Introduction: University students are of those valuable classes of society whom care for their needs on campus is of great importance. This study is aimed to investigate and prioritize several needs of medical students in variety of fields such as education, socio-political, cultural, religious, Literary, artistic and guild.Method: To achieve the goals of the study, a survey was conducted and q...

Although people receive trusted, personalized recommendations and auxiliary social benefits when they ask questions of their friends, using a search engine is often a more effective way to find an answer. Attempts to integrate social and algorithmic search have thus far focused on bringing social content into algorithmic search results. However, more of the benefits of social search can be pres...

In this article we will describe fundamental results of the European Union (Grundtvig) project IGIV – Implementation Guideline for an Intersectional Peer Violence Preventive Work (Stuve et al. 2011). For the need analysis individual and group interviews have been conducted including a wide variety of social nongovernmental and public organizations working in the field of diversity and violence ...

The explosive growth of resources available through the Internet, especially the emergence of social media, has created highly interactive platforms for users to create, share, exchange information and build social networks. This special issue includes several research outcomes which aim to develop technologies to help people exploit the information online in order to satisfy their information ...

The ubiquity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) is creating new sources for healthcare information, particularly in the context of pharmaceutical drugs. We aimed to examine the impact of a given OSN's characteristics on the content of pharmaceutical drug discussions from that OSN. We compared the effect of four distinguishing characteristics from ten different OSNs on the content of their pharmac...

The purpose of this study is to explore the applicability of the E‐S‐QUAL instrument in the context of libraries’ social media services. As libraries have increased their use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to interact with users and share information, the evaluation of the services has been emphasized to improve service strategies and meet user needs. However, there are no criteri...

The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search engine. However, it is not always easy for people to find what they are looking for with keyword search, and at times the desired information may not be readily available online. An alternative, facilitated by the rise...

English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) uses the results of needs analysis for curriculum development and materials production. ESAP courses should be based on students’ academic needs. Consequently, the present study investigated the English language needs of Iranian undergraduate students of Law. Participants included 218 undergraduate students, 33 graduate students, and 10 content teac...