A study of using scientific databases available on the University of Tehran website by the post graduate students of the campus of technical colleges

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

fahimeh babalhavaeji ¹ , reza poordadash sangadeh ²

1 - Assistant professor of Islamic Azad University, , - science &Research Branch, [e-mail]
2 - Master degree of Islamic Azad University- science &Research Branch,

Received: 2009-04-25 Accepted : 2009-12-19 Published : 2010-02-20

Keywords: websites, Post-graduate students, Scientific databases, Technical and Engineering Campus, University of Tehran,

Abstract :

This research has been done in order to study how engineering and technical post-graduate students living in the campus of University of Tehran use scientific databases available on the website of the University. Using descriptive method, 355 questionnaires were distributed among students and totally, 255 ones were returned. To analyze collected data softwares Excel and SPSS were utilized. Based on research findings, the main aim of students to use mentioned databases is writing thesis and scientific articles; the most used databases are Elsevier (80 percent) and Springer (53 percent), respectively; they are not satisfied with the speed of the Internet; the most important problem of students for using Internet is that they are not familiar enough with strategies of searching and they expressed themselves that they haven't enough ability to use it (≈ 28 percent), and so forth. It was also found that students have problems for using scientific information databases including low speed of Internet for searching, lack of enough information, lack of ability to answer all requests, and so on.