Academic databases in humanities and social sciences setting: the case of students at University of Osijek

Sanjica Faletar Tanacković

doi:10.55741/knj.62.1-2.13818

Avtorji

Sanjica Faletar Tanacković Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, L. Jägera 9, 31000 Osijek, Croatia e-pošta: sfaletar@ffos.hr

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55741/knj.62.1-2.13818

Ključne besede:

akademske podatkovne zbirke, motivacija, zaznavanje, uporaba, humanistika in družbene vede, študenti, Hrvaška

Povzetek

Izvleček
Namen: Namen raziskave je bil ugotoviti, kako študenti Filozofske fakultete v Osjeku, Hrvaška (Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Osjeku, Hrvatska) razumejo in uporabljajo podatkovne zbirke s področja humanistike in družbenih ved.
Metodologija: Uporabljeni sta bili dve metodi (vprašalnik v tiskani obliki in delno strukturirani intervjuji), raziskava je zajela obdobje od oktobra 2016 do februarja 2017. V kvantitativno analizo je bilo vključenih 381 pravilno izpolnjenih vprašalnikov, obdelanih z uporabo statističnega paketa SPSS. Da bi ugotovili morebitne razlike med posameznimi skupinami v vzorcu, so bili, poleg opisne statistike, uporabljeni tudi Hi-kvadrat test, T-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitneyev test in Kruskal Wallisov test. Statistične razlike so bile ugotovljene na ravni 95 %.
Rezultati: Čeprav 82,2 % oseb, ki so bile vključene v analizo meni, da so veščine, na katerih temelji informacijska pismenost, pomembne za doseganje dobrih študijskih rezultatov, jih je le 63 % odgovorilo, da so se v manjši meri formalno usposabljali na tem področju. Študenti so ocenili svoje veščine za iskanje po Googlu dokaj visoko (srednja vrednost 4,31) v primerjavi s samooceno veščin za iskanje po podatkovnih zbirkah s področja humanistike in družboslovnih ved (srednja vrednost 3,69), poleg tega pogosteje uporabljajo Google (53,8 %) kot podatkovne zbirke (25,1 %). Na vprašanje o težavah pri iskanju v podatkovnih zbirkah so navedli različne ovire: da že iz navade pogosteje uporabljajo Google (48 %), da imajo od doma omejen dostop (42,3 %), članki so v tujem jeziku (35,2 %), niso dovolj usposobljeni za iskanje (35,2 %). Na splošno rezultati raziskave kažejo, da imajo študenti humanistike manj formalnega usposabljanja za informacijsko pismenost, so manj motivirani (zaradi zunanjih in notranjih dejavnikov) za uporabo podatkovnih zbirk in se pogosteje nagibajo k iskanju po Googlu tudi za študijske namene. Poleg tega rezultati kažejo tudi na razlike v razumevanju podatkovnih zbirk pri študentih posameznih znanstvenih disciplin.
Omejitve raziskave: Geografske omejitve in majhen vzorec.
Izvirnost/uporabnost raziskave: Rezultati lahko vplivajo na oblikovanje programov izobraževanja za informacijsko pismenost in na referenčne storitve knjižnice.

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