Assessment of lis journal's website based on website quality evaluation tools(WQET) and presentation of offered pattern

The survey has been conducted to evaluate and to recognize the websites conditions of the internal library and information journals based on the qualitative evaluation (W.Q.A.T.) tool. The research is evaluative survey and the evaluation tool is W.Q.A.T. The tool examines the validity of the websites based on the nine general criteria including: content, performance, validity, up-to-date, connection, graphics, scope, and the labels use. The population contained 13 library and information websites which had independent websites. To analyze the data obtained, the percentage, rating mean, and the standard deviation were used. More than 60% of the websites under study were evaluated from the content quality aspect and more than 80% from the performance score were evaluated as moderate and strong. From the validity score viewpoints, all the websites acted as moderate and more. Only 8% acted strong from the up-to-date aspect and the connection performance had moderate performance. Also, 47% of the websites obtained weak and very weak scores. More than 90% of the websites graphics performance was evaluated as upper moderate and more than 93% of them rated as strong, 46% of super labels were excellent and about 54% were weak. Of the all 31 components and 8 criteria for the evaluation of the library and information journals, only 2 performance and the content criteria had strong score. The graphics, structure, super labels had moderate, the connection and up-to-date criteria had weak performance.