Abstract Purpose: This paper focuses on the usage of Emerald Insight database by the university researchers of all branches. This study intends to determine the researchers’ usage pattern and their level of satisfaction toward the Emerald Insight database. Methodology: A total of 260 well-structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to the researchers of distinguish faculties and out of these 187 questionnaires were received. Later, each response was examined to check whether the respondent had filled questionnaires appropriately or not. Only six questionnaires were found to be discarded due to incomplete information provided by the respondents. Finally, a total of 181 questionnaires were included in the study constituting 69.61% response rate. Afterward, these responses were coded and various statistics such as Central Tendency, Cumulative Frequency, Percentage, etc. were applied upon the data using SPSS. According to the nature of data graphs, charts, and tables were drawn using MS Excel. The usage data of Emerald Insight for last six years was also clubbed into the study which was arranged by the Maulana Azad (MA) Library on a request. Findings: Demographically, a total of 181 respondents were participated in the study of which 170 respondents were working on PhD and only 11 respondents were working on PDF (Post Doctorate Fellowship) program. All respondents were found aware of Emerald Insight database and none was found unaware; however some respondents (16.57%) were averagely aware, a very few respondents (10.49%) were scarcely aware, and remaining (72.89%) were fully aware. The availability of full text, multidisciplinary nature, and friendly interface were major reasons that compelled researchers to use Emerald Insight database. More or less, both searching techniques were used by respondents. In advance search category, phrase search (55.24%) appeared as most common method followed by author search (24.30%) and Boolean operators (12.15%). Their order of preference was as the newest one (46.96%) than relevancy (45.86%) and lastly, the oldest one (7.18%). Besides, the researchers were also found highly satisfied in all aspects of features provided by the Emerald Insight database from searching techniques to its recency and adequacy of literature. Furthermore, the majority of researchers (84.53%) were found fully satisfied, whereas only 2.20% respondents were fully dissatisfied. Their satisfaction was supported by the usage date received by the MA Library which had revealed a gradual increment in the number of items downloaded per year from 2012 to 2017. The usage just doubled from 4546 items downloaded in 2012 to 9541 items downloaded in 2017. Originality: Indeed, this study is original and guarantees that none of such study has been conducted earlier. After going through the profound literature review, no similar study is found. Hence, this study, of course, is new and original.

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Emerald Insight 数据库作为印度 Aligarh 穆斯林大学研究学者研究产出决定因素的认识和使用

摘要 目的：本文重点介绍各学科高校研究人员对Emerald Insight数据库的使用情况。本研究旨在确定研究人员的使用模式以及他们对 Emerald Insight 数据库的满意程度。方法：共向不同学院的研究人员随机分发了 260 份结构良好的问卷，并收到了这 187 份问卷。随后，对每个回答进行检查，以检查受访者是否正确填写了问卷。由于受访者提供的信息不完整，只有六份问卷被丢弃。最终，共有181份问卷被纳入研究，回收率为69.61%。之后，对这些响应进行编码，并生成各种统计数据，例如中央趋势、使用 SPSS 对数据应用累积频率、百分比等。根据数据图形、图表和表格的性质，使用 MS Excel 绘制。Emerald Insight 过去六年的使用数据也被纳入研究，该研究由 Maulana Azad (MA) 图书馆应要求安排。结果：在人口统计上，共有 181 名受访者参与了研究，其中 170 名受访者正在攻读博士学位，只有 11 名受访者在从事 PDF（博士后奖学金）计划。所有受访者都知道 Emerald Insight 数据库，没有人不知道；然而，一些受访者（16.57%）平均知晓，极少数受访者（10.49%）几乎不知晓，其余（72.89%）完全知晓。全文的可用性，多学科性质，友好的界面是迫使研究人员使用 Emerald Insight 数据库的主要原因。受访者或多或少都使用了这两种搜索技术。在提前搜索类别中，短语搜索（55.24%）是最常用的方法，其次是作者搜索（24.30%）和布尔运算符（12.15%）。他们的偏好顺序是最新的 (46.96%)，而不是相关性 (45.86%)，最后是最旧的 (7.18%)。此外，研究人员对 Emerald Insight 数据库提供的从搜索技术到其文献的新近性和充分性的各个方面的功能也非常满意。此外，大多数研究人员 (84.53%) 完全满意，而只有 2.20% 的受访者完全不满意。MA Library 收到的使用日期支持了他们的满​​意度，该日期显示从 2012 年到 2017 年每年下载的项目数量逐渐增加。使用量从 2012 年的 4546 项下载到 2017 年的 9541 项下载量翻了一番。 ：确实，这项研究是原创的，并保证没有更早地进行过此类研究。经过深入的文献综述，没有发现类似的研究。因此，这项研究当然是新的和原创的。没有发现类似的研究。因此，这项研究当然是新的和原创的。没有发现类似的研究。因此，这项研究当然是新的和原创的。