How university e-library search can go astray: the main pitfalls
Quite a number of students have difficulties to do university e-library search. There are many pitfalls in the process of university e-library search:
- Pitfall 1: do not know that the university e-library has refereed journal resources [due to unfamiliarity of the e-library interface for students as well as for some of the local tutors]
- Pitfall 2: do not know that the academic journal publishers' websites sometimes do not work and that students can be required to log in several times with their athens id and passwords [which lead to the incorrect conclusion that the elibrary does not have much free-of-charge content]
- Pitfall 3: are not happy with the e-library search engine performance (as it is not powerful)
- Pitfall 4: do not know what to search for as the dissertation theme has not been determined yet
- Pitfall 5: feel that the e-library searching is too time-consuming
- Pitfall 6: do not understand what the academic articles are talking about
- Pitfall 7: do not know how to conduct literature review based on the academic articles gathered from the e-library
- Pitfall 8: too busy and too difficult to do literature review anyway, let alone performing e-library search
- Pitfall 9: the university elibrary [for certain universities] really does not have much content to download
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