Zohreh Eftekhar; Zouhayr Hayati
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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This paper aims to investigate the current status of coping with Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in Academic Libraries. In order to fulfill the aim of the study, 241 Graduate Students from 7 academic schools of Islamic Azad University, Shiraz ...
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This paper aims to investigate the current status of coping with Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in Academic Libraries. In order to fulfill the aim of the study, 241 Graduate Students from 7 academic schools of Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Unit: Faculty ofHumanities, Economics and Management, Science, Engineering, Artand Architecture, Agriculture, Dental, answered the questions on their need to coping with information resources. This is a survey research which has been carried out by employing a questionnaire and SPSS for windows to analyze data. The results showed that graduate students for identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information, used methods and media such as reviewing of information resources, sites on the Internet related to subjects, using electronic citations, the Internet and search engines.
Rabinarayan Mishra
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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Recognized as the realistic value and hub center of learning, libraries since their primitive stage of establishment have been imparting services in teaching, learning and research. Induction of ICT in library precipitated to a change in knowledge acquisition, organization, dissemination, representation ...
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Recognized as the realistic value and hub center of learning, libraries since their primitive stage of establishment have been imparting services in teaching, learning and research. Induction of ICT in library precipitated to a change in knowledge acquisition, organization, dissemination, representation and preservation. Further, the espousal of technology precipitated many new form of learning procedures. All the developments in libraries centre round to impart services to the users. The paper focuses the pertinent issues relating to the use of library resources by the users and services imparted by the central universities of North East, India.
Mozhdeh Salaghegheh; Adel Soleimaninezhad; Mahbobeh Ghaeemaghami
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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The purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of Kerman province. Research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. Research sample includes 41 librarians of Kerman libraries and their managers. Results show that ...
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The purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of Kerman province. Research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. Research sample includes 41 librarians of Kerman libraries and their managers. Results show that economic challenges, in order, are: infrastructures and equipment purchasing, printed and digital resources providing, and using license. Libraries technological challenges respectively, are: their inability to compete with printed materials in features like user friendliness and energy consumption. Information services challenges are as follow: information preservation, identification and acquisition of suitable materials and linking electronic resources to printed information resources. It seemed that Kerman libraries are faced with problems more than these, and they were not able to provide their necessary technological infrastructure for keeping and providing access to library resources yet. In addition, financial constraints of resources, and especially, digitization of printed resources made the situation very chaotic for the academic libraries.
Hajar Sotudeh; Behnaz Soltani
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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To test the reasonability of applying journal-specific indicators with the purpose of evaluating individual researchers, the present study attempted to examine the structural similarities between journal-evaluation indicators (i.e. JIF, SNIP and SJR) and author-evaluation ones (i.e. publication counts, ...
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To test the reasonability of applying journal-specific indicators with the purpose of evaluating individual researchers, the present study attempted to examine the structural similarities between journal-evaluation indicators (i.e. JIF, SNIP and SJR) and author-evaluation ones (i.e. publication counts, citation per paper, and H and G indices) through factor analysis. The Iranian papers having published in SCI in 2008 were chosen as the corpus of this study to be analyzed. The results showed that the author- and journal-evaluation indicators belong to two totally different factor groups, and share no structures. On this basis, one may conclude that what the journal- evaluation indices evaluate is completely different from what the author-level ones do. It would be, therefore, illogical to use these two groups of indices interchangeably and for purposes they have not been designed for. Otherwise, consistent results cannot be expected to come out of such endeavors.
Vichita Vathanophas Ractham; Suphong Chirawattanakij
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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Many organizations have developed knowledge sharing programs, such as mentoring, and knowledge transfer from retired employees, in order to articulate and maintain valuable knowledge. Knowledge sharing leads to the spreading of innovative ideas and best practices. It consists of two important processes: ...
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Many organizations have developed knowledge sharing programs, such as mentoring, and knowledge transfer from retired employees, in order to articulate and maintain valuable knowledge. Knowledge sharing leads to the spreading of innovative ideas and best practices. It consists of two important processes: knowledge contribution and knowledge reception. However, knowledge reception can be failed with several reasons. This research metaphorically terms the factors obstructing knowledge reception as the virtual earplug. The research tried to identify the earplug, and studies how to turn them to be the potential factors for successful reception. In fact, these factors can originate from recipients themselves and the surrounding environment. While knowledge holders determine further advantages they will receive from the sharing of knowledge, such as monetary reward or reputation, advanced benefits may not be the major rationale for the reception. Researchers utilized the focus group (FG) methodology by engaging workers who had experience as knowledge recipients in their organizations. The FGs revealed possible factors causing people to believe or ignore incoming knowledge. The factors can be categorized into four groups based on the originator of the factors, which are, recipients themselves, senders, knowledge, and environmental factors. The recipients themselves can engender successful reception through factors such as their capacity to absorb the incoming knowledge, or their attitude towards senders. Senders' readiness and characteristics are also important. This research also suggested solutions that develop or enhance the effective reception environment in an organization. Management support is a crucial success factor. The support consists of 1) nurturing of collaborative culture in an organization, 2) provision of useful tools, spaces and infrastructure, 3) provision of adequate training for employees, and 4) provision of practice session.
Rasoul Zavaraqi
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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The aim of the research is mapping the intellectual structure of knowledge management subject area to explore more its past and present. This Scientometric research has been done by author co-citation analysis of KM during time span of 1990-2014. We also used new social network indicators to understand ...
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The aim of the research is mapping the intellectual structure of knowledge management subject area to explore more its past and present. This Scientometric research has been done by author co-citation analysis of KM during time span of 1990-2014. We also used new social network indicators to understand the field better. The findings showed that different specialties can be recognized in the KM field. Half of the specialties are interrelated which shows the interdisciplinary nature of the KM fields. The results also showed that the impact of works written by Davenport, Polanyi and Brown with 928, 650 and 513 citation is more than other core authors of the field, and the stability of Drucker, Schon, Nelson, and Polanyi Theories with 36, 29, 26 and 25 citation half-life is more than other theories.
Ali Mansoori; Faramarz Soheili; Ali Akbar Khaseh
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
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To meet their informationa needs, people use different tools and technologies which are called the individuals’ information grounds. However, the literature on information grounds is limited to the United States; and there is no research comparing the information grounds of students in Iran so far. ...
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To meet their informationa needs, people use different tools and technologies which are called the individuals’ information grounds. However, the literature on information grounds is limited to the United States; and there is no research comparing the information grounds of students in Iran so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyze the information grounds of students in Payame Noor University of Kermanshah. The total population of full-time students in Kermanshah Payame Noor University at the time of this study was about 6000. Using stratified random sampling technique, 361 students were selected to participate in this survey. A questionnaire survey was used to carry out the study. Findings revealed that the most common information grounds used were as follows: house of friends and relatives, university campus, and bus service. Also, the main reasons for using these information grounds are: presence of expert individuals, relaxed grounds, ease of communication with people in the ground, and enhancing the scope of personal knowledge and experience by exchanging information in that ground. The results indicated that there was a significant correlation between the socioeconomic status of students and type of information grounds. Moreover, it was found that there was a significant difference in male and female students’ views regarding the reasons for using such grounds.
