DETERMINING THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AT BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITY WITH EMPHASIS ON AVAILABLE ELECTRONIC DATABASES

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LATIFI M.; OSAREH F.

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Journal: JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY) Year:2010 | Volume:3 | Issue:9 Page(s): 63-75

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DETERMINING THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AT BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITY WITH EMPHASIS ON AVAILABLE ELECTRONIC DATABASES

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LATIFI M. | OSAREH F. | Issue Writer Certificate

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INFORMATION NEEDSQ2

POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSQ2

ELECTRONIC DATABASESQ3

ROSE NET DIGITAL LIBRARYQ3

DANESHYAR DATABASESQ3

BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITYQ3

HAMEDANQ2

Abstract

Purpose: The present research aimed to determine the INFORMATION NEEDS of post-graduate students at BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITY located in HAMEDAN, with emphasis on available ELECTRONIC DATABASES (including Rose net and Daneshyar).Methodology: The methodology was descriptive survey using a questionnaire, reliability of which was measured 0.85 based on Cronbach's alpha.Findings: The results revealed that the most important goal of students when searching for data is to find background information for their research tasks and projects. The Science direct/Elsevier database ranks first (89.2%) as the most used electronic database by the students, while Springer, ISI, Scoups, Proquest, ACS, Oxford Journals, Emerald, ASME, Ebsco, ASCE, IOP, and AMS rank 2nd to 13th respectively.Conclusions: The main obstacles of easy access to information are mentioned as: not enough knowledge of English language and the interruption of universities subscription in the case of some ELECTRONIC DATABASES.

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LATIFI, M., & OSAREH, F.. (2010). DETERMINING THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AT BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITY WITH EMPHASIS ON AVAILABLE ELECTRONIC DATABASES. JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY), 3(9), 63-75. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/193304/en

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LATIFI M., OSAREH F.. DETERMINING THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AT BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITY WITH EMPHASIS ON AVAILABLE ELECTRONIC DATABASES. JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)[Internet]. 2010;3(9):63-75. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/193304/en

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M. LATIFI, and F. OSAREH, “DETERMINING THE INFORMATION NEEDS OF POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS AT BU-ALI SINA UNIVERSITY WITH EMPHASIS ON AVAILABLE ELECTRONIC DATABASES,” JOURNAL OF EPISTEMOLOGY (LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY), vol. 3, no. 9, pp. 63–75, 2010, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/193304/en

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