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Introduction: spite of many studies conducted on digital libraries, there are a few studies on the evaluation of this type of library. The present study was an attempt to determine similarities and differences between Tehran University of Medical Sciences Digital Library against the Structural Standards of an academic digital library
Methods: this was an observational study in which the data was collected by a check list developed by the researcher. The check list was constructed by evaluating the best digital libraries in 2010 from Digital Library Federation point of view, facilities in an academic libraries and a literature review. Then, TUMS Digital Library was compared with all components in the check list to determine the similarities and differences. Finally, descriptive statistics [average and percentage] were presented using SPSS software
Results: the study showed that TUMS Digital Library just met 22.3 percent [8 components] of the standards including university news, electronic journal, staff name, Email, telephone number, databases, physical library work time, address and membership in the library
Conclusion: it seems that the reason for calling this library a Digital Library is just based on possessing several electronic resources and TUMS digital library does not conform with a standard digital library. However, besides having features of a traditional library, a digital library should have special characteristics which will be discussed in this study
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The production of science is the key element of program to achieve sustainable development. Currently, the most important characteristic to produce knowledge is the number of document indexed from scientific journals in databases that do bibliometry and Scientometrics study. The aim of this study is evaluation of scientific production of Iranian medical domain based on the document indexed form scientific journal in chosen database, between 2005-2009. Analytical- descriptive method and bibliometry analytic was adapted. The study population includes all scientific journals that was published in English and indexed in WOS and Scopus until of the time of this study. Data collection tool was check list that was made by researchers and complete by referring and direct observation in WOS and Scopus databases. Data was analyzed by SPSS and other statistical methods. Showed that from 44 journals title that studied, 18 titles was indexed in WOS and 20 titles was indexed in Scopus. The number of records and citation, according to the review with passing year, has been rising. Maximum number of documents and citations are related to the final years. Number of records in the Scopus database is more than WOS, but the differences in not significant [P- value = 0/186]. Journals visibility in the medical science filed in review databases in not desirable. Less than 50 percent of scientific journals were indexed in databases. Between the years studied, the scientific production of medical area of the country has been growing but to reach the proper situation, more effort is required