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Internet Literacy Skills among Research Scholars of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh: A Study

Md. Nazmul Islam , Md. Nazmul Islam

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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science 11(1):p 35-43, . | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijlis.0973.9548.11117.5
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 Now a day Internet has become indispensable part in modern research work. There is no research work carried out in modern era where Internet can’t effectively be utilized. Quick and easy access to scholarly materials and enormous number of e­resources makes it more dependable sources of information for research scholars. That’s why a modern researcher must have the competencies and some sorts of skills in searching and retrieval of information over Internet. The present study was carried out with a view to explore the extent of Internet literacy skills among research scholars of Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. For this purpose primary data in relation to assess the level of Internet literacy skills collected through a selfdesigned questionnaire. 125 research scholars were randomly selected and distributed them questionnaire to which 96 research scholars returned the questionnaire with a response rate of 76.8% out of which 92 respondents (96%) access Internet. The study revealed that a high percentage of the research scholar (78.26%) access Internet to support research and development. Though majority percent respondents (96%) have idea on advanced literature search techniques yet half of the respondents usually search Internet for specific piece of information using ‘exact phrase’. A high percentage of respondents have practical knowledge on search engines (89.13%) and web browser (83.69%) while a majority of them don’t have any idea on semantic web (95.65%), programming language (83.69%) and web development (81.52%). Majority percent of the respondents have the awareness towards the usage of some web resource tools like SNS, e­mail and blog sites. In the case of e­journal database, OPAC and citation index database, almost half of the respondents are unaware. More than half of the respondents neither use narrowing parameters nor avoid adjectives, prepositions, and articles in search phrase. Use of Boolean operator, term truncation, wild card, bracket and nesting command and proximity operators are not familiar in most of cases under survey.

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Keywords Internet Literacy; Rajshahi University; Research Scholars.

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