The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students

Every year the library of IIUM subscribes a quite number of online databases with huge expenses but the utilization of these databases is countable. 10 out of 53 subscriptions have been terminated by 2015 to save the cost go in vain. The purpose of this paper is to develop a model based on the ISB e...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Zulkifli, Zahidah, Mat Surin, Ely Salwana, Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali, M. Daud, Norhidayah
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Akademiai Kiado Rt. 2019
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/1/Zulkifli-2019-The-effect-of-information-seeking-b.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/7/78327_The%20effect%20of%20information%20seeking%20behavior%20_scopus.pdf

id	iium-78327
recordtype	eprints
spelling	iium-783272020-02-11T02:15:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali M. Daud, Norhidayah H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) Every year the library of IIUM subscribes a quite number of online databases with huge expenses but the utilization of these databases is countable. 10 out of 53 subscriptions have been terminated by 2015 to save the cost go in vain. The purpose of this paper is to develop a model based on the ISB elements to identify the reason behind this less usage and to increase the usage of online databases in future. It has undertaken a quantitative approach to identify the elements of ISB among undergraduate (UG) students. The primary data has been collected through questionnaires based on the variables identified in the objective. There are 118 samples participated in this research and the proposed model has been adapted from Savolainen and Thomas D. Wilson. Psychological perception, searching strategies and the information resources have been considered as the independent variable and measured the usage of the online database among UG students as the dependent variable. The results have shown that there are seven elements which have an influence on the usage of the online database among IIUM UG students. Despite the limited number of samples and a specific group of students, the proposed model can enhance the usage of online database system subscribed by IIUM library as well a search engine can be developed to get the usage increased. In that sense, it is recommended to involve more participants from the different level of students and users to get diverse elements of ISB. However, the paper contributes to bridge the gap between the online database usage and the users which is to believe an effective outcome for online database subscription. It is hoped that the proposed model would significantly fill this gap and help the library to increase more users for their expensive databases. Akademiai Kiado Rt. 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/1/Zulkifli-2019-The-effect-of-information-seeking-b.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/7/78327_The%20effect%20of%20information%20seeking%20behavior%20_scopus.pdf Zulkifli, Zahidah and Mat Surin, Ely Salwana and Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali and M. Daud, Norhidayah (2019) The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students. International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering, 10 (2). pp. 193-206. ISSN 2062-0810 E-ISSN 2063-4269 https://akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/1848.2019.0023 10.1556/1848.2019.0023
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	International Islamic University Malaysia
building	IIUM Repository
collection	Online Access
language	English English
topic	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General)
spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) T Technology (General) Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali M. Daud, Norhidayah The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
description	Every year the library of IIUM subscribes a quite number of online databases with huge expenses but the utilization of these databases is countable. 10 out of 53 subscriptions have been terminated by 2015 to save the cost go in vain. The purpose of this paper is to develop a model based on the ISB elements to identify the reason behind this less usage and to increase the usage of online databases in future. It has undertaken a quantitative approach to identify the elements of ISB among undergraduate (UG) students. The primary data has been collected through questionnaires based on the variables identified in the objective. There are 118 samples participated in this research and the proposed model has been adapted from Savolainen and Thomas D. Wilson. Psychological perception, searching strategies and the information resources have been considered as the independent variable and measured the usage of the online database among UG students as the dependent variable. The results have shown that there are seven elements which have an influence on the usage of the online database among IIUM UG students. Despite the limited number of samples and a specific group of students, the proposed model can enhance the usage of online database system subscribed by IIUM library as well a search engine can be developed to get the usage increased. In that sense, it is recommended to involve more participants from the different level of students and users to get diverse elements of ISB. However, the paper contributes to bridge the gap between the online database usage and the users which is to believe an effective outcome for online database subscription. It is hoped that the proposed model would significantly fill this gap and help the library to increase more users for their expensive databases.
format	Article
author	Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali M. Daud, Norhidayah
author_facet	Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali M. Daud, Norhidayah
author_sort	Zulkifli, Zahidah
title	The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
title_short	The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
title_full	The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
title_fullStr	The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
title_full_unstemmed	The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
title_sort	effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students
publisher	Akademiai Kiado Rt.
publishDate	2019
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/1/Zulkifli-2019-The-effect-of-information-seeking-b.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/78327/7/78327_The%20effect%20of%20information%20seeking%20behavior%20_scopus.pdf
first_indexed	2023-09-18T21:50:22Z
last_indexed	2023-09-18T21:50:22Z
_version_	1777413728313016320

The effect of information seeking behavior on online database usage among the undergraduate students

Similar Items