Examination of Viewpoints of Students at the Law and Political Sciences Faculty of Shiraz University concerning Establishing Full-Text Persian Articles Database on Law and Political Sciences

The growing number of specialized, scientific journals has made fast, batch identification and retrieval of articles a daunting task for the researchers. Furthermore, the rising cost of journal subscriptions, has deprived many researchers and even small libraries of individual subscriptions. The present research was conducted to assess the importance of establishing a full text database of Persian articles at the library of the faculty of law and political sciences in Shiraz University from the standpoint of the graduate and undergraduate students. Findings demonstrated that the average usefulness of the full-text article databases in students’ view, was rated “high”, given their experience with databases. About 61% of the respondents stated their “high” and “very high” approval for article digitization. Given the advantages offered by full-text article databases, the approval rating of the respondents have been “high