digital libraries offer opportunities for e-learning that are not possible in their physical counterparts. digital libraries complement other learning environments, such as those provided in distance education and courses offered online. like e-learning environments, they provide flexibility of time and place. digital libraries have the potential to offer unprecedented resources to support e-le...

background: introduction of iranian national medical digital library (inlm) was a huge investment during several years ago. the aim of this study was to discover the effectiveness of this scientific intervention by examination of citation pattern among graduate dental thesis during before and after of inlm accessibility. methods: this analytical study was conducted among all of graduate dental ...

This paper describes the key advances on digital library evaluation research. The paper provides a comparison of the existing models, the current research questions in this area, an integrated LIS-oriented evaluation framework, and a selection of international projects.

the main purpose of this paper is identifying the current situation of iranian digital libraries in terms of interoperability abilities and proposing an interoperability solution for iranian digital libraries. analytical survey is used in this research. in fact, questionnaire and observation were used for collecting data about the current situation of iranian digital library applications. the g...

objective: in the this research, effective factors on digital libraries’ development in central libraries of public universities in tehran have been identified from these libraries administrator’s view.method: this study is applied, based on descriptive-analytical method. for data collection we used researcher-made questionnaire, based on the digital library federation definition (including hum...

In this paper we report employing ontology technology to develop a web portal for the digital archive service. The portal is divided into information provision and information access parts Each part works with an ontology, the knowledge structures commonly used in the digital library environment. The portal plays the role of an information aggregator that collects and unifies the information fr...

gCube is a new service-oriented application framework that supports the on-demand sharing of resources for computation, content and application services. gCube enables the realization of e-infrastructures that support the notion of Virtual Research Environments (VREs), ie collaborative digital environments through which scientists, addressing common research challenges, exchange information and...

as much discussed in literature, the creation of digital libraries should be informed by user requirements and behaviors (soergel, 2002). according to researchers, the best designs for children come from children .this study describes how the iranian children use a digital library (icdl). this work was done in order to explore and discover new directions for the development of children digital ...