خلاصة:
The aim of the study is to offer integrated access to information and data sources in the libraries of Iranian universities of medical sciences (UMS) as an important feature enhancing the quality and quantity of research. Thus, it is essential to study the status of Iranian libraries of UMS in terms of integration features. Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was the identification of integration in libraries of Iranian UMS in terms of metadata, digital contents, software, hardware, and human force. The quantitative study was conducted with an analytic survey method. The statistical population consists of 66 Iranian UMS, of this, 59 libraries completed the researcher-made questionnaire. To ensure the accuracy of data, interviews and, in some cases, observations were also performed. Statistical estimates of frequency, percentage, cumulative frequency, and diagrams were utilized for data analysis. The results demonstrated that the library software programs of UMS do not have a desirable status in terms of content, human force, software infrastructure, and integration features. These libraries enjoyed an optimal status in terms of hardware which was, however, not properly used. To create integrated access to the contents of libraries of Iranian UMS, it is essential to provide the required infrastructure, including integration features, human force, and appropriate contents such as the metadata and digital contents of data sources.
ملخص الجهاز:
ir * Received: 13 August 2019 Accepted: 08 June 2020 Abstract The aim of the study is to offer integrated access to information and data sources in the libraries of Iranian universities of medical sciences (UMS) as an important feature enhancing the quality and quantity of research.
Accordingly, the main objective of the present study was the identification of integration in libraries of Iranian UMS in terms of metadata, digital contents, software, hardware, and human force.
Integrating DL into Wikipedia (Orlowitz, 2018), collection management systems (Fay, 2010), linked open data systems (Latif, Schrep & Tochtermann, 2016), e-learning systems (He, Peng, Mao, & Wu, 2010; Secker, 2005; Han and Han, 2005), escholarship systems (Coleman, 2009) are more examples of the first group of “integration” studies.
Integrating research data management platforms (Amorim, Castro, da Silva & Ribeiro 2017), visual search interfaces (Gaona-Garcia, Martin-Moncunill & Montenegro-Marin, 2017), reference services (Chowdhury 2002), Instagram metadata and hashtags (Ibba & Pani, 2016), digital humanities (Zhang, Liu & Mathews, 2015), Web 2.
0 technologies (Lwoga, 2014), data from unstructured ecological sites (Barros, Laender, Goncalves, & Barbosa, 2008), external systems and tools (Ivanyukovich, Marchese & Giunchiglia, 2008; Han, 2006), ontologies (DeRidder, 2007; Zhang, 2004), text categorization and summarization tools (de Buenaga, Mana, Gachet & Mata, 2006), electronic pathfinders (Wang & Hubbard, 2004), heterogeneous data of distributed databases (Di Giacomo, Martinez & Scott, 2004) into DL are other subjects that have been studied by DL researchers.
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