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SciVerse: Elsevier Says Yes to APIs

2010-09-11T21:25:00.000-07:00

Elsevier as world leading publisher has committed to releasing the APIs (application programming interfaces) for all of the content on new platform named SciVerse. SciVerse Hub is a gate way to performing advanced searches across Science Direct, Scopus content, and web content simultaneously. for being update about the new feature you can see this website.

professor Caro Lucas passed away

2010-07-11T03:00:00.000-07:00

professor Caro Lucas passed away. he was a renowned Iranian scientist.I am honor that had scientific trip with Professor Caro Lucas to Kish Island in the year of 2008.

How web2.0 can serve to Library and information centers?

2010-05-08T21:39:00.000-07:00

Two days ago I run a workshop in 23th Tehran International Book Fair about" How web2.0 can serve to Library and information centers? ". Now report of the workshop is available at Iranian Book News Agency (IBNA) in this address.

Predicting a Nobel Prize and Thomson Reuters

2010-02-19T23:16:00.000-08:00

Please listen up to David Pendlebury speech on Predicting a Nobel Prize and Thomson Reuters. He believes that Predicting a Nobel Prize winner is no mean feat. Thomson Reuters has been doing it for years with some. significant success. enjoy the speech through this link in You tube.

Web2.0 and its application in LIS

2010-01-22T04:44:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I run a workshop on “Web2.0 and its application in library and information science” affiliated by Iranian Medical library and information science association (IMLA).

Climbing up to Darabad

2010-01-22T04:36:00.000-08:00

In the last weakened, some of my colleagues and I climbed up to Darabad Mountain located in North of Tehran. Some of our group members were experienced climbers. It was the enjoyable Friday for me.

Björneborn Laws of Web and Ranganathan's Laws of library science

2010-01-19T00:24:00.000-08:00

During today surfing, I found the web laws of the Web by Lennart Björneborn (2004) bases on Ranganathan (1931) five laws of library science.

Laws of library science

Books are for use.
Every reader his or her book.
Every book its reader.
Save the time of the reader.
The Library is a growing organism.

Björneborn Laws of Web

Links are for use - the very essence of hypertext;

Every surfer his or her link - the rich diversity of links across topics and genres

Every link its surfer - ditto

Save the time of the surfer - visualizing web clusters and small-world shortcuts

The Web is a growing organism

A trip to Dubai

2010-01-04T00:51:00.000-08:00

I had a trip to The United Arab Emirates (UAE) during recent days ago. It was enjoyable for me. I had been in Wild Wadi with rip-roaring water sports like Water Slides, River Rides, Torrent River, Rapids all day long. The other attractive part of Dubai is the artificial Palm Island that I visited Atlantis aqua Venture Park in the Palm.Additionally I went to desert Safari tour it was exciting as well.

Ehsan visiting beauty Paris

2009-09-09T04:37:00.000-07:00

I left Amsterdam to visit Paris 6^th September. I tripped by train 4:30 hours to Paris. At the first night of my arrival I visited the Effile tower, it was amazing. I lift up to top of the beauty tower as high as possible. Next day I visited the great Louvre museum, I saw just some parts of Louvre museum like Iran antique, Italian Paintings and famous sculptures saloons 6 hours visiting.At the night I was walking, eating and taking some photos in Champs Elysees Avenue.

Briefly Paris was really fabulous city.

At Elsevier Office

2009-09-05T13:57:00.000-07:00

Today morning I attend at Elsevier office in Amsterdam as a visitor. Elsevier is well-known company that publishes more than 25% of world science via Science Direct and facilitate research through some products like Engineering village, EMBASE and Scopus. One of the company mangers presented new development on new products (SciVal) for me.

Ehsan in Amsterdam

2009-09-05T13:50:00.000-07:00

I am attending in PRIME-ENID Amsterdam Summer School on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators Knowledge Dynamics Visualisation. I presented my paper driven from master dissertation 3th of September. Participating in the summer school was so fruitful for me why that new topics of Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators and Knowledge visualisation techniques discussed by energetic PhD students around the world and expert European professors.

PRIME-ENID Summer School on Science , Technology and Innovation Indicators and knowledge visualization

2009-08-28T03:08:00.000-07:00

My paper entitled "Knowledge mapping of Iranian Nano science and technology: a text mining approach" accepted to present at the PRIME-ENID Summer School on Science , Technology and Innovation Indicators and knowledge visualization. The summer school will be held in Amsterdam 1-4 September 2009. for detail program of this summer school you can click here. I will write the reports of my attendance in the Amsterdam summer school in near future.

Thematic Categorization of library and information science

2009-08-01T21:57:00.000-07:00

Thematic Categorization and Analysis of library and information science is title of a research done by Gonzalez-Alcaide, Gregorio, Lourdes Castello-Cogolles, Carolina Navarro-Molina, et al. The aim of this research was to provide an updated categorization of Library and InformationScience (LIS) publications and to identify trends in LIS research.
The authors identified 18 “thematic research core fields” (152) clustered around three large categories, “World Wide Web”, “Education”, and “Libraries”, plus 12 additional peripheral categories, and provided a schematic of field interrelationships.

Elsevier unveiled SciVal Spotlight

2009-07-11T04:55:00.000-07:00

To date, research output has been evaluated based on the journal in which it is published. Each scientific journal is classified into a major field despite the fact that journals are progressively covering a wider array of disciplines and paradigms (sub-topics) that are not properly reflected in their field classification. this is challenge of measuring interdisciplinary research performance and allocating resources.Last week the scholarly publisher Elsevier unveiled SciVal Spotlight, an online service that attempts to uncover universities' strengths and weaknesses in no fewer than 80,000 areas of research.for more informaion on SciVal Spotlight click here.

What Is SUSHI?

2009-07-06T21:15:00.000-07:00

The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007) defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming user-mediated collection of usage data reports.for more information you can follow up this link.

virtual Ehsan Real blog is four years old now

2009-06-20T08:09:00.000-07:00

Sunday, June 19, 2005 was the first day that I blogged. Today virtual Ehsan Real blog is four years old but in the recent year because of doing my master dissertation and hard working I could not update the blog as I wish. So, I love it. Happy your birthday My Blog.

Google Persian Translator

2009-06-20T07:48:00.000-07:00

Google's free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages.Internet giant Google on Friday started translating Persian.This means you can now translate any text from Persian into English and from English into Persian — whether it's a news story, a website, a blog, an email and etc. for using this new serivce of Google for free at http://translate.google.com/

Ehsan at 5th Nanotechnology student conference

2009-06-02T02:18:00.000-07:00

In the recent days I attended in the 5th Nanotechnology student conference in Tehran medical university and present a part of my dissertation research results as a poster session. For downloading the poster (in Persian) you can click here.

My Birthday

2009-05-09T21:44:00.000-07:00

Today is my birthday.

5th Iranian Nano technology student conference

2009-04-28T23:04:00.000-07:00

5th Iranian Nano technology student conference will hold 30th May till 1 June 2009 in Tehran medical university. For more information you can visit its website here.

Happy New year

2009-04-04T06:55:00.000-07:00

The Iranian New Year, Nowruz, which coincides with the astronomical Vernal Equinox Day or the first day of spring, falls on March 21.in the last year (1387) some bad and good memories .the worst memories of my life happened 19 December 2008 (29 Azar 1387), in this day fate snatched my Mom away suddenly and the good one was my graduation of masters degree as well as distinguished as the top library and information science student in the first national festival of excellence in library and information science. So I wish good bless my Mom and healthy and wealthy year for you as reader of Virtual Ehsan. Additionally Azar and I enjoyed my new Year holiday near my Family in Sough (a town in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province).

Analysis of the long term dynamics in thesaurus developments and its consequences

2009-03-01T02:58:00.000-08:00

Dr Mohammad Tavakolizadeh-Ravari who is PhD in library and information science from Berlin's first university helped me more when I was doing my master dissertation because his research area was like me in some areas of text mining.Dr Tavakolizadeh PhD thesis is on "Analysis of the long term dynamics in thesaurus developments and its consequences " you can download full text of his thesis here.

The first national festival of excellence in library and information science

2009-02-21T04:47:00.000-08:00

The first national festival of excellence in library and information science held 17 February in Iranian national library by the union of Iranian library and information science student associations (ADKA). In this festival introduced me as top student between master students around Iran.

Concepts of Scientific Structural maps

2009-01-31T00:28:00.000-08:00

The second article extracted from my master dissertation published.,"Concepts of Scientific Structural maps", appeared in Rahyaft, science policy quarterly, No43, Fall 2008. You can download full text of this article in Persian here. You can cite the article as below:

Mohamamadi,E (2008)Concepts of Scientific Structural maps. (Persian) .science policy quarterly No43, Fall 2008.

Mother is Queen of my Heart

2008-12-31T01:24:00.000-08:00

My mother taught me to feel, to love,
My mother taught me to cry, to laugh.
My mother taught me goodness and beauty,
I Love You Forever, Mom
You have demonstrated a sensitivity to people's needs,
You have shown me leadership,
You have taught me to be strong,
You have taught me the importance of family,
You have demonstrated unconditional love,
You have handed down to me the important values in life,
You have handed down to me the idea of achieving one's goals.
But fate snatched my Mom away suddenly. Since she was taken I have been living with her good memories.

Poem by Susan Polis Schutz and Magdalena Klein

Nano search strategy: Georgia tech algorithm

2008-12-02T04:28:00.000-08:00

The first publications from my dissertation published in Iranian Nano initiative newsletter No134. You can find the full text of this article in Persian entitled "Nano search strategy: Georgia tech algorithm" here.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2008

2008-11-22T01:18:00.000-08:00

The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings identified these to be the world's top 100 universities in 2008. These institutions represent 20 countries.you can see The Complete Rankings.Tehran university appeared among top 500 world universities in 2008.

The Proceedings of the 2008 COLLNET released for free

2008-10-24T08:11:00.000-07:00

I am please to announce you that the publication of the Proceedings of the 2008 COLLNET Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin as an open-access e-book available here. More than 80 papers presented at COLLNET 2008 are included in the Proceedings. They can be reached via the link on its title in the alphabetical List of Contents (at the end of the PDF file).
Thanks from Dr. Frank Havemann for alerting me via email.

My dissertation Viva

2008-09-13T01:01:00.000-07:00

Finally, I defended my Master dissertation in library and information science on "Knowledge mapping of Iranian nano science and technology".
Beside my formal supervisors (Dr Kayvan Kousha and Nadjla Hariri) some valuable professors around the world help me that I acknowledged them in my dissertation formaly as well as Viva.
Professor Alan L. Porter
Professor Ed Noyons
Professor Jan Youtie
Professor Katy Börner

you can see photos of this session here.

The Art and Science of Blogger Relations

2008-08-18T05:10:00.000-07:00

The discussion around blogger relations is more relevant now than ever. And quite honestly, with every debate, exploration, and analysis, these conversations only fuel the advancement and improvement of Public Relations overall. Brian Solis Compiled a series of articles related to this area into one eBook that you can download it here.

Ehsan homepage

2008-07-17T07:03:00.000-07:00

When I was working in central library of Shahid Beheshti University as library webmaster(2006), I created my webpage in Google page. You can create your own homepage in simply way via Google account.

My dissertation

2008-07-01T00:23:00.001-07:00

These days I am so busy why that I am doing my dissertation. Topic of my dissertation is Mapping Iranian Nano science and technology. My supervisors are Dr Kayvan Kousha Assistant Professor of Information Science University of Tehran and Honorary Fellow of the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK as well as Dr Nadjla Hariri Assistant Professor of Information Science Islamic Azad University.

web 2.0 workshop

2008-05-11T22:28:00.000-07:00

In the series of workshops in conjunction with Tehran International Book Fair , I run "Web2.0 definitions and concepts" workshop. it was an interactive atmosphere.so, attendee asked their questions during workshop.

Role of Iranian National Library in knowledge growth

2008-05-10T01:12:00.000-07:00

In the series of panels in conjunction with Tehran International Book Fair, I attended a panel on "Role of Iranian National Library in knowledge growth". I suggested NLAI duties for enhancing of Iranian knowledge performance in three categories: first Accessible information (fee base, open access information and Iranian governmental publications) services (long life learning education, reference interviews by professional librarians before research) finally dissemination of information (self archiving, parallel archiving, Iranian postgraduate thesis database).

The b index as a measure of scientific excellence. A promising supplement to the h index

2008-05-04T00:45:00.000-07:00

Authors propose the b index as a measure of scientific excellence at the micro and meso levels, as a promising supplement to the h index and its variants (such as g index and R index).for access to full text of this article click here.

Scopus:Research trend

2008-04-14T22:07:00.000-07:00

Research Trends is a bi-monthly newsletter providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on Bibliometric analysis. Research trend powered by Scopus. In the last Issue (Issue4 March 2008) focuses on the below topics
The value of Bibliometric measures: assessing the Shanghai Rankings
Research trends: Australia: new government, new research opportunities
Country trends: focus on China: the trajectory of Chinese research
Expert opinion: Social sciences literature in citation databases
Why did you cite...?
To download a PDF version of this issue, click here.

Noruz holidays

2008-04-05T22:01:00.000-07:00

After snowy winter, spring coming. Iranians people going to meet New Year and spring with some traditional custom of Noruz. In this New Year holidays my fiancés & I visited Antalya. We had some enjoyable days in Turkey.

The 1st National Congress of Scientometrics in Medical Sciences

2008-03-18T02:49:00.000-07:00

I participated in The 1st National Congress of Scientometrics in Medical Sciences affiliated by Isfahan University. Of medical sciences. It was so useful days with Iranian Scientometrician: Dr Abbas Horri, Dr Kayvan Kousha, Dr Farideh Osareh, Dr Alireza Norozi, Dr Noruzi Chakoli and the others. I presented my lecture on "ISI tools for measuring Science" .

EKAW 2008:16th Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

2008-02-24T21:38:00.000-08:00

Knowledge is considered as the most important asset in our modern society. It has now penetrated all facets of computing practice: from the rise of knowledge management to the semantic web and from the blog culture to the knowledge economy.EKAW 2008 pay special attention to the topic of "knowledge patterns" that can be considered as good practices or models that are applied or reused throughout the knowledge engineering lifecycle.this year EKAW solicit papers about methodologies, models, and tools for the following topics: A) ONTOLOGY DESIGN B) NETWORKED ONTOLOGIES OVER THE SEMANTIC WEB C) KNOWLEDGE REENGINEERING D) PROCESS KNOWLEDGE AND SEMANTIC SERVICES E) SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING.

MLIS defence:Citation Analysis of Iranian journals in three citation tools: WOS, Scopus and Google scholar.

2008-01-25T21:42:00.000-08:00

Azar Eftekhar will defense form her MLIS dissertation on “Citation Analysis of Iranian journals in three citation tools: WOS, Scopus and Google scholar”.

Time: Monday 28 th of January 2008 at 11.00

Place: Seminar room, 5th Floor, Humanities building No 1, Research and science branch of Islamic Azad university, Poonak ,Tehran, Iran

Abstracts
Regarding to the quantitative increase of the Iranian scientific output in the recent years, qualitative approaches should be taken in to consideration as well. Citation analysis is one of the qualitative approaches to scholarly evaluations and measurements.Before 2004 Web of science was known as the unique citation analysis tool world wide but in 2004, 2 new citation analysis tools, one Scopus a product of Elsevier, the International publisher and another Google Scholar, a product of Google the giant business company released.This research was done by the aim of citation analysis of Iranian English languages journals in the three citation analysis databases, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. In this research 28 Iranian academic English language journals accredited by MSRT were selected and number of citations to each journal was extracted then mean and median of selected journal citations were calculated, too. And also results based on descriptive statistics and 3 correlation tests including Spearman, Pearson and Kendall showed strong correlation between WOS, Scopus and Google Scholar citations for the studied journals.

PhD defence:Improvement of thesaurus design through a work-task oriented methodology

2008-01-12T23:52:00.000-08:00

Improvement of thesaurus design through a work-task oriented methodology
Azam Sanatjoo, The Royal School of Library and Information Science
Time: Friday 18 th of January 2008 at 10.00
Place: Royal School of Library and Information Science, Birketinget 6, 2300 Copenhagen - Auditorium
Reception: Royal School of Library and Information Science, Birketinget 6, 2300 Copenhagen- following the defence
Abstract:
Developments in the field of digital information retrieval systems and changes in the information retrieval (IR) area emphasize the need to reconsider the role of thesauri in IR. The changes as well as technical advances require and offer possibilities for developing and refining the functionality of thesauri. The PhD project explores methodologies for designing and developing thesauri for information retrieval that exceed the potential of the traditional construction methods. The main purpose of the dissertation is to devise a framework for a work-task oriented methodology (WOM) applicable to thesaurus construction. The focus is on the development of conceptual content and the method of arrangement of the conceptual content in the thesaurus and display by benefit from the structure of other semantic tools (semantic network and topic map). In order to determine the value of the WOM a prototype thesaurus was developed. It was evaluated in a retrieval test in which the usability and performance of the thesaurus were investigated. The findings indicate allows the development of a thesaurus design that reflects the characteristics of the work domain.
Supervisors:
Principal supervisor: Professor, Birger Hjørland, Royal School of Library and Information Science
Project supervisor: Associate professor, Marianne Lykke Nielsen Royal School of Library and Information Science
Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor, Fil.Dr/PhD Katriina Byström, Swedish School of Library and Information Science at Göteborg
Senior Scientist, PhD Hanne Albrechtsen, Institute of Knowledge Sharing
Associate Professor Piet Seiden, Royal School of Library and Information Science (Chair) .
A copy of the thesis is available for inspection from 7th January 2008 here .

White Tehran

2008-01-05T22:43:00.000-08:00

Today when I woke up , every thing was white. Yeah! Snow covered Tehran completely. Three things reviewed in my mind with white Tehran. First, cold days of Isfahan University with warm classmates and friends, second military services dates in Lavizan. Finally old building of central library of SBU and my ex-colleague during two winters that I was working there.

Web 3.0 and medicine

2007-12-23T22:28:00.000-08:00

Recently, a neurologist devised an apt medical metaphor for web 3.0. He suggested that, "The development of the graphical web from its early days in 1995 to the social web of late 2007 is comparable to the developing brain." He went on to say that, "Whereas web 1.0 and 2.0 were embryonic, formative technologies, web 3.0 promises to be a more mature web where better ‘pathways’ for information retrieval will be created, and a greater capacity for cognitive processing of information will be built." you can follow this link for more information.

Thanks alot to Mehdi hosseini for alerting me on Web 3.0 and medicine.

Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous...

2007-12-18T21:42:00.000-08:00

AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.Jakob Nielsen's in Alertbox December 17, 2007 wrote his idea in two pages.for full of this issue of Jakob Nielsen's in Alertbox click here.

Times Higher Education Supplement and research institutes world ranking 2007

2007-12-09T01:09:00.000-08:00

Let’s first look at the world rankings. Which are the top research institutes around the world? The Times Higher Education Supplement is a well known reputable publication, part of the London Times, that annually publishes world rankings of universities. this year Time Higher Education Supplement has kept their eye on the devlopment of Scopus and have conducted several tests with our data and found the data to be more supportive for university rankings. for more information on world ranking 2007 click here.

Beyond the Hype 2008: Web 2.0 symposium

2007-11-27T01:52:00.000-08:00

Web 2.0, and Library 2.0, are terms generating a high level of interest in the library and other fields.The AustralianLibrary and Information Association is proud to present Beyond the Hype 2008: Web 2.0 symposium .The aim of the symposium is to look beyond the hype of Web 2.0 and provide interesting and practical information so people can make up their own minds.

bibliometric handbook

2007-11-23T06:29:00.000-08:00

bibliometric handbook and definitions of indicators published by Karolinska Institute.The handbook describe the advantages and disadvantages of different indicators and methods and give instructions on how to interpret the indicators and other results of bibliometric analysis.

What our schools are named? An investigation among information leaders

2007-11-13T00:56:00.000-08:00

"What our schools are named? An investigation among information leaders", is title of an article by Dariush Alimohammadi affiliated by Iranian Library and Information Science Association (ILISA),and Mahshid Sajjadi affiliated by Iranian Institute of Philosophy. This article published in the journal of information and knowledge management systems Vol. 37 No. 4, 2007 pp. 532-546.in the below lines, you can read it’s abstract.

Abstract:There are many differences in, and various opinions on, naming library education institutions around the world. In a number of countries, this diversity has increased a powerful trend among library professionals to discuss and to challenge the problem of naming schools in which they are studying the discipline and the programs by which they are being taught. The present study, in response to this trend, aims to find out an adequate answer to this problem based on the real state of the librarianship’s educational institutions on the World Wide Web.
After an introductory note, various opinions are classified into two categories. The diversity in interpretation of renaming schools is reviewed chronologically. The survey was done and a sufficient conclusion was presented.

Is Google a Library?

2007-10-29T02:41:00.000-07:00

Siva Vaidhyanathan is working on a book called "The Googlization of Everything". The book project has a blog, where Siva invites people to comment on various postings related to Google. One of the topical areas in the blog is "Is Google a Library?"The book will answer three key questions: What does the world look like through the lens of Google?; How is Google's ubiquity affecting the production and dissemination of knowledge?; and how has the corporation altered the rules and practices that govern other companies, institutions, and states? fellow this link for leaving your comment.

Elsevier training in Iran

2007-10-23T22:32:00.000-07:00

Form Saturday I company with Hatim El Faiz and Ali Jalali from Elsevier. Hatim came to Iran for training Science Direct and Scopus. In some sessions I translated Hatim lectures to persian.In this picture Ali,Hatim and I are in Hamadan.

Azar! welcome to my life

2007-10-23T22:19:00.000-07:00

I started my marital life last week I married Azar Eftekhar (MLIS student) the one who I met in National library for the first time and we celebrated our happiness in a small party last Thursday .We as a librarian couple made up our mind to build a unique, lovely life .We love each other and really care about our profession (library and information science) as well. We wish through our life could take effective steps in Iranian librarianship.

academic ranking of world universities2007

2007-09-26T04:48:00.000-07:00

Here you can find academic ranking of world universities2007.The original purpose of doing the ranking was to find out the gap between Chinese universities and world-class universities, particularly in terms of academic or research performance. It has been done for our academic interests without any outside support.

Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us

2007-09-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

Traditional library web products, whether online public access catalogs, library databases, or even library web sites, have long been rigidly controlled and difficult to use. Patrons regularly prefer Google's simple interface. Now social book marking and tagging tools help librarians bridge the gap between the library's need to offer authoritative, well-organized information and their patrons' web experience. This is introduction of an article entitle "Social book marking and tagging boost participation”. Last year I presented a poster session in the first Iranian library and information science annual conference on "Organizing Information on social web" in the First Iranian Library and information science association: new approach to organizing Information. National Library of Iran, March 2007.

International Journal of Virtual Reality(IJVR)

2007-09-07T11:03:00.000-07:00

The IJVR (published quarterly) is a multimedia publication dedicated to the cooperative development and application of diverse technologies associated with virtual reality. It is designed to disseminate relevant new information to professionals in all aspects of the field using the latest in publishing technology. topics include, the following:

Technologies for Virtual Reality, Augmented Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality
Virtual Reality Platforms and Systems
Virtual Reality Applications
Assessment of Virtual Reality Systems
Human Machine Interactions
Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Virtual Reality
Modeling, Rendering, and Animation for Virtual Reality

Application of Qualitative research Methods

2007-09-07T10:20:00.000-07:00

Today I attended in the workshop of “Application of Qualitative research Methods” by Dr Yazdan Mansourain & Dr Ebrahim Afshar Zanjani.it was so useful workshop for me. In this workshop Dr Afshar explained Qualitative research methods by some social examples and Dr Mansourain used his experiences in PhD thesis done by Grounded theory method.Dr mansourian completed his PhD in 2006 in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Sheffield. And his thesis was on: Information Visibility on the Web and Conceptions of Success and Failure in Web Searching. This work shop organize by Iranian library and information science association.

what is Protocol?

2007-08-27T22:43:00.000-07:00

Protocol is a precise and detailed experiment for the study of a biochemistry, molecular biology, or biomedical problem. Protocols are experiment procedure ‘recipes’ organized in a standardized format that can be executed in a laboratory environment. Researchers rely on protocols to study gene behavior, to discover new approaches. to treating diseases, and to lower costs of drug development. Protocols were first created by Tom Lanigan (of Springer, formerly founder and President of Humana Press) and Dr. John M. Walker to standardize the sharing of experimental procedures in the scientific community. Humana Press was the original publisher of protocols.

Source: Springer Library Zone Newsletter.Volume 3 • Issue 1 • Spring 2007

2007 International Symposium on Wikis

2007-08-20T22:02:00.000-07:00

The 2007 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, practitioners, and users. The goal of the symposium is to explore and extend our growing community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions.

who is super librarian?

2007-08-08T02:46:00.000-07:00

Super Librarian Librarians are on the forefront of the information age. If you are interested in who is super librarian please open this video.

Information Research journal

2007-08-07T05:00:00.000-07:00

Information Research, is an open access, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is privately published and edited by Professor T.D. Wilson.

Evidence-based practice librarianship

2007-07-30T23:31:00.000-07:00

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem solving approach to clinical practice that integrates the conscientious use of best evidence in combination with a clinician’s expertise as well as patient preferences and values to make decisions about the type of care that is provided. Conjunction of Library and information science with EBP caused to coin Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. You can gain more information on this area via full papers of 4th International Evidence Based Library & Information Practice Conference held May 2007 and open access journal of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice published quarterly by the University of Alberta Learning Services.

A free book chapter for academic librarian

2007-07-28T23:00:00.000-07:00

“Key issues in the design and delivery of technology-enhanced learning” is chapter 4 of Developing the New Learning Environment: the changing role of the academic librarian book. By Levy, P. and Roberts, S. (Eds) London: Facet that is free on the Web.

Momentum for Open Access

2007-07-25T00:19:00.000-07:00

Last year, a proposal in Congress to require all federally supported research to be placed online, freely available, attracted considerable attention and debate — and ultimately stalled.This year, a measure that is narrower — it would apply only to research supported by the National Institutes of Health — appears within reach of passage.for more information fellow this link

Springer e book survey

2007-07-23T22:29:00.000-07:00

An independent study conducted in 2007 by Attfield Dyskra & Partners from Springer. In this study they surveyed 6 libraries about eBook adoption and usage. This white paper cited what do Faculty and Students really think about eBooks? By Ian Rowlands, David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali and Paul Huntington.I translated this white paper to Persian.

Outdated Virtual Ehsan Real blog

2007-07-17T23:31:00.000-07:00

Toady nearly to 2 months that I could not update my blog because of a terrible accident occurred for me. Wednesday 23rd may a motorcycle with high speed crashed me and I was thrown 50 meters to sidewalk. I broke my main leg bone. Any way in a surgical operation, an expert orthopedics team from Sina hospital inserts platinum in my broken bone. During these days I did not connected to internet intentionally that I published a post entitled “living with out internet”.

Information Literacy workshop

2007-05-16T03:33:00.000-07:00

This is picture of Information Literacy workshop runned by Farzad Dadrass & I in 20thTehran International book fair.

Kayvan Kousha defense session

2007-05-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Kayvan Kousha Phd student of library and information science of Tehran University could defend successfully of his Ph.D. dissertation with the final score 19.50."Quantitative and Qualitative Comparison between ISI and Web-Extracted Citations to Open Access Journals Articles in Science and Social Sciences: Application of Webometrics for Studying Formal and Informal Scholarly Communications" was title of Dr kousha thesis. first Supervisor of this research was Prof. Abbas Horri and 2nd Supervisor was Prof. Mike Thelwall.

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines

2007-05-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

New search engines that may stand the best chance to become the next Google all share one common element — the use of Web 2.0 technology that they hope will increase search result relevance.Here are 25 such engines. Some offer functionality that's slowly making its way into traditional search engines.

20th TIBF

2007-05-02T06:12:00.000-07:00

This May is the 20th anniversary of the first Tehran International Book Fair. Since 1987, in this ceremony a thousand book publishers from around the world have gathered at TIBF. My friend(Farzad Dadrass) and I will run a workshop on Information Literacy in 20th TIBF.

Interview with me

2007-04-29T02:57:00.000-07:00

Today ICT presidency of SBU had an interview with me that publish in main page of SBU website. Click here.

Bridging the gap between folksonomies and taxonomies

2007-04-21T00:45:00.000-07:00

The Montague Institute will hold a teleconference roundtable discussion on May 17, 2007 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm Eastern time.The topic of discussion is how to combine the creativity of "social tagging" with the rigor of professional document indexing. For more information, see

Persepolis

2007-04-19T09:35:00.000-07:00

Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire Founded by Darius I in 518 B.C.in this picture I am standing in front of Persepolis.this picture was toke in nouruz 86 during my travel to Shiraz.for more pic of my travle in nouruz 86 click here.

Show Numbers as Numerals

2007-04-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

It's better to use "23" than "twenty-three" to catch users' eyes when they scan Web pages for facts, according to eyetracking data. this is summry of "Show Numbers as Numerals When Writing for Online Readers".

Usability Week 2007

2007-04-13T06:51:00.000-07:00

Usability Week 2007 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering a three-day usability camp, a three-day intensive session on interaction design, and several specialized, day-long tutorials that get both broad and deep on core usability topics. this conference supported by Nielsen Norman Group for detailed information click here.

Free Enterprise Search Sourcebook

2007-04-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

EnterpriseSearchCenter.com has published the first edition of the Enterprise Search Sourcebook.The Sourcebook examines the strategies and skill sets necessary to make an organization's content not only searchable, but "findable". Articles will cover things like the business and technology ROI of internal search, how to make buying decisions, and how to solve the complex problems that challenge search managers. If you have not yet received a copy, click here. It's free.

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Google Librarian Newsletter

2007-04-03T03:12:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Google Librarian Newsletter

This Issue inculded:

Letter from the editor

Features: Google Docs & Spreadsheets:

Collaborating in the classroom or library

Best of the Blog:

Your library in Google Groups

Explore the world in books

Import citations from Google Scholar

Start your Custom Search Engines

Google Book Search by the numbers

Resource update: Google for Educators

Releases & Announcements:

New posters, bookmarks & more Librarian wanted

Your Two Cents:

You never know what you'll need to know

Happy New year

2007-04-03T02:22:00.000-07:00

Happy new year to all of Iranians around the world. By today I had been offline because of nouroz holydays. in norouz holydays I travled to south and south west of Iran (Shiraz,Yasuj,achsaran,dehdasht,Behbahan,sough,Ahwaz ) .I will publish some pictures of this travel soon.

UR?

2007-03-12T05:38:00.000-07:00

In this post I try to discribe some terms related to address (Location) of information on Internet.

URL (Universal Resource Locator) : The actual address of the resource on the Net.
URN (Uniform Resource Name): A globally unique, location-independent, persistent name for a resource that will be less prone to the failures now encountered with URLs as resources are reorganized or moved.
URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) : Term used to collectively refer to URLs, URNs.for more information on this cases you can read this article.

First annual seminar of ILISA

2007-03-11T01:14:00.000-08:00

I attended a very interesting seminar on Wednesday and Tuesday 7,8 March. It was the First annual seminar of Iranian Library and information science association (ILISA) entitled “modern approachs to organizing Information”. I presented my poster on Organization Information on social Web.
7, 8 March were so precious days for me why that I saw some Iranian librarians and information specialists like Dr Yzadan Mansourian for the first time.

Board of Canada e-Library & e-Data Service on Trial Conference

2007-02-26T20:55:00.000-08:00

The Conference Board of Canada's e-Library contains 1572 research documents publishd from 1998 to the present. The Conference Board of Canada's new e-Data Service allows you to incorporate all of the Conference Board of Canada’s economic information into your own analysis and reports. for trail click here.

CrossEngine

2007-02-19T21:04:00.000-08:00

CrossEngine allows you to query more than 250 web search channels from one single site and Easily find almost any type of information on the web resources likeweb pages, images, products for sale, videos, news, blogs, music, bookmarks, reference articles, academic documents, people profiles, technology articles, maps, eBooks and more and more.try to test it.

2-day conference on search capabilities

2007-02-09T20:45:00.000-08:00

Enterprise Search Summit is a highly intense 2-day conference that covers how to develop, implement, and enhance cutting-edge search capabilities. The emphasis for 2007 is on "extending search," as search becomes not just an application but a major computing platform.detailed information available via this link.

web online Glossary

2007-01-31T02:12:00.000-08:00

Motive Web Design Glossary is an communication. Coverage includes philosophy, business and marketing, usability, visual design, standards and technology.as this glossary is a work in progress you can Suggest a terms.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

2007-01-22T02:06:00.000-08:00

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers. test it here.befor try to test it you can take a tour for being more familiar with this feature of Google.

Panjab University Library Staff Association

2007-01-15T23:48:00.000-08:00

Panjab University Library Staff Association (PULSA) provide a gateway for Continuing Professional Developmet (CPD) of the LIS professionals.you can access to this portal be clicking here

Fast, Cheap, and Good: Yes, You Can Have It All

2007-01-05T09:53:00.000-08:00

The sooner you complete a usability study, the higher its impact on the design process. Slower methods should be deferred to an annual usability checkup.for more inforamtion click here.

Copyleft

2006-12-25T22:41:00.000-08:00

Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and require that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.for more information click here.

LIS seminar

2006-12-17T05:56:00.000-08:00

Wednesday and Tuesday I attended in basis aspect of librarianship and information science profession in Iran seminar organized by shahid beheshti medical university. In this picture I am sitting by professor Rahmatollah Fattahi.

Invisible Web

2006-12-10T03:55:00.000-08:00

Today I got a lecture on Invisible Web as Information Technology Final class assignment. I have been familiar with this aspect of web via yazdan Mansourain .

Knowledge engineering

2006-11-26T04:34:00.000-08:00

Knowledge engineering is a field within artificial intelligence that develops knowledge-based systems. Such systems are computer programs that contain large amounts of knowledge, rules and reasoning mechanisms to provide solutions to real-world problems.for more information on Knowledge engineering you can click here.I had lecture realte to this toic in class today,If you are librarian and intrested in this field, you can fellow this links entitled :Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Natural Language Interfaces, Knowledge Engineering and the Librarian.

Libraries Bookmobile

2006-11-20T05:01:00.000-08:00

As I am so eager on mobile library, today when I surfing on the web I saw this motto "The new Henderson Libraries Bookmobile is coming soon to a neighborhood near you!" yo can read progarm of this mobile library via its blog here.

I wish the day that we have the same program in Iran.

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

2006-11-18T06:04:00.000-08:00

The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be. top Ten Mistakes in Web Design is summary of an article by Jakob Nielsen.

Web Industry Professionals Association

2006-10-29T21:12:00.000-08:00

Here is some exciting news - a new organisation called the Web Industry Professionals Association (of Australia).

blog workshop in UT

2006-10-20T22:15:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 18 October, a workshop on “Blog and bloging for librarians” in Faculty of education of Tehran University. This workshop was in morning (By Tahereh Karami) & afternoon (By my self). All participants was LIS student. I hope that this kind of workshops will increase in Iran LIS society. for accessing to content(persian) of this workshop please click here.

Virtual Library

2006-10-10T21:55:00.000-07:00

The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web.

Most reliable search tool could be your librarian

2006-10-03T21:45:00.000-07:00

Elinor Mills Staff Writer of CNET News.com published an amazing article entitled: Most reliable search tool could be a librarian on September 29, 2006. At this article she also cites to Chris Sherman, executive editor of searchEngineWatch.com.

Thanks alot to Mrs Parvaneh Modiamani for announcing this news in ILISA discusion group.

The new Issue of google librarian realesed

2006-09-24T05:43:00.000-07:00

The new Issue of google librarian realesed.In this issue, you'll find updates on a wide variety of tools to help your patrons track down the information they're looking for like Google Book Search ,Google Scholar Poster,and Flyer Google and.... you can see past issuse of google Librarain here.

Digital Web Magazine

2006-09-12T22:38:00.000-07:00

Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. The magazine consists primarily of work contributed by web authors, as well as by others who occasionally delve into the web realm.

what is usability?

2006-09-11T21:26:00.000-07:00

How to define usability? How, when, and where can you improve it? Why should you care? This overview answers these basic questions. fellowing this link answer your qustions.

Content management conference call series

2006-09-10T21:47:00.000-07:00

Most of you are well versed in content management principles so you may want to pass this on to clients or colleagues. The series will cover introductory as well as advanced topics and may be the foundation formonthly calls.If you are interst on this area click here.additionally There is no cost for the calls.

Journal of Library & information services in distance learning

2006-09-10T01:55:00.000-07:00

Journal of Library & information services in distance learning is a good journal that be so usefull for librarian who deal with distance education.look at it here and you can download free sample of this journal.