INFORMATION SYSTEMS & SERVICES
Year:2012 | Volume:1 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

Purpose: This research aimed to propose a conceptual framework for the evaluation and education of information security awareness. For that, three levels of information security awareness including knowledge, attitudes and behavior were articulated.Methodology: This survey was carried out via employing 7 components. Various critical factors affecting users’ awareness of information security have been identified including independent variables such as gender, education, IT skills, work experiences, occupation, academic discipline and job credit.Findings: The importance of components and their priority for education were clarified.Findings also indicated that four out of 7 components (including IT skills, occupation, academic discipline, and job credit) have a significant relationship with the richness of awareness on the information security.Conclusion: The importance of information security in organizations was emphasized, and it was concluded that it is necessary to account on occupation, academic discipline and job credit of employees toward a credible guarantee for the effectiveness of training courses.Priorities have been drawn in the proposed framework.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to evaluate the electronic readiness of a sample academic library, Allameh Tabatabaee University.Methodology: The research was done using survey method and the population under study consists of the libraries of Allameh Tabatabaee University. Using questionnaire instrument and then collecting the required data, we estimated the total score of this libraries in terms of electronic readiness.Findings: The libraries have been evaluated using 65 indicators. Findings indicated that none of these libraries are in an appropriate condition in various dimensions of electronic readiness, especially in terms of networked plan and services dimension. In other words, they have a digital divide.Conclusion: Librarians need to have an especial attention to all indicators of electronic readiness. Hence, libraries should play their role alongside other sectors of the society like ecommerce and e-government so that the provision of information services will be possible in the information age. Using this indicators, future researchers can evaluate electronic readiness of other academic libraries.

Purpose: This study investigates the feasibility of establishing digital document delivery services at academic libraries and research institutions located in Isfahan Province.Methodology: This research is a descriptive survey. The research population consists of librarians of the universities and research institutions in Isfahan. The sample was estimated 137 persons using random stratified sampling. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire which is based on five-item Likert Scale was used. Using Cronbach’s Alpha, the reliability of the questionnaire was estimated 0.9 and the face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed according to some experts’ views.Findings: Results showed that “Internet access among employees” with 3.42 mean is the highest and “availability of facilities to scanners” with 2.18 mean is the lowest.Conclusion: It was concluded that the feasibility of establishing digital document delivery services at academic libraries and research institutions located in Isfahan Province is lower than average and thus it is not at a desirable level.

Purpose: One of the ways of information retrieval in the field of Medicine is using special search engines which are designed for this purpose. The present research intends to compare recall and precision of these search engines in respect to Obstetrics and Gynecology diseases.Methodology: The method used is comparative study. To follow this method, some consultations were made with the obstetricians and the gynecologists, and five keywords were chosen. The search engines include Hon Search, Omni, Pogo Frog, Search Medica, and Trip Database. They were then compared with the criteria: recall and precision.Findings: The first 10 retrieved results of each search engine were studied. Then, they were compared with recall and precision formula. The results showed that Search Medica with 94% precision and 20.6% recall retrieved the most documents and stands in the first rank. From precision point of view, Search Medica with 94% stands in top and Pogo Frog with 92% stands in the second rank.Conclusion: Each one of the special medical search engines has its own capabilities and facilities, strengths and weaknesses, but among the studied search engines in terms of their recall, no significant difference was observed among the Medical search engines with the mean of 20.8.

Purpose: The present article reviews the role of epistemological beliefs in information retrieval and information seeking behavior with an emphasis on digital environments.Methodology: Library research method is used in this study. By reviewing related works, it attempts to explain the subject.Results: It was found that different human factors involved in the information retrieval such as users, system designers, librarians, authors, and indexers are influenced by epistemological beliefs. Finally, it was tried to show the influence of this theory in Wilson’s model of information seeking behavior.Conclusion: It is essential that the factors affecting the storage and retrieval systems focus on paying attention to both their epistemological perspectives and the epistemological perspectives of other human factors so that much efficiency of information systems can be met.

Purpose: The goal of this research is analyzing the links between the websites of centers under the supervision of Agricultural Research, Training and Propagation Organization, and Faculties of Agriculture under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.Methodology: The method used in is the link analysis method, which is one of the webometric methods. The research society is composed of 46 websites including 24 websites of Faculties of Agriculture under the supervision of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and 22 websites of centers under the supervision of Agricultural Research, Training and Propagation Organization. Excel, SPSS, and MATLAB softwares were used for data analysis.Findings: The results showed that the website of Tehran Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering with 93200 in-links (43.87%) and the website of Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad with 23300 in-links (10.96%) and the websites of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Shiraz University and the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Tarbiat Modares University with 16600 in-links (7.81%) hold the most in-links and so the highest scale of visibility in the web environment. The computation of the web impact factor shows that the websites of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources of Saravan (Sistan & Baluchestan) with an impact factor of 21.06 (11.41%) and the website of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Lorestan with an impact factor of 20.45 (11.13%) and the website of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of Tarbiat Modares University with an impact factor of 19.71 (10.6%) hold the highest net impact factor.Conclusion: Based on clustering method, these websites cooperate in two main clusters in the web environment. It was also realized that there is a significant relationship between the measure of co-link and the number of in-links (scale of visibility).

Purpose: This study aims to determine the level of information literacy (IL) of users of National Library and Archives of Islamic Republic of Iran (NLAI) based on ACRL standards.Methodology: Using survey method, and on the basis of ACRL self-assessment Questionnaire, 200 users were randomly chosen as research population. Finally, 124 persons answered the questionnaire.Findings: The average IL of users was high. The most average IL of users was the standard no.5 (3.79). The least average IL of users was the standard no.1 (3.52), meaning that most of the users had problems with determining their information needs. There was also no significant relationship between users’ IL and their gender, age, educational level, and educational field.Conclusion: Since the average IL of users was high, IL instruction to NLAI librarians seems to be necessary. Moreover, holding workshops or courses on determining information need and information retrieval skills for end-users is of high priority.

Purpose: The main objective of this article is to identify information resources selection situation in the libraries of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.Methodology: Research method of this research is analytical survey and a researcher-made questionnaire is used to gather the needed data. Target group of this research were all the research institute libraries covered by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.Findings: Findings showed that the libraries are in the acceptable situation concerning having and using collection development policy but they need some reforms in some aspects. Also, lack of using diverse resource selection tools in the target research libraries is felt. In terms of collection assessment and weeding, findings demonstrated that the studied libraries consider some criteria in this respect. In the case of the ways of resource selection, they use selection committee and so often gather their needed resources through international book fair. With regard to the identification of users’ information needs, they need to use some new ways to improve their services.Conclusion: Resource selection in the studied libraries has a stable situation but it is necessary to promote the level of related services.