Neda Zarei; Fariba Nazari; Mohammad Reza FarhadPoor
Volume 17, Issue 2 , July 2019
Abstract
Self-efficacy and the use of electronic information services acceptance among the university students can affect the learners' online services. This is the due to the learners' acceptance of using technology and its role in their life. Therefore, the complexity of online and offline services needs to ...
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Self-efficacy and the use of electronic information services acceptance among the university students can affect the learners' online services. This is the due to the learners' acceptance of using technology and its role in their life. Therefore, the complexity of online and offline services needs to be examined by the experts to assess the learners'' satisfaction which helps them to achieve electronic services. Learners' self-efficacy management can be evaluated as an important issue in the present study. The present study aims at investigating the survey of the relationship between the internet self-efficacy and using the electronic information services among the university students of Dezful Islamic Azad University, Khuzestan, Iran. The present study was conducted through descriptive-analytical method and took a correlational approach. The study sample included 387 students. Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS) was applied to investigate the study conceptual model. The results indicated that the use of the internet among the university students significantly affected the electronic services application (β =0.182). The same significant effects were also found in the variables including web specific self-efficacy on the acceptability of use (β=0.285), perceived control on electronic services application (β=0.142), perceived control on the acceptability of use (β=0.139), interpersonal norms on the acceptability of use (β=0.376), attitudes on the acceptability of use (β=0.169),perceived usefulness on attitudes(β=0.224), perceived amusement on the attitudes(β=0.335), perceived risk on the attitude (β=0.187), and internet self-efficacy on the web-specific self-efficacy(β=0.672). However, it was also made clear that the effects of web-specific self-efficacy on the electronic services application (β=0.033), social norms on the acceptability of use (β=0.061), internet self-efficacy on attitudes (β=0.079) and social norms on attitudes (β=0.026) are not statistically significant. The universities can prepare and compile appropriate training programs to take effective steps in the acceptability of the internet use that is in line with making students more informed and aware of the electronic services.
Aida Pooladian; Hajar Sotudeh
Volume 13, Issue 2 , July 2015
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The aim of the present study is to investigate and compare the role of journals with different access models (including print, database, print/database subscriptions) as well as unsubscribed models in meeting the information needs of Shiraz University researchers. Using a bibliometric method, the communication ...
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The aim of the present study is to investigate and compare the role of journals with different access models (including print, database, print/database subscriptions) as well as unsubscribed models in meeting the information needs of Shiraz University researchers. Using a bibliometric method, the communication studies the references used in Shiraz University scientific papers indexed by Thomson Reuter’s citation indexes (i.e. SCI, SSCI and Arts & Humanities CI) in 2010. A vast number of scientific journals are found to be available in Shiraz University, most of them repeatedly provided via different models. Over 90% of the journals receive no citations from Shiraz University researchers. The researchers generally tend to refer to unsubscribed journals as well as subscribed database journals. However, the journals mostly referred to by Shiraz University are found to be covered by database and print/database models. The uncitedness of a wide range of print journals confirms the rationality of the policy of discontinuation of print journals subscription in favor of e-collection development. It seems that the database model performs well not only in meeting the variety of information needs of the researchers, but also in providing the required core resources for the users. The unsubscribed model is revealed useful merely to fulfill the variety of the users' information needs; whereas it plays a minor role in providing the core needs of the researchers. The print model, following the database and the print/database models, is more or less effective in providing the core resources needed by the researchers of Shiraz University. Since a number of the core journals of Shiraz University are available in print model, it is suggested to renovate the subscription to the core print journals, preferably in online format.
Zahra Abdolhosseini; Mohammad Reza Keyvanpour
Volume 13, Issue 2 , July 2015
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Persian natural language processing (NLP) researchers have many limitations to access linguistic tools which are suitable for text processing. Therefore, researchin Persian text processing is very limited. Since dataset is an important requirement for experiments and their evaluation, we aimed to create ...
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Persian natural language processing (NLP) researchers have many limitations to access linguistic tools which are suitable for text processing. Therefore, researchin Persian text processing is very limited. Since dataset is an important requirement for experiments and their evaluation, we aimed to create appropriate corpora for information retrieval and natural language processing in Persian. The provided corpora in this article are based on HAMSHAHRI dataset which is appropriate for simple information retrieval and simple natural language processing because it has not been tagged. We converted this dataset to tagged collection and increased its text quality. The new corpora minimize the text preprocessing requirement. Here we have used STep-1 tools for text processing and have proposed some ideas to remove the bugs of these tools in order to increase their quality. At the end we used the new corpora for text retrieval and results showed performance improvement.
A. R. Isfandyari Moghaddam
Volume 7, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 31-40
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Because digital libraries (DLs) are treated as determinant information centers, libraries especially their managers are thinking about how phenomenon "DLs" can be effectively managed. So, the present article aims to provide managers of DLs with an approach. To do this, two main pillars considered ...
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Because digital libraries (DLs) are treated as determinant information centers, libraries especially their managers are thinking about how phenomenon "DLs" can be effectively managed. So, the present article aims to provide managers of DLs with an approach. To do this, two main pillars considered in definition offered by Digital Library Federation namely staff and users are debated. Accordingly, some skills, instructional programs and qualities needed both for users and staff of DLs with which they can interact more effectively with new technologies such as DLs are included in the text. In fact, this paper emphasizes on educational function of DLs and thus offers an approach for its implementation from a managerial standpoint.
