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 Volume 8, Issue 9 (September 2021), Pages: 43-49

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The role of electronic information resources in supporting scientific research at Northern Border University

 Author(s): Yaser Mohammad Al Sawy *

 Affiliation(s):

 General Curriculum Department, College of Education and Arts, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3150-9497

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.09.006

 Abstract:

This study aimed to realize the impact of Electronic Information Resources on the scientific research movement at the Northern Border University. As it includes Electronic Information Resources provided by the university through the Saudi Digital Library, and many forms of sources such as databases, which include full-text databases, abstracts databases, bibliographic databases, as well as electronic books and electronic periodicals, these resources are characterized by the magnitude of content, continuous modernity, and linguistic diversity, the ability to permanently meet the needs of faculty members. The study sample consisted of 150 faculty members from all disciplines and academic degrees at the university, consistently standard of 137 faculty members from this sample. The study was keen to apply the survey methodology through the main measurement tool (the questionnaire), which consists of 16 main vocabularies that constitute the direction of measurement for the study. The study reached many results, the most important of which is that the high percentage of staff members use teaching Electronic Information Resources significantly, that they can meet teaching and research needs and upgrade academic, as well as there is a broad trend of satisfaction towards the use of full-text databases from other forms of databases. The study showed that the preferred form of access to the types of Electronic Information Resources is through the Saudi Digital Library for free, and there is a tendency of faculty members towards access through the home is larger than the university campus. In general, the study found a high percentage of faculty members ’satisfaction with the use of Electronic Information Resources and the extent of their impact on the flourishing of scientific research. Also, it recommended the necessity of increasing training programs towards using research methods for Electronic Information Resources and intensifying the use of the Internet through the university campus with linking Electronic Information Resources to academic courses. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Electronic information resources, Databases, E-Books, E-Periodicals, Scientific research, Northern Border University

 Article History: Received 26 March 2021, Received in revised form 14 June 2021, Accepted 17 June 2021

 Acknowledgment 

The authors gratefully acknowledge the approval and the support of this research study by grant no.7885-EAR-2018-3-9-F from the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University, Arar, K.S.A.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Al Sawy YM (2021). The role of electronic information resources in supporting scientific research at Northern Border University. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(9): 43-49

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