SEARCH ABILITIES IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SEARCH CAPABILITIES OF PERSIAN AND NONPERSIAN E-JOURNALS

In this research the degree to which search abilities have been inserted into the search engines of Persian and non-Persian E-Journals has been investigated. 97 Persian E-Journals (PEJ) and 30 non-Persian, in this case English, E-Journals (EEJ) represent the research population. The required data were gathered through designing a checklist, which was filled out for each PEJ and EEJ. The results of the study showed that neither PEJs nor EEJs reached the standards of search abilities set for search engines. In all, EEJsʹ search engines by 37.9 percent insertion of search abilities in their search engines witness a better condition than PEJʹs search engines.