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.
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.
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.
PresidencyPresident OfficeOffice of International Scientific CooperationPlan and Program departmentDeputy Finance and AdministrationFinancial Administrative AffairsAdministrative affairsFinancial DepartmentResearch DeputyResearch DeputyDesigning and System Operation Research GroupResearch Department of Information ManagementResearch Department of Evaluation and Collection DevelopmentResearch Department of Computational LinguisticsInformation and Communication Technology DepartmentOffice of Information ServicesNational Branches
Urmia UniversityShahr-e-Kord UniversityHormozgan UniversityIsfahan MunicipalityHamedan UniversitySahand University of TechnologyYasouj UniversityZanjan UniversityKermanshah Razi UniversityGilan UniversityQazvin Islamic Development OrganizationUniversity of Sistan and BaluchestanForient Branches
Teeshrin University (Syria)National Information Center (Yemen)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
Integrated DatabaseE-ArticlesE-JournalsE-BooksE-Atlases & MapsResearch ReportsConference ArticlesAbstransIranian Universities LibrariesEDMSDatabank for Higher Education Graduates in LISLibrary CatalogueDatabase of Standard Questionnaires and Tests of Educational Science and Psychology Dissertation of IranPersian Subject Databases
IR.CompendexIran LisaIranian ExpertsTransportationEarthquakeEnergyFloodIR. IndustriesIR. Metallurgical IndustriesEnvironmentMines of IRANStandardsNon Persian Databases
Islamic E-ManuscriptsContent SearchScientific ArticlesE-Theses & DissertationsPersian E-ArticlesArabic E-ArticlesEnglish E-ArticlesPersian Journal SearchPersian E-JournalsArabic E-JournalsEnglish E-JournalsAccredited JournalsInternational Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)A team of IT and librarianship experts contributed to developing the library automation software with the following specifications:
Thesaurus basedSupports barcode & RFIDWorkflow automationImport data from other databasesReduced RedundancyFast search abilityRelational DatabaseLow cost database DesignNon Redundant subjective DBSJournals automation systemSource availabilityWeb based AppUnicode supportNormalized relation databaseFull text search engineUses 3 layered ApproachA feasibility of doing interlanguage information retrieval by Google machine translationSystem of information transmission from Persian journals XML file to RICeST systemFeasibility of using concept-based readability in Persian domain specific information retrievalMachine stemmer of past, present and future simple verbsExamining and assessing methods and processes of publishing journalsThe Challenges of Persian Natural Language ProcessingDesign and implementation of a new structure of ISC databaseDesigning ISC content list in Persian/ ISCI citation reports + h-index /rewriting Persian highly cited proceedings databaseCitation analysis of Persian humanities journals in ISC database within 2003-2007Database of standard questionnaires and tests of educational sciences theses within 2005- 2007Evaluating websites of the universities and research centers affiliated to the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology & the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education and Islamic Azad UniversitiesDatabase of Content SearchFull text formatting of the database of ISI citation indexPersian past and present stemmer of intransitive verbs of Persian languageTop 20 countries’ scientific production statusDatabase of computer sciences and engineering abstractsIran LISA databaseStructuring derivational word in Persian languageA comprehensive database of undergraduate students of library and information sciences of Iran from the beginning up to 2004Database of scientific and research publication of faculty members of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, I. R. of IranDesign and implementation of manuscripts in electronics format at RLST on the internetDatabase of Maps and Atlases (Design and implementation on the Web)Iran’s and Islamic countries Science Citation Index(SCI)Database of Iran`s Supreme court votesSystem for documents electronic managementDesign & Implementation of Persian E-Journals on the InternetDatabase of Iranian Metallurgical Industries with Related Standards: Design and Implementation on the WebAssessment of the Use of Artificial Neural Network for information Retrieval in RLST’s DatabasesDesign & Implementation of a Web-Based Persian E-BooksDesign & Implementation of a Web-Based Persian E-Articles
