Regional Information Center for Science and Technology

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Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST)
Established 1991
Chancellor Dr. Mohammad Javad Dehghani
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 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 it 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, 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

  • President Office
  • Office of International Scientific Cooperation
  • Plan and Program department
  • Financial Administrative Affairs
  • Administrative affairs
  • Financial Department
Office of Information Services
  • 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

Branches

Forient Branches

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

Persian Subject Databases

Non Persian Databases

IRAN Journals

Library Automation Software

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

Research Project

References

  1. ↑ M. Hassanzadeh, H. Nourmohammadi, & A. Noroozichakoli (August 30, 2008). H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann, ed. 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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