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Probability of correlation between gender، field of study، grade، of students and the level of eight dimensions of library anxiety were examined. Design/Methodology/Approach: Sample comprised of 123 students. A revised version of Van Kampen''s Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale was used. 79 percent of students have experienced average and high levels of anxiety. Library and Information Science students showed the least، while students of Exceptional Children and Sport Science showed the highest level of anxiety. Male students experienced higher levels of library anxiety than females، and econd and third term students respectively showed lowest and highest levels of library anxiety. Access to services showed evoked highest level of anxiety، wheras contact with the and library staff caused the lowest level، on average. Library anxiety is a common among postgraduate students of the Faculty

This study described the issue of research anxiety as one of the most common anxiety factors and a barrier to research and science production i n educational settings. It also focuses on the factors that provoke and increase this anxiety and explains experts’ advice s on the methods of controlling and reducing it. Methodology / Approach: Literature review and analysis. According to the findings of this study, factors like personal characteristics of researchers and faculty members, t heir research skills and the a tmosphere of their scientific and academic environments c an be influential in the amount of research anxiety experienced. On the other hand, f actors such as proficiency in research methods, mathematics and statistics; computer, Internet and library literacy; f inancial and organizational support; and skills in stress management and time management c an reduce the amount of anxiety and increase the quantity and quality of scientific research. Reviewing and identifying the barriers to research activities including research anxiety m ay help researchers to improve their researches quantitatively and qualitatively.

With regards to important role of universities’ websites, this article aimed to study top universities of the Islamic countries using webometrics methods. Research data were extracted from AltaVista search engine and WEBOMETRICS website. In this study, top universities of the Islamic countries were ranked with some indexes such as number of links, web impact factor, world rank, size, visibility, rich files and scholar. Results showed that there was a significant relation between web impact factor with some indicators such as world rank, size, rich files and scholar, but there was not any significant relation between web impact factor and visibility of the website. Strong significant correlation between top universities of the Islamic world countries websites’ world rank and their ranks based on GDP was another result that we can mention in this study.

Over the past decades, a number of measures for determining the impact of scientific journals were introduced and utilized. The number of citations and Impact Factor value are the indicators have been applied a lot in this area and are of a high reputation in scientometrics. In addition to these indicators, some apt indicators have been introduced to measure the impact of publications which "Eigenfactor" and "Article Influence" are the newest ones. Eigenfactor is a measure of importance and prestige of a journal in scientific community and Article Influence is a measure of average impact of an article among other articles in a journal. The main discussion in present study was on Eigenfactor which besides presenting an introduction and an explanation to this factor, its features and characteristics and its differences with Impact Factor and its calculation method have been explained in detail. Considering the fact that calculating "Article Influence" requires the value of Eigenfactor, this indicator has been shortly explained as well.

This research investigates scholarly collaboration between Iran and other Islamic countries from 1900-2008, in three citation indexes i.e. Science, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. The research population includes the papers indexed in the Web of Science produced collaboratively by researchers from Iran and other Islamic countries during 1900-2008. Microsoft Excel was used to analyze the collected data. Based on the research findings, the scientific collaboration between Iran and members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference started since 1967 and Iran has published 675 documents in collaboration with these countries.The number of joint publications of Iran and other Islamic countries has increased over the years examined: the results of the exponential regression test show a 12.6 percent growth rate. Findings revealed that Iranian scholars had the highest cooperation with researchers from Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan. On the other hand Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry and Physics were the fields in which most of the collaborative research was carried out. The results also show that Shiraz University and the University of Tehran were the most productive Iranian universities in collaboration with other Islamic countries.

The present study aimed to determine the scientific situation of Middle East countries in Social Sciences. The scientific publications of Middle East countries indexed in SSCI and published during 1980 to 2009 were examined. The findings show that a small share of world's scientific publications in SSCI belongs to Middle East countries. Turkey, Iran and Egypt are ranked first to third based on their scientific productions in SSCI. In terms of annual growth rate, UAE (16.4%) has got the highest growth rate during 30 years and Turkey and Iran are ranked second and third among the countries of region. These countries have widely cooperated with the other countries of the world, particularly with Western Developed countries. Most publications of these countries have been published in the areas of psychology, management, economics, and occupational and environmental health.

This research aims at studying scientific productions of active countries in Nano Science and Technology in Islam World. The findings revealed that seven countries, including Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Pakistan have been active countries in Islamic world science and Technology during 2000-209 period. Among these countries, Islamic Republic of Iran possessed the most scientific productions in this field and Sharif University of Technology has been the most productive organization among Research and Scientific Organizations in Islamic World. Turkey and Egypt occupied the second and third positions respectively. Growth rate of scientific productions in Nano in active countries of Islamic world shows that Iran, with a 50 percent growth, won the biggest growth rate within past ten years. Turkey and Iran had the most scientific interactions in global level in the field of Nano Science and Technology, while USA and Germany have been main partner countries with active countries of Islamic world in the production of science in Nano Science and Technology.

The current study has been performed with the purpose of investigating hot papers of Middle-East countries in database of Essential Science Indicators (ESI). Number of hot papers of each country was identified and the result showed that among 19 countries located in middle-east region only 9 of them have hot papers, and Turkey has been assigned the first rank in this region regarding the number of hot papers (27 hot papers, 48.21%). Hot papers of these 9 countries were scrutinized concerning number of citations, their scopes, publication strategies that countries have applied with the aim of publishing their papers, co-authorship patterns as well as regional and international collaborations. The obtained results revealed that the average number of citations of each paper was in the range of 13 – 73. The main scope of papers is engineering and the next scopes were chemistry and clinical medicine. Regarding the publication strategies applied by the countries in publishing the hot papers, our findings indicated that most of these papers have been published in American and British journals with relatively high impact factors, in the range of 5.0 – 53. Most of the countries in the region have had collaboration with each other in production of their hot papers. Furthermore, most of these hot papers have been accomplished through collaboration of several countries at international level.

The present study tries to assess the appearance, impact factor, and number of visits regarding the websites of the medical sciences universities, dependent to Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education. To reach the goal, 41 of such websites were investigated considering their appearance using a control list composed of 59 factors. Furthermore, number of indexed pages of each website, number of all links, inlinks, self-links, total impact factor, as well as received impact factor of these websites were analyzed in order to evaluate their visibility and impact. In addition, in the current research number of visits of the mentioned websites and factors such as traffic rank in Iran and in the world, percentage of web clients who have viewed the mentioned sites, average number of pages viewed by clients, and level of view inside and outside Iran were extracted and studied based upon ALEXA site. Findings of the study indicate that, websites of Shiraz and Iran Medical Sciences Universities are in best conditions regarding design. The highest number of links and inlinks belonged to Tehran Medical Sciences University and the highest number of self-links relates to Mashhad Medical Sciences University. The highest total impact factor pertains to Shahroud and Iran Medical Sciences Universities, while the highest received impact factor belongs to websites of Isfahan and Gilan Medical Sciences Universities. Moreover, websites of Tehran, Shiraz and Mashhad Medical Sciences Universities have the highest traffic rank in Iran and in the world, in descending order.

To determine the scope and extent of scientific cooperation between Iran and Malaysia for the 1975-2008 periods. A scientometric method was employed covering the collaboration trend with respect to first authors, other participating nations and primary subject area. The most prolific Iranian research institutes cooperating with their Malaysian counterparts were examined and analysis. With the first instance dating 1975, the trend for collaboration had been upward in the past 34 years. The highest rate of scientific collaboration was for 2008 when there were 87 papers published; Chemistry comprised the most prolific subject area. University of Malaya and Science Malaysia had contributed most in joint scientific output.

The websites of Iranian medical universities under Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education have been studied in the present paper. 41 websites have been studied structurally using a checklist containing 60 items. Number of pages indexed from each website, total number of links, received links, self-links, total impact factor, and individual impact factor of those websites were studied in order to assess their visibility and impact. Number of visits to the websites under study was also studied and factors such as traffic rank at national and universal levels, percentage of web users browsing the designated websites, average number of pages browsed by users, and their browse rate both in Iran and abroad, were extracted from Alexa site and analyzed.

RDA (Resource Description and Access) is the new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world. This new standard is superseding the Anglo American Cataloguing Rules 2 (AACR2) and attempts to address the challenges of the new age of information and to develop new rules for description of and access to modern media and the resources available in databases. The increasing tendency in libraries and information centers to include digital resources makes familiarity with the new rules like RDA necessary. In the present paper a brief introduction of this standard and its requirements and goals are presented, followed by a comprehensive evaluation of the structure of this model and its foundations: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD). In addition, the main differences between RDA and AACR2 have been surveyed.