جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "رساله" در نشریات گروه "کتابداری و مدیریت اطلاعات"

The purpose of this paper is to identify the ethical challenges of dissertations/theses supervision in Iran and to provide the codes of ethics for supervisors according to the challenges. The process of achieving this goal has consisted of four steps: determining ethical principles for supervision as a profession, identifying ethical challenges, examining the relationship between the challenges and the Iranian academic context, and codifying the ethical duties of supervisors. Accordingly, in the first step, a set of ethical principles that can be an ethical basis for research supervision as profession is justified. In the second step, research supervision challenges are extracted from the literature- researches as well as the regulations of various universities and institutes. In the third step, surveying a number of faculty members and graduated/ graduate students we asked them how many of the challenges occur in the Iranian academic context, and also what other challenges can be added to our list of the challenges. The results of this step indicated the high relevance of the challenges to Iranian academic context. Due to the fact that both groups of supervisors and students participated in this research, it was possible to compare their ethical perspectives as well. In some cases, students and faculty members had divergent views on the importance and occurrence of some of the challenges. Finally, in the fourth step, based on the obtained challenges and in accordance to their instances, 36 independent codes were provided, and their relevance and comprehensiveness was evaluated in a focus group.

Today, measuring data quality is one of the most important strategies in improving data-driven business processes. Any correct decision to improve systems in this category of organizations depends on an appropriate analysis of data quality. Research data and especially theses / dissertations  of graduates of the whole country based on this principle from various aspects of data quality need to be reviewed and evaluated. In the process of registering, the quality control of metadata is one of the most important parts that examines the information items of documents (such as the name of the researcher, supervisors and advisors, abstract, index, etc.).In the current situation, incompatible documents are identified during the quality control process and after entering in the system (as text), the relevant document is systematically returned to the researcher. Non-standard incompatible identified and the lack of proper classification for incompatible documents leading to informing tastes to researchers, making statistical analysis of metadata quality problems difficult, and also make it impossible to analyze the root of observed errors. Therefore, in this study, the incompatible structure observed after standardization has been used experimentally in two-month periods and the results have been presented. Incompatible in thesis defense date, the title page (Persian and English) and the existence of white pages in the file have been among the most important reasons for returning documents to users.  Also, the analysis of all data showed that 59% of the incompatibles were related to the attached files and 41% to the information recorded in the system. Finally, based on the performed analyzes, guidelines have been provided for the users of the system in order to improve the quality of data, according to specialized areas

Students as researchers need valuable resources related to their fields such as theses / dissertations. Open access should be supported by Educational and Research institutes and faculty members so the information is easily available to scholars, scientists and students. However, some of the educational and research centers refuse to make their theses and dissertations available, and they announce a variety of reasons for this lack of access. By identifying these reasons, this research tries to eliminate them. For this purpose, first, according to the results of previous researches, a list of factors influencing open access to theses and dissertations were extracted. Then, in order to complete and finalize the mentioned list, the impact of these factors has been investigated using Delphi method and questionnaire tool. In this research, Delphi panel consists of 14 faculty members of educational and research institutes in Tehran who have been selected by purposeful sampling method. The results show that the factors of laws and regulations, social impact, information technology, authorchr('39')s credibility, observability, perceived awareness, attitude toward open access, self-confidence in knowledge dissemination, controllability, perceptual compatibility and culture  influence on open access to theses and dissertations.

Reporting research limitations in academic literature is very important for understanding and utilizing research findings. This study aims to assess the extent to which and how research limitations acknowledged in Persian theses and dissertations (TDs). 664 Persian TDs published from 2009 to 2018 selected randomly through cluster sampling technique from IranDoc’s TDs database and the last chapter of 578 TDs analyzed. Through content analysis method, reported limitations analyzed and coded. Around 17% of TDs (99/578) addressed at least one limitation in their reports, while 64% of them had a specific heading for this section. The trend of reporting limitations has increased during current decades and students in humanities areas have paid more attentions to this section. Overall, 22 key limitations have been repeated 268 times in the TDs and “sampling bias” is more frequent with 29 repeats among them. Addressing research limitations in TDs is very incomplete. Transparent addressing of research limitations may help readers and stakeholders understand and apply research findings more effectively. The role of educators and academic institutes to inform newcomer researchers about the importance and structure of research limitations section in their reports is vital. This is the first study to examine research limitations in Persian academic literature and can inspire more research on this subject. The stakeholders of research, such as faculties, students, universities, research centers, readers/beneficiaries, and sponsors will be informed about key research limitations in TDs.

The aim of this study is to investigate the structural features of engineering dissertations of Tabriz University based on the components of ISO 7144.

The research method is descriptive and content analysis. The data collection tool is a checklist based on 25 components of the ISO 7144. Among the 2959 dissertations and theses, 398 cases were selected via relative stratified random sampling as the research sample and the data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

The results showed that The components of ISO 7144 have been observed in the Computer Science with an average of 77.77% this value is more than other studied disciplines. Also, the results showed that male students are more than female students, and among PhD students are more than postgraduate students compliant with the ISO 7144 components. Among the components of ISO-7144, Thesaurus component with a total mean of 8.05%, and the attachments component with a total mean of 20.1% are the less used components. Also the components of the index and the biography have not been met at all. On the other hand, the results of Chi-square test indicated that there is a significant relationship between the observance of ISO 7144 and variables of the Faculty and the educational level. Also, there is no significant relationship between gender and the observance of ISO 7144.

The results showed that 70.78% of the components of ISO 7144 have been observed in technical and engineering dissertations. Using non-observed components will help standardize dissertations.

Recent researches suggest that data is known as one of the most valuable resources of any organization. On the other hand, today science and technology data have become a key to the growth and development of each country. Treasure system plays a key role in advancing science and technology in the country and providing researchers with the services of effective and efficient research. Accordingly, the performance of this system is one of the factors influencing this mission. On the other hand, the major part of the observed quality problems in the area of information dissemination by the system is rooted radically in the output of another system called the registration system, which is at the very beginning of the process of recording, organizing and disseminating information. Determining the desirable status (or level of quality) in each field of the metadata from a variety of quality aspects such as accuracy, inconsistency, completeness, etc. is one of the most vital steps in the field of quality of the registration system. In this study, after reviewing the standard
data quality management models, a comprehensive framework was developed to determine the quality dimensions of the registration system The TDQM model was selected as one of the most widely used data quality model to evaluate the components of the system from its main four-dimensional core, accessibility, terrain and display. Then, in the form of a Quality Management System, key factors will be determined in the quality control system of the registration system. The data quality plan presented after the validation by the team of experts as the reference point for determining the non-conformities of the data. At the end of the present study, practical steps were taken to improve the quality of this system.

Dissertations and theses that are generated in course of research at PhD and Masters levels are considered to be important scientific documents in every country. Data description and analysis of such documents collected together, could automatically - especially when compared with data from other resources - provide new information that is very valuable. Nevertheless, no comprehensive, integrated pattern exists for such description and analysis. The present paper offers the findings of a research conducted for devising an information analysis pattern for dissertations and theses. It also puts forward information categories derived from such documents that could be described and analyzed.