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The present paper is the result of a research which aimed to review the current level of support and training provided for the reference management software by academic libraries. The data was gathered on the basis of a survey of Iranian universities’ websites. The results reveal that in about 50 percent of Iranian universities, there is no information about RMS at their websites at all. In less than half of the remaining 39 universities, central library is responsible for introducing and training of citations and RMS. Deputy of research and faculty scholarly associations have been other organizers of RMS training. Furthermore, the results show that more than 90 percent of universities perform their training in face to face format only. EndNote is the only citation management software supported approximately by all universities. Teaching other RMS, such as Mendeley or Zotero, has been very limited. Authors suggest that librarians themselves get instruction on using citation management tools to be able to teach library users. Also, there is a need for providing online tutorials on RMSs.

the aim of this study is to review familiarity and Usage of Iranian Users of National and International Search Engines (General and Specialty).
this is a descriptive survey and is aimed at addressing the descriptive and deductive questions. The statistical population includes A.A. to Ph.D. students from different courses of study. Data was gathered based on researcher constructed list and data analysis was performed through E-questionnaire.
Findings: The findings of this study revealed that more than two thirds of Iranian users had no familiarity with Iranian search engines. Iranian users’ familiarity internationally known search engines was based on a different spectrum that means Iranian users utilize international search engines more than that of domestic ones. Iranian users’ familiarity internationally known search engines was based on a different spectrum that means Iranian users utilize international search engines more than that of domestic ones.

INTRUDUCTION: The current study aimed to evaluate the quality of the websites of the Iranian online bookshops.
This study is an applied research which is conducted with using the evaluative method and webometric approach. The research population consisted of the websites of 72 online bookshops that were introduced by the Iran Book House. The WebQEM checklist was applied to data gathering and SPSS was used for data analysis.
FINDINGS:The research results revealed that about half of the websites of the online bookshops have been operative less than 10 years and the majority of them are related to the private sector. 82 percent of them are operating in the three cities of Tehran, Qom, and Mashhad and the others are working in just 8 cities. More than half of the websites have been registered with the IR domain. Moreover, the websites were evaluated as average for the variable of "usability", as good for its "functionality", as excellent for the "reliability"and as very good for its"efficiency".
Generally speaking, the evaluation of the websites demonstrated that none of them was in a low status and therefore, it can be concluded that all websites are in an average status as to the WebQEM criteria.

The present study carried out a quality assessment of women's Farsi websites in order to rank them and present some suggestions for quality improvement. The websites collected through Google, yahoo and Salam (Farsi search engine), and finally 100 websites were selected. The data was collected by direct observation of websites during one month based on web quality evaluation tool (WQET). The results show that from 100 websites, 19% of them received excellent rating, 35% received very good rating, 21% of them good rating, 20 % fair rating (investigate further), and just 5% of websites were problematic (use cautiously). At the whole, this study shows that women's Farsi websites are in relatively good condition.

Todays, scientometric indeces are being used in quantitative measurement of sciences at the national and international levels to compare the scientific performance. In the current study, citation analysis of scientific outputs of the Qom University of Medical Sciences, were evaluated until the first half of 2014. In this descriptive cross-sectional study, all scientific records attributed to the Qom University of Medical Sciences, were evaluated for 10 years. The required Data were obtained by searching the Scopus scientific database. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and prioritized according to the year of publication, citation, self-citation, and Hirsch Index (HI). Since the beginning of July 2014, only 252 scientific records were indexed in the Scopus database by 149 authors affiliated to the Qom University of Medical Sciences, so that the university’s H Index was 12 and it acheived the 41st rank among 70 scientific academic centers related to medical field. There were four different affiliations of the university in Scopus. An increasing trend was observed in the number of scientific documents, citations, and self citation in the scientific records of the university. According to the results of this study, the growth trend of scientific records of the University has been an increasing trend with rapid slope, which of course this speed will decrease according to estimate of the first half of 2014. Only a few faculty members of the university contributed to knowledge production in citation databases. It seems that increase in the ability of researchers is necessary to promote the level of the university.

Regarding the important role and position of journals in presentation of the most up-to-date scholarly information, the scientific and meticulous evaluation of such sources is very essential. Te present research was carried out to determine the citation status in the articles of the Journal of Qom University of Medical Sciences. This research, as a descriptive-survey study, aimed to determine citation status of articles published in the Journal of Qom University of Medical Sciences using citation analysis during 2007-2013. In this study, the exploration of articles and bibliographic information (citations) of the articles of 24 issuesof the Journal of Qom University of Medical Sciences were investigated. One thousand and thirty-ninepersonstook part in writing 254 articles during 2007-2013. Most of the articles were written by co-authors,in the form of collaboration of 2,3, or 4 authors, and only 4 articles had been written as single author. Women significantly (40%) contributed to writing the papers. The most cited sources were related to data sources published during 2005 to 2009 (33.1%), and most of the citations were to journals (85.4%) and then to books. Most of the citations were to Latin sources (93.3%). The highest academic ranking order of the authors was assistant professor and then Master degree. The most referred Latin journal was “The New England Journal of Medicine” and the most referred Persian journal was “Journal of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences”. Considering that in this study, most of the citations were to journals, therefore, it is necessary to provide researchers with easy access to core and most cited journals in medicine and other related fields through valid databases. Also, it is essential that university library attempttoprovide data needs of researchers and faculty members, and also officials should try to equip the libraries with up-to-date sources.

The importance of ethics and attention to moral principles has always been taken into consideration during man's life and many issues have been written in this field. The present paper seeks to examine the status of scientific products in the field of ethics during a 22 year period in Information Sciences Institute at international level and determine Iran's share of these journals. Then, having extracted data from the website of Journal Citation Reports (JCR), it examines the status of journals of ethics. A survey method with a scientometrics and bibliometrics approach is used in this research. The research findings can open up a new horizon for pundits and those involved in ethics and generally in human sciences.

Iranian websites were investigated based on website evaluating criteria including: sponsors, types, aims, subjects, domains, languages, accessibility, updating, links, facilities and services. 265 Websites surveyed in this study were selected from The "Directory of famous Iranian websites and famous foreign sites on the web", Iran Digest web directory, and three search engines (Google, Yahoo, Lycos). Findings showed that 54.7% of Iranian websites were in English, and 56.6% had links to other websites. Most of the websites were based in Tehran, and were accessible directly and freely. Findings also showed that 80 % of them were not updated. Subjects like science, sports, children, arts and humanities, and culture and social science, had not been paid attention in these websites. Most of the domains used included. com,. ac, and. ir. Informative websites (29.4 %) were developed more than other types while services (8.3 %), news (7.2%) and personal (2.3 %) websites were less.