Usage of databases and the information literacy of students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Author

Jelaca, N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. / Central Libr., Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

fYear

2015

fDate

25-29 May 2015

Firstpage

974

Lastpage

978

Abstract

Given the area of their research, the students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) need the latest scientific information from both domestic and foreign journals. That is why the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports has provided them with the access to various databases of scientific and technical journals. Furthermore, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing is a provider of one of the most important databases for engineers - IEEE Explore. Students can access these databases either from their homes or from the Faculty premises; they can also attend seminars on information retrieval. The goal of this article is presenting the research on students of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, their usage of available databases and their familiarity with the search tools for those databases.

Keywords

electrical engineering computing; electrical engineering education; information retrieval; information science education; FER; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; IEEE Explore; databases; information literacy; information retrieval; scientific information; Databases; Electrical engineering; Google; IEEE Xplore; Information retrieval; Libraries; Seminars;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2015 38th International Convention on

Conference_Location

Opatija

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIPRO.2015.7160416

Filename

7160416