Evaluation of E-publishing Acceptance in Iranian Academia

During recent years, information technology has made several fundamental changes in different business areas. For instance, the learning methods have been completely changed. The use of digital material in education, business life and government has risen significantly in recent years. As e-learning environments are becoming increasingly popular, the need and call for digital content is also expanding from another view. The trend toward e-learning in Iranian universities is increasing and somehow intensive, but the bottleneck of e-learning is through e-content. The progression of digital learning content stays a work-intensive procedure and an expensive affair. There are two significant issues related to e-content: generating the content and acceptance of the society in great scale and university students in small scheme. Digital content is dealt with e-publishing. It could be improved if e-publishing gains the mature level. E-publishing aims at generating, maintaining, keeping, and diffusing electronic data using computers and information networks. To enhance e-publishing, we need to find the indices which are important in the e-publishing era and have persuasive effect on people to use e-publishing products and also check whether students who can accept new technologies easily are ready to use e-materials instead of the traditional ones or not .In this paper, we try to extract the most important factors for assessing e-publishing trends of societies by using field´s expert´s views as a useful source of judgment and two statistical methods: exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Finally describing the new model, we will evaluate the tendency of students in two famous and big Iranian universities toward e-publishing products.