LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Year:2020 | Volume:23 | Issue:3 (91)|Papers Count:6

Objective: The present research is aimed at introducing copies of the Qur'anic religion of the Timurid period at museums of Astan Quds Razavi and Astana Moghaddas in Qom to study the governing elements in the layout of the Quranic verses during the Timurid period. On the other hand, while describing the level of performance and the function of proportions in the principles of the layout in these versions, the measure of the indexes and dominant measurements in the layout of the versions is evaluated, analyzed and adapted. Research method/Statistical Society: This research has been done by descriptive research and has been investigated using an analytical-comparative approach and is applicable to the target. The collection of materials through library resources and the collection of religious Qur'anic versions have been carried out concerned to the field of the museums. Due to the limited number of copies obtained from the concerned museums, selection of the samples was small, and with advice of the experts in these sections, they were studied in a targeted way with openings and decorative plates. Therefore, five Qur'anic modifications were selected from each museum. The statistical analysis of the proportions in these versions was done by using SPSS software and by analyzing the variance of the calculations and percentages of ratios. Findings: The governing proportions in the principles of the layout and the interruption of the copies in Qur'ans studied from these museums are based on the golden and rectangular dynamic proportions. With considering the difference that the Golden proportions, the dynamic rectangle with the √ 2 criterion, and the discontinuity of the pages of Qom's works, are 52. 5 percent higher than those of Razavi. In reviewing the layout and adapting it to other existing cadres, the proportions of the ruler based on static rectangular ratios were deduced, so that Razavi's works are 57. 6 percent higher than the Qom works of this scale. Results: The results of this study showed that the most important and effective factor on the layout of Quranic versions in religion was the choice of cutting paper. The size of the calligraphy and writing in design and style, the type of form and the function of the illumination also play a crucial role in the internal design of the page layout. The index of gold index is used to measure the bonds.

Objective: The aim of this research is the critique of the hypertext elements of 42 Juridical and legal academic theses with the subject of "transplantation of human organs". The hypertextual elements of these academic theses such as title, abstract, structure and chapters are investigated in two ways: the degree of compliance of each with the research method and their duplication. Methodology: The research method is descriptive-analytic and with a check-list tool. Statistical population of the research were chosen through the websites of the National Library and archives, and Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (IranDoc) regarding academic theses in the field of jurisprudence and the basics of Islamic law and University Law Sub-fields with the subject "transplantation of human organs". Findings: The topic of "organ transplantation" in 90 percent of theses is the main issue and is the same. Nearly 40 percent of theses contain 6 elements of a structured abstract. Only 5 percent of the theses correspond to the number and content of the five chapters based on the research method. 15 percent have 5 sections and content is near to the content of the five sections, and 67. 5 percent of the theses are less than or greater than 5 sections. In content, 57. 5 percent of the thesis were not introduced in any section, general, and research process. In 65 percent of them, there is no reference to the background research and 50 percent are without a suggestion. Conclusion: According to the research findings, the results are "thesis creators (including author students, supervisors and advisors and university departments) did not pay much attention to the non-duplication of the academic theses topic and there was no comprehensive control and monitoring system to prevent duplication of the topic"; "each thesis abstract has a style tailored to the author's taste, meaning that most authors did not know at all what should be included in the abstract"; "in terms of content, in more than half of the theses in no chapter, generalities and research process are introduced and therefore the creator has not specified what policy he follows in his/her research"; "most of the theses do not mention the background of the research, that is, the author has not done any research in the research done to avoid duplication of work and presentation of purely duplicate content"; and "half of theses did not offer any recommendation. In other words, the author has not been able to provide practical suggestions in the subject of his/her research according to the obtained results.

Purpose: This research investigates the structure of Library and Information science based on indicators of authorship, co-authorship, and scientific influence model. Methodology: As practical research, based on scientometric and social networks analysis, the records have been retrieved from WOS by the selection of 35 journals from 1970 to 2016. The Citespace, visualization analysis tool, was used to accomplish co-authorship, UCINET for centrality metrics, and Bibexcel for the H-index family. Findings: An exact study of the number of authors in each article indicates that the dominant authorship pattern of Iran Knowledge and Information science is a two-author pattern. In this regard, the three-author approach is in second place with a frequency of 25%. The results of the study also showed the Jamali, with 25 articles and Kousha with 481 citations, respectively, have been awarded the title of the most productive and most cited authors among the authors of Iran Knowledge and Information science. The medal of the largest share of the cooperation among institutes and universities was awarded to Islamic Azad University. Other results of co-authorship analysis of Iran Knowledge and Information Science showed that the collaboration of Jamali and Nicholas in the field of information-seeking behavior on the one hand, and Kousha and Thelwall collaboration in the field of science measurement studies (especially webometrics) on the other hand, are new trends. On the other hand, considering the bursting of the occurrence of the Jamali and Nicholas in the coauthorship network of Iran Knowledge and Information Science, these two authors should be regarded as a kind of creators of an emerging trend in Iran Knowledge and Information Science. Finally, the findings showed that almost half of the articles in the Iran Knowledge and Information Science (46. 3%) had been prepared with the collaboration of authors from other countries. Iranian researchers have collaborated mostly with Asian countries. They have collaborated mostly with Malaysian researchers and, the second place with 14 frequencies is allocated to Australian researchers. Conclusion: The existence of a significant relationship between the two indicators of productivity and effect showed that the authors of Iran Knowledge and Information Science, while paying attention to the increase in the number of articles and their level of productivity, have also noted the quality of the articles. The results showed that merely receiving more citations, or increasing the level of scientific participation of a researcher, is not a sufficient condition for macro-scientific decision-making and policy-making, and the use of qualitative indicators and methods to validate the results of scientometric research in this regard seems necessary. Other results also showed that the increasing interest of Iranian researchers in collaborating with other authors in the production of joint scientific articles, has played a significant role in increasing visibility and receiving more citations over time.

Objective: Today, the role of physical and financial resources as a competitive advantage among organizations has diminished and is largely based on strategic management of knowledge and knowledge assets. This, in turn, has led to the emergence of companies and organizations whose core foundation is knowledge and application of ideas, creativity, and innovation in the realities of the new business world. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the components of knowledge management that affect the startups in Knowledge and Information Science. Methodology: The present study was conducted in two parts: qualitative (Meta synthesis and Delphi) and quantitative (exploratory factor analysis); first, the components of knowledge management for startups were identified by the Meta synthesis method and the components identified by the Delphi method were counted. Then, exploratory factor analysis was used to summarize and categorize the components. The population of the study included 30 experts in the field of Knowledge and Information Science and knowledge management, and in the exploratory section, the opinions of 300 IT startup managers were used. The research instrument was a researcher made questionnaire. The data were analyzed through SPSS software using mean and standard deviation, Bartlett and KMO test, and exploratory factor analysis. Finding: The findings show that the components of the knowledge management of startups in Knowledge and Information Science are nine factors of knowledge recognition, knowledge creation, knowledge organization, knowledge presentation, knowledge sharing, knowledge application, knowledge development, knowledge change and knowledge protection, which explain 70. 096 percent of the variance of Knowledge Management of Startups in Knowledge and Information Science. The results of exploratory factor analysis also show that the components of knowledge application, knowledge sharing and knowledge creation are the most important components of knowledge management of startups in Knowledge and Information Science, respectively. Conclusion: The results of this research can be used as a model for the implementation of knowledge management and thus provide the ground for the growth and development of such startups as much as possible.

Objective: This research investigates the citation, usage, reach and readership of scholarly books published by Springer Nature in four areas of Pure Sciences, Engineering, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences within three years after publication. Methodology: The current study is a descriptive – correlational research which is conducted using citation, altmetrics and usage-based indicators. The sample of study is comprised of 1184 electronic books from Springer published in 2013. The data was collected from Bookmetrix, Springer’ s platform for monitoring the performance of books, which shows the number of citations in Crossref, the number of downloads in SpringerLink, the number of mentions in social media tools and the number of bookmarks in Mendeley. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS. Findings: Results of the study revealed that Springer books in pure sciences were more frequently cited than the other three subject areas. Like citation data, download statistics varied between scientific areas and the highest download count belonged to engineering books. Results showed that books in medicine received more social media attentions compared with those in social sciences, pure sciences and engineering. Regarding Mendeley bookmarks, the engineering books demonstrated the highest number of bookmarks among four studied research areas. All the studied books have been downloaded at-least once, while the proportion of bookmarked, cited and mentioned books was 90. 2%, 67. 9% and 19. 5%, respectively. The highest number of downloads in all four subject areas was occurred 6 to 18 months after publication time. The results of running a series of correlation tests revealed statistically significant and positive associations among the number of citations, downloads, mentions and bookmarks in all four disciplines. Findings revealed that books with more download statistics also accumulated higher citation counts. The relationship between citations and downloads could be bilateral. On the one hand, early download may lead to more citations. On the other hand, documents may gain more attention and be downloaded because they acquire more visibility when they are cited. Conclusion: The results of the current study provide evidence that usage-based and social media-based metrics could act as the complement of traditional citation-based measures for assessing the impact of books and book chapters in a multidimensional way. This study also provides insights into different types of impact that scholarly books have and how they are being cited, downloaded and discussed in book-oriented and article-oriented disciplines. Librarians’ and researchers’ familiarity with alternative metrics are mandatory.

Objective: The purpose is to investigate the relationship between job security and knowledge sharing behavior with the mediation of organizational culture among library librarians of governmental universities in West Azarbaijan and East Azarbaijan. Methodology: The research method is analytical survey type. The study population consisted of all librarians working in the libraries of public universities in West Azerbaijan and East Azerbaijan Province (155 persons) who were surveyed by census method. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (by SPSS and LISREL) in the form of charts and graphs. Findings: The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between job security and knowledge sharing behavior (path coefficient 0. 73). There is also a positive and significant relationship between job security and organizational culture (path coefficient 0. 88). There is a positive significant relationship between knowledge sharing behavior and organizational culture (path coefficient 0. 80). Also, considering the direct effect of job security on knowledge sharing behavior through the presence of organizational culture variable (path coefficient 0. 79), it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between job security, knowledge sharing and organizational culture. After modeling and estimating its parameters, the first fundamental question that arises is whether the measurement model is a suitable measurement model. Model fit is to what extent a model is consistent with the relevant data. When a model is precisely identified and has similar properties, it can be estimated and tested. Finally, structural equation indices (RMSEA, NFI, PGFI, etc. ) were used to estimate the model fit. Conclusion: Managing organizations must rely on superior knowledge to make more reasonable decisions on important issues and improve knowledge-based practices. Knowledge management is therefore more important than knowledge itself in organizations that seek to explain how to transform individual and organizational information and knowledge into individual and group knowledge and skills. The most important feature in a competitive world is change, and what will not change is change itself, relying on the people of the organization as the most important asset of the organization, giving them new insights, insights and ideas. And to encourage the scientific use of them in advancing the goals of the organization, this requires the creation of organizational culture as a constituent of the personality of the organization and the orientation of employee behavior. Therefore, it is only by exploring, changing, and creating an appropriate and flexible organizational culture that one can gradually change the pattern of interaction between individuals in the organization and use knowledge management as a competitive advantage, and enhance the performance of organizations.