International Journal of Information Science and Management
Volume:12 Issue: 2, Jul-Dec 2014

This article analyzed the various bibliometric components of the articles published in the Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science from 1996 to 2012. Various quality aspects of the 279 articles published in the period were studied. The study demonstrates and elaborates on the various aspects of the journal, such as its distribution of article by year, authorship patterns, distribution of contributions by institution, subject distributions, citation patterns, length of article, and geographical distributions of authors. Analysis of data reveals that more number of research articles are published from Malaysia followed by India. Bibliometrics / Scientrometrics / Journal Studies and User Studies are leading subject areas have been carried out during this period. The highest number of contributions was published in the year of 2011. The maximum number of articles has been contributed by academic institutions. Citation analysis of 6779 citations includes finding out average number of citations per contribution. The average degree of author collaboration has been arrived at 0.645 during the study period.

This paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of the Medical Sciences (MS) domains in Iran. Totally 9047 articles indexed in ISI (Thomson Reuters Database) from 1989 to 2008 in December 2008 have been extracted. HistCiteTM applications are used to discover the Iranian publication status during this period. The publication count has grown at an approximate rate of 40.5% per year. We tried to introduce the most productive authors, and cited works. Moreover, distributions of output in journals identified by ISI and research output analysis of different universities were presented. The most influential cited authors and articles in this research were drawn. Finally, the process of the evolution of the medical sciences discipline, and its shift over the period of the research was traced and shown in the map. Using HistCiteTM applications, retrieved articles were analyzed and visualized.

The present study attempts to identify the contribution of Asian countries in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). The OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories, listed 2,299 repositories in the month of June 2013 when the data were collected. Data were later presented in tabular forms and analysed using quantitative techniques to reveal findings in accordance with desired objectives. The results reveal that Asia is the third largest region in terms of number of open access repositories in the world after Europe and North America contributing 400 (17.40%) repositories out of 2299 in all. The highest number of repositories in Asia is contributed by Japan (138, 34.50%) followed by both India and Taiwan (58, 14.50%). The linguistic assessment shows that most of Asian repositories (305, 76.25%) accept contents written in English language followed respectively by Japanese (137, 34.25%) and Chinese (91, 22.75%). The majority of the repositories is created by the higher institutions (374, 93.50%) like universities and research centres dealing with various branches of knowledge. Most of these repositories are multi-disciplinary (268, 67.00%) whereas more than 10% is related exclusively to Technology (10.75%, 43) and Health/Medicinal Sciences (10.50%, 42). These repositories archive various types of materials and most of the repositories preserve articles (81.50%), theses (52.50%), conference proceedings (35.40%) and books (26.50%). The administrators have used twenty one (21) software brands to manage 400 repositories in which DSpace is used by the maximum (275, 67.85%) and its second competitor is Eprints used only by (56) 14.00% of repositories. The study revealed various facts however; findings should be cautioned as the scope of the study is limited only to the OpenDOAR.

Data acquisition and delivering information resources to clients are among the most vital functions of libraries. However, current political and economic crisis has imposed unpleasant effects on these functions. In such conditions, selecting information resources becomes an ever more complex task. This research intends to answer the question on whether or not the purchase of Scopus services in such a crisis, which makes the subscription of credible scientific journals much more difficult, is a beneficial choice for Iranian medical libraries. The problem will be answered by analyzing the accessibility to full text articles via “view at publisher” image links in Scopus database. Different studies have already been carried out on the abilities and features of Scopus database in scientometric and citation analysis. However, it seems that current study is the first research to examine the value and importance of existing link for accessing the full-text articles such as «view at publisher» link. This link is one of the remarkable features devised in Scopus which has a special importance for end users. Hence, access ratio to full-text documents cited in articles written by Iranian medical faculties was studied through the «view at publisher» link in Scopus, and also via a link devised in the A-Z list of full-text journals in the Iranian National Medical Digital Library database, available at URL: www. inlm. org, followed by comparing the results obtained through the study. Results showed the ability of Scopus to make full-text articles accessible for users'' depending on the type and level of individuals or institutional subscription. Such ability itself could justify the necessity for subscribing to Scopus by the universities of medical sciences. Regardless of other features of Scopus such as scientometric studies, etc., this ability becomes more important when access to some articles depends on paying subscription fee either privately or institutionally. Moreover, this ability provides the end-users to have access to a large volume of free papers. So, Scopus could be introduced as a gateway/portal for an easier access to full-text documents of various databases.

If archival centers organize archival resources on the basis of safe and global archivalstandards, then they will be useful for scholars. Bibliographic relations are important and essential in organizing and managing of archives. These relations are predicted for books in libraries by UNIMARC and IRANMARC. So, current research has studied on capabilities of UNIMARC and IRANMARC for management of archival materials. Findings revealed that on the basis of Specialists'' viewpoints basically UNIMARC and IRANMARC did not focus on hierarchical rules for archival materials. It seems that although UNIMARC is comprehensive for organizing library materials, it cannot provide necessary details for description, identification and classification of all complex relations in archival collections.

The study deals with the possibility of information loss in Web 2.0 due to the interaction between the overload and the real information. Using Gottesman and Preskill method, this investigation has proposed a mechanism to calculate the amount of information transformation in Web 2.0. In this proposal, there are three different Hilbert spaces that belong to the degrees of freedom of outside, inside, and overload information of Web 2.0. The information transformation in Web 2.0 is described at two stages. At the first stage, it is shown that the internal stationary state of Web 2.0 can be represented by a maximally entangled two-mode squeezed state of inside and overload information. At the second stage, the state of Web 2.0. is described by a maximally entangled two-mode squeezed state of overload and outside information. The amount of information transformation can be obtained by projecting the state at the first stage on the state at the second stage. Evidently, this study concludes that the information is not lost in Web 2.0.

If today''s organizations are not able to adopt themselves with environmental changes, they will lose the competition. In such a condition, organizations are in need of leaders who are capable of turning their companies into one having more ability to progress and even to survive in those situations. Transformational leaders guide organization from present to the future and apply suitable changes to support the organization''s objectives. Besides, knowledge management is a crucial influential factor in helping organizations survive and gain success in such a competitive environment and in this Information Age. Also, considering the fact that leaders play the role of a sample for others, their leadership style is directly influential in organization''s tendency and manner of facing processes and steps of knowledge management. Therefore, this article intends to find the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge management in Alvan Sabet Company. For this purpose, having done a revision of the existing literature on the field, we established five main hypotheses and four sub-hypotheses. To test the research hypotheses we have used questionnaires having been distributed among the population. The population of this research includes all the experts and masters of Alvan Sabet Co. totally being 47 in number. Regarding limitation in population size we have used census method in this research. We''ve made use of descriptive statistics technique to analyze demographic variables and to investigate the hypotheses, we have used Pearson Solidarity Test and Spearman. The result shows that the correlation between the transformational leadership style and knowledge management has been 0.784 which is considerably high.