Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

The Digital Gap in Patients' Use of Health Information Technology and Effective Factors and Strategies; a Systematic Review

Introduction: The digital divide means economic and social inequality for access to and use of ICT. Information and communication technology, despite the spatial and temporal barriers, can provide a valuable opportunity for patients to access health information. The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting the digital divide in patients and ways to reduce it. Materials and Methods: ...

تأثیر محیط دیجیتال بر عادت و روش‌های خواندن جوانان

Purpose: In digital age, web applications work as machines that swallow time rapidly. A new generation tendency to use these tools for entertaining and information gathering has changed their habits in type of selected materials and reading practices. In other words, although users currently receive information from internet, they have increasingly become superficial readers who have a little i...

Feasibility of Implementing Blockchain and Internet of Things Technologies in Hospitals Affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Objective Considering the importance of implementing Internet of Thing (IoT) and blockchain technologies in the health sector, and the need to assess the feasibility of each project before implementation, this study aims to assess feasibility of implementing blockchain and IoT technologies in hospitals affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Methods This cross-sectional study was ...

Perceptions of the Faculty Members of Social Science Groups about the Challenges of Using Digital Information Resources and Libraries: A Case Study of Islamic Azad University

A Model for Institutional Infrastructure to Support Digital Scholarship

There is a driving imperative for new knowledge, approaches and technologies to empower scholarship, especially in emerging areas of inquiry. Sources of information now extend beyond the written word to include a wide range of born-digital objects. This paper examines the changing landscape in which digital scholars find, collaborate, create and process information and, as a result, scholarship...