نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Introduction: Information seeking skills has an important role in independent searching and enables one
to have a strong research. The aim of this study was to investigate information seeking skills among the
residents of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Methods: It was a descriptive study. Morgan sampling table used to select 248 residents from 659
residents of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The data were collected using a researcher-made
questionnaire which was validated by expert and its reliability was tested with Cronbach’s alpha (0.83).
Results: Only 3.9% of the residents attended in Iranian National Medical Digital Library (INLM)
workshop and only 16.2% of them were registered to INLM. 38.3% of them were familiar with up-to-date
database and 25.8% of them used it. 48.4% of them used "advanced search". 49.2% of them used "bullion
operations" and only 13.3% of them were familiar with databases’ facilities to manage their search results.
Only 5.5% of them always evaluated the retrieved information.
Conclusion: Information seeking skills of residents was very low. Attending in workshops on database
and information literacy can help them to improve their skills and have better research.
کلیدواژهها English