Regional Information Center for Science and Technology

Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST)
Established	1991
Chancellor	Prof. S. Ahmad Fazelzadeh
Location	Shiraz, Iran
Website	http://www.ricest.ac.ir

Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST) (Persian: مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رسانی علوم و فناوری) is an Iranian governmental organisation established to promote the production and distribution of scientific information in Iran and Islamic countries, providing reference, study and bibliographical information and related services. It also undertakes scientometrics based on its databases of scientific products of Iran and Islamic countries.^[1]

It was established as Regional Library of Science and Technology (RLST) in 1991 by agreement between Iran's Ministry of Culture and Higher Education and the Third-World Academy of Sciences, with professor Jafar Mehrad as the director. It is currently under the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. It is also known as the Shiraz Regional Library of Sciences and Technology (SRLST) Before the Internet was established in Iran, RICeST fulfilled its objectives by setting up a Bulletin Board Service to allow electronic access to the information sources it was collating.

Finances

In 1993, it was approved for an independent budget of 1800 million Rials. Around the same time it obtained a loan from the Islamic Development Bank for $15 million.

As of 2008^[update], the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology provides RICeST annually with about one million dollars to purchase scientific journals. RICeST allocated about one million and 600 thousand dollars each year to purchase journals in languages other than Persian.

Regional Information Center for Science & Technology

Presidency

President Office
Office of International Scientific Cooperation
Plan and Program department

Deputy Finance and Administration

Financial Administrative Affairs
Administrative affairs
Financial Department

Office of Information Services

Research Deputy

Research Deputy
Designing and System Operation Research Group
Research Department of Information Management
Research Department of Evaluation and Collection Development
Research Department of Computational Linguistics
Information and Communication Technology Department
Office of Information Services

Branches

National Branches

Urmia University
Shahr-e-Kord University

Branches

Hormozgan University
Isfahan Municipality
Hamedan University
Sahand University of Technology
Yasouj University
Zanjan University
Kermanshah Razi University
Gilan University
Qazvin Islamic Development Organization
University of Sistan and Baluchestan

Forient Branches

Teeshrin University (Syria)
National Information Center (Yemen)

Databases

RICeST has created, maintained and provided access to many subject matter bibliographic databases and directories. In 2006 RICeST started collected journals in art, humanities and social sciences

Persian General Databases

Integrated Database
E-Articles
E-Journals
E-Books
E-Atlases & Maps
Research Reports
Conference Articles
Abstrans
Iranian Universities Libraries
EDMS
Databank for Higher Education Graduates in LIS
Library Catalogue
Database of Standard Questionnaires and Tests of Educational Science and Psychology Dissertation of Iran

Persian Subject Databases

IR.Compendex
Iran Lisa
Iranian Experts
Transportation
Earthquake
Energy
Flood
IR. Industries
IR. Metallurgical Industries
Environment
Mines of IRAN
Standards

Non Persian Databases

Islamic E-Manuscripts
Content Search
Scientific Articles
E-Theses & Dissertations

IRAN Journals

Persian E-Articles
Arabic E-Articles
English E-Articles
Persian Journal Search
Persian E-Journals
Arabic E-Journals
English E-Journals
Accredited Journals
International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

Library Automation Software

A team of IT and librarianship experts contributed to developing the library automation software with the following specifications:

Thesaurus based
Supports barcode & RFID
Workflow automation
Import data from other databases
Reduced Redundancy
Fast search ability
Relational Database
Low cost database Design
Non Redundant subjective DBS
Journals automation system
Source availability
Web based App
Unicode support
Normalized relation database
Full text search engine
Uses 3 layered Approach

Research Project

A feasibility of doing interlanguage information retrieval by Google machine translation
System of information transmission from Persian journals XML file to RICeST system
Feasibility of using concept-based readability in Persian domain specific information retrieval
Machine stemmer of past, present and future simple verbs
Examining and assessing methods and processes of publishing journals
The Challenges of Persian Natural Language Processing
Design and implementation of a new structure of ISC database
Designing ISC content list in Persian/ ISCI citation reports + h-index /rewriting Persian highly cited proceedings database
Citation analysis of Persian humanities journals in ISC database within 2003-2007
Database of standard questionnaires and tests of educational sciences theses within 2005- 2007
Evaluating websites of the universities and research centers affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology & the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education and Islamic Azad Universities
Database of Content Search
Full text formatting of the database of ISI citation index
Persian past and present stemmer of intransitive verbs of Persian language
Top 20 countries’ scientific production status
Database of computer sciences and engineering abstracts
Iran LISA database
Structuring derivational word in Persian language
A comprehensive database of undergraduate students of library and information sciences of Iran from the beginning up to 2004
Database of scientific and research publication of faculty members of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, I. R. of Iran
Design and implementation of manuscripts in electronics format at RLST on the internet
Database of Maps and Atlases (Design and implementation on the Web)
Iran's and Islamic countries Science Citation Index(SCI)
Database of Iran's Supreme court votes
System for documents electronic management
Design & Implementation of Persian E-Journals on the Internet
Database of Iranian Metallurgical Industries with Related Standards: Design and Implementation on the Web
Assessment of the Use of Artificial Neural Network for information Retrieval in RLST's Databases
Design & Implementation of a Web-Based Persian E-Books
Design & Implementation of a Web-Based Persian E-Articles

References

^ M. Hassanzadeh; H. Nourmohammadi & A. Noroozichakoli (August 30, 2008). H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann (eds.). Organization of science in Iran: a holistic review (PDF). Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting. Proceedings of WIS 2008, Berlin. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Library and Information Science.

External links

Official website
RICeST, Libdex

[1] M. Hassanzadeh; H. Nourmohammadi & A. Noroozichakoli (August 30, 2008). H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann (eds.). Organization of science in Iran: a holistic review (PDF). Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting. Proceedings of WIS 2008, Berlin. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Library and Information Science.

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