Pemanfaatan E-journal oleh Mahasiswa: Kajian Analisis Sitasi Terhadap Tesis Mahasiswa Klaster Saintek Universitas Gadjah Mada

Abstract

Universitas Gadjah Mada Library provides various information resources either in printed or electronic formats. The Library has subscribed to electronic information resources in the form of ejournal databases. The availability and utilization of these resources need to be evaluated. This study is a citation analysis of theses of the students from science and technology cluster of Universitas Gadjah Mada in 2015. It is aimed at identifying: 1) types of information resources used by the students in thesis writing, 2)intensity of the utilization of e-journal information resources by the students, and 3) the availability of the required information in the databases subscribed by UGM Library. The object of the study consisted of 7,925 citation derived from 222 theses of the students from science and technology cluster UGM. Data were obtained from documentation. This study used citation analysis to analyze all citations. The result of the study showed types of information resources used by the students in thesis writing were books, journals, theses, websites, proceedings, government regulations/acts, others (maps, learning materials, guides to laboratory practice), research reports and dissertations and papers. Books were information resources mostly used. Journals utilized in thesis writing comprised as much as 25% (1,997 citations) and 84% (1,685 citations) of the journals were English. As many as 1,078 citations (64%) were available and 607 citations (36%) unavailable in the journals subscribed by UGM Library.