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The main objective of this study was to measure the level of acquaintance and usage of Vancouver style in codifying proposals among graduate students of Veterinary Medicine at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Additionally, it aimed to measure their level of acquaintance and usage in different disciplines such as basic sciences, pathobiology, clinical sciences, health, and food.

This was an applied survey study, where data collection tools included a researcher-made questionnaire based on a literature review and the Kahn Proposal Assessment Checklist. The sample consisted of 265 postgraduate and PhD students from the Veterinary Medicine college who were selected using non-proportional stratified sampling. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

There is a significant difference between the degree of familiarity of graduate students with the elements related to the formulation of the proposal of the Vancouver style in different academic trends of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Basic Sciences, Pathobiology, Clinical Sciences, Food and Aquatic Health). There is a significant difference related to the compilation of the proposal of the Vancouver style book in the master's degree / general doctorate and specialized doctorate. There is a significant difference between graduate students' use of the elements related to the proposal development of the Vancouver Vancouver style in different academic disciplines (Basic Sciences, Pathobiology, Clinical Sciences, Food and Aquatic Health). According to Vancouver's style s, there is a significant difference between master's degree / Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Ph.D.

Postgraduate students should use the elements of the Vancouver style, but their average score indicates that they did not have a favorable situation in using the elements of the Vancouver style. The results of this research can lead to the awareness of scientific groups and library about the quality level of theses in terms of scientific writing.

Nowadays, libraries need intrapreneurship to maintain their position and exert a greater impact on society. However, the results of studies show that intrapreneurship in libraries is in an unfavorable situation. Therefore, this study aimed at identifying and prioritizing the barriers to intrapreneurship in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

The present study was applied in purpose and a survey in method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the librarians at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (n=47) and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (n=45). A stratified random sampling procedure was employed to determine the sample size (each university was considered one stratum). Based on Cochran’s sample size formula, the sample size for Ferdowsi University was calculated at 37 and the sample size for Mashhad University of Medical Sciences was calculated at 30. A researcher-generated questionnaire served as the data collection method. Due to the lack of a standardized questionnaire evaluating the barriers to intrapreneurship in libraries, a list of these barriers was prepared using a three-pronged model by reviewing relevant texts and literature as well as interviewing experts. The barriers were divided into three categories of behavioral, structural and contextual. Based on the list, a questionnaire was designed with two sections on a five-value Likert scale: demographic data and behavioral (34 items), structural (19 items), and contextual (19 items) intrapreneurship barriers. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by asking the opinion of the faculty members of the departments of Knowledge and Information Science as well as Management. Using Cronbach Alpha, the questionnaire’s reliability was also calculated and confirmed (82 percent). The data were analyzed using SPSS software for both the descriptive and inferential statistics. 

The results revealed the three categories of structural, behavioral, and contextual intrapreneurship barriers in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. From the point of view of the librarians in both libraries, there was a meaningful difference between the three categories of barriers in terms of significance, indicating that the contextual barriers were the most significant, followed by the structural and behavioral barriers, respectively. Legal, economic, environmental, and technical factors made up the contextual barriers in the libraries of both universities. While economic factors were found to be the most significant contextual barrier in both universities, environmental factors were identified as the least significant ones. The social factors, however, were not among the contextual barriers in both universities. Organizational structure, performance evaluation system, and payment system in the libraries of both universities, and organizational strategy in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences were identified as the intrapreneurship structural barriers. Nevertheless, in no library under study information system was identified as a barrier. The payment system was found to be the most significant intrapreneurship barrier in the libraries of both universities. Performance evaluation system was identified as the least significant structural barriers in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and organizational strategy was identified as the least significant structural barriers in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Organizational culture and personality traits of the staff and managers in the libraries of both universities, as well as organizational conflict in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were not among the intrapreneurship behavioral barriers. However, the staff’s motivation and leadership style in the libraries of both universities, as well as organizational conflict in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences were identified as the intrapreneurship behavioral barriers. While the staff's motivation was the most significant intrapreneurship behavioral barrier in both universities, leadership style was the least significant barriers in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, and organizational conflict was the least significant barrier in the libraries of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

There are numerous internal and external intrapreneurship barriers in the libraries of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. However, it is important to note that the personality traits of the librarians and managers as well as organizational culture in these libraries are in a good condition as important factors to shape entrepreneurial behavior in an organization and if the intrapreneurship barriers are removed, entrepreneurial activities will be well possible. It was further concluded that although contextual barriers were the most significant intrapreneurship behavioral barriers in these libraries and their removal is out of the control of the mother organization and libraries and require the government to revise policies and activities, the authorities and policy-makers of these two universities could benefit from the findings of this research and adopt suitable policies and strategies to remove these barriers.

Science production through the publication of articles in indexed journals is one of the most important outputs of higher education centers. Today, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of scientific articles is one of the usual methods of evaluating the research activities of universities. The managers of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad have always been concerned about the level of scientific production of their faculty members in order to maintain and improve the scientific status of the university. The publication of academic faculty members' articles in different years can be affected by various factors which identifying them can help the university managers in planning and policy-making in order to achieve the goal of increasing the growth of science production.

There are studies conducted about the influence of effective factors on the production of science, but most are qualitative and limited to the identification of the factors and have not focused on measuring the factors qualitatively.This research is based on a mixed-exploratory approach that seeks to discover the influencing factors in the number of publications of international scientific articles and the effective scenarios for its growth. This research has been done in two qualitative and quantitative phases. In the qualitative phase, using the Delphi method, which identified the key factors influencing the increase in the number of articles published, and in the quantitative phase, using the system dynamics method, which evaluated the impact of each factor and finally determined the best scenarios.

In the first phase of this research, some influential factors in the publication of articles by the faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were identified by reviewing the sources and using the content analysis method. Then, using the Delphi method, the identified factors were available to experts, which included 20 faculty members in the five fields of pure sciences, engineering, agriculture and biological sciences, behavioral sciences, and humanities with the highest number of published articles. In the second phase conducted using the system dynamics method, the data related to the factors identified between 2005 and 2019 were collected, and after determining their logical relationships and drawing a causal-circular diagram, their dynamic diagram was used to examine the extent of their influence on each other was drawn.The results obtained from the review of sources and experts' opinions led to the identification of five key factors and variables, which are: increase in the recruitment of doctoral students, increase in the recruitment of master's students, increase in research projects, increase in sabbatical leaves and increase in a grant.In the second phase, after obtaining the dynamic diagram and data analysis in the simulation model, the initial results showed that the average article of each faculty member in the target year (2030) with the increase of the doctoral student variable is 35.36, the master student variable is 31.88, the grant variable is 31.51, The research project variable will be 31.47 and the sabbatical leave variable will be 31.2.But by calculating the cost-effectiveness of each of the variables in order to have a better strategic plan by increasing the budget of each variable by an equal amount, the average articles of each faculty member in the target year was: Ph.D. student 36.62, sabbatical leave 31.77, research project 31.37, master's student 31.19 and grant 31.16

According to the obtained results, three scenarios were suggested as the best scenarios to increase the number of articles by academic staff members at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Increasing the number of doctoral students, both with limited financial resources and with regard to a limited budget, is considered the best scenario for increasing the number of articles.Assuming that the university does not have a policy to increase the ratio of doctoral students to faculty members for any reason, the best scenario after that is to invest in the sabbatical leave variable.Currency restrictions and the absence of faculty members in the university may make the sabbatical leave not among the priorities of the university. Therefore, in this case, the third proposal scenario-based to increase the faculty members’ articles on this research is to increase the number of research projects.

Organizational culture is considered of outmost importance in bringing change into an organization. It has a special influence on knowledge organization and organizational behavior. It helps organizations in enhancing integrated services, resource sharing, organizational learning and organizational creativity. Thus, this study aims at analyzing the status of the organizational culture from the knowledge sharing perspective among university staff and faculty members as an important capital.

This study is categorized as an applied study which has been carried out using two questionnaires. One of these questionnaires dealt with organizational culture and the other dealt with the barriers to knowledge sharing. These questionnaires were distributed among 63 staff and faculty members of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Descriptive and inferential statistics were conducted in analyzing data.

The results show that there is a significant difference among subcultures of the population. It is also evident that bureaucratic, corporate, and flexibility are dominant among the population, respectively. Furthermore, human factors and the leadership are considered among the most important barriers of knowledge sharing.

Since the bureaucratic subculture is predominant among the population and according to the relationships identified between faculty members' subcultures and different barriers to the knowledge sharing, it is imperative to rely more often on leadership potentials and executive agents.

Academic library services are important to all students. However, research shows that international students face some barriers in utilizing library resources and facilities. This study seeks the viewpoints of international students and librarians at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in this regard

The Cochran formula using simple random sampling method was employed to determine. Each the two groups of 36 library staff and 295 students filled one of the two researcher developed questionnaires,. Validity was assessed by experts and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha.

The international students' satisfaction with the services was high, except with regard to the audio- visual materials (CDs, etc.). Librarians also viewed the services in line with the needs of international students. There is also a significant difference between the librarians and international students' perception of the differences between international and native students.

The Libraries of Ferdowsi University should provide different services to their international students, and librarians should pay attention to the differences between international students and native students.

Libraries need to design websites to attract users to use the website and have interactive and valuable online experiences. One way to encourage users to use the library website is to apply the principles of persuasive design. Persuasive technology utilizing persuasive techniques to design products such as websites tries to positively influence people, thereby changing the attitude and behavior of a person to perform a particular action, such as using a website and encouraging users to perform a certain action. Libraries can use persuasion techniques to motivate users to interact with the library and to benefit from the services and information available through the library. Hence the identifying the extent of applying persuasive design criteria in the central library of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad was one of the study purposes. Furthermore, the main purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of persuasive design criteriain persuading the users to use the library website.

This study was an applied research, and its methodology was combination of the evaluation and survey. Research population consisted of MA students at Ferdowsi university of Mashhad belonging to four disciplines i.e., Basic Sciences, Humanities, Engineering, and Agriculture. The desired sample was selected based on Krejcie and Morgan’s sample size table through stratified random sampling (356 persons). The required data were collected by a check list and a researcher-made questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the check list and the questionnaire was confirmed. The gathered data were analyzed through the SPSS using descriptive (i.e., frequency, percent, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (i.e., one sample t-test).

For eight persuasive design criteria (i.e., credibility, privacy, personalization, attractiveness, solicitation, priming, commitment and ascendency), 107 elements were identified, of which 58 percent had been applied in the library website. Furthermore, the findings revealed that the website designers have payed the most attention to the credibility criterion and the least attention to the personalization criterion. The role of persuasive design criteria in persuading the users to use the library website was more than average. According to the results, loading speed and access to the content, user’s personal information privacy, online chat with librarians, selecting the mode of delivering the searched information, a well-organized interface, simple menus and icons, internal search engine, and existence of a section for the library new books were the most persuasive elements of the library website from the users' perspectives. 

This is one of the rare studies in the field of persuasive design in libraries. The results can be used by the librarians and the website designers to design this website more efficiently and effectively. The Librarians can make the website more user-friendly and persuade the users to use the website and the library services.

In order to design user-friendly information retrieval systems, it is important to pay attention to characteristics of users. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the role of demographic variables of users during their search in search engines.

This is an applied study in terms of purpose, which was done by the evaluation method. To conduct the research, firstly, 32 subject headings were selected from the "Persian Subject Headings" and simulated work tasks were developed based on the selected subject headings with the cooperation of three experts in knowledge and information science. Then, according to the characteristics of the population, such as gender, grade and field of study, age and residential area of the students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, 192 people were selected as sample members. The research form was then given to them, which consisted of three sections: demographic information, simulated work tasks, and a place to record relevant links. They were then asked to study the simulated work tasks that they had developed based on the selected subject headings from the Persian Subject headings, and search in Google, Parsijoo, Rismoon, and Yooz search engines in Persian language, and then to record the relevant URLs in the given form. Finally, based on the recorded URLs, the relevance score of the students' retrieved results was calculated according to the Jaccard index. To determine the validity of the research tools, the opinions of faculty members of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were asked as well as the relevant literature was reviewed. Pearson test was also used to determine the reliability of the study, which confirmed the reliability of the study with a correlation coefficient of 0.725.

The findings indicated that the FUM students’ judgement relevance scores with a 95% confidence level were about 0/36 to 0/42. Furthermore, there were significant differences between the students' judgement relevance scores in terms of their educational levels, age groups and their residential areas, while there were no differences between the student's judgement relevance scores in terms of gender and academic field.

It can be said that paying attention to both personalization and customization in designing information retrieval systems will satisfy users. Thus, this paper finally directs the attention of information managers and designers of information retrieval systems to this fact that in designing information systems, more attention must be paid to the three demographic variables, namely education levels, age groups, and residential areas.

The main purpose of this paper is to study the attitudes and readiness of Mashhad's academic librarians toward mobile learning and applying it in academic libraries.

This study used a survey method. The statistical population of this research was 70 employed librarians in Mashhad state universities (Medical and Ferdowsi universities). The sample size was determined 59 subjects according to Cochran’s formula and the data were collected by using the stratified random sampling method. The instrument of the study was a researcher-made questionnaire that its validity was confirmed by professors in the field and its reliability calculated using Cronbach's alpha (0.79).

The results showed that 85% of respondents did not have any information about mobile learning; however, they were interested to know more about it. All librarians have used at least one of mobile devices for personal affairs in their life. In addition, attitude and readiness of the librarians toward mobile learning were upper than the average value.

Librarians‘ positive attitudes to and their readiness for mobile devices show the importance of these devices and also mobile learning provides a good opportunity for academic librarian managers to use these devices in their library services.

the study aimed to evaluate the quality of the website owned by Information Center andCentral Library of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as one of the top universities in the country.

 the research is and applied one in survey method. The statistical population were the total number of students studying in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. A set of 380 students was selected as the appropriate sample. The data were collected using a questionnaire which were then analyzed by software SPSS.

 among the attraction components of the website owned by Information Center and Central Library of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, the use of attractive media had the highest score and the typography had the lowest one. Regarding the usability component, consistency had the highest and the structure had the lowest score. Moreover, the degree of satisfaction among the students from the quality of the website was evaluated as medium.

although a new website is designed for Information Center and Central Library of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, there appeared, however, a need to revise its quality especially in terms of usability.