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پیاپی 46 (بهار و تابستان 1389)

Despite being only six years in operation، Scopus has established itself as an outstanding database for the scientific information indexing. The existence of 18000 scientific publications titles from 5000 international publishers، 41 million scientific records، 23 million patent records and 435 million scientific web pages، including Scirus its companion scientific web search engine، has provided this database with unique capabilities. Understanding the historic basis of the Scopus database''s emergence، with an emphasis on its name derived from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem and the present location of Hebrew University and، also، representation of this database''s capabilities and criteria for indexing new scientific publications are the most important topics studied in this paper.

Since one of the factors affecting the survival and improving the performance and effectiveness of any knowledge production and publishing center such as، scientific journals، is evaluated by their performance، this article attempts to consider these journals according their characteristics and functions. The performance of one these journals active in the field of specialized publishing of articles about Iranian rural areas from the perspective of their special interest readers have considered according to their professional criticism and evaluation. In doing this، we have used some indicators to answer the question as to whether apparent changes in the journal form and fairness in the publishing scientific works have enhanced the thematic diversity of this research journal and its role in development of the rural science before and after it became scientific - research journal. Using a documentary method and a questionnaire containing questions related to scientific journal evaluation indices، in a total of 70 questionnaires completed from the selected sample and data finally collected data using the statistical package SPSS and application of analytical statistics (such as chi-square test، U man Whitney test and Z test) different aspects were analyzed. The results indicate that there is a significant difference between these indices under two conditions meaning there are many indicators that، after changes in the ranking of a scientific-research journal، give it a significant advantage.

The Web as an important information carrier and a tool for dissemination of information and electronic government continues its growth faster than before to spread its coverage to all social levels. For that، user groups of websites gain different levels of skill and capabilities to access relevant information on the Web. In this article we strive to represent a theoretical review of the concept، nature and application of web accessibility. This article could provide authors and interested people with a vast research field to study the various dimensions of web accessibility with a special emphasis on governmental websites.

This article will describe the logical process of drawing scientific maps. In this Article، we first locate the place of this field in scientometric science and then we will review the history of drawing these kinds of maps. Finallym we will explain the steps of this process، including: data extraction، definition of the unit of analysis، selection of measures، calculation of a similarity between units، ordination and use of the resulting visualization.

Higher education has been considered as one of the main driving forces in shaping the future of science and technology among the future studies and Science and Technology policy researchers. This importance is because of the role of higher education in creating، teaching، developing and fostering public understanding of science. Furthermore the globalization of higher education، mobility of students and researchers to capture research and educational skills in frontier countries، quality of well-known education and research center، outputs and other features make the competitiveness of higher education as important as ever. Policy researchers of science and technology contemplate the evaluation and quality assurance of higher education institutes to achieve competitiveness. Monitoring global trends and events in the evaluation of higher education is valuable for the evaluation of Iran''s higher education. In this paper experiences from US، Japan، Denmark and Pakistan in evaluation of higher education has been studied. At the end and based on the common features of the aforementioned countries، evaluation models، a model has been proposed. This model can be applied for the evaluation of Iran''s higher education.

The high cost of research and development and the growing trend of scientific and technological developments، on the one hand and limited human and non human resources allocated to research activities، on the other hand، has led governments to attempt to select and set priorities in the science and technology fields. Considering the effect of priority setting on the path the country''s science and technology، how to determine priorities is an important challenge among policy makers and researchers. Today، foresight as a tool used by policy makers for identifying the priority areas of science and technology. This paper overviews the foresight process and its effect on priority setting and، in the final section، displays how science and technology priority setting is conducted in South Korea.

Achieving the top rank in scientific and technological status in the south west Asia region was one of the most important and remarkable aspects of documentation policy making of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2025. Securing financial resources for research and technological activities is one of the most effective factors for fulfilling this purpose. In views of research the importance of this issue، this paper aims to investigate trend of providing credit for and technological activities from the National Budget from 1998 to 2009. The aforementioned credits have seen an average growth rate of 31. 2% from 1745 Million IRR (Iranian Rial''s) in 1998 to 34531 Million IRR in 2009. During the years mentioned، on average، 77. 6% percent of these credits were financed by the public Budget and 22. 4% percent were financed by state-owned companies، banks and profit entries depending on the government. The average annual growth rate of research credits equaled to 4. 6% percent during the years of the Fourth Development Plan is less than the average mentioned index during the Third Development Plan years. The findings of this research illustrate that the main financial resources for research and technological activities currently come from the government and، since non-governmental investigation execution fields of these activities have not been provided، the government should continue the play the main role at this activity.