Sona Imani-Tayebbi; Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi; Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi
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Introduction: The goals and the missions of teaching and research by faculty members, as the original university wealth, will be achieved via having the information literacy. Sufficient information literacy in the field of health, due to its target community, is of special importance. This study aimed ...
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Introduction: The goals and the missions of teaching and research by faculty members, as the original university wealth, will be achieved via having the information literacy. Sufficient information literacy in the field of health, due to its target community, is of special importance. This study aimed to determine the level of information literacy among the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.Methods: In this applied survey, 160 faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences were selected using a simple random sampling technique. The data collection tool was the Davarpanah and Siamak (DAS) questionnaire used in previous researches and its Cronbach’s alpha was 0.83. The collected data were analyzed through in two levels of descriptive and analytical statistics (independent t, ANOVA, Spearman, and Pearson Correlation tests).Results: The mean level of information literacy among the faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences was 50.7 with the standard deviation of 11.7, which was the midpoint. There was no significant statistical relationship between the level of information literacy and gender, school, study degree, and work experience among the faculty members.Conclusion: According to the research findings, the level of information literacy among faculty members was average. Considering the importance of proper information literacy and its impact on education and research in the field of health, it is necessary to consider program and educational workshop to support and encourage the faculty members to increase their level of information literacy.
Leila Shahrzadi; Shahin Mojiri; Razieh Zahedi; Sima Janatian; Hasan Ashrafi-rizi; Zeinab Shahrzadi; Behjat Taheri
Volume 11, Issue 6 , November 2014, , Pages 743-759
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Introduction: Many people are looking for information about anxiety disorders on the Internet. These disorders impair quality of life and increase risk of various diseases. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the web-based information about these problems and to introduce the authentic ...
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Introduction: Many people are looking for information about anxiety disorders on the Internet. These disorders impair quality of life and increase risk of various diseases. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the web-based information about these problems and to introduce the authentic websites for essential information. The purpose of this study was to evaluate quality of Persian anxiety disorders websites based on WebMedQual scale. Methods: This study is a survey and applied studies. In order to collect data, WebMedQual scale was used that localized by librarian, psychology and website designer experts. The population of this study consisted of 15 Persian anxiety disorders websites (anxiety and obsessive). Maximum and minimum points were 82 and 0 for each websites and Mean points was 41.5. In order to analyze the data used single-sample T-test in SPSS 20 software and findings were presented as mean and optimal score. Results: Based on WebMedQual scale the average ratings of Persian anxiety disorders websites in the content (7.40±2.18), authority of source (5.10±2.11), accessibility and availability 2.23±0.37), links (1.37±1.09), and user support (4.57±1.33) and confidentiality and privacy (3.07±2.95) indicators is poor and below average. But in design indicator (9.27±1.29) is higher than average. The best websites of Anxiety Disorders were "Iran Clinical Psychology Association" and "Ravanyar "and the worst website was "yek Frakav". Conclusion: According to results it is essential for users to criticize website content and do not trust it without credit standards of sources. Keywords: Evaluation; Anxiety Disorders; Internet.
Bahareh Gholami; Hosein Abedi Madiseh; Banafsheh Gholami; Shahin Mojiri; Hassan Ashrafi Rizi; Niloufar Hodhodinezhad
Volume 11, Issue 2 , July 2014, , Pages 169-176
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Introduction: Today, knowledge management in libraries and information centers has found effective use that led to changes in their form and function. Whatever libraries use of knowledge management processes it provides favorable results in delivering information services.The objective of this study ...
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Introduction: Today, knowledge management in libraries and information centers has found effective use that led to changes in their form and function. Whatever libraries use of knowledge management processes it provides favorable results in delivering information services.The objective of this study was to determine the establishment of Knowledge Management in the libraries of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.Method: This survey was an operational study. Population was all librarians (82 person) employed in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Data collection was performed with the Pasture questionnaire. Alpha Cronbach was 0/97. Collected data analyzed by SPSS 18in two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics (T-test, F- test).Results: findings show policy and strategy, systems leadership, encouragement and reward systems, education systems and knowledge creation, knowledge management systems, training and communication systemThe results showed that all six components of the knowledge management in MUI Libraries were below average. Conclusion: According to research findings, establishment of KM elements such as: lack of guidelines and policies and statutory authority supporting is in non-academic way in MUI libraries. So it is better that management and leadership in libraries led to acceptation KM elements among librarians. Key words: Knowledge Management; Academic Libraries; Universities
Rahman Marefat; Hamid Keshavarz; Hasan Ashrafi Rizi; Somayeh Sirosi
Volume 10, Issue 3 , September 2013
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Introduction: The present study aimed to determine the contribution rate among authors who published articles in Journal of Health Information Management during 2004-2011. Methods: This was a descriptive-scientometrics study with a statistical procedure. The population of this study included the total ...
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Introduction: The present study aimed to determine the contribution rate among authors who published articles in Journal of Health Information Management during 2004-2011. Methods: This was a descriptive-scientometrics study with a statistical procedure. The population of this study included the total issues of the Journal of Health Information Management (JHIM) articles which have been published during 2004-2011. Results: The results showed that 789 authors had published articles in JHIM and mean number of the authors per article was 3.03. In terms of gender, 56% of the authors were males and 44% were females. Findings indicated that Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran is most prolific among the other research institutes and scientific centers; furthermore this university has the most grouping published articles among the other research institutes and scientific centers (with 94 articles). Only 8.7% of the articles had single author. The results highlighted that the contribution coefficient was 0.64. Conclusion: Contribution rate of the authors in JHIM is in an acceptable level. Keywords: Journal of Health Information Management; Scientometrics; Collaboration; Periodicals
Leila Shahrzadi; Fahimeh Babalhavaeji; Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi
Volume 10, Issue 2 , July 2013
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Information is a critical factor in information societies. By its very nature, it plays a key role as a valuable commodity in economic interactions. Libraries and information centers are the main centers for information exchange in order to sustain life in the information age. They are required to assess ...
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Information is a critical factor in information societies. By its very nature, it plays a key role as a valuable commodity in economic interactions. Libraries and information centers are the main centers for information exchange in order to sustain life in the information age. They are required to assess continuously to information services economically based on standard indicators. Cost-benefit analysis is a user-centered, systematic and quantifiable economic evaluation method compares the benefits with costs of a particular product or service. In libraries, cost-benefit analysis is a way to compare the positive outcomes with the expenditures. It is a way to evaluate relative advantages of different projects-serving users in terms of allocating resources; and its results can lead to making the best decision for the optimal use of resources and reforming the library function. This study was an unsystematic review conducted in 2011 using the Emerald Sciverce and ISI web of Science databases and Google, Google Scholar and AltaVista search engines with the following keywords: "Benefit cost analysis" and "Cost-benefit analysis". 51 related articles were extracted and analyzed. In this paper, regard to the features and capabilities of this evaluation method, the concepts, procedures, implementation, applications, components and major indecies of cost-benefit analysis in libraries and information centers are explained and its advantages, limitations and procedures are discussed. Keywords: Cost-Benefit Analysis; Libraries; Information Centers
Raziyeh Zahedi Anaraki; Niloofar Hodhodinezhad; Hasan Ashrafi Rizi
Volume 9, Issue 4 , September and October 2012, , Pages 513-524
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Introduction: Traditional medicine is not only useful in health care and improvement of qualityof life, but also is applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Hence, paying more attention tothis area is of high important. This study aimed to evaluate the scientific production and scientificmapping ...
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Introduction: Traditional medicine is not only useful in health care and improvement of qualityof life, but also is applied in diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Hence, paying more attention tothis area is of high important. This study aimed to evaluate the scientific production and scientificmapping of Iranian researchers in traditional medicine during 1990-2011 in “Web of Science”database.Methods: This was an applied study in which scientometric indicators have been used.Documents of Iranian researchers in traditional medicine in Web of Sciences during 1990-2011were analyzed and then, the historiography of scientific productions was depicted.Results: Studies have shown that Iranian researchers in traditional medicine could be ranked asthe 26th in the world in term of scientific productions with 288 document records. Furthermore,the growth rate of scientific publications of this area was 53.3%. In addition, Abdollahi with 13records and Tehran University of Medical Sciences with 60 records had the highest rate ofscientific production in this field. Moreover, most documents were presented as articles and werepublished in Journal of Ethnopharmacology. No cluster was established from the top 50 records.Conclusion: In general, growth rate of scientific production in traditional medicine of Iranianresearcher has an upward trend. Nevertheless, global and total citations of these publications arevery poor which indicates that these publications are not effective enough
Mahtab Ramezan Shirazi; Firoozeh Zarefarashbandi; Hasan Ashrafi Rizi; Rasool Nouri
Volume 9, Issue 6 , March 2012, , Pages 822-832
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Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronicresources and research in this area shows the global trend in the use of new strategies such as metadata tofacilitate descripting, locating, organizing, and searching resources in the web environment. In ...
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Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronicresources and research in this area shows the global trend in the use of new strategies such as metadata tofacilitate descripting, locating, organizing, and searching resources in the web environment. In thiscontext, library metadata standards are of great importance. Therefore, the purpose of the present studywas to compare the central library websites of Iranian state universities in terms of HTML and DublinCore metadata elements usage in 2011.Methods: This was an applied–descriptive study. The data collection tool was the researcher constructedchecklist. The statistical population included 98 websites of Iranian state universities of the Ministry ofHealth and Medical Education (MOHME), and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Thesampling method used was census. Data were collected by observing and referring directly to every website.Data analysis was performed by descriptive statistics, and the graphs were prepared by Excel software.Results: The findings of study indicated that none of the websites have used Dublin Core metadata. Someof them have used corresponding elements of HTML and Dublin Core. In the MOHME the correspondingelements of description and keywords (both 56%) were most used. In the Ministry of Science, Researchand Technology the element of keywords (45%) and description (39%) were most used. However, HTMLmeta tag elements were mostly used in the library websites studied. The most-used elements of HTMLwere keywords and description (both 56%) and the least-used elements were date and formatter (0%).Conclusion: It seems we can expect both ministries to use Dublin Core standard more in the future fordesigning these websites. As library's websites are scientific web pages, special attention should be paid todesigning them, in order to help researchers in accessing information resources faster and more accurately.Moreover, the role of librarians in the awareness of designers and developers of library websites in usingmetadata elements and applying their standards should not be overlooked.
Zahra Kazempour; Hassan Ashrafi Rizi,; Behjat Taheri
Volume 8, Issue 6 , January and February 2012, , Pages 795-806
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Introduction: The most important variable in success of every organization is attention to ethics. Since library and information sciences naturally involve service provision to users, commitment to professional ethics is necessary. The purpose of this research was to determine the attention rate ...
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Introduction: The most important variable in success of every organization is attention to ethics. Since library and information sciences naturally involve service provision to users, commitment to professional ethics is necessary. The purpose of this research was to determine the attention rate of librarians in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Isfahan University to professional ethics based on Ethical Codes of Iranian University Librarians. Methods: In this survey, data of 128 librarians was collected by a questionnaire whose validity has been confirmed by specialists. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined by Cronbach's alpha (α = 0.93). Data was analyzed by SPSS13. Results: While most professional ethics-related attention was paid to positive relations with colleagues (mean= 4.52), development of scholarly view and evaluation of activities received the least amount of attention (mean= 2.71). Attention rate to professional ethics principles in various dimensions showed that responsibilities towards colleagues had the highest average (mean= 4.22) and responsibilities towards profession had the lowest average (mean= 3.27). There were no significant correlations between attention rate to professional ethics principles and gender, education field, employment status, salary rate, and work type. However, a significant correlation was observed between educational level and attention rate to professional ethics principles. Conclusion: Librarians in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Isfahan University pay the most amount of attention to positive relations with colleagues, suitable and respectable behavior with users, and understanding social and professional responsibilities. Although, in the most cases, attention rate to professional ethics principles were above average, the mentioned library managers should attend to the others that have middle and lower than middle average. So, managers should try to promote other aspects of professional ethics.
