Introduction: Provision of substructure facilities and technology with new interaction between patient and physician - to get medical and health information – increased the usage of Internet while there is no control on the quality of delivered information by websites in health and medicine field that affects human life , is very important. One way for reliability of information quality is cons...

Background and Aim: Nowadays, Internet is known as an attractive source of health information to manage individual's health.  Given the importance of it, this study examined the role of Internet in health information seeking behavior among young people in Shiraz.      Method: This research was a survey which target population were youth Internet users in the city of Shiraz.  A sample of 400 we...

Background and aim: The aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting on students' performance in information retrieval based on fuzzy logic method compared to traditional method. Materials and methods: This survey-descriptive study was performed using quantitative approach. The research population was 34 PhD students, and the researcher-made questionnaire was used. Data were analyzed...

Purpose: As mission-oriented organizations, research institutes have the task of answering community questions in specialized areas, and should therefore be able to effectively present their outputs to their target users. Achieving such a goal requires the proper use of information architecture principles to properly organize the information platform in which the research institutes interact wi...

Abstract Background & Aims: Nursing managers play an important role in the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in clinical settings. Hence, their information literacy is an important prerequisite for providing this service. The objectives of this study were to examine information literacy of nursing managers  and to determine their training needs in the context of EBP. Ma...