Evalution of Online Thesauri of Iranian Research Institute for Information Science and Technology: Descriptive Approoch

Online thesauri should have some special and general characteristics which makes their usage and application more compatible. Their general features are like ecumenical features of web pages and websites and the special ones include their particular characteristics for application in web. In this study, online thesauri of IranDoc have been studied according to thesaurus construction standards and standards of web page planning which were collected in a checklist. The checklist was evaluated by experts. The features in checklist were survived by direct observation of thesauri pages and searching them. The results show that these thesauri have an appropriate construction but they don’t have enough capabilities for using in web and their features for searching in web and access to information resources in comparison with their equivalents in English language. Also, their user interface is weak for making connection with their users.