Maryam Nakhoda

University of Tehran | UT · Department of Library & Information Sciences

Purpose: Considering that health information has a fundamental role in increasing the level of health of people in todayʼs societies, it provides a suitable platform for the growth and development of health systems in different countries. This study aimed to investigate the health information needs and how to access health information among those r...

Objectives: The purpose of the research was conducted to design a model for producing open educational resources (OER) for the virtual education system of the University of Tehran. Methodology: The research method of this study was a survey. A researcher-made a 20 item questionnaire extracted from earlier studies with a Cronbach's alpha coefficien...

Development of a digital library demands extensive financial, human, and technological investments. Appropriate models and measurement tools are required to achieve the goals of these libraries to assess them. This research was conducted with the aim of developing and validating a tool to measure the maturity of a digital library based on the “digi...

Objective: The purpose of this article is to identify the institutional repository evaluation indicators and to evaluate the compliance of the institutional repository of Alzahra University with it. Materials and Methods: This research has used the qualitative method. The meta-combined method has been used to create the indicators. The panel of exp...

This study aims to determine the relationship among factors affecting research misconduct within the research system of medical sciences in Iran. Using phenomenography, the perceptions of individuals involved in the activities of macro, meso, and micro levels of the research system were investigated and 13 affecting factors were identified. The DEM...

Porpose: purpose of this paper is to determined various aspects of the field of "Game in Libraries" using knowledge map. Methods: This is an applied bibliometric study. The study population included 86 articles in the field of "Game in libraries and information literacy" that indexed in Scopus by the end of 2016. In this paper, we use Text mining a...

Purpose: Exploring required components for creating a participatory archive for Tehran metropolitan area archival centers based on web2 technology. Method and Research Design: Based on extensive interview with a number of experts, we arrived at a number of categories. The Categories were used to develop a questionnaire and circulated among all the...

Objective: Ontologies are effective tools for organizing and retrieving information. They are more compatible with semantic information retrieval systems and environments. Several methods and approaches have been proposed for designing and building ontologies. The aim of this study is to categorize ontology building methods and identify their impor...

Objective: Personal Archiving is a branch of archival science and genealogy, focusing on the capture, classify, maintain, store, retrieve, use, archive, preservation, dispose, and management of an individual's personal documents and other documentary output, generally by the individuals concerned. A personal archive is an archive created by a perso...

Research at the university is one of the key pillars of community development and development, and is crucial to maintaining a competitive position at national and international levels. This study aimed to identify the most important factors affecting the future of research at seven comprehensive universities in the country: University of Tehran, T...

Purpose: The main purpose of the present research was to provide a pattern for creating university archives at the Persian Gulf University.Methodology: The methodology of the current applied research was survey, descriptive and analytical. The research population consisted of 20 librarians and 185 faculty members of the Persian Gulf University as t...

Studying everyday life information seeking (ELIS) in a variety of contexts contributes to its conceptual development. The primary goal of this study was to understand ELIS in the context of female university students' coping with daily hassles. To identify the dimensions and determinants of ELIS, and to fill this current gap in the literature, a gr...

Archival Literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to 'recognize when archival information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed archival materials.' The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of archival literacy among the users of the archival centers in Tehran, Iran. The researc...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to design a model of public health services to the elderly and to validate it among librarians in Tehran. Method: this research is based on purpose and is the exploratory mixed approach. In the qualitative part, a number of 19 people and managers of the elderly were interviewed in a deep interview. The data we...

The national guidelines for biomedical research ethics are approved by the “National Committee for Ethics in Biomedical Research” at the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education as the regulatory body for biomedical research in the country. The focus of these guidelines should be on the ethical issues related to different stages of the rese...

توضیح درباره روش تحقیق محتوا کمی، شیوه ، کاربرد ها و مراحل انجام آن به همرا آقای مهدی عزیزی

Purpose There are many challenges in the development of a digital library (DL) and their complexity can be approached effectively with a maturity model. In a maturity model, the features of a phenomenon are divided into different levels and at each level, they are first improved before going on to the improvement or realization of the next level. T...

Abstract Objective: To investigate the effect of the downsizing of university libraries on the job satisfaction of Government Universities libraries staff in provincial centers. Methodology: This research is based on the purpose of the applied type, as a method of obtaining data from a descriptive survey type and in terms of the type of data collec...

The purpose of this study was to identify the language consistency between indexers, authors and taggers in the ERIC and Mendeley databases. This survey was conducted using content analysis methods and techniques to evaluate the language consistency between indexers, authors and taggers in the ERIC and Mendeley databases and also to determine commo...

Purpose: The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of international academic mobility of Tehran University faculty members on their research performance and scientific collaborations. Methodology: This is an applied scientometric study, conducted by using library research and descriptive-evaluative survey methods. The statistical popula...

The purpose of this research is to design a crisis management model in the archival centers of Iran during the pre-crisis phase. The present study was conducted with a qualitative approach using the Grounded theory method. The necessary data was collected using semi-structured interviews. Data saturation was a major factor in determining the sample...

Substantial concerns about the research integrity in Iran have caused research misconducts to be an issue for studies. But adequate recognition of causal factors is a necessary part of clear and explicit policy in order to manage the research misconducts and supply the research integrity. This study attempted investigating the available evidence on...

هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی مفهوم کيفيت زندگي کاري و تعیین سطح آن در میان نیروی انسانی شاغل در مراکز خدمات اطلاعاتی و دانشی و درنهایت تبیین مدل اندازه‌گیری آن است. تحلیل مفهوم کيفيت زندگي کاري عملاً به ساخت یک ابزار برای سنجش این مفهوم منجر شد. این پژوهش، کاربردی و از نوع پیمایشی ـ توصیفی است. جامعه آماری در بخش کیفی، مدیران و کارشناسان ارشد کتابخانه‌های...

Purpose This research aims to study the factors influencing the resistance of the employees of Tehran University libraries to technological changes. Through achieving this aim, it attempts to provide a suitable understanding of these factors for the managers so that they would be able to reduce the resistance to change among the employees of unive...

The purpose of this article is to address the factors that can increase the utility for customers of information databases in Iran. In order to achieve that, summarizing content analysis techniques was used. The study population consists of customers paying to use information databases in Iran. The bibliographical research has been done on utility...

The purpose of this research is to present a crisis management model in the archival centers of Iran during the pre-crisis and confronting stage. The present study was conducted with a qualitative approach using the grounded theory method. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews. Data saturation was a major factor in determining sample...

Digital Library (DL) development is faced with many challenges which cannot be overcome all at once. In such cases which are so complex, maturity models are utilized. In a maturity model, features of a phenomenon are classified into few levels so that improving or realizing the features of each level is the prerequisite of going to the next level....

This study aims to investigate the status of user interfaces of non-Iranian digital libraries based on social bookmarking capabilities and characteristics to use by Iranian digital libraries. This research studies the characteristics and capabilities of top digital libraries user interfaces in the world based on social bookmarking used by library u...

Objectives The database and their Covered Journals are among the most important information resources for students and experts in various fields and disciplines, including Geriatrics. Given the multiplicity of databases and their high subscription fees, awareness of those databases covering the majority of journals related to the topic of Geriatric...

The extension of the Internet and World Wide Web has created new opportunities as well as new challenges for institutions and individuals who are either receiving or delivering education. Electronic learning is one of the most important breakthroughs in education in which the website is the first access point that users receive educational services...

The purpose of this study is to study the descriptive metadata standards in archival open source software to determine the most appropriate descriptive metadata standard (s) and also Encoder Software support of these standards. The approach of this study is a combination of library methods, Delphi and descriptive survey. In library study method res...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study promoting and inhibiting factors in empowerment of female librarians in the opinion of female managers. It is necessary that library managers identify and monitor influential factors in empowering librarians, and attempt to eliminate factors with negative effects. Design/methodology/approach – This...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine marketing strategies of the National Archives of Iran (NAI). Methodology: Mixed (quantitative-qualitative) methodology is employed in this research. In the qualitative phase, components of the marketing mix (7P's) were identified. Then a questionnaire containing dimensions of Mixed Marketing factors...

Change is an inevitable, almost daily phenomenon in organizations. Several change models have been designed in different contexts to facilitate the planning and implementation of change. Information service centers operate within a rapidly growing environment of education and research. They have to be proactive in the face of change in order to rea...

The purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. This paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. First by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowe...

The purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. This paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. First by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowe...

Objective: This paper aims to describe the process of building electronic archive of students’ profiles at universities, in order to overcome difficulties resulting from keeping physical archives. Methodology: In the present study, qualitative method and interviews were used to gather research data. Fifteen interviews were done with experts of Nat...

Using consensus method and analyzing the ranked viewpoints, this paper aimed to select an appropriate change model to the Iranian academic libraries. Therefore, these libraries can apply the mentioned model in order to overcome challenges resulted of change and improve change management. The research questionnaire including three selected change mo...

Today's life is not insulated from different kinds of “change.” Change is also experienced in organizations as a somehow daily process. Academic libraries are organizations which need to be active in confrontation with “change” because of their essential role in education and research. These libraries could be more successful in meeting users' info...