Awareness of using high quality electronic journals among postgraduate students/ Norliya Ahmad Kassim and Shahira Dahari

This study investigates the awareness, perceptions and barriers in using high quality electronic journals among the Faculty of Information Management postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia. This study adopts a quantitative method using questionnaires as the instruments for data collection. The questionnaires were distributed to a random sample pf 160 respondents from the three Masters' programs. The total response rate was 75% or 120 respondents. The results revealed that generally, respondent agreed that they are aware and have positive perceptions towards using the high quality electronic journals provided by the university library. The respondents quite agreed that they faced barriers when accessing high quality electronic journals. Besides that, the awareness in using the high quality electronic journals is the same regardless of which programme they belong to. On the other hand, the respondents' perceptions in using the high quality electronic journals differ among the programmes they belong to. The study further revealed that there is no difference in opinion on the barriers of using high quality electronic journals among postgraduate students of different programmes.