@article{shuhidan2019malaysian,
  title = {Malaysian Research Students Encounter with Information Seeking Process for Academic Purposes},
  author = {Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan and Wan Aida Wan Yahaya and Husain Hashim and Shuhaida Mohamed Shuhidan and Azma Asnawishah Abd Hakim
 },
  year = 2019,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/JELHE/2019/822970/},
  journal = {Journal of e-Learning and Higher Education},
  volume = 2019,
  pages = 10,
  doi = 10.5171/2019.822970,
  abstract = {This paper investigates the various barriers that university students’ encounter in efforts to seek information for academic purposes. It focuses on skills deployed by these students to overcome this lack. University students from four different fields of study are sampled to address their research-information seeking processes and needs in their daily academic life. The needs are matched to strategies applied that suggest coping mechanisms of fulfilling the demands of the course taken. This research analyses these barriers and coping mechanisms as a means of enhancing students’ research-information seeking skills. Findings show that the main barrier towards information seeking processes among university students is their inability to seek and evaluate information. They also struggle to locate information needed for academic purposes. The students also claim that they have difficulty in finding online information due to limited network and Internet access. Students need to have access to strong Internet bandwidths to obtain required information, such as the web resources and online databases. This access provided by the library plays an important role in helping them meet their information needs. It is recommended that the library and the librarians should plan an appropriate course of action such as information skill training to overcome the identified barriers by enhancing current services and facilities which guide students to improve their information seeking processes for academic purposes.},
  keywords = {Information seeking processes, academic, barrier, information skill.},
  note = Article ID: 822970
}