purpose: the aim of present study was the comparative evaluation of content and support quality of iranian academic libraries websites’ and provide recommendations to improve them.methodology: this study is an applied research and methodology was comparative survey. data gathering tools were three checklists extracted from relevant studies which compare with 5 foreign library websites, and thei...

Summarizing the incomplete results of the UNESCO Programme on ‘Good Practice in Promoting Gender Equality in Higher Education’, the author asks that any assessment of the progress made in the area of gender-sensitive education take regional specificities into account. The regional environment is at best neutral and usually hostile to feminism in subtle ways. In spite of the lack of tradition an...

entrepreneurial university, as the third-generation of universities, undertakes the mission of economic and social development in countries. since entrepreneurial university is considered as a change factor in societies, the investigation of its mission and creation has gained increasing attention in recent studies. this study identifies the principles of entrepreneurial university through revi...

The generation of digital scholarship, through both research and teaching/learning activities, has caused colleges and universities to either create or revise their institutions’ intellectual property policies. Many factors should be considered when crafting a comprehensive and fair policy. This discussion focuses on the relatively new interest by higher education institutions in the copyright ...

Accreditation guidelines usually dictate that information technology resources and systems shall be essential components of the university infrastructure. But, what is the competitive advantage of universities born in the information-age and the Internet revolution? As a Florida’s newest public university, Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is known for its strategic use of technology and inn...

this descriptive-survey study aims to identify the problems of publishing scientific journals in state universities and islamic azad universities. statistical population includes all academic journals the data of which is registered in www.magiran.com. required information were collected using a questionnaire. results of this research indicate that the problems of publishing scientific journals...

The main goal of this paper is to present the advantages that the new generation of mobile robot simulators has given to the teaching of robotics to computer science students. We present some of their features, as well as some experiences of their use in two Spanish universities. These experiences have taken place at different courses, both at graduate and undergraduate levels. We also discuss ...

performance evaluation of universities is an important issue between researchers. classic data envelopment analysis (dea) models with deterministic data have been used by many authors to measure efficiency of universities in different countries. however, dea with stochastic data are, rarely used to measure efficiency of universities. in this paper, input oriented model in stochastic data envelo...