چکیده:
Every year, universities spend a large sum of money on databases and library sources to help with education and research. The main aim is to determine the sources of information utilized by the psychology students at Semnan University to address their information needs. This study is applied research and uses grounded theory to reveal the viewpoints of postgraduate psychology students at Semnan University. The statistical population comprised all postgraduate psychology students at the time of the study (2018-2019). Data collection and analysis were conducted until saturation point, and 50 in-depth interviews were carried out. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and MaxQDA was used for data coding. Interviewing was stopped following 40 interviews due to data saturation, although 10 additional interviews were held with the students, which led to no new data. Based on the open coding, 95 codes were identified and extracted from the data, followed by 27 codes in axial coding. Finally, 10 codes were identified and extracted from the data through the selective coding process. The results showed that the sources of information for psychology students of Semnan University are their professors, databases, research questionnaire databases, resource ordering, accessible electronic sources, the Internet, audio-visional sources, library, search engines, and professional websites. Psychology students of Semnan University used formal/informal and digital/printed sources of information. These cover many types of information. They need more bibliographic instruction on making greater use of library services prepared for them.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The results showed that the sources of information for psychology students of Semnan University are their professors, databases, research questionnaire databases, resource ordering, accessible electronic sources, the Internet, audio-visional sources, library, search engines, and professional websites.
Research question This study seeks to identify the information sources for graduate psychology students at Semnan University.
Databases In Table l, the frequency of open codes extracted from the interviews with the students participating in the present study as sources of information.
Table 3 Resource Ordering as a Source ‹f Information {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} As a witness, a graduate student in psychology answers the question, ‘Do you google the books?’ with ‘Google or, for example, websites like Adinebook’ (Interview code 13).
Table 4 Free Electronic Sources as an Information Source {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} For instance, a graduate student in the study cites free electronic sources available on the Web: ’The only thing I use is free paper, for example, I click the link and get the article’ (Interview code 43).
Table S Internet as a Source of Information {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} For example, a graduate student in psychology goes to the Stanford University website to get the information s/he needs.
The present study results (see Table 8) also showed that attention to television networks and their use as sources of information for psychology students have been raised.