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هدف: پژوهش حاضر با هدف تدوین برنامة‌ راهبردی برای کتابخانه مرکزی و مرکز اسناد دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران صورت گرفته است. روش: پژوهش حاضر از نظر هدف، کاربردی و از نظر گردآوری داده‌ها، توصیفی است که در زمرة مطالعات موردی قرار می‌گیرد. جامعه پژوهش را 21 نفر شامل مدیر، معاون، مسئولان و کارکنان کتابخانه مرکزی تشکیل می‌دهند. به سبب محدود بودن تعداد اعضای جامعه، تمامی اعضا مورد پیمایش قرار گرفتند. اطلاعات مراحل مختلف این برنامه‌ریزی شامل ماتریس‌های ارزیابی عوامل داخلی و خارجی، سیاست‌های راهبردی، و ماتریس «برنامه‌ریزی راهبردی کمی»[1] طی دو میزگرد و دو سری پرسشنامه، به دست آمده است. برای تدوین برنامه راهبردی، از الگوی جامع مدیریت راهبردی و مدل دیوید استفاده شده است. یافته‌ها: نتایج پژوهش نشان داد کتابخانه از نظر نقاط قوّت و ضعف در وضعیت متوسط و از نظر فرصت‌ها و تهدیدها، نزدیک به حد متوسط قرار دارد. در ماتریس QSPM بیشترین نمره یا امتیاز، به راهبردهای SO یا تهاجمی تعلق دارد. نتیجه‌گیری: با توجه به یافته‌ها، باید نقاط قوّت تقویت و نقاط ضعف برطرف شود. همچنین، از فرصت‌ها نهایت استفاده صورت گیرد و با بهره‌گیری از نقاط قوّت، تهدیدها از بین برود. امتیاز بالای راهبردهای تهاجمی نشان دهندة آن است که کتابخانه با وجود نقاط ضعف و تهدیدهایی که دارد، دارای نقاط قوّت و فرصت‌های خوبی است که به آن اجازه می‌دهند رویة راهبردهای تهاجمی را برای تثبیت و توسعة جایگاه خود در سطح ملی و منطقه‌ای در پیش بگیرد.

پژوهش حاضر، عوامل مؤ‌‌ثر بر پذیرش فناوری اطلاعات توسط کتابداران کتابخانه‌های دانشکده‌‌های فنی دانشگاههای دولتی شهر تهران را در چارچوب عوامل سازندة «مدل پذیرش فناوری» بررسی نموده است. عوامل این مدل در پژوهش حاضر، شامل برداشت ذهنی از مفید بودن،‌ برداشت ذهنی از آسانی استفاده، نگرش نسبت به استفاده‌ و ‌تصمیم به استفاده از فناوری اطلاعات به‌عنوان متغیرهای مستقلی هستند که بر متغیر وابستة استفاده از فناوری اطلاعات تأثیر می‌گذارند. شش فرضیه این پژوهش بر اساس بررسی روابط معنا‌داری بین هر جفت متغیرهایی که در چارچوب «مدل پذیرش فناوری» آمده‌اند، شکل گرفته است. روش این پژوهش پیمایشی و ابزار گردآوری اطلاعات آن پرسشنامه بوده است. در این پژوهش از روش سرشماری استفاده شده و جامعة آماری آن را 160 نفر کتابدار تشکیل داده‌‌اند. یافته‌های حاصل از پژوهش حاضر نشان‌ داد عوامل سازنده «مدل پذیرش فناوری» در این پژوهش نیز در چارچوب مدل به عنوان عوامل تأثیرگذار بر پذیرش فناوری اطلاعات شناسایی شده‌اند.

Background and Aim: Medical resources are directly related to health of society and the book as one of the main sources has great importance. This study has been conducted to investigate pathology of medical sciences books publishing status and also identification of content, cultural and technical production challenges of these books in Iran from the viewpoint of publishers. Materials and Methods: The present study in terms of purpose, approach, and method is applicable, qualitative and phenomenology. The research tool has been semi - structured interview and community were publishers of medical sciences books in two sections academic (Five) and private (eight) publishers. The interviews continued until the data saturation stage (13 interviews). First, open and axial coding was performed, which finally extracted 402 codes and then was categorized into 74 categories, which were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: The field of content production faced the most important challenges (53%), in which policy making absence (24 repetitions, 16%), no domestic high percentage of medical publication (23 repetitions, 16%), and the lack of expertise in medical publishers (11 repetitions, 7%), were declared by publishers. The problems of cultural production were in the second place with 39% and respectively include specialized and costly editing of the book, the lack of professional referees and the lack of structured review rules with 22 repetitions equivalent to 46%, 8 repetitions equivalent to 17% and 6 repetitions equivalent to 13%. The challenges of the technical production sector are reflected with a number equal to 8% of the total problems, which include the problems of raw materials printing and publishing (11 repetitions, 48%), lack of printing and publishing technology (5 repetitions, 23%) and the lack of technical expertise staff (3 repetitions, 13 percent). Conclusion: According to the findings of this study and the revealed funds of damages in the medical publishing industry, it can be concluded that many publishing challenges in Iran are rooted in general policies, rules and culture. Therefore, more serious attention to the professional field of medical publishing from the government and unbiased policy making in order to divert the concerns of publishers can solve many obstacles and difficulties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aim: The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the emergence of new information needs for people with diverse information literacy. Both infected and healthy people feel the need to have essential and practical information about this pandemic. One of the concerns of Covid-19 patients is their need for reliable and sufficient information about various aspects of the disease. Understanding the information needs of patients and the experiences of people who have been infected and recovered from the disease can be a suitable and reliable source of information. So the aim of this study was to identify the information needs of patients with Covid-19. Materials and Methods: This research was employed a qualitative approach using conventional content analysis. Key informants were Covid-19 recovered patients in Kashan city who had a history of admission in medical centers. Sampling consisted 17 participants (11 males and 6 females) who were selected from almost different social classes through purposeful method. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview and the saturation point was reached at 17 interviews. Data were analyzed using the Diekelmann’s seven-stage method. Results: The results of this study included 430 primary codes that after removing and merging duplicate codes, seven main themes and 30 categories were identified in the field of information needs were extracted. Main themes and categories included understanding the nature of the disease (the origin of the disease, knowledge about the symptoms, transmission and types of mutations), prevention (health protocols, prevention equipments, and vaccination), treatment (diagnostic tests, type of disease treatment, disease process, costs, psychological support), nutrition (the type of nutrition for prevention, during illness and after recovery), communication with others (type, length and conditions of quarantine, how to communicate with others), statistics, and information sources (up-to-date, valid, and types). Conclusion: The most critical information needs of Covid-19 patients include information about the nature, treatment, and preventive measures of the disease. Social media and oral information such as doctors, friends, and acquaintances were also reported as the most important sources of information. Therefore, this study suggests that health managers provide the most up-to-date and reliable information and news related to Covid-19 through the most appropriate and accessible media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aims: Dentistry is an important profession ensuring the health of body and soul, and has a special place in the scientific productions of medical disciplines. The purpose of this study was to analyze the co-citation and word co-occurrence of Iranian research papers in the field of dentistry based on indexed documents in Web of Science from 2014 to 2018. Materials and Methods: The present study follows the procedures related to quantitative research with a descriptive approach and a scientometric technique. Co-citation and cooccurrence analysis techniques were used. In this study, 1079 articles were reviewed from the Web of Science. Data analysis was performed Ucinet Software, and VOS viewer. Results: Iran has the highest level of international cooperation with the United States. The highest number of published articles in the Web of Science Database belongs to Vahid Derakhshani based on the highest degree of centrality, the Eigen centrality, and the Betweenness centrality. Naser Amin Abadi ranked first for the Closeness Centrality metric, and Massoud Peirokh with a citation weight of 20 had the highest citation. The field of surgery has received the most attention among dental and endodontics journal had the highest citation in the Iranian Dental Science Citation Network. Conclusion: The trend of publishing scientific articles in Iran in the field of dentistry has been increasing during the selected period. The keywords oral, dental, and pediatric surgery have the most effective and decisive role in the scientific network of dentistry. These keywords provided strong scientific communication amongst the dental scholars in Iran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Accessibility of reliable and up-to-date information to health care providers can lead to effective community health; therefore, experts are needed to retrieve information. These experts, called clinical librarians in developed countries, need special training. Therefore, this study aimed to design a clinical librarian program for training librarians to provide information services in clinical settings. Methods: In this descriptive-applied research, a qualitative approach was adopted. In the first phase, 188 sources related to clinical librarianship were found and validated, and finally 44 sources were selected for analysis. The sources, were reviewed to extract skills which were then reviewed and validated in two Delphi rounds by professors and Ph.D. students of Medical Librarianship in Iran. The selected skills were used to propose an educational program. Results: In the first phase, four skills among 62, i.e., information literacy, evidence-based medicine, and critical analysis and assessment obtained the highest frequency. Based on the results of two Delphi rounds, the educational program was designed as short-term training courses consisting of skills with the highest frequency in sources, and the highest mean points from the perspectives of participants in Delphi rounds. Conclusion: Based on the results it can be concluded that the viewpoints of Delphi contributors concerning clinical librarian skills are largely consistent with those presented in the sources. Therefore, the program designed in this study can be used as a guide for clinical librarianship curriculum designers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aim: Considering the effect of organizational climate on work motivation, not using the librarians who have a satisfactory feeling about their job can cause irreversible damages to the library. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the effect of organizational climate of college and hospital libraries on the burnout of librarians working there. Materials and Methods: This is an applied research and a descriptive-analytical survey. One hundred seventy-seven librarians from faculties and hospital libraries affiliated to Tehran, Iran and Shahid Beheshti Universities of Medical Sciences were surveyed by census method in 2018. Data collection instruments were Halpin and Croft's organizational climate and Maslach and Jackson job burnout questionnaires. The validity was confirmed by 3 experts and the reliability by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. For data analysis, SPSS software, and descriptive and analytical statistics were used. Results: The findings showed that the mean of organizational climate was at a desirable level (3.4) and the average of job burnout was 1.7; therefore, the job burnout status of librarians is desirable because it is a negative variable. Also, the components of organizational climate predict 41% of job burnout variable. Among demographic characteristics, job burnout variable varies only in terms of field of study, and organizational climate only in terms of the type of library. Conclusion: In general, the organizational climate status and job burnout status of the studied libraries are desirable; also, organizational climate components affect job burnout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Talented people are valuable assets in each organization and should be managed to achieve the best results. Therefore, the current study aimed to identify the status of talent management in selected medical libraries in Tehran. Methods: This descriptive-applied study was conducted on 130 librarians working in Central Library and libraries of Tehran, Iran and Shahid Beheshti Universities of Medical Sciences. Data were collected using Rothwell (1984) career planning questionnaire whose validity was verified by five experts in Librarianship and Management. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Results: According to the results the current and optimal status in different dimension were as follows: commitment to the establishment of talent management 2.872 and 4.231; assessment of current work requirements 2.846 and 4.244; assessment of individual performance 2.907 and 4.246; assessment of future work requirements 2.820 and 4.303; assessment of individual talent 2.741 and 4.274; filling the training gap 2.818 and 4.328; assessment of talent management and successor training 2.604 and 4.302. Conclusion: The results were indicative of a favorable talent management in the Selected Libraries of Medical Universities in Tehran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Aim: In the field of scientometrics, little attention has been paid to stem cells. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to draw a Scientific Map of stem cells area (co-word analysis) based on the papers indexed in Web of Science database in selected countries during the years 2011-2013. Materials and Methods: This study is based on descriptive method, and it was conducted by scientometrics and co-word analysis technique. In this study, 34,142 articles were analyzed from Web of Science database. The search system of Web of Science is a tool for collecting data. Data analysis was done using Web of Science analysis system and Citespace software. Results: Most productions in stem cells are in English and belong to America. Stem cell, cell differentiation, in vitro, gene expression, mesenchymal stem cells, embryonic stem cells and transplantation are the most frequently used words and hot topics in this field. Conclusion: The growing trend in this area has caused different subject fields to enter stem cells areas. Considering the high frequency of embryonic stem cells in the field, it can be said that different diseases such as spinal cord problems and heart diseases can be treated using these cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]