LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION STUDIES (JOURNAL OF NATIONAL STUDIES ON LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION)
Year:2018 | Volume:29 | Issue:2 (114) |Papers Count:11

Purpose: The current research aims to investigate the relationship between altmetric activity and quality of the LIS journals indexed by Scopus in 2015.Methodology: In this descriptive and relational research, altmetric and bibliometric indicators were utilized to study journals’ performance. The population of the study was comprised of 134 LIS journals in Scopus. Altmetric Explorer, Scopus, Scimago Journal and Country Ranking (SJR) and Journal Metrics were used for data gathering. Moreover, data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential tests in Microsoft Excel and SPSS.Findings: Results of the study revealed that of the 6638 papers with unique DOIs published in LIS journals in 2015, 2524 articles were mentioned at least once in social media platforms (altmetric coverage of 38%). The highest altmetric presence was seen in “Journal of Information Science” with altmetric coverage of 100%. Moreover, “D-Lib Magazine” was received the most altmetric attention with the mean altmetric score of 17.9. The results of running a series of Spearman’s rank correlation tests revealed positive and statistically significant association between two indicators of altmetric activity (altmetric coverage and mean altmetric score) and four indicators of quality (SJR, SNIP, CiteScore and mean citations received).Conclusion: Results of the current research showed that papers published in higher quality journals, are more likely to be shared in social media tools and get more altmetric attention.

Purpose: materialized of this topic.Methodology: The adopted research method in this study is analytic. Consequently, the 1) related literature on “discipline” and “Interdisciplinarity” and the interdisciplinary issue in the library classification systems and 2) “Interdisciplinarity” in 53 library classification systems are analyzed here.Given the nature of this subject, purposive sampling and census are applied.Findings: The findings indicate that library classifications are developed based on academic disciplines and so the important status of Interdisciplinarity is ignored. The prevailing approach in developing the library classification systems consist of the classic logic.Conclusion: Because of ignorance in interdisciplinarity in the library classification systems, following a compound approach in library classifications like phenomenon-based and domain analysis classifications is necessary. Also, the transition from classical library classifications to the ones with fuzzy logic approach would be applicable.

Purpose: This study seeks to extract a scheme of science classification in Iranian ancient texts.Methodology: A historical approach, in resources and existing documents.Findings: Iranians have a bright scientific background, but many of their scientific resources was destroyed over the time. The Iranian Bundahish is one of the most important sources from ancient Iranian, that has a classification scheme of sciences which has more realistic and pragmatic aspect than philosophically; that understandable with a comprehensive view. As the first taxonomic scheme was presented in this book.Conclusion: These sciences classification scheme can be extract according to the threefold presupposition contained in this paper. Because this is a realistic and pragmatic scheme, instead of considering the totality of the science the second layer of the classification scheme and the dimensions of each science field considered.

Purpose: The aim is to analyze two approaches of system-oriented and user-oriented in information retrieval systems and to appraise relevance from an epistemological basis and to present a composed approach based on Platonic dialectic.Methodology: This is a theoretical study that critically analyzes the approaches of system-oriented and user-oriented in information retrieval systems and relevancy evaluation, and, given its strengths and weaknesses, has proposed a relatively comprehensive method based on Platonic dialectics.Findings: Epistemologically, the system-oriented approach is rooted in the Parmenides' philosophy of stability and the user-oriented approach in Heraclitus' flux philosophy. The change in the information needs and the way of observing the world, and the change in the judgment process of relevance can be explained by the use of Heraclitus' flux theory; also, the change in the judgments of relevance to single document over different times can be explained by Parmenides' stability. To overcome the deficiencies of these two approaches in assessing the relevance of the retrieved documents, the use of Platonic dialectical method can be an alternative.Conclusion: Platonic dialectical method is a deductive-inductive composed method in which all components of information retrieval are seen in all stages of the search as a whole whose components are in action and in interaction with each other; thus, one can provide an appropriate approach to assess "relevance" in Information retrieval systems.

Purpose: Investigating the role and place of “documentation” in public knowledge management models.Methodology: By using qualitative systematic review, six public knowledge management models were chosen for analysis.Findings: The findings showed that the term “documentation” has been emphasized in all of these six models by theorists; in “Hicks”, “Beckman” and “Bukowitz & Williams” models it has been emphasized directly but in the others (McElroy, 7C, and Nonaka& Takuechi) indirectly. The “Nonaka & Takeuchi” model is the model that focused on “documentation” in two steps.Conclusion: Seating element documentation in public KM models can reflect the view of KM model planners to discuss the appropriateness of the position of a component model (documentation) in a whole unit (knowledge management model) was considered.

Purpose: This study is going to determine social media literacy status of librarians and users of Iran National Library and Archives and its impact on their Attitude toward promoting library services by using them.Methodology: This is a descriptive-analytical research with survey method which was done on 355 people consisted of 159 librarians and 196 active users of Iran national library and archives. The information was gathered through researcher-made questioner. Descriptive statistics Mean and inferential statistics Pearson were used.Findings: Most of librarians 51.6% and users 67.9% have learned social media themselves. Librarians have less than a half of the abilities of social media literacy such as social media ethics (3.63) and copyright (3.36). Totally their social media literacy is undesirable. Users have all the abilities except defend (2.86).Totally their social media literacy is more desirable than librarians. Users (4.14) consider social media use improves library services more efficiently than librarians (3.72).Conclusion: Considering social media importance for libraries and the effects of improving social media literacy on librarians’ better viewpoints about using them for better library services; efforts for learning social media literacy, providing academic and vocational training, writing and preparing self-learning tutorials and brochures are recommended.

Purpose: The present study aims to identify the barriers of cloud computing implementation from the point of view of the officials of the portal of digital libraries in Iran.Methodology: This study was conducted using descriptive-survey method and applied type. The statistical population of this research is the officials of the portal of digital libraries of Iran. In this research, due to the limited statistical population, sampling has not been done and the whole statistical society has been investigated. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire and its validity was confirmed by the faculty members of the Information and Knowledge Department as well as the Department of Computer Science. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by calculating the Cronbach's coefficient of alpha (80.3%), which indicates the reliability of the instrument is appropriate.Descriptive and inferential statistics have been used to analyze the data.Findings: The results indicate that implementation of cloud computing in the portal includes economic, security, administrative and legal barriers. In analyzing the results from single user T tests, Friedman rankings and mean differences were used, and one-way variance or F test was used to analyze the results of differences in view of type of libraries. As a result, there is no significant difference in the type of libraries to identify the barriers.Conclusion: It is necessary to compile some roles for cloud computing.

Purpose: This study aims to identify and compare thematic trends of concepts in Knowledge and Information Science based on the records indexed in the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) during two-time span (2006-2010 and 2011-2015).Methodology: This study is a scientometric applied research which uses co-word analysis techniques. The research population consists of all Persian journals in Knowledge and Information Science category indexed by ISC.Findings: Based on data analysis, the number of keywords in the articles is 8862 keywords, of which 2832 are related to the first five-year period and 6030 keywords in the second five-year period. The application of the Bradford’s Law indicated that in the first period, the core concepts were 25 cases, and in the second period 33 cases. The results of the strategic diagram showed that scientometric clusters have the best position in Iran's Knowledge and Information Science. Furthermore, topics such as user interface, information architecture, search engines, digital library, metadata, information search, information security, knowledge management, ontologies, visualization and social networks are among the emerging concepts in Iran's Knowledge and Information Science.Conclusion: Regarding the changes in the topics of the second period in comparison to the first period, and with the dimming of concepts such as “journals” and “documents” and the highlighting of keywords such as “information technology” and “websites”, it can be said that in the transition from the first period to the second period, concepts that contain traditional topics of the domain are dimmed and concepts that contain IT topics have been replaced.

Purpose: Investigating the Information Quality dimensions of Information Science articles in English Wikipedia and exploring the relationship between ranking of the Wikipedia articles in search engines and the quality of the articles.Methodology: Using a descriptive- survey method and based on the identified framework, different indices related to the quality dimensions including credibility, completeness, complexity, awareness, stability, timeliness, and volatility are computed for the selected sample.Findings: The examined article showed a relatively favorable situation in terms of complexity and volatility but they did not have a very proper situation in terms of completeness, complexity and awareness.It was shown that although the Bing performed a better job in terms of retrieving Wikipedia articles in the top ten results compared to the other examined search engines there was no significant difference in the ranking of the articles among the evaluated search engines. There is no significant relation between the rank of a retrieved article in a search engine and the information quality dimensions except for the timeliness.Conclusion: Wikipedia authors should try to improve the other dimensions of the information quality including completeness, complexity and awareness by enhancing their writing skills. The lack of a relationship between some components of the Information Quality and the rank of Wikipedia articles in the search engines may be related to the financial and commercial actions behind the scene of the information retrieval systems which have restricted them not to reveal their ranking algorithms.