Perceived Usefulness As A Determinant of E-book Usage by Postgraduate Students in Selected Universities in Southeast, Nigeria
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2023
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Ilorin Varsity International Journal of Library & Information Science
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This examined the perceived usefulness as a determinant of e-book usage by postgraduate
students in universities in South West, Nigeria. The descriptive survey design was adopted using
a questionnaire, as an instrument for data collection from postgraduate students across three
universities in South-West Nigeria. A content-related approach of validation was conducted to
ensure the validity of the instrument while Cronbach alpha was used to test the reliability of the
instrument which returned an r = 0.864. The population of the study comprised postgraduate
students from the University of Ibadan (11,825), Ekiti State University (1,620), and Bowen
University (55) respectively. The simple random sampling technique was adopted in selecting the
three universities. Israel's(2009) sample size Model was used to arrive at three hundred and
Ninety (390) respondents which represents the sample for the study. The findings from the study
demonstrated that postgraduate students have a positive perception of the usefulness of e-books
as they enhance academic performance effectiveness. The findings further revealed that
postgraduate students can accomplish tasks very quickly, and provide up-to-date information
resources. The study recommended that; university management should ensure that they
subscribed to the appropriate online academic databases e.g., Ebscohost, ProQuest and
ScienceDirect etc., to have access to up-to-date e-books and e-resources as a whole for the
postgraduate students to have access to adequate information resources. Postgraduate students
should embrace the use of electronic books for academic purposes such as using them to
complement printed books, checking for the research topic and updating research work,
preparing academic course work or reading, passing away leisure time (Novels and like),
searching for academic information resources and many more.
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E-books, Usage, Perceived usefulness, and Postgraduate Students.