Awareness and Usage of Emerald Insight Database as Determinant of Research Output for Researcher Scholar of Aligarh Muslim University, India

摘要

Purpose: This paper focuses on the usage of Emerald Insight database by the university researchers of all branches. This study intends to determine the researchers' usage pattern and their level of satisfaction toward the Emerald Insight database. Methodology: A total of 260 well-structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to the researchers of distinguish faculties and out of these 187 questionnaires were received. Later, each response was examined to check whether the respondent had filled questionnaires appropriately or not. Only six questionnaires were found to be discarded due to incomplete information provided by the respondents. Finally, a total of 181 questionnaires were included in the study constituting 69.61% response rate. Afterward, these responses were coded and various statistics such as Central Tendency, Cumulative Frequency, Percentage, etc. were applied upon the data using SPSS. According to the nature of data graphs, charts, and tables were drawn using MS Excel. The usage data of Emerald Insight for last six years was also clubbed into the study which was arranged by the Maulana Azad (MA) Library on a request. Findings: Demographically, a total of 181 respondents were participated in the study of which 170 respondents were working on PhD and only 11 respondents were working on PDF (Post Doctorate Fellowship) program. All respondents were found aware of Emerald Insight database and none was found unaware; however some respondents (16.57%) were averagely aware, a very few respondents (10.49%) were scarcely aware, and remaining (72.89%) were fully aware. The availability of full text, multidisciplinary nature, and friendly interface were major reasons that compelled researchers to use Emerald Insight database. More or less, both searching techniques were used by respondents. In advance search category, phrase search (55.24%) appeared as most common method followed by author search (24.30%) and Boolean operators (12.15%). Their order of preference was as the newest one (46.96%) than relevancy (45.86%) and lastly, the oldest one (7.18%). Besides, the researchers were also found highly satisfied in all aspects of features provided by the Emerald Insight database from searching techniques to its recency and adequacy of literature. Furthermore, the majority of researchers (84.53%) were found fully satisfied, whereas only 2.20% respondents were fully dissatisfied. Their satisfaction was supported by the usage date received by the MA Library which had revealed a gradual increment in the number of items downloaded per year from 2012 to 2017. The usage just doubled from 4546 items downloaded in 2012 to 9541 items downloaded in 2017. Originality: Indeed, this study is original and guarantees that none of such study has been conducted earlier. After going through the profound literature review, no similar study is found. Hence, this study, of course, is new and original.