... faculty members at one online university and at one standard brick-and-mortar university. Eduard Aibar can be contacted at: eaibar@uoc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Encyclopaedias Higher education Academic staff Open educational resources Peer production A key...

... were more active users of electronic format than senior faculty members. Bar‐Ilan et al. (2003) also found that the use of electronic resources is influenced by the age of the faculty members in Israeli universities. Younger members of the academic staff were heavy users of both electronic...

... employed a descriptive survey method supported by a questionnaire. The population of the study consisted of basic medical sciences and faculty of education lecturers made up of a total number of 122 academic staff. Findings Although the survey sampled response was not large, it represented...

... Surveys Academic staff Cross‐cultural studies Digital libraries (DL) refers to the set of technologies and services supporting the manipulation of organized network‐based digital resources (Arms, 2000) which have been playing important roles in our modern media‐rich environment. To further...

.... undergraduate students; 3. adolescents; and 4. mixed populations. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Social networks Students Academic staff Academic libraries Communication technologies South Korea Another study used mixed user groups. Liu (2007) drew a sample from...

... Electronic media Internet, India Publications University libraries Academic staff The internet boom in India has become one of the major contributors to the economic growth of the country. The use of internet has increased more than 11 times in the last seven years. This rise has led...

... The study was implemented through a descriptive survey methodology. A self‐designed questionnaire was distributed and 80 valid samples were collected. The population were all females affiliated to TMU including 21 academic staff, 40 masters and doctoral students and 19 staff members. Findings The study...

.... How did these individuals learn to use the internet? Their responses regarding internet training are given in Table II . © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Internet Academic staff Kuwait Teaching The progressive increase in the use of Information and Communication...

... methods were used for this study on how academic staff used information technologies for academic pursuit. Random sampling technique was employed to select staff respondents on whom the interviews and questionnaires were administered from the various faculties, the university library as well as other...

... management Information retrieval Effectiveness Perception Academic staff More and more datafiles are now available in the market, some are general in scope and others are more specific. Lexis‐Nexis is a specialized family of databases that covers legal, news, business and some medical information...