A Survey of Fars Islamic Azad University Faculty members use and Familiarity with technical databases of the related fields study

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

mojtaba Asadi Anjileh ¹ , abdalhamid moaref zadeh ² , noorallah karami ³

1 - Faculty member of Islamic Azaduniversity
2 - Faculty member of AHVAZ SHAHID CHAMRAN UNIVERSITY
3 - Begional centre for information office of science and technology

Received: 2008-08-03 Accepted : 2008-10-01 Published : 2008-11-21

Keywords: Faculty member, Professional database, Units of Islamic Azad University,

Abstract :

This research aim is surveying and analysis of familiarity and use of faculty members of Azad Islamic university of Fars province with database in related field. Research method is descriptive and means of data gathering is questionnaire. Analysis of data is made by descriptive and with help of SPSS. Result of this research shows that more than 80% of faculty members are familiar with the database of related field. But among familiarity of different educational group the only meaning full difference were between human science and engineering science group that shows that with increasing the average of engineering group it was recognized the engineering group is more familiar with their related database. Also among 11 factors affecting on not using of faculty members, low speed of internet with 85.8% and not having enough time.with 70.8% are among the most important factors. 76.3% of faculty staff participating in classes and workshops are familiar with their database. 52.8% declared that translation and writing of books and essays are cause of their use. 77.7% reference to their related database for full content of essays.