[Web4lib] Results from Survey of Student Use of Library Research Resources

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 (http://www.primaryresearch.com/)  
Primary Research Group has published The Survey of American  College 
Students: Student Library Research Practices & Skills, ISBN  #157440-126-2.  The 
report presents  data from a  
survey of 400+ American college students  about how they go about doing 
research in their  
college libraries.  The 150+ page report gives extensive  data on student 
use of major search  
engines, wikipedia, library databases, book  collections and other library 
resources.  The study  
also gives detailed information on how their  professors advise them to use 
the library, and how comfortable they feel about  their research skills and 
how helpful librarians have been in   
helping them in their research.  Data is broken out by more than 16  
criteria including gender,  
income level, type and size of college, mean  SAT acceptance score of the 
college, and many other variables.  Just a few of the report’s many findings  
are that:   
†      Only about 47% of  students are sure that they have ever been 
required to turn in a  
research paper exceeding 10 double spaced typed  pages in length for any of 
their classes. 
†      More than 86% of  students say that they understand the concept of 
plagiarism  
“well” or “very well”.  
†      64% of students sampled  say that they know how to contact a 
librarian online. 
†      55.2% of the students  in the sample had not asked for help from a 
librarian within  
the past year. 
†      Nearly 29% of students  say that Google, Yahoo and other major 
search engine  
searches were the most important information  source for their last 
research assignment. 
†      More than 9% of  information needed for research papers was sourced 
from  
Wikipedia or other wickis. 
†      The higher the grade  point average the less information for 
research papers was  
obtained from search engines such as Google or  Yahoo. 
The study is available directly from Primary Research Group or from major  
book  
distributors.  The price is  $80.00 for print and PDF versions; site 
licenses are also  
available.  For further  information contact Primary Research Group at 
212-736-2316 or visit our website  at _www.PrimaryResearch.com_ 
(http://www.primaryresearch.com/)  

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