Awareness and Utilization of Online Databases Among Postgraduate Students of Federal University Kashere, Gombe State, Nigeria
Author(s): Yusuf Muhammad Maibeni & Dr. Ranjita Niladri Dash
Abstract - This research focuses on the Awareness and utilization of online database among postgraduate students of Federal University Kashere, Gombe. The aim was to determine the level of awareness and channels of awareness of online databases among postgraduate students, to identify the purpose postgraduate students use online database, to determine the extent which postgraduate students use online database, to identify the challenges postgraduate student’s faces on the use of online databases. In addition, survey research method was employed to conduct the study, the instrument for data collection was questionnaire 107 people were used as sample for the study, the findings of the study include the types of online databases available in the university Library in the FUK are; SCIENCE DIRECT, AGORA, HINARI, EBSCO HOST, DOAJ, AJOL, JSTOR are the predominantly accessed databases among the available ones. TEEAL, AGRICOLA, BOOKBOON, and PUBMED are the least accessed database among the available one. However, despite the availability of these databases only little among the postgraduate students have accessed them, conclusion were made from the findings of this study, it can be concluded majority of the postgraduate students of Kashere University are aware of the online databases, the major channel of online databases awareness was surfing the internet while orientation and university bulletin ranked lowest among the awareness channel, it was Recommended that the school management through it Library and ICT centers should carry out needs assessment of all the databases subscribed to and survey information needs of postgraduate student in order to identify the gap between availability and underutilization of these databases. Also, an abstract of each of the databases and the subject they cover should be put on the library website to make them attractive to users. This would help to improve the use of online databases.
Keywords - Awareness, Utilization, Online, Database and Library..
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.9.2.2023.1648
Cite This Article As: Maibeni, Y M. & Dash, R. N. (2023) Awareness and Utilization of Online Databases Among Postgraduate Students of Federal University Kashere, Gombe State, Nigeria. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 9(2) 64-72. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1648 Page: 64-72 Publication Date: 29 April 2023