Acceptance of E-Resources by the Medical Researchers of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)

Md. Abul Kalam Siddike () and Md. Shiful Islam ()
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Md. Abul Kalam Siddike: Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Md. Shiful Islam: Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2014, vol. 13, issue 02, 1-9

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to describe the acceptance of e-resources by the medical researchers of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) and its objective is to explore the tendency and frequency of using e-resources by them. Also, this article investigates the purposes, impact, influential factors and barriers of using e-resources by the medical researchers of ICDDR,B. A survey has been conducted by using a short and well-structured questionnaire that was distributed among 120 medical researchers in ICDDR,B. We received 96 questionnaires duly filled up by the respondents with a response rate of 79.99%. The gathered data have been analysed and presented using the descriptive analysis techniques of SPSS 20.0. Findings show that the medical researchers of ICDDR,B show positive attitude towards using e-resources, and researchers use e-resources frequently. Results also indicate that e-resources are very useful to the medical researchers, and MEDLINE is the most used database among the medical researchers of ICDDR,B. The study is based on only ICDDR,B and does not cover all medical (public and private) institutions of Bangladesh. Therefore, further studies would be carried out covering public and private medical institutions in Bangladesh.

Keywords: Electronic resources; databases; medical researchers; ICDDR; B; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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