Information Storage and Retrieval
Hamidreza Radfar
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to study and identify the importance of access points to digital information resources from the perspective of humanities researchers. In order to achieve the goal, a research was conducted with a descriptive survey method, and opinions and faculty members’ opinions ...
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The purpose of this research is to study and identify the importance of access points to digital information resources from the perspective of humanities researchers. In order to achieve the goal, a research was conducted with a descriptive survey method, and opinions and faculty members’ opinions and views about access points to digital resources was studied. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that was distributed among all the faculty members (138 persons) of the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. The validity of the research tool has been confirmed by five subject experts. Findings showed that the most important access points that were chosen by humanities researchers for all types of digital resources were the top three title, author, and subject access points. Of course, by studying the findings for each type of digital information resources, it is possible to reach the cases that were recognized as important for those types of digital information resources. Among the specific fields of digitization, the format and volume of resources were more important. Results of the research indicate that most access points and retrieval fields of various digital information resources are important from the point of view of humanities researchers, and the awareness of them can be useful for librarians, social catalogers, designers of information software and databases, and managers of scientific websites.
