background: introduction of iranian national medical digital library (inlm) was a huge investment during several years ago. the aim of this study was to discover the effectiveness of this scientific intervention by examination of citation pattern among graduate dental thesis during before and after of inlm accessibility. methods: this analytical study was conducted among all of graduate dental ...

This is not a paper about strategic directions for Digital Library development. It deliberately focuses on what is being put in place right now in an effort to better support academic endeavour in particular using electronic materials. The examples are all drawn from the UK's largest academic datacentre, Manchester Computing, at the University of Manchester, which, in addition to supporting loc...

the main purpose of this paper is identifying the current situation of iranian digital libraries in terms of interoperability abilities and proposing an interoperability solution for iranian digital libraries. analytical survey is used in this research. in fact, questionnaire and observation were used for collecting data about the current situation of iranian digital library applications. the g...

With a rise in the technology for the production of electronic or digital materials, funders and administrators of libraries are increasingly leaning towards providing digital reading materials to users. In crowded cities like Hong Kong where space is a scarce commodity, the save-space feature of digital libraries is an even more attractive reason why users of library facilities in academic and...

This paper is an attempt by the authors to share their experiences in equipping a young academic library with the information technologies needed to enhance services in a digital environment. After discussing the advent of digital libraries, the paper explores a progression of projects which make use of advancing technologies, from Web interfaces to XML metadata, and their effectiveness in a no...

objective: in the this research, effective factors on digital libraries’ development in central libraries of public universities in tehran have been identified from these libraries administrator’s view.method: this study is applied, based on descriptive-analytical method. for data collection we used researcher-made questionnaire, based on the digital library federation definition (including hum...

This survey examines the familiarity of students at Virtual University of Shiraz (VUS), as a first virtual institution in Iran, with the concept and importance of digital libraries. To do this research, a descriptive and survey methodology was used. Students of Virtual University of Shiraz in comprise the population of the study. Findings showed that more than 66 percent of distance students ar...

The digital library world has recently developed and debated both the concept and the implementation of institutional digital repositories. It has spent less time discussing disciplineor domain-specific digital repositories. Such repositories have been in existence for many years in the social sciences and have generated important lessons about the long-term preservation and sharing of academic...