National Management System for Science and Technology Information (ISNet): A Vision

Knowledge Management in the domain of health

Mission :

To establish a common gateway portal, aiming at establishing a foundation for innovation and knowledge management system.

Main Objectives:

• To reform Iran's status in science and technology
• Speed up management decision making with the help of the different reports retrieved from ISNet
• Identify priorities for research and technology
• Formulate policies for research activities leading them in the direction of the pre-defined priorities
• Program planning to determine the institutions research budgets
• Dynamic assessment and evaluation of research centers
• and in addition, acceleration in the:
  • Management of knowledge assets
  • Designing of the country's comprehensive scientific roadmap
  • Promotion in the quality of research activities
  • Foresighting researches in the domain of health

Secondary Objectives:

• Create a comprehensive scientific database for the country in an automatic and continuous manner
• Augment the speed of accessibility to scientific data and researches within the country for the stakeholders
• Lead and direct researchers in obtaining the needed data
• Strengthen collaboration among researchers in the different scientific research centers
• Prevent in the performance of identical researches among the different research centers
• Prevent the likelihood of plagiarism such as, presentation of research and articles to different research centers
• Educate and encourage providers of scientific contents to strictly observe the standards of exchanging and publication of data
• Feasibility of using the available statistics and perform researches from the compiled databases