@inproceedings{02bfb07a76d04c5f988d82d7e1907c89,
title = "Use, purpose and usage ranking of online information resources by university research students",
abstract = "Online Information Resources (OIR) are getting popularity amongst academicians, particularly research students. This study is an attempt to investigate the use and purview of online information resources by postgraduate students of public and private sector universities of Lahore - Pakistan. Through questionnaires, data was collected from 570 research students with the response rate of 463 (81.22%). Data revealed that post-graduate research students prefer to use social networking sites with good frequency and PhD students prefer to use journal and magazines, to fulfill their information and knowledge needs. Due to its usage, 'social networking sites' were ranked at # 1 by university research students. The data also revealed that 'Research Information Needs' is the most preferred purpose to use OIRs by university research students.",
keywords = "HEC digital library, Online information resources, Purpose to use OIRs, Use of OIR",
author = "Muhammad Tariq and Khalid Mahmood and Hameed-Ur-Rehman",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 2015 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services, ETTLIS 2015 ; Conference date: 06-01-2015 Through 08-01-2015",
year = "2015",
month = feb,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1109/ETTLIS.2015.7048208",
language = "English",
series = "2015 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services, ETTLIS 2015 - Proceedings",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "257--263",
editor = "Sanjay Kataria and {Anbu K.}, {John Paul} and Shri Ram and Richard Gartner",
booktitle = "2015 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Technologies in Libraries and Information Services, ETTLIS 2015 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}