Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management (Jul 2009)

Description and Analysis Pattern for Theses and Dissertations

  • Sirous Alidousti,
  • Parviz Shahriari,
  • Mahmood Khosrowjerdi,
  • Farhad Shirani,
  • Hamideh Bayrami

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 4
pp. 5 – 28

Abstract

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Dissertations and theses that are generated in course of research at PhD and Masters levels are considered to be important scientific documents in every country. Data description and analysis of such documents collected together, could automatically - especially when compared with data from other resources - provide new information that is very valuable. Nevertheless, no comprehensive, integrated pattern exists for such description and analysis. The present paper offers the findings of a research conducted for devising an information analysis pattern for dissertations and theses. It also puts forward information categories derived from such documents that could be described and analyzed.

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