Mohammad Reza Abazari; Fahimeh Babalhaveji; Fatemeh Nooshinfard; Zahra Abazari
Volume 11, Issue 3 , September 2014, , Pages 326-333
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Introduction: By studying and identifying the psychological characteristics of librarians’ entrepreneurship, we can think up innovations in accordance with informational needs of the clients and provide them with better service in the shadows of entrepreneurial activities. The aim of the research ...
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Introduction: By studying and identifying the psychological characteristics of librarians’ entrepreneurship, we can think up innovations in accordance with informational needs of the clients and provide them with better service in the shadows of entrepreneurial activities. The aim of the research is to determine the motivational (psychological) characteristics of the entrepreneurship of the librarians of the medical libraries of Islamic Azad University (IAU) on the basis of psychological characteristics of the Humanistic school of thought and the correlation of the demographic variables with them and the effect of those variables on them. Methods: The method of This research was analytical survey. The participants of the study were 98 librarians of the medical libraries of Islamic Azad University in 2012. The data were gathered through interviews done with experts in order to select the motivational (psychological) characteristics of the entrepreneurship and through a researcher-made questionnaire for measuring those characteristics in the librarians. The descriptive and the inferential statistics (KMO and Bartlett’s test, one-way ANOVA, correlation coefficients and determination coefficient) and SPSS12 were used for data analyzing. Results: The motivational (psychological) characteristics of the entrepreneurship of the librarians of the medical libraries of Islamic Azad University (IAU) were significantly more than average. The educational level and library management degree were significantly correlated with the motivational (psychological) characteristics. Moreover, the coefficients of correlation between the variables of academic degree and educational level were positive and direct, and with an increase in the value of those variables, the motivational (psychological) characteristics of entrepreneurship arose. Conclusion: It is expected that the librarians identify the grounds for the entrepreneurial activities in libraries because libraries, with their scientific nature are ideal lacunae for making use of creativity and innovation in economic issues, and there still exists a valuable and sellable commodity named information. Information is the currency in the new economy and taking advantage of it needs employing librarians with entrepreneurial characteristics. Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Libraries, Medical; Librarians.
Zeinab papi; Fatemeh Nooshinfard
Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2014, , Pages 49-59
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Introduction: Co-Authorship is "the most expansion knowledge sharing network" and real intervention of researcher in science production and development. This research has studied co-authorship of Iranian researchers in the field of Toxicology in Science Citation Index (SCI) during 1991 – 2011. ...
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Introduction: Co-Authorship is "the most expansion knowledge sharing network" and real intervention of researcher in science production and development. This research has studied co-authorship of Iranian researchers in the field of Toxicology in Science Citation Index (SCI) during 1991 – 2011. Methods: The research was applied and scientometric instrument based on co-authorship indicators. Data gathering was done by referring to ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) databases. The search has been done for name of country and Toxicology field and 1160 documents were retrieved. Data analysis has been done by using Excel and Bib Excel programs. Results: The results showed that Iranians’ collaboration were in the three-authored papers. The highest percentage of collaboration were at 1997 and collaboration coefficient (CC) was 0.75 and in the year the highest collaboration were in the documents with three and five authors. Totally, CC was calculated 0.61 Too, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (341 documents), Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences(135 documents) and Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences(105documents) were the most prolific universities in the field, settled one – three ranking. In the international level Iranian researchers tended to collaborate with canadian (23documents), UK(19 documents) and USA (19 documetns)researchers. As well as a most prolific writer Mohammad Abdullahi was 106 documents. Conclusion: Considering the high tendency of Iranian researchers in the field of Toxicology in producing scientific documents with national and international researchers, it is necessary to pay more attention to the national and international collaborations. Keywords: Scientometric; Toxicology; Databases; Institute for Scientific Information
