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This research aims to verify the patterns of users' tagging to the articles of knowledge and information science field in academia.edu. The research method is quantitative and based on text mining and applicable typically. The population includes 6086 bibliographic articles and their abstracts extracted from 159 English journals of knowledge and information science field in Scopus database that are core journals in LISTA as well. In order to gather these data, 194337 articles were searched in academia.edu then every article that tagged was chosen. Examining the relationship between the growth of different types of tags (one-word, two-word, three-word, and four-word and more) and increasing of documents showed a linear correlation between them. Among the different groups of tags, the highest growth rate was related to two-word tags (.609%) and the lowest growth rate was related to four-word tags and more (.143%). The total growth rate of the tags (new and duplicate) was also 5.52 (i.e. 5.52 tags per document). It was also found that two-word tags had the most matching (54.92%) and four-word tags and the least matching (1.76%) with different sections of articles (title, abstract, and authors' keywords). The total tags were matched 7.5% with the title, 76.61% with the abstract, and 15.89% with the authors' keywords. Regarding the reuse of tags, it was revealed that in general, 38.8% of the tags have been reused. On the other hand, two-word tags with 57.59% had the most reuse and four-word tags and more with 7.54% had the least. Another point is that 16% of the tags were reused in the first year and more than 50% of the tags were reused in the first 3 years. Finally, it can be said that the existence of a significant user consensus on certain terms indicates that the new patterns of user tags are at least partially compatible with professional indexing concepts about document content, and by focusing on the most widely used tags and their sustainable distribution, weight formulation and even classification schemes may be achieved. Also, users' activities on social networks can be used to increase the quality of suggestions in collective tagging systems. Another point is that there is a connection between professional indexing and user tagging, and the two are not alien to each other. This connectivity can be the basis for a complementary subject access system that enriches professional indexing.

Introduction: The materials of library must be organized based on international standards, so that the users' information needs are met favorably and accessibility to the library materials is facilitated. This research aimed recognizing the approaches of increasing the effectiveness of the organization of materials courses in view of the University of Isfahan and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences' students in BA. Method: A descriptive survey method was used. The population included 154 BA. Students in the second to seventh term of 2011-2012 in University of Isfahan and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Out of these, 87 students were sampled. It was used a researcher-made questionnaire for gathering information. The questionnaire was scrutinized by 4 experts for the validity and the Crunch's alpha was calculated %96 for the reliability. In order to analyzing the data SPSS was deployed for calculating percentage, average, standard deviation, One-sample t-Test, and HotellingsT2. Results: The p-value of t-test (Sig= /001) showed that the amount of all factors was higher than the average. On the other hand, HotellingsT2 showed that effectiveness of improvement of professional skills and faculties' abilities (4/15) is more than the other factors and effectiveness of preparing the facilities (3/79) is less than the other factors. Conclusion: Teaching the organization of materials courses is not enough, but it must be paid attention to various factors too, such as improvement of professional skills and faculties' abilities, the contents of the organization of materials courses regarding to students' needs and interests, and preparing the facilities. Keywords: Educational Planning; Information Science; Library and Information Science; Universities.

This research aims to survey the use rate of Marshall criteria into public relations by the librarians of Arak and Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. It was used the survey-descriptive method respectively. In order to gathering the research data it was used a researcher-made questionnaire; this measured the use rate of 7 Marshall criteria (Budgeting, financial resources and gifts, informing the faculties and students, the more use of the library by the university people, improving the general viewpoint of academic community to the library, informing the non-academic community, and the more use of the library by the non-academic community) into public relations. The population included the librarians in the above mentioned universities out of which 86 ones sampled. For the validity, the viewpoints of experts were applied into the questionnaire. For the reliability Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated .987. In order to data analysis the SPSS 16 was used. The findings showed that in opinion of the librarians, applying of the public relations into 7 Marshall criteria was relatively favorable. In order to improving the conditions, experts should hold the educational courses on Public Relations

Purpose: The present research has been carried out with the purpose of studying the analytic cataloging and classification (library of congress) of Arabic books in National Library & Archives of IR of Iran during 2001-2007. Methodology: In this research whose methodology is of documentary method, a list made by the researcher was used for data collection. The samples included 300 catalogues of Arabic books in Iran’s national library. Findings: In total, 83.76% of cases were correct while the remainder were not. Among them, classification had the highest accuracy percentage (86.25%) and least error percentage (13.75%), whereas analytic cataloging had the lowest accuracy percentage (81.28%) and highest error percentage (18.72%). In addition, Z-test findings indicate that the accuracy percentage is much higher than the error percentage. Therefore, National Library & Archives of IR of Iran has had a desirable performance in analytic cataloging and classification of Arabic books. Originality/Value: Investigating the status of analytic cataloging and classification of Arabic books in National Library & Archives of IR of Iran during a relatively long publication period can provide remarkable advantages concerning the characterization of relative quality of activities carried out in technical services unit of this organization. In fact, such studies are useful for both researchers in this field and catalogers in Iran.

Introduction: Considering the necessity of uniformity and consistency in the structures of abstracts and also increasing their precision, correctness, and exhaustivity, this research aims to investigate the adherence to abstracting standards (ISO 214) in Persian abstracts of general medicine theses in Arak University of Medical Sciences during 1999–2008. Methods: This applied descriptive study reviewed all theses registered in the central library of Arak University of Medical Sciences and finally, selected 328 theses as the statistical population. In order to prepare the required standards and also to determine the consistency of the theses with abstracting standards, the original text of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in abstracting and its translated Persian text were studied. A checklist designed based on ISO abstracting standards was used for data collection. The validity and reliability of the checklist were confirmed by the experts. Data analysis was performed in SPSS software. The results were shown as frequency, percentage and chi-square indices. Results: The highest rate of adherence to including bibliographic information was seen in 2005 (48 abstracts (16.4%)). However, the findings and secondary results were not mentioned in any abstracts. The findings of chi-square test showed that except “purpose”, there was a significant difference in the adherence to the standards in different years. Conclusion: Adherence to form-related abstracting standards (ISO 214) e.g. research results, preserving the main information of the theses, etc. was acceptable. However, content abstracting standards including purpose, findings, etc. were not adequetly deployed. Keywords: Abstracts; Academic Dissertations; Universities; ISO 214.

Introduction: In order to cope with the crisis of serials cost and problems associated with the shortage of budget in libraries and facilitating the access to scientific journals, the principle of Open Access to scientific publications and usually in the form of electronic journals has evolved during the last 15 years. This research aimed to clarifying the amount of citations of ISI Web of Science’s articles to DOAJ’s journals in the two fields of Health & Medical Sciences and Basic Sciences during 2003–2008 and investigating the significance of difference in the citations received by DOAJ’s journals between the above-mentioned two fields. Methods: In this study bibliometrics method and citation analysis technique was used and 1337 English-language journals from DOAJ and without sampling were investigated. Data collected by Cited Reference Search in ISI Web of Science and analyzed by SPSS16 software. Results: The findings indicated that Basic Sciences, with 657 journals, received 10116 citations (62.91%). In this field Biology & Life Sciences received the most citations (6009 citations, equal to 59.4%) and Mathematics & Statistics received the least citations (91 citations, equal to 0.9%). On the other hand, Health & Medical Sciences, with 680 journals, received 5965 citations. In this field Medicine (General) received the most citations (3236 citations, equal to 54.25%) and Dentistry received the least citations (1 citation, equal to 0.01%). The findings of Chi-Square test showed no significant difference in the number of journals between the two fields of Health and Medical Sciences and Basic Sciences, but there was significant difference in the number of citations between them. Conclusion: Although the number of cited journals in comparison with non-cited journals in the two fields of Health & Medical Sciences and Basic Sciences in DOAJ were relatively low, but given the increasing rate of open access journals in the database, and also considering the need to identify highly cited and valid journals in areas such as Health Sciences and Medicine and Basic Science, which is the urgent need of researchers for reliable and updated information, doing such researches has great effect in this field and will help them to access free reliable journals. Keywords: Periodicals; Citation; Databases.

Introduction: The current research seeks to evaluate the framework of the mentioned endeavors through the survey of the quality of the web pages of Iran's medical universities and the existence of their organizational metalinks. Methods: In this descriptive study, 40 web pages of the Iran's medical universities were studied. The existence of the web pages, the type of the library soft wares, the characteristics of the help pages, and the subject of the organizational metalinks were studied by means of a researcher-made checklist. The data were analyzed by SPSS. Results: There was an interest in designing of web pages with the medical universities and their libraries in the international network; however there was a need for a homogeneity and unity of practice. These findings showed that 25 universities (62.5%) had a library web page, and out of them 16 library web pages were equipped with Ofogh software (the most frequency), and 1 library web page had Simorgh software, and 1 library web page had Payam software (the least frequency). These findings also revealed that 36 web pages of the medical universities had organizational metalinks, out of which the most (100%) were governmental organizations and private non-medical metalinks, and the least (19.4%) were news agencies. Conclusion: On the one hand, the middle managers apply international experiences, on the other hand, the attention to these types of electronic services has been increased and the standardization of the web pages will be occurred in the future. Keywords: Libraries, Medical; Internet; Schools, Health Occupations; Universities.

Purpose: This research aims to evaluate the university libraries’ collections of Arak and to compare them with Iran’s university libraries standards. Method: A comparative survey method was used using two questionnaires as data collection instruments. The population under investigation comprised university libraries and information centers in the city of Arak included 6 universities and institutions. Findings: the total number of collections, including printed materials and microforms and audio-visual materials are lower than standards. On the other hand, only the central libraries accessed databases and connected to the internet.