The research landscape is growing dramatically, and librarians are examining new roles, services, and types of collaborations to support data-intensive research. This column describes curricular enhancements at one School of Library and Information Science in the United States. Several key areas of data management in which health sciences librarians may wish to build or enhance their skills are...

The University of Alberta (UA) web archive collections are managed by a distributed group of subject and specialist librarians across the university. Librarians, faculty, and the public can propose collections; proposals are reviewed by the Collections Development Committee to fit with the overall collection policies of the library. Once approved, individual collections are managed by subject l...

purpose: this research aims at investigating the role of ict on improving organizational performance in academic libraries of state universities in isfahan based on the balanced scorecard. method: the research method is descriptive survey study. the population consists of all 169 librarians of the university of isfahan, isfahan technical university and isfahan medical sciences university. the s...

Librarians could improve the safety of medical care through greater participation in patient safety initiatives. A librarian’s expertise in accessing the evidence base could enhance the safety and appropriateness of care in a clinical environment. In addition, librarians could apply specific technical knowledge management skills to medicine. To realize improvements from these skill sets, health...

editor’s note geopersia is published biannually by the college of science, university of tehran, iran. the college of science published “journal of science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. it was then decided that the college’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of geopersia was launched. geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original res...