LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION STUDIES (JOURNAL OF NATIONAL STUDIES ON LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION ORGANIZATION)
Year:2018 | Volume:29 | Issue:3 (115) |Papers Count:10

Purpose: The main aim of the research was to validate a questionnaire that had constructed on the basis of a qualitative research about structural factors affecting plagiarism in Iran, with content and construct validity measures and reliability scales. Methodology: Three-layer method and CVI procedure were used for evaluating content validity of the questionnaire. Besides, confirmatory factor analysis was used for evaluating construct validity of the tool. Then, split-half method was used for evaluating reliability of the questionnaire. SPSS and LISREL software were used for the analysis. Sample of study was graduate students of central universities of all provinces in Iran (n=540) that selected by means of multi-stage cluster sampling method and systematic method in each selected cluster. Findings: results showed that on the basis of three step evaluation method and Content Validity Index (CVI) of the questionnaire was 0. 875, content validity of the questionnaire was acceptable. Then, 7 reflective measurement models were offered for construct validity evaluation. Two secondary factor and 14 questions were eliminated from questionnaire because of their unacceptable output measures of tvalue, path coefficient and R2. Reliability measure of the tool estimated 0. 855 (> 0. 7). Conclusion: Two peripheral factors namely “ frequency of justifications” (with questions 44 & 45) and “ avoidance of disclosure” (with questions 74 & 75) understood as unacceptable factors affecting plagiarism. 10 questions from other factors recognized as unacceptable and in total, 14 questions were eliminated and the questionnaire was reduced to 90 questions.

Purpose: To identify the patterns and trends of the Iranian LIS Studies and the changes made in the Intellectual structure of this field. Methodology: Using the keyword co-occurrence method and the knowledge Domain Visualization approach, the intellectual structure of LIS has been studied. The research community is all research papers and articles of conferences that have been published by Iranian researchers in the period from 1970 to 2016 in the LIS journals and indexed on the WOS. Citespace software was used to map and analyze the network of Iranian studies. Findings: Cluster analysis led to the identification of 10 clusters. Overall, it was found that the main focal points of the research are two general titles of "science studies" and "information studies", where the share of each of these two research centers from all identified clusters was 4, 5 Cluster. The largest cluster, according to the number of nodes, was "User Studies and Systems" and the oldest cluster based on the average year of formation, "scientific collaboration. " The results of the analysis of the keywords burstness, "Internet", "World Wide Web", "User studies" and "Search engines" respectively, have attracted the most attention of the researchers of information science and science and are among the hot topics in the time series investigated. Conclusion: The network of the key words of Iran LIS studies is immature; so that from the total of 257 nodes present in the analysis process, 71 nodes were located between 2000 and 2009. One of the important points in reflecting on the analysis of the central nodes of the keyword network is related to the low centrality scores of the word “ library” in spite of having high occurrence frequency; which may be interpreted as the reduction of pivotal role of this concept in the LIS literature.

Purpose: Aims at investigating the issues, challenges, and approaches to organizing of cultural heritage information, focuses on the CIDOC CRM and its family models. Methodology: Cultural heritage information modeling research projects, especially the works based on CIDOC CRM and its other family models were reviewed. Findings: Previous studies on the usefulness of achievements have emphasized the convergence of libraries, archives, and museums with each other to create homogeneous models. Most of them have focused on the study of the CIDOC CRM and several studies have focused on its family models. Many studies have tried to share their experiences by reporting practical plans. From the viewpoint of classical research methodologies, many others have not reported a specific methodology for carrying out the projects, and all have tried to use semantic web tools. One of the most important challenges for users of CIDOC CRM family models was the ambiguity in the interpretation of the model and the multiplicity of implementation methods. Conclusion: Considering the maturity of the CIDOC CRM, attention to teaching the model to users and providing different guides at different levels for optimal utilization by the special interest group of CIDOC CRM are necessary.

Purpose: A considerable amount of scholarly articles are disseminated on Twitter. The current research aims to analyze the dissemination of around 45 million tweets of scientific papers as a sample of altmetric capabilities in big data analysis on social web. Methodology: The current study is an applied research in terms of objectives while it is a descriptive and survey in terms of data analysis and conducted using altmetric indicators. Research sample consisted of all 44, 828, 322 tweets and retweets of more than 676, 400 papers obtained from Altmetric Explorer at the time of data collection in November 2017. Findings: Results of the study revealed that %78. 8 of all mentions of scientific papers in social web were on Twitter. Temporal investigation of tweets showed a considerable increase in the number of scientific papers which have been shared on Twitter during the time under consideration. The highest share of tweets and the most number of tweeters were found to be from the United States, The UK and Australia. Moreover, research output published in medical science as well as multidisciplinary sciences journals were tweeted more frequently than other research areas. Conclusion: Twitter has been identified as the most important social media platform and altmetric source for sharing of research output. It has a large potential to measure the social impact of scientific output.

Purpose: research methods have an important role in organizing efforts and scientific studies. For this reason, many researcher to analyze the methodology of the research, evolution and development in KIS. Therefore, the purpose of this study is a comparative analysis of research methods and data collection tools in selected KIS journals in Iran. Methodology: This study was conducted using content analysis method. The data collection technique was checklist and document observation. The study population included 943 articles published in National Studies on Librarianship and Information Organization (NASTINFO), Research on Information Science and Public Libraries and Journal of Academic Librarianship and Information Research during 2005-2014. Findings: The findings showed that survey and literature review methods were the most popular methods used by researcher. Using review method had a relatively sharp decline in the second five-year period. After changing the degree of scientific journals, the research method significantly different between the two periods. The most common technique for data collection was questionnaire and document observation in first five-year period. Using document observation technique had a relatively sharp decline in the second five-year period. After changing the degree of scientific journals, the data collection technique significantly different between the two periods Conclusion: This study is one of the first studies using a systematic methodological classification to compare methodological changes in KIS journals in Iran. The degree change of scientific journals along with a transformation in education of research methodology in KIS can to help an innovation and diversity in the research field.

Purpose: The main objective of this research is to measure the Intellectual Capital of Academic Libraries based on the Bontis’ s model and its relationship with organizatinal performance. Methodology: Data collection tool was based on intellectual capital questionnaire and organizational performance was designed to confirm the validity (content and structure) and the reliability has been used. In this regard, techniques for analyzing data from factor analysis and tests Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (K-S), T-Test, Pearson correlation test, equal variances, Levene, and the test statistic to compare the SPSS 22. 0 software was used. Findings: The results show that "intellectual capital" from the perspective of managers and staff of selected state universities is Desirable. Other research findings indicate that the three dimensions of intellectual capital, the situation of "structural capital" in the library of the condition is very Favorable. Other findings also suggest that the relationship between intellectual capital and its constituent components (customer capital, human capital and structural capital) is positively and significantly with the corporate library. Also, the results imply that managers and employees have the same views about intellectual capital. Conclusion: Administrators of these sites to promote investment and management of intellectual capital can be seen more and more libraries are in organizational performance.

Purpose: The present article is devised to determine the fields, requirements, barriers, and factors affecting on the activity of faculty of knowledge and information science in scientific social networks. Methodology: Approach of research, this qualitative study was grounded theory. The main method of data collection was a semi-structured interview. Data analysis is based on the analysis of three levels of Strauss and Corbin coding that includes coding, coding, and coding, and using MAX QDA software. The sampling was carried out in a targeted way and the main criterion of the researcher regarding the number of interviews was to reach theoretical saturation. Findings: analysis of the data leads to the extraction of the 5 main categories 13 sub floors and 65 classes. Conclusion: The central concept of research, called "scientific socialization", was formed. Scientific socialization brings the scientific spirit of social relations that passes through the process of socialization to members of the community.

Purpose: the current paper aims to develop a literature-dependent conceptualization of web credibility evaluation as a consequence of increasing number and variety of web information accessible to web users and librarians and also to show potential related research backgrounds. Methodology: searching bibliographic databases and studying related literature in such research areas as Information Science, Psychology, Sociology and Computer Science. Findings: credibility evaluation is consists of two main components including trustworthiness and expertise. Operator, content and design are the three basic issues of web information credibility. Users’ characteristics, influential factors, theoretical frameworks and the overall credibility evaluation process are subjects of high importance in this regard. The credibility evaluation is a process incorporating different stages and phases. Conclusion: The findings showed that the credibility evaluation is a concept with different and multiple dimensions and components suitable for users, designers and policymakers to take them into consideration in design and evaluation of web resources.

Purpose: This research aims to identify the difference in the information searching behavior of high school students regarding to their experience and spatial intelligence in simple and complex tasks. Methodology: This is a fundamental research following a comparative research design, A questionnaire was used to collect demographic information and measure the experience. Also, the method of view and analysis of users' transaction reports was another tool for gathering data. To measure spatial intelligence, Ekstrom, French, Harman and Durman (1976) Tests were used. the population of research consisted of 90 female students (14 and 15 years old) of the 8th and 9th grades who studied in the school of Shiraz University. Participants searched two search tasks on Roshd and Jostar educational websites, and the findings of their searching behavior were recorded. Findings: The results of the study showed that average of four variables of the searching behavior including the query length, the reformulation, the result pages and the links in the simple tasks, were less than the complex ones. Also, students with low spatial intelligence have a lower average of these four variables than medium and high school students. In other words, users with medium and high spatial intelligence had more interaction with websites. Conclustion: Investigating the information searching behavior of students and it's affecting factors help information systems' designers to design websites that are compatible with users' needs according to their features. Also, personalized retrieval systems can be create which cognitive features such as spatial intelligence were considered.

Purpose: Comparing the homogeneity/heterogeneity rate of information elements of electronic and print FIPA in books published for children in National Library and Archives of I. R of IRAN Methodology: expressive software agents bibliographic records of children and adolescent's books in the National Library since 1387 to 1392 with data elements CIP published in children and adolescents books were compared in comparative survey method. The checklist was used to collect the data. Findings: The most homogenous title information element (title) with % 97/8, in publishing the information element was 97% in the place of publication, 96% in part of the physical description and note and the ISBN, 94/6 percent in the analytical part of DDC numbers, and 73/8 percent in the heading section (name of person). Conclusion: The standardization of data elements of electronic CIP and published CIP of children's books is fairly in good condition. Iran's National Library will be attentive to cataloging children books. Also in Children Cataloging group, the more effective use of subject specialists needs more attention paid to the issue of targeted and continuous training in this area.