The Iraqi Journal for Information and Documentation Studies

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The study aims to consolidate the culture of exercising the right of accessing information and to organize it to reach a clear concept about the impact of this right on the rights of citizens, as well as to review the limitations and exceptions facing the implementation of this right in the legislation of Arab countries, also to identify mechanisms used in the evaluation process to impose limitations and exceptions. A random sample of (85) faculty members was selected from the faculties of law and media at the universities (Baghdad, Iraqia and Mustansiriya). The questionnaire was used to collect data and the comparative methodology was used to find similarities and differences in the answers of the sample members. The most important results of this study are:• Arab constitutions are still incomplete in formulating concepts and terminology and setting restrictions on access to data and information.• There is a need to review the experiences of States in the field of free access to information to benefit from them when enacting laws in this field, as well as the need to subject the constitutions enacted for review in order to achieve the interests of the Arab citizen.• One of the most justified reasons for placing restrictions and exceptions on data and information and preventing access to them are those limitations and exceptions placed on data and information classified as confidential because they threaten national security.• There are risks that can occur in the event of restrictions and exceptions imposed on the right of access to information, where blocking leads to control of the culture of citizens, ideas and attitudes, and the media may become constrained and a means to express the views of the Authority and a tool in its hands. The study crystallized a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the maturity of the Arab legislation regarding the right of access to information, and away from the limitations that hinder the application of this right, and the need to adopt the principle of "harm" and "public interest" in the development of restrictions and exceptions to the availability of data and information.

This study intends to identify scientific journals in the field of medical sciences issued by Baghdad provinces universities، and the extent use them for international standards for publication in scientific journals. The study comes out with the following findings:.1The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences has achieved 100% of the standard of providing online journals and meets all the requirements of this standard.while the Journal of the Faculty of Medicine and AL-Kindy College Medical Journal have achieved 80% of this standard.2.Other journals have not achieved any proportion of the standard and still acceded with the university’s website. The study recommends the following: There is an urgent need for Iraqi journals to subscribe to the global depositories such as Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, Scopus، etc.

The research aims at identifying the importance of scientific research for researchers and in creating new knowledge، development and utilization of mental and cognitive energies and developed them with the ability to research، extrapolation، meditation and then conclusion. The information was collected by interviewing the Secretary-General of the Central Library and by distributing questionnaire forms to the (33) teaching staff of the College of Higher Education. The responses of the society were analyzed the result and the recommendations were the most important 1. Information specialist and all employees of the administrators and technicians in the centers of information sources (libraries) and in the field are considered scientific researchers experienced in the field of their work and by agreement and by 100%2. Self-configuration and altruism in obtaining information and scientific knowledge in scientific research have an effective impact on the development of knowledge and knowledge capabilities of information specialists and workers in the field and the agreement and by 100%:3. Adoption of the research provided a condition of the requirements of the promotion of information specialists and professionals in the field of administrators and technicians and by 92%The recommendations were4. The need to ask information specialists from the administrators، technicians and all workers in the field of information and scientific research libraries within their competence and the place in which they work (attention to specialize flour) as the researchers experienced in the field of flags work and competence5. The need to provide the budget and adequate financial support for research and development and put it at the forefront of the basic requirements of the state like the countries of the developed world6. The necessity of holding monthly or quarterly lectures on the importance of scientific research and its role and impact in creating new knowledge and on developing the cognitive abilities of researchers and practitioners in the field

The research aims to identify the most important curricula، used in doctoral program at Information and Libraries department/Al-Mustansiriya University، as well as to identify the impact of university theses and dissertations on the subjects taught during the preparatory year for each academic year in order to come up with results that would help to constitute this specialization and provide new ideas to researchers in this field، and open many horizons for specialists in the field.The research used a descriptive and analytical approach to the curriculum of doctoral stage and the production of doctoral theses during the period (2012-2014)، the main findings of the research are:1. The prevailing trend in the selection of theses and theses in this specialization has been in the field of bibliography and intellectual production since 1990..2The direction of the choice of thesis topics and theses in this specialization changed in 2005، as the topics of computing began to grow at the rates of students' selection of these topics The most important recommendations are:1. The need to review the curriculum due to the passage of a long period not to review.2. Organizing internal workshops related to coordinating the contents of the Courses to prevent repetition or teaching similar subjects

The research aims to measure the impact of digital resources on the beneficiaries of Iraqi university libraries by designing a model compared to the traditional sources of a digital poem that includes (sound, picture, words, with music). A proportional stratified sample was taken from the students and teachers of Arabic language departments, amounting to (212) of the total study population of (398) students and teaching staff.The experimental method and questionnaire were used to collect data.The research came out with several results, the most important are:1. The possibility of designing the digital format for various information containers (books, letters, theses, documents, etc.) in several programs and the possibility of displaying in multiple formats.2. Search categories are affected by the digital source compared to the traditional source. The research has reached a set of recommendations, the most important are:1. Increasing interest in establishing application programs to display digital content in university libraries. Without resorting to buying operational software may be expensive.2. Increasing the interest of university libraries in digital resources and providing them to beneficiaries

The aim of the study is to explore the reality of the information awareness among researchers from the postgraduate students at the University of Zakho، to provide a clear vision of its nature and identify its identity and to study its level in the academic community by identifying its manifestations and skills in the students. The survey method was used to obtain data and information that determine the skills and manifestations of information Postgraduate students through a questionnaire distributed to all students of graduate students for a master's stage only for lack of a PhD at the university The sample included all the faculties of the university and the percentage was about 85% because all the forms were not analyzed either because they are incomplete، neglected or not retrieved، 70 students were distributed and 60 were retrieved. The data were analyzed by SPSS. Study a set of recommendations and proposals that contribute to the development of information awareness in the academic community by activating its components through the achievement of the role of the academic body، students and the academic library.

The purpose of the study is to identify the reality of the reading rooms in the Iraqi university libraries and to evaluate them according to the international standards to determine the flaw of the existing libraries and to avoid the mistakes in the future. The aim of this study is also to identify the opinions of the beneficiaries in how to design the reading rooms model based on their points of view because they are our first and last goal in the plan and the design. The study used the Screening field method through inclusive checking of five central libraries of Iraq، which is the main characteristic of this study to analyze and organize the obtained data and information، and then clarify the reality to analysis according to the appropriate statistical methods. As well as the use of (analytical descriptive approach) to reach the relevant aspects and to distributed to the similar cases of these libraries. The study came out with several results، most notably:1. The study shows that there is a disparity between the reading halls of the university libraries and the standards that should be followed and relied upon design the typical reading rooms in the central university libraries. The general trend was just to provide seats and tables without taking into consideration the numbers، sizes and their suitability to the beneficiaries and what are available، such as the computers and the personal insulation reading room.2. The University of Baghdad (Jadiriyah / Al-Waziriyah) obtained the first rank in the standards application and scored (11) out of (16) standards followed by the libraries of Al-Mustansiriyah University، Technology University and Al-Nahrain University with (9) standards ، while the Central Library at the Iraqi University was at the last rank with only (8) standards. 3. Iraqi university libraries are still behind in the development plans، strategic plans، and sustainable development that our Iraqi institutions seek to achieve.