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How University Students in Health Care Look for Information: Use and Initial Appraisal of Information Resources

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Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society (ECIL 2016)

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New developments in web infrastructure and information and communication technologies have revolutionized the way information is made available online, creating new opportunities and experiences for personalised information seeking. Furthermore, mobile and ubiquitous technologies offer new web based applications and devices that can be used to promote access in information and engage users. The aim of this study was to investigate the ways Greek university students in health sciences look for information. We specified student preferences and level of experience in use technology and the web for information seeking as well as their level of awareness of online information sources and the criteria used for choosing them. We used a web-based questionnaire method for collecting data. The results suggested that more effort should be given on enriching the students’ information literacy skills.

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  1. Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou, Chrysanthi Chatzopoulou, Eleni Tzura, Souzana Maranga, Rania Siatri & Georgia Zafeiriou

  2. American Farm School, Perrotis College, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stavroula Antonopoulou

  3. Alcala University, Madrid, Spain

    Emmanouel Garoufallou & Stavroula Antonopoulou

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Garoufallou, E. et al. (2016). How University Students in Health Care Look for Information: Use and Initial Appraisal of Information Resources. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., et al. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society. ECIL 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 676. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_41

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