The awareness and use of online database among political science students

This paper reports on the awareness and use of online database among political science students. They faced the discomfort of reading from the screen or poor graphic quality and they prefer to print out articles for reading and do most of their reading from the paper printout. Besides, they also pr...

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Main Authors:	Osman, Zuraini, Othman, Roslina
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	IIUM Press 2011
Subjects:	Z665 Library Science. Information Science
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spelling	iium-246212012-07-06T01:18:45Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/24621/ The awareness and use of online database among political science students Osman, Zuraini Othman, Roslina Z665 Library Science. Information Science This paper reports on the awareness and use of online database among political science students. They faced the discomfort of reading from the screen or poor graphic quality and they prefer to print out articles for reading and do most of their reading from the paper printout. Besides, they also prefer PDF format for printing, although the HTML format is better for skimming. The users may be unaware of relevant resources in the library collection. As faculty members reported never using electronic journals; the reasons cited were unfamiliarity with how to access the journals. They had never accessed computer engineering databases available through the library and of those, half had never heard of them. Apart from that, electronic journals are of lower quality than print is another problem that may be diminishing as a high percentage of peer-reviewed journals are digitized. Designing appropriate access policies has become an important issue. IIUM Press 2011 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24621/1/The_Awareness_and_Use_of_Online_Database_among__Political_Science_Students.pdf Osman, Zuraini and Othman, Roslina (2011) The awareness and use of online database among political science students. In: Contemporary Issues in Library and Information Science. IIUM Press, Gombak, pp. 80-87. ISBN 9789674180836 http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/default.aspx
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description	This paper reports on the awareness and use of online database among political science students. They faced the discomfort of reading from the screen or poor graphic quality and they prefer to print out articles for reading and do most of their reading from the paper printout. Besides, they also prefer PDF format for printing, although the HTML format is better for skimming. The users may be unaware of relevant resources in the library collection. As faculty members reported never using electronic journals; the reasons cited were unfamiliarity with how to access the journals. They had never accessed computer engineering databases available through the library and of those, half had never heard of them. Apart from that, electronic journals are of lower quality than print is another problem that may be diminishing as a high percentage of peer-reviewed journals are digitized. Designing appropriate access policies has become an important issue.
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author	Osman, Zuraini Othman, Roslina
author_facet	Osman, Zuraini Othman, Roslina
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title	The awareness and use of online database among political science students
title_short	The awareness and use of online database among political science students
title_full	The awareness and use of online database among political science students
title_fullStr	The awareness and use of online database among political science students
title_full_unstemmed	The awareness and use of online database among political science students
title_sort	awareness and use of online database among political science students
publisher	IIUM Press
publishDate	2011
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