Digital and electronic resources
So, they could reach interesting subjects among information resources through research. But nowadays, because of technological progress, digital resources help researchers and make their problem easier. As digital resources have an impact on today's research, they include benefits that have never been seen in books and paper journals.
The search feature in digital resources is never comparable to that of paper resources. In digital resources, researchers can investigate the intended word or phrase among thousands of books and journal volumes within seconds and find the organized search results according to the degree of communication or compilation date. Whereas, in the paper version, a researcher should flip through books and journals one by one or, at least, meet the goal by listing each resource.
Another characteristic of digital resources is easy access. Difficulties such as cost and time, which researchers face in providing and rising paper books and journals are less in digital copying. Even a researcher can offer his research results on an Internet network so that the public has access to them at the lowest cost and as quickly as possible. This aspect, nowadays, makes the digital copy of old resources more available than paper copies.
Easily movement and access to the required works are other benefits of digital resources. Thus, a researcher can log on to the digital library and benefit from the resources via the internet anytime, anywhere. For example, the users of the AQR Digital Library (digital. Aqr. ir) access over 2,000,000 scientific resources via the internet, such as manuscripts, lithography books, dissertations, printed books, articles, etc.
Types of digital resources:
Resources from the start that have been presented or born in the form of digital copies without paper copies. Today, many books and digital journals of this kind have been presented on CD or on the Internet.
Resources which have already been printed or transcribed in paper form and then electronically reformulated by scanners and digital cameras, or their electronic copies have been provided through OCR and type, etc.
The Organization of Libraries, Museums, and Documents Centre of AQR possesses over 140,000,000 digital resources, which are available to users in different ways. The aforementioned resources are available for researchers through the AQR Digital Library system or AQR digital study stations in different parts of the country. There are various resources in the digital library system of AQR in different languages, which have been organized in related databases form and exposed to use by researchers, including manuscripts, lithography books, printed books, documents, images, dissertations, journals, press, electronic books, electronic articles, electronic dissertations, posters, films, press cutting, etc.
Researchers, to access the AQR Digital Resources, can visit the address of digital.aqr.ir or AQR digital study stations in different parts of the country. Also, for more information, call the Section of Organization and Development of Digital Resources on 051-32219554.