Use Of Search Engines For Retrieval Of Scholarly Information : A Case Study

摘要

Explores University students' and teachers' use of search engines for retrieval of scholarly information. The main objectives are to examine the use of search engines, use of popular search engines, factors influenced on search engines use, use of search strategy for information retrieval and also to know the methods of learning search strategy by students and faculties in the university environment. Results of the present study show that 100% of the students and 97.91% of faculties used search engines for retrieval of information on the Internet. Google and Yahoo receives the highest overall ratings. Study reveals that majority of respondents take help from their friends and use help messages of search engines to learn the search strategy.