Department of Information and Knowledge Science (1994 - Present)
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Library and Information Science
, Tarbiat Modares University,
English literature
, Allameh Tabatabaei University,
The purpose of this study was to Design model Interaction Operational selective dissemination of information(SDI) in academic libraries. This research is purpose-oriented, applied, and methodically-oriented. The statistical population of this study included all MSc students, Ph.D. students and faculty members of Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. According to the statistics available on the site of the university, the faculty members of the university were 730 faculty members, 3000 students Ph.D., and 4000 students MSc. Using the Cochran formula, the number of faculty members was 253, 340 were Ph.D., and the MSc students 350 were selected. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the experts of informat
Purpose: Economic status is one of the factors influencing scientific development. The present study aims to determine and explain the impact of economic factors on Iran's scientific development over the past 27 years. Methodology: This research is applied and belongs to scientometrics research. Data collection is done in a library method and referring to databases and reports of relevant organizations. To analysis the data, structural equations and PLS software have been used to answer the questions by T statistics and path coefficient.Findings: The findings show that all the indicators of Iranian scientific development that have been presented over the last 27 years are generally growing each year. In the meantime, the employment rate had
The purpose?of this?study?is?to investigate?the impact?of customer?knowledge?management?on?word of mouth, considering the mediating role of E-service quality.?This applied study used descriptive correlational?methods. A questionnaire was used to measure the research variables. The statistical society is the customers of electronic retailers in Tehran. The sample size was determined according to the Cochran formula (384).? The results of this study showed that the customer knowledge management affects word of mouth by mediating the quality of electronic services. Also, the dimensions of customer knowledge management (knowledge about, for and of the customer) have a positive and significant impact on the quality of electronic services. The qu
Purpose: To determine the impact of the knowledge management infrastructures and the dimensions of improvement of managers' decision-making on the status of knowledge management in the public libraries affiliated to the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. Method: This research is a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical sample of the research was selected by using the cluster random sampling method. Six provinces with 300 samples were selected and finally 247 full questionnaires were returned. The research tool consists of a researcher-made questionnaire. For the data analysis, the exploratory factor analysis and linear regression analysis were used. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, the factor analysis and to assess its
Purpose: This research attempts to analyze scientific collaboration among Iranian medical researchers based on social network indicators. Methodology: This is an applied research conducted using scientometrics methods, by analyzing the co-authorship network among researchers using the social network analysis indicators. 57460 articles published by Iranian medical researchers from 2003 to 2013 in Web of science were surveyed. To analyze the data from existing functions Bibexcel, Pajek, Vosviewer and UCIinet software were used and to test the hypothesis Spearman correlation test was employed. Findings: The network density was 0/097, network clustering coefficient of 1/000, the mean distance of 2.5 and the network components index was calculat
Introduction: Book therapy is an effective and practical process that can prevent or reduce a range of mental health problems. Prisoners are among the most in need of attention in terms of mental health. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of book therapy on the mental health of women prisoners. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study. The research population included all prisoners in Shahr-e-Rey women prison, Iran. A sample of 30 prisoners was selected using available sampling method. Samples were randomly assigned into two equal groups of test and control. The intervention consisted of ten sessions of book therapy during one month for the test group. Health was measured before and after intervention in both groups.
Introduction: The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of the public libraries of Iran Public Libraries Foundation and those of Art and Culture Organization of Tehran Municipality. This study also evaluated the present situation of these libraries and has been compared them with the standards of public libraries. Methodology: This research is an applied survey and had mixed data collection method. A questionnaire was used for measuring the effectiveness of the libraries and a check list was used for evaluating their present situation. Findings: Research findings showed that the effectiveness of public libraries of Iran Public Libraries Foundation is more than municipal libraries. In the former, there is a positive signi
Purpose: The aim of the present research is to study the effects of the digitalization of the system on the organizational effectiveness of academic libraries based on Parsons' theoretical model of the four functions of social systems. Methodology: The research population consisted of 12 academic libraries in Tehran, which were studied in three levels of high, average and low based on the degree of digitalization. This analytical-practical research employs the survey research method and uses a researcher-created checklist and a standard questionnaire to collect data. Excel, SPSS16, and Smart PLS software were used to describe and analyze data. Findings:The results of the study support its general conceptual framework and its assumptions. Th
Purpose: In this research, the main objective was to evaluate Iranina University library OPACs in two categories (including commercial and designed by universities OPACs) in terms of search, display, browsing, and other features (limitations to type of the document).Methods: It was an applied research that has been evaluated OPACs using a check list of features. In this research, sampling was not done and all university OPACs identified in Academic libraries of Iran have been studied.Results: From 121 features identified in the first phase, 52.06 % was belonged to display category. According to the experts, more than 95% of the features were considered highly important. 23.14% Features were not available in OPACs of Iranian universities. Th
The purpose of this study was to identify effect of human factors on information security in education departments of Gonbad-e Qabus and Maraveh Tapeh. In this study, the effective variables on information security were selected from the human resource dimension and viewpoints of managers and employees toward their impact on security were evaluated and given the importance of security for today''s organizations, a managerial model was proposed to investigate the role of human factors in the security of information systems. The research is the applied research method which has been done in a descriptive - survey method and 103 employees who were most used by computer and network were selected as a statistical sample using the purposeful samp
Purpose: The main aim of this research is to rank the public libraries under Iran Public Libraries Foundation in the West Azerbaijan province using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method according to their information services. Methodology: This is a survey-descriptive research whose statistical population consists of 67 public libraries in the West Azerbaijan province. Information services of public libraries under investigation were collected by using questionnaires and then ranked based upon the AHP method and Expert Choice software. Findings: Findings indicate that among the 67 public libraries in Western Azerbaijan province, Sheikh Shaltoot Mahabad Public Library with 0. 060 points ranked first and the Central Library of Urmia wit
Results: The evaluation results show that Iran's cinema websites are based on the three-level pyramid model, which are general criteria, at a good level, in the middle of the pyramid with appropriate specialized standards at the head of the pyramid consisting of Specialized criteria are at the right level.Conclusion: A fully cinematic web site is considered to include at least two criteria for special services and customer service at the head of the pyramid, one in a highly professional and user-friendly manner, and at the level of the best of the same foreign websites Have your website. It seems that Iran's cinematic websites are beginning to work on this and need more activity and experience.
Purpose: This study aims to reveal the intellectual structure of Knowledge and Information Science and its evolution along with the review of journals subjective scope based on 6830 abstract in the ten core journal in the JCR 2013, over the ten years (2004-2013).Methodology: In this research, co-word and Correspondence analysis of 150 words-selected by tf-idf weight-were done after parametric analysis. To this end, the Cosine theta index and the second-order affinity were used for the hierarchical clustering based on the average-linkage algorithm.Findings: The results of the co-word analysis reveal 3 mature clusters and 1 immature cluster in relation to the second cluster. Furthermore, the study of journals' domain show four clusters and th
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to map and study the cognitive structure of the field of Knowledge and Information Science from the perspective of full text words or phrases, their distribution in journals, and their usage over time. Methodology: This study used the content analysis of 6830 articles (2004-2013) in 10 core journals based on the JCR 2013. Parametric way of key extraction has been used to select 150 words and phrases according to their TF-IDF weight. Finally, the similarity matrix based on the Cosine theta index and the second-order affinity, was used to construct hierarchical clustering by average-linkage algorithm in" Provalis Research" software. Also, correspondence analysis was used to study concepts historic evalua
The aim is "to assess the extent to which the objectives of in-service training courses are met in central libraries of Tehran public universities". The used method is surveying. Three researcher-made questionnaires were used to collect data and descriptive and analytical methods were used to answer questions and test hypotheses. The research population is the central libraries of 13 public universities in Tehran. To assess the validity of the questionnaire, the questionnaire was given to the relevant experts. In order to determine the reliability of the questionnaires, the questionnaires were distributed among 30 participants as a trial. Using SPSS software, the confidence coefficient was calculated with Cronbach's alpha. The results showe
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of positive thinking on increasing the communication skills of librarians in general libraries of Tabriz city. This research is an applied research method and is a survey method. The population of this study is librarians of general libraries located in Tabriz city. According to the relatively small number of statistical population, sampling was done by census method and a questionnaire (5 options based on Likert scale) was distributed among all librarians. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 91% which is an indicator of the reliability of the questionnaire. The distributed questionnaire consists of two parts of communication s
Purpose: The main purpose of the present research is to investigate the specialists’ use of specialized libraries in Iranian automotive industry research and development centers. In this regard, the manner of meeting the information needs of experts, and their satisfaction from libraries affiliated with the three major centers of automotive industry research and development including IPCO, NPDI (Iran Khodro), and Saipa, have been investigated. ? Methodology: This research is conducted in a survey method and the surveyed community includes all the experts from the three centers involved in research and development processes. The total population of the survey is 855 people, and according to the Morgan table, the sample size is 265 people.
Purpose: investigating the interests of Information and Knowledge Science publishers to marketing mixes comparing to selected publishers based on identified factors. Methodology: a survey research with statistical population of all publishers who specialize in Information and Knowledge Science. Among publishers of other disciplines, publishers who were most popular among their clients were selected regardless to their governmental or non-governmental nature. A researcher-made questionnaire was used for gathering data distributed to the staff of the popular publishing houses as well as some authors who cooperated with the publishers in recent years. Gathered data were then analyzed by SPSS software according to ANOVA, independent t-test, one
The purpose of this study was to investigate the management style of Tehran University libraries from the viewpoint of managers and staff and also to explain the relationship between the leadership style of managers and their creativity. A survey research was used to evaluate the mentioned components. The statistical population included all the staff and directors of affiliated libraries of University of Tehran located in Tehran with 110 staff and 18 managers from 23 libraries. The required data was collected using questionnaires. The Leadership Style Questionnaire of Likert was used to determine the leadership style of the managers and the organizational creativity questionnaire was used to determine the managers' creativity. The Likert le
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