چگونگي صفحات وب كتابخانه هاي دانشگاه هاي علوم پزشكي ايران و موجوديت پيوندهاي فراسازماني آن ها

A Survey of the Quality of the Iranʹs Medical Academic Library Web Pages and the Existence of their Organizational Metalinks*

Introduction: The current research seeks to evaluate the framework of the mentioned endeavors through the survey of the quality of the web pages of Iranʹs medical universities and the existence of their organizational metalinks. Methods: In this descriptive study, 40 web pages of the Iranʹs medical universities were studied. The existence of the web pages, the type of the library soft wares, the characteristics of the help pages, and the subject of the organizational metalinks were studied by means of a researcher- made checklist. The data were analyzed by SPSS. Results: There was an interest in designing of web pages with the medical universities and their libraries in the international network; however there was a need for a homogeneity and unity of practice. These findings showed that 25 universities (62.5%) had a library web page, and out of them 16 library web pages were equipped with Ofogh software (the most frequency), and 1 library web page had Simorgh software, and 1 library web page had Payam software (the least frequency). These findings also revealed that 36 web pages of the medical universities had organizational metalinks, out of which the most (100%) were governmental organizations and private non-medical metalinks, and the least (19.4%) were news agencies. Conclusion: On the one hand, the middle managers apply international experiences, on the other hand, the attention to these types of electronic services has been increased and the standardization of the web pages will be occurred in the future. Keywords: Libraries, Medical; Internet; Schools, Health Occupations; Universit