Use of Electronic Resources by Students for Intellectual Freedom in Selected Universities in Kwara State, Nigeria
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2021
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Kelpro Bulletin
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The study explored the use of electronic resources by postgraduate students of
University of Ilorin and Kwara State University, Nigeria. Five research questions
were raised in order to find out the use of e-resources for achieving intellectual
freedom. Sample of 362 students in twelve faculties of two universities were
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rrandomly surveyed. Data collected using questionnaire were analyzed using
descriptive statistics. Results indicate that lion’s share of students are aware
that e-resources are very good in writing academic papers, newspapers are the
highly preferred print material, internet resources highly preferred, majority
agreed e-resources encourage intellectual freedom and power outage is the
major challenge in the use of e-resources.
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Intellectual Freedom, Intellectuals, E-resources, Electronic Resources, E-journals, E-books, Awareness, Utilization, Postgraduate students, Academic library, University of Ilorin, Kwara State University, Kwara, Nigeria