فصلنامه مطالعات تربیتی و روانشناسی
سال پنجم شماره 2 (پیاپی 10، بهار 1384)

The paper is examining patterns of interdisciplinary relationship in thirteen disciplines such an: economy, business, history, geography, acounting, Law, psychology, social sciences, education, political science, philosophy, library and information science, and management by using citation analysis method. All the reliable scientific journals of the disciplines for the five year period from 1997 - 2001 were selected to be analyzed. From this, a sample of 3829 cited items have been analysed. The result of the research showed that the social sciences in Iran are integrated, and some disciplines are fairly receptive to the literatures out of the social sciences.

This survey investigates the attitudes of chief librarians at different departments of central libraries in Iranian universities regarding their expected duties, knowledge, skills and capabilities. A questionnaire was sent to 245 chief librarians and ANOVA and T-test were used to analyze the collected data. Findings are as follows:The most important "common duties" of the chief librarians are expected to include writing, evaluating and correcting the task guidelines, monitoring the task processes, teaching workshops, encouraging their colleagues to participate at seminars, and arranging some regular meetings. The most important common job specifications for the chief librarians are expected to include leadership and management capabilities, communication skills, the ability to use library softwares, the ability to work in critical situation, and being creative. The most important "special duty" of every chief librarians in different departments are expected to include: Monitoring the acquisitions process (acquisitions dept), getting information about new editions of cataloging resources (technical services), planning for reference services (periodicals dept), monitoring the circulations process (leading and coordinating the eirculations affairs) (circulation dept). The major "special job specifications" in different departments are: The knowledge about the publishing market and related laws Acquisitions dept). Knowledge and skills in descriptive and analytical cataloging of all types of resources (reference dept), skills to use serials control software (serials dept), control over loan fines (circulations dept). The findings also showed that there was a slight difference between the viwponts of the tow groups of the chief librarians (BA. And MLA) about the "common duties" and "common job specifications".

This paper studies the relationship between information consuming, national development and information production. The Methodology of research is correlation. Statistical community is consisted of developed and developing countries having - respectively -- the highest and the lowest degree of national development indicators, plus Iran. The correlation between GNP-per capita and some national development indicators (book circulation, newspaper circulation, number of Internet connections, number of the literate, and number of higher education students) are studied. The results show that GNP-per capita is positively and significantly correlated with book circulation, newspaper circulation, number of Internet connections, number of the literate, and number of higher education students. Studying the relationship between GNP-per capita and the total number of papers indexed in the three studied databases (Eric, Agris, and Medline) show a positive and meaningful correlation. In most of Scandinavian countries, the rate of development indicators are high, and the mount of information production and consumption in this countries are higher, comparing to other regions.

Information literacy is now considered as power and the capability to compete with others. However, it is not clear to what extent users of the library of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) need information literacy skills, what skills they should be taught in information literacy workshops and what features such workshops should have. To answer these questions, an experimental research was carried out at FUM. The population of this research consisted of post-graduate students who are studying in Humanities and Social Sciences faculties. According to Kohen table, and based on stratified sampling, forty postgraduate students formed the sample of this experimental research. Although more than this number were volunteers for participating in this research and attending the related workshop, thirty-three had the necessary requirements. Data were collected through 1) a questionnaire, which was based on the standards of information literacy and researcher's experience, 2) observation of participant's behavior in performing their exercises during the workshop, 3) and a focus group interview. The questionnaire was used both in pre-test and post-test. In order to investigate the effectiveness of learning outcomes, the focus group was arranged 3 month after the workshop and post-test. The analysis of the information gathered reveals that almost all of the students participated in this research needed the information literacy skills. There was significant difference between their information literacy skills before the workshop and after it.

In this paper, we define the Web Impact Factor (WIF) with explaining its history, advantages and disadvantages. The Web Impact Factor (WIF) is a quantitative tool for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing web sites, web pages, top-level domains and sub-domains. In addition, we discuss briefly about the differences between the Web Impact Factor and the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), and the utilities of hyperlinks and the WIF in Web indexing. As a sample, we calculated the WIFs of 15 Iranian universities, and we found that the web sites for Iranian universities have a low inlink WIF. This indicates that for linguistic reasons, Iranian (Persian) sites may not receive and attract the attention that they deserve from the World Wide Web. Moreover, Shahid Beheshti University web site with a WIF of 12/33 had the highest impact factor and the University of Tehran with 9750 web pages had the highest web size between Iranian university web sites.

Iranian websites were investigated based on website evaluating criteria including: sponsors, types, aims, subjects, domains, languages, accessibility, updating, links, facilities and services. 265 Websites surveyed in this study were selected from The "Directory of famous Iranian websites and famous foreign sites on the web", Iran Digest web directory, and three search engines (Google, Yahoo, Lycos). Findings showed that 54.7% of Iranian websites were in English, and 56.6% had links to other websites. Most of the websites were based in Tehran, and were accessible directly and freely. Findings also showed that 80 % of them were not updated. Subjects like science, sports, children, arts and humanities, and culture and social science, had not been paid attention in these websites. Most of the domains used included. com,. ac, and. ir. Informative websites (29.4 %) were developed more than other types while services (8.3 %), news (7.2%) and personal (2.3 %) websites were less.

In this article, first, the world's document delivery service websites will be analyzed, using content analysis method. Then Iran's document delivery services will be studied through the survery meghod. In the first part, the content and structure of world's document delivery service websites (107 websites)will be studied. All 107 websites will be downloaded to a personal computer in a specific period of time (ile. April, 2004). The data will be entered in to a spread sheet excel database, and will be counted using this software. The most frequent characteristics will be selected as the dominant characteristics in the content and structure design of the world's document delivery service websites. Since at the time of this study the document delivery service websites of Iran were few, the data was gathered using the survey method and questionnaires. At the end according to the results of both used methods along with considering the conditions of document delivery services in Iran, the design plan of Iran's document delivery service website is proposed and a sample website is designed and presented.

By the increasing amount of publishing electronic resources on the internet and generalizing this phenomenon through out the world, electronic journals have been found their significance for exchanging electronic scientific information. While publishing electronic journals are very important, but creating necessary facilities for rapid accessing of users to the findings of researches is more important. Use of Metatags is one of the most important facilities for introducing the contents of electronic journals to the search engines and standardizing them. Hence, investigating the amount of using Metatags in Persian Electronic Journals is subject of this research. 97 Persian Electronic Journals constitute the statistical population of this research. Survey research is the method for studying the amount of use of Metatags in these E-journals. Findings of survey show that the amount use of Metatags in Persian Electronic Journals is 26.9 percent. Persian Electronic Journals with the. net domain name, by 20.83 percent, used the maximum Metatags in designing their E-journals pages.