Electronic journals collections in Argentine private academic libraries

Bonorino, Adina González; Molteni, Valeria E.

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“…The journal use study in the UK (Bonthron et al , 2003) indicated high use among faculty members as well graduate students and the highest users are the engineers, clinical medicine practitioners (>70 per cent), followed by the chemists (>60 per cent), pure and applied sciences and social sciences and the mathematicians. A recent study of electronic journals collections in Argentinian private academic libraries by Gonzalez Bonorini and Molteni (2007) indicated an increase in the use of electronic journals (40.7 per cent, 11 out of 27 libraries). This increase was attributed to user trainings, guidelines, manuals and tutorials prepared and delivered to users.…”

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Using journal use study feedback to improve accessibility

Zainab

Huzaimah²,

Ang³

2007

The Electronic Library

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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to examine users preference and use of electronic journals in general, especially those published in a hosting system, Electronic Journal of the University of Malaya (EJUM)Design/methodology/approachThe study utilized the survey method and employed an online questionnaire as the data collection instrument. A list of 330 users who registered with EJUM was selected and an e‐mail was sent to each with an invitation to complete the survey form linked to their mail. A total of 140 responses were returned, out of which 102 responses were usable.FindingsThe electronic journals are used for searching new information, reading full‐text articles, reading abstracts, and browsing the table of contents. Users are led to EJUM by chance while browsing the internet (41.8 per cent) when searching using Google, through citations obtained from conference papers, from articles or citations in databases. About 50 per cent of respondents rated the journals as “good” and 20.6 per cent rated “fair”. Respondents prefer keywords (28.9 per cent) and title (24.3 per cent) searches. The majority of respondents (70 per cent) prefer articles in PDF. The majority of respondents read the abstracts first to determine relevance before downloading the articles. Respondents believe that electronic journals will either co‐exist with print journals (46.2 per cent) or replace the print journals (25.5 per cent) or supplement (25.5 per cent) them. Users indicate the functions and features preferred in electronic journals.Practical implications/limitationsA HTML indexing page is created to automatically harvest the meta labels from the contents pages of journal issues, which is captured by Googlebot of Google Scholar. This strategy improves accessibility as Google Scholar provides citation and publication counts for articles and authors. A quality matrix for an electronic journal system is presentedOriginality/valueThe study shows the extent to which e‐journals are used in Malaysia and provides a matrix of usability features which potential electronic journal publishers could consider.

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Using journal use study feedback to improve accessibility

Zainab

Huzaimah²,

Ang³

2007

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Use of e‐journals among research scholars at Central Science Library, University of Delhi

Ali

Nisha²

2011

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which research scholars at Central Science Library, University of Delhi are aware and make use of e-journals. Design/methodology/approach -A survey was designed to collect basic information about the level of use of electronic journals as well as other factors contributing to and associated with their use. A well-structured questionnaire was administered among research scholars to collect the necessary primary data, keeping in view the objectives of the study. Findings -The findings clearly reveal that more than 60 per cent of users in the Central Science Library are using e-journals weekly for the purpose of research. Printed journals are consulted by the majority of users compared with e-journals. Keyword is the most popular search method for searching e-journals among research scholars, whereas the date of publication carries the least percentage among all the options. However, if is found that slow downloading of PDF files is the major problem that would discourage users while using e-journals.Research limitations/implications -The present paper consists only of e-journal users and the geographical area is restricted to the CSL at the University of Delhi. The scope of the paper could be extended to additional centrally funded universities. An intra-comparative study could also be made between some select central and state universities for users of e-journals. Originality/value -There are a number of studies on the use of e-journals, but this is the first of its kind within Delhi University. As such, it should pave the way for research in other Indian universities as well as elsewhere.

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Use of e-journals by the scientists of CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi, India

Qasim

Khan

2015

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of electronic journals (e-journals) by the scientists of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) – a center of excellence in the field of genomics and integrative biology situated in Delhi, India. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on the results of a well-structured questionnaire administered to all the scientists of the institute for the purpose of data collection. Findings – The main findings are that the scientists are more attracted toward e-journals specially on those provided by CSIR-NISCAIR Consortia, NKRC than those available via direct subscription. From this survey, the investigator has been able to find out that almost all the scientists are consulting e-journals from their campus cabin, not only for research purposes but also to update their own knowledge. The infrastructure to use e-journals are superb and there is no technological problem specially hardware and software support with high bandwidth of Internet speed exists here, as CSIR-IGIB uses largest computing facility (four Tflop/s) in Asia outside Japan (ranked 158th among the World’s Top 500 Super Computers). Respondents also identified that there is dire need for training in using e-resources and retrieving pinpointed information from the databases. Research limitations/implications – The present paper consists only of scientists and the geographical area is restricted to CSIR-IGIB, Delhi. The scope of the paper can be extended to additional CSIR libraries. A comparative study can also be made among some biological research libraries of CSIR Institutes. Originality/value – There are a number of studies on the use of e-journals by CSIR scientists, but this is the first of its kind which covers scientists of IGIB that has the largest computing facility (four Tflop/s) in Asia outside Japan. As such, it should pave the way for research and lead a model role for other CSIR Institutes as well as elsewhere.

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Electronic journals collections in Argentine private academic libraries

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Using journal use study feedback to improve accessibility

Using journal use study feedback to improve accessibility

Use of e‐journals among research scholars at Central Science Library, University of Delhi

Use of e-journals by the scientists of CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), Delhi, India

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