چکیده:
Today, the scientific communications are developed and expanded on the
internet and the famous World Wide Web service, and the popularity of the
electronic scientific databases (ESDs) such as ScienceDirect, Google Scholar,
and Scopus is an evidence of this claim. In addition to providing scientific
contents, the ESDs offer researchers diverse scientific web services such as
scientific communications and collaborations. In accordance with the electronic
developments such as ESDs and their scientific web services, the scholars’
research process is evolved so as the birth of the electronic research (e-Research)
process makes scholars initiate their research, drive it, and reach its determined
goals electronically. In this paper, we focus on the ESDs’ scientific web services
role in the research process. After presenting a classification for the scientific
web services, a comprehensive framework for the e-Research process is
proposed. Also, the effects of the scientific web services on adoption of the e-
Research process are studied. For this purpose, an appropriate questionnaire was
prepared and delivered to the graduate students in the Engineering and
Management disciplines of Tarbiat Modares and Amirkabir universities, located
in Tehran, to assess the scientific web services’ usages in their research
processes development. After analysis of the acquired data, the findings showed
that the scientific web services of information storage and sharing, searching,
and communications are the most popular and useful web services in the
scientific community, and therefore, have great effects on the adoption of the e-
Research process so that the more convenient and desirable these services are,
the more popular they get.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Today, internet and its most famous service, the World Wide Web, have great potentiality for establishing the ESDs and in this way are the most popular platform for implementing ESDs. To examine the various ESDs on internet and their scientific web services, we studied 42 ESDs as follows: CiteSeer, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Institute of Engineering and Technology/ Information Service for Physics, Electronics, and Computing (IET/INSPEC), Library and Information Sciences Abstracts (LISA), National Administration of Space and Aeronautics/ Astrophysics Data System (NASA/ADS), Open Access Journals Gateway (Open I-Gate), Stanford Public Information Retrieval System (SPIRS), The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, Thompson-Reuters services (formerly Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)) including Web of Knowledge (WOK), Web of Science (WOS), Essential Science Indicators (ESI) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Scopus, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library, arXiv, AtyponLink, Blackwell Synergy, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), E-prints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS), Excerpta Medica Database (EMBASE), HighWire, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) digital library, IngentaConnect, JSTOR (Journal Storage), National Bureau of Economical Research (NBER), Ovid, ProQuest, PubMed, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), ScienceDirect, Sens Public, Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN), Wiley InterScience, Emerald, SpringerLink, GoogleScholar, HubMed, King Medical Library Engine (KMLE) Medical Dictionary, Libra, LivRe, Scirus, CiteULike, RefWorks, 2Collab and EndNote Web. In the next pace, the ESDs' scientific web services are studied and then classified into 10 categories which are as follows: • scientific communications: o e-Mail o news groups and forums o Weblogs o virtual social networks • scientific information storage and sharing; scientific e-Publishing: o scientific e-Journals and e-Zines o e-Theses and e-Dissertations o e-Encyclopedias, e-Dictionaries and e-Maps • scientific searching: o scientific search engines • scientific multimedia and Webcasting: o texts, pictures, audios, videos, graphics, animations and interactives o e-Conferences and Webinars • scientific collaborations: o e-Workspaces in scientific projects o scientific discussions in chat rooms o scientific funding opportunities o scientists and researchers introduction o scientific call for papers (CFPs) • collective intelligence: o online encyclopedias with user-generated content • scientific indexing: o indexing the papers of various journals o indexing the journals in various disciplines • scientific citation analysis: o assessment of the papers citation o determination of the most cited researchers and universities • online scientific reference libraries: o management of the scientific references on the web • scientific Web applications: o grid computing o decision support and expert systems on the web Scientific communications category is very similar to regular communications, but performed by the electronic channels, e.