compiled in accordance with literate’s demography and cultural traits. Hence, this research aims to study the effectiveness of non-textbooks from women literates' perspective.Methodology: To do this, 120 female new literates were randomly selected. To collect desire data, a researcher-made questionnaire including 5 components formal, content, execution, their effect on general and social information and reading and writing was distributed and completed.Findings: Results showed that new literates’ perspective is positive to the 5 components. So, the relationship between age and attitude to non-textbooks effectiveness was significant (0.29). Also, the relationship between educational grades with attitude to non-textbooks effectiveness was significant (0.35).Conclusion: The non-textbooks can warranty continuing learning in women literates.

Purpose: This research attempts to study the citation behavior in M.S. theses of Architecture at Hamedan Islamic Azad University during years 2001-2008, and determine the core sources.Methodology: Using bibliometric and citation analysis method, a statistical population f 302 thesis with 8672 citations was studied.Findings: It was found that Persian books with 47.1% had the highest citations and Latin periodicals with 3.7% had the lowest citations. The average citation for each thesis was 28.7 citations. Linguistic distribution shows the high amount of citations to Persian with 87.2%. Half-life of information for Latin books is 11.63 years and for thesis is 3.88 years, showing the highest and lowest average, respectively. Also, time coverage of sources related to 1992-2001 includes 62.6% of all citations, while Persian books with 5.95% and Latin periodicals with 0.66% have the highest and lowest impact. The citation ratio to up-date sources in 2001 and 2005 are 2.5 and 0.42 sources, respectively.Conclusion: The journals follow Bradford’s law and core ones are “Architecture”, “Urban Planning”, and “Memar Serial”. Core Latin journals are “Review” and “A+U”. The most frequently used Persian and Latin books are “Climate & Architecture” and “Time saver for building types”, respectively. Among all citations, 55.4% are to Persian and Latin books, 24.1% to periodicals, 87.2% to Persian resources, 12.8% to Latin resources, 84.5% to printed resources, and 15.5% to non-printed resources. Accordingly, research hypotheses were confirmed.

Purpose: The aim of the research is to assess the satisfaction level of Industrial Management Institute (IMI) library clients, to identify the satisfaction gaps. Methodology: Assessment of satisfaction level is carried out based on a descriptive survey method. Statistical population consists of 912 clients of IMI library out of which 274 were selected as the statistical sample.Findings: In general, findings of the research indicate three negative adequacy gaps in electronic resources available, accessibility of resources and library environment areas. Widest negative adequacy gap can be observed in electronic resources available. Also widest negative adequacy gaps can be observed in external client group and faculty members respectively. Superiority gap is negative for every element of LibQual model among all the groups.Conclusion: Totally, it is evident that there is a difference between current level of service and the service level desired by the clients.

Purpose: This research aims to determine quantitative status of the scientific production by faculty members of Karaj Islamic Azad University (KIAU) in years 2003-2007.Methodology: The community which is being studied is all full-time faculty members of the University. Method of research was survey and required data were acquired from Online Faculty Information System (OFIS), KIAU website and statistics contained in "Pajooheshnameh" the annual publication.Findings: Findings indicate that the total of five-year scientific production of Karaj Branch includes 2758 documents; the highest rate is devoted to presented articles in conferences, and the lowest rate to workshops. Also among the years of research, year 2005 with 677 items has the highest and year 2003 with 417 items has the lowest production rate.Conclusion: It can be concluded that the highest rate of scientific production belongs to Faculty of Basic Sciences and the lowest to Psychology Faculty.

Purpose: This study aims to compare libraries of the country’s Science and Technology parks with the Standards for Iran’s Special Libraries.Methodology: The method used is descriptive survey. The data resulted from questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS software (version 16). Descriptive statistics techniques were applied.Findings: Library of Isfahan Science and Technology Town with total average of 70.66% and Library of Yazd Province Park with 30.41% are at the highest and lowest level of conformity with the standards. Also, the mentioned libraries are in accordance with Standards for Iran’s Special Libraries considering goals and tasks (50.85%), organization and management (64.28%), personnel (47.14%), collection (59.76%), resource organization (50%), services (58.71%), construction and equipment (30.12%) and budget (32.68%).Conclusion: 49.19% of libraries of the country's Science and Technology Parks are in accordance with Standards of Iran’s Special Libraries, indicating their low level with regard to the standards.

Purpose: The present research aimed to determine the information needs of post-graduate students at Bu-Ali Sina University located in Hamedan, with emphasis on available electronic databases (including Rose net and Daneshyar).Methodology: The methodology was descriptive survey using a questionnaire, reliability of which was measured 0.85 based on Cronbach's alpha.Findings: The results revealed that the most important goal of students when searching for data is to find background information for their research tasks and projects. The Science direct/Elsevier database ranks first (89.2%) as the most used electronic database by the students, while Springer, ISI, Scoups, Proquest, ACS, Oxford Journals, Emerald, ASME, Ebsco, ASCE, IOP, and AMS rank 2nd to 13th respectively.Conclusions: The main obstacles of easy access to information are mentioned as: not enough knowledge of English language and the interruption of universities subscription in the case of some electronic databases.

Purpose: The objective of this research is to do a comparative citation analysis of Iranian and Turkish inventor's patents to determine the technological effectiveness of their registered inventions in US Patent and Trademark & European Patent Office.Methodology: Using citation analysis method, firstly, Iranian and Turkish inventor's patents were retrieved from the US Patent and Trademark & European Patent Office, and then these patents were studied. The gathered data were analyzed using descriptive statistics via Excel.Findings: Findings show that Iranian and Turkish inventors registered 63 and 619 patents in US Patent and Trademark & European Patent Office from 1988 to 2008 using IR and TR as a suffix represented Iran and Turkey. 69.5 percent of citations were to backward resources of Iranian inventors and 87.4 percent of citations to backward resources of Turkish inventors were patent resource, 30.50 percent of citations to backward resources of Iranian inventors and 12.60 percent of citations to backward resource of Turkish inventors were Non-Patent Resource (NPR), in general. The total number of Turkish inventors' forward citations was 1429 in the period of doing this research and the highest Forward citation of Turkish inventors were 257 citations in subject class B (operation process). In contrast, the total number of Iranian inventors' forward citation was 376 citations. The highest Forward citation of Iranian inventor's was 119 citations in subject class E (stable structures).Conclusion: The most collaboration among Iranian and Turkish inventors' were 26.98 percent in subject class C (Chemistry) and 16.32 percent in subject class A (human necessities), respectively.

Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the scientific publications of Islamic Azad University of Iran in 1999 to 2008 in some dimensions such as “types of documents”, “languages”, “subject areas”, “sources” and “ISI Covered Journals”.Methodology: To do this, ‘Documentary’ and ‘Citation Analysis’ methods were used. Also, “comparative” method was used to analyze the data.Findings: The results show that scientific productions of Islamic Azad University in 2004 to 2008 were more than 1999 to 2003 and it has been 905.34 percent growth. Therefore, “types of documents” and “languages” of Islamic Azad University’ scientific productions permanently have been increasing in 1999 to 2008. The university’s share in some subject areas such as “Multidisciplinary Chemistry and other chemistry areas”, “Applied mathematics”, “Pharmacology and Pharmacy”, “Food Science & Technology”, “Veterinary”, “Agricultural Science, Plants and Animals” and “Environmental Sciences” were more than other subject areas in WoS. Also, JCR shows that the university hasn’t been any Journal in the Database. However, there is only one indexed journal from Islamic Azad University, Branch of Tehran Sciences and Research entitled: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. The Journal published 0.52 percent of Indexed Scientific Productions of that university in WoS.