نشریه مطالعات کتابداری و علم اطلاعات
سال سیزدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 37، پاییز 1400)

This research is an applied studies in terms of purpose and a quantitative research in terms of method. The statistical population of the study includes all graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, whose number according to the announcement of the university is 4443 people for the academic year 1400-99. This study involved 200 people as a sample of the study. The e-learning questionnaire developed in this study is the result of library studies and review of virtual learning patterns, which was designed inspired by Salmon (2004) model with emphasis on students' e-learning. To analyze the data from the exploratory factor analysis test using SPSS software version 22; And confirmatory factor analysis using LISREL software (version 8 * 8). The results of research tests showed that the reliability of the e-learning questionnaire with overall Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.97 and Cronbach's alpha coefficients of the components between 0.88 to 0.96 is appropriate and satisfactory. Sampling adequacy index and Bartlett sphericity test were calculated for factor analysis. In addition to the adequacy of sampling, the implementation of factor analysis based on the studied matrix was also justified, so the e-learning questionnaire has a suitable factor structure. All 36 items of the questionnaire are correlated. The correlation between the constructs of the students' e-learning questionnaire is significant and it can be said that the designed questionnaire has a good differential validity for the structures; Also, the results the present research showed that the 4-factor model has an acceptable fit with the research data. In general, according to the results of the present study, the designed items of the present questionnaire in the field of e-learning evaluation are valid and reliable questionnaires that can be used in future studies using this tool to determine the exact and comprehensive e-learning among students.

this survey was conducted to study the altmetrics status of journals in three countries of Iran, Turkey, and occupied Palestinian in two science citations and social science citation indexes. Moreover, the identification of those policy documents derived from these outputs was the other objective of the current study.

This was applied research conducted with a descriptive method utilizing scientometrics and altmetrics indicators. journals indexed in the Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes of the Web of Science was extracted using the citation reports for all three mentioned countries separately on 2018.

The results showed that Iran had the highest number of articles indexed in the science and social sciences indexes, as well as the highest indexed journals. Furthermore, in all countries, the indexed journals in Science have received the most attention in social media. Less than half of the Iranian publications, Turkey and occupied Palestine in both indexes have been referred to in policy documents, while Turkish got more mentions. The medical and environmental related subjects were at the main concentration of the most policy documents in the mentioned countries.

Given the importance of referring to scientific publication/outputs in policy, documents are really important to express the impact of research, designing and taking action which leads to the higher quality and wider coverage of policy documents by altmetrics providers.

A digital native is someone who is born in the digital age. Computers, mobile phones, and in general, the new technologies have surrounded their lives. Natives are more comfortable using technology, and more skilled than their predecessors. The dependence on technology and hence the use of digital media has led to significant changes in various aspects of the lives of digital natives, one of which is the way information is acquired. This study aimed to investigate the information seeking behavior of digital natives in smart schools in Tehran. 

This research is an empirical research with the qualitative approach. Methods used included literature review and library study, questionnaire and interview. The study unit in the present study is the students of 10th and 11th grade students of Faezun School. At first, 12 students were selected by purposeful sampling method for interview. The data were then collected by semi-structured interviews and analyzed by coding method. 

Findings showed that the most used sources were databases, Google search, friends, e-books, print books and Wikipedia. But the library is not that important for them as an information source and they don't use it. In terms of the information-seeking process, the findings showed that the search for information in this generation is non-linear and not all follow a specific pattern. Since digital natives have good access to information tools and spend most of their time in digital media, they usually use cyberspace to meet their needs. Possible barriers to accessing information from a digital natives’ perspective include filtering, poor English, poor information literacy skills, low Internet speed, high cost of Internet, and lack of access to quality content in Persian. Other findings regarding the evaluation of information resources showed that digital natives perform well in the evaluation of educational resources but perform poorly in evaluating non-educational resources, for example in the social media space.

The results revealed that digital natives have poor performance in information searching and content assessment skills in social media; considering the importance of the above in information seeking behavior, it is suggested that holding workshops and training courses set it on the agenda related to the items listed.

The aim of this research is to study the Construction and Standardization of measurement scale for studies that study the use of Internet Of Things.

Combination of descriptive developmental method used in this research. Statistical population of this research includes 8700 specialists of Internet Of Things with activity experience in companies of knowledge foundation in 2018, Of this community, 490 people have been selected as the sample using the Cochran formula. Statistical sample selected by cluster sampling method since first half of may unit first half of June in 2018.

Based on qualitative and quantitative criteria of the research, collected tools include 35 markers for the evaluation of 5 components. Test questions prepared based on theoretical literature. Test of measurement scale of Internet Of Things usage includes 5 parts: (training, research and scientific production, executive works, innovation, marketing and scales), and its content – related validity confirmed by professors and implemented on statistical sample. Based on implemented calculations of interior similarity coefficient, rate of micro scales of training, research and scientific production executive works, innovation, marketing and scales are respectively 0/83, 0/93, 0/96, 0/89, 0/82, and total test score is 0/95. Analysis method with varimax rotation used to determine structure validity and test components.

With respect to obtained validity and reliability, test of Internet Of Things usage is a tool that may be used for centers related to Internet Of Things research.

The present study has been conducted in order to investigate the feasibility of the preservation and maintenance systems in public libraries of Kerman.

To develop the study the sample of study including seven libraries in Kerman were selected

The results are as follows: The public libraries of Kerman enjoy an average level of using electronic systems of preservation and maintenance, and information and communication technology. Familiarity and proficiency of the employees with the electronic systems of protection and maintenance were of a desirable and acceptable level. The public libraries of Kerman don’t have the necessary budget in order to take advantage of electronic systems of preservation and maintenance. The quality of the management approach toward the electronic systems of protection and maintenance shows an average of 3.349 which is evaluated as pretty desirable.

Regarding the findings of the study, the necessity of devising some plans for affording hardware equipments, passing helpful rules in order to supply the budget, and also providing the employees with necessary educations seem necessary.

The aim of this study was to identify the effective factors involved in the scientific outputs of public librarians in Kermanshah Province.

The research was applied in a survey method. The research population included 235 librarians of public libraries in Kermanshah province. The research sample was 146 librarian based on Cochran's formula. The data gathering tool was Ebegbulam and Jacintha (2016) questionnaire, which after validation was distributed among the research sample. Simple random sampling method was used. Descriptive statistical methods and inferential were used to analyze the data.

Findings showed that the research outoput among librarians was low. Responses in the motivational sector, have declared "the desire to promote themselves in the field of occupational activity" and "personal interest in research" as the most important motivational factors, respectively. In section of factors influence the increase in research, the " The desire to upgrade and progress" and "the desire to improve their performance in the workplace" are the most important factors. The barriers of doing research, the "lack of motivation for librarians to do research" and " Lack of fluency in foreign languages" were the most important obstacles. Also, "allocation of research funding to librarians" was the most effective way of increasing the scientific production of librarians.

Providing incentive programs for librarians to do research, preparing facilities for their education continuing and setting up research groups based on librarians, is proposed to plan for the development of scientific and research capabilities of the them.

Since information search behaviors are a reflection of the needs of users, it is important to identify and understand them in the design of the proper user interface. Therefore, the purpose is to determine the level support for environment of the user interface of databases from the Meho and Tibbo model.

This is an applied research. The method was performed using Webometrics with an Heuristic Evaluation Method. The statistical population consisted of 100 Ph.D. students of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and a census sampling method. Data Collection tools the check list consists of four elements derived from the Meho and Tibbo model.

showed, Support the user interface for the Science direct and Clinical Key databases in Meho and Tibbo model is higher than the average (2.08, 07.07) (2).The interface environment support for the Sprinter has been reported to be modest (2/01) and the Wiley is less than average (1.79). The ranking of the support these Databases from the model showed that, the Databases Science Direct, Clinical key, Springer, and Wiley won the first to fourth place with a score of 2.91, 2.84, 2.55, 1.71., the database user interface support for the Meho and Tibbo models is moderate.

the use of these elements in the design of the interface environment can have a great impact on the optimization of the interface of the database.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between academic environment, researchers' experiences and the quality of research output at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (SBUK), Iran.

This research was applied in purpose and conducted using a scientometric approach. The research population included articles by researchers from SBUK, which were published in journals indexed in the Scopus citation database. SPSS software (version 21) was used for data analysis in this study.

The findings of this study showed that the researchers' experiences have the potential to significantly predict the quality of research outputs, and an academic environment is not a suitable variable for predicting the quality of research outputs. In other words, it is the growing experience of researchers at SBUK that paves the way for the rising quality of their research outputs. Other findings of this study indicate that there is no relationship between the academic research environment and the quality of research output at SBUK. The analysis of the relationship between researchers' experience and their academic environment also showed that there is no significant relationship between these variables at SBUK.

Based on the results of this study, in order to raise the quality of research activities, less emphasis should be placed on the quantity of research output. To provide an incentive for scholars to improve the quality of their research endeavors, academic institutions should stress the importance of the most highly cited research articles. By providing adequate research facilities and equipment (up-to-date libraries, well-equipped laboratories and advanced technologies), universities and institutes of higher education can create the ideal context for optimizing the productivity of research environments. Accordingly, any development in research experiences and the subsequent improvement in the quality of research outputs will enhance the country’s progress and excellence in various scientific fields. In this sense, the ideal goals for the comprehensive development of the country will be ultimately realized.

Nowadays, organizations have too much attention to organizational knowledge management for achieving superiority among organizations. Organizations must provide the ground for sharing the knowledge amongst employees and develop behaviors to convince them that they should act beyond the requirements of their formal roles and responsibilities (organizational citizenship behavior). Another important factor facilitating knowledge sharing is the motivation of employees to participate in sharing knowledge (Work engagement). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between work engagement and knowledge sharing by mediating organizational citizenship behavior among non-clinical staff of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences.

The present study was applied in terms of its practical purpose, information gathering methods, correlation through structural equation modeling (SEM), time and cross-section perspective (in 2018), and the type of data used is qualitative. The research population was consisted of 1182 non-clinical staff of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences. The sample size was determined by Cochran formula and 280 members were selected by stratified random sampling. The data collection tools included three questionnaires, including Knowledge Sharing questionnaire (Chennamaneni, Teng & Raja; 2012), work engagement questionnaire (Schaufeli, Bakker & Salanova; 2006), and the organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire (Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Paine & Bachrach; 2000). The proposed model test was performed using the structural equation model using AMOS-21 software.

The results indicated a positive and significant relationship between work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior (r= 0.48), organizational citizenship behavior and knowledge sharing (r = 0.47), and work engagement with knowledge sharing (r = 0.54) which is meaningful in P

The purpose of this study was to evaluate in-house library software in terms of performance indicators based on the view of librarians. The study population included 131 librarians. The researcher-evaluated research method and the method of collecting the researcher-made. The results showed that 64/64 of software in circulation advice, Symad software 50/89 percent, 08/70 percent Parwan software, software Tehran 22/56 percent, 76 percent have a favorable condition sojourn software. The procurement and ordering section does not exist in the software of Tehran, Pand, Parwan. And although it's designed, it's not actually used in Mava software. Only in the Simmand software librarians actually use this section and 36.1% of them are in good condition. In storage and retrieval of 41.64% of software, 34.71% of Simmand software, 24.61% of Parwan software, 37.69% of software in Tehran, 40.38% of Mova software are in good condition. In the reporting section, 24.24% of the software is Pand, 53.20% of the software, 18.19% of the software in Parwan, 32.77% of the software in Tehran, 56.08% of the software in Mova is a desirable situation. The results showed that only Simmand software has paid attention to the orders section, which requires more attention in this section. Also, the software is lagging behind in various subdivisions , there are weaknesses,In fact, intra-house library software has been able to some extent meet the daily needs of librarians in these sectors, but, given the advancement of technology, it has not been able to meet their expectations

The purpose of this study is to determine the factors that affect the acceptance of e-books by 1st-period high school students of Isfahan city based on the constructive factors of the Technology Acceptance Model 3 (TAM3).

This research is a descriptive research and was performed using surveys and correlation analysis. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data and SPSS23 and Amos22 software were used to analyze the data. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed. The participants were 460 1st-period high school students from the of Isfahan city, who were randomly selected by randomized cluster sampling.

Path Analysis of the research data showed that all the determined paths in the conceptual research model, except the direct effect of the "result demonstrability" on the "perceived usefulness", are significant and the model has an acceptable overall fit. The mediator variable, "experience", could only affect the relationship between "subjective norms" and "intention to use ". This means that the more experience that a teenager has about the use of technology, the greater impact on their intention to use e-books. None of the voluntariness and experience mediating variables could have an effect on other relationships of the model.

Many developed countries have accepted e-books as an inseparable format form the libraries, schools, colleges, and many centers. So, they are taking advantage of them. The results of this study, which was performed based on a group of teenagers and students with the TAM3 model, showed that with clear and precise steps, many of activities and investments can be coordinated to use this technology as much as possible also introduce in society as a positive cultural behavior.

The aim of this study is to identify the psychological factors affecting the information-seeking behavior of information users employing a systematic review.

In the present study, a systematic method was used as the research method. In order to investigate the research process, the framework suggested by Arksey & O’malley (2005) was used as the main guide. This framework includes a set of structured and detailed guidelines for designing, implementing, and reporting results in systematic review studies. These steps include:The first step was to ask a research question. At this stage, the researcher addresses two questions. The second step was to identify studies full text related to information-seeking behavior. The third step was to select articles. The primary criterion for entering the study was the relationship between articles and psychological factors in information-seeking behavior in the two databases of the Scientific Information Database and Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Comprehensive Portal of Human Sciences. The fourth step was to extract data from selected articles. At this stage, all articles related to the selected topic were then transferred to the data extraction form based on Excel software, which was designed in accordance with the purpose of the research. The fifth step was data collection, summarization, and reporting.

Finding showed three main components and 16 variables have been effective on information-seeking behavior. The main psychological factors include socio-educational factors (information counseling, and self-efficacy); cognitive factors were comprised of (thinking styles, critical thinking, creativity, curiosity and mental norms, motivational beliefs, cognitive styles, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, epistemological beliefs, self-directed learning and self-regulation); and finally the factors which result in mental and personality disorders (anxiety, excitement, and personality).

Psychological factors seem to play an important role in the information-seeking behavior of information users in different societies, and Iranian society is no exception. However, in the published articles in the field of information-seeking behavior, more attention has been paid to information content and less attention has been paid to the psychological characteristics of individuals that originated from the human psyche and mind. In other words, information seekers' information-seeking behaviors rely heavily on psychological factors and personal characteristics.