대학원생의 해외학술정보 검색을 위한 구글스칼라 이용에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study was to estimate the importance of Google Scholar among Korean researchers as a frequently used and preferred resource for foreign academic materials. The result of the study can be summarized as follow. First, the results showed that the usage intention of Google schoalr is affected by performance expectancy and effort expectancy. Also, actual use of Google Scholar is being affected by usage intention more so than facilitating conditions such as the skills and resources to use Google Scholar. Second, based on survey responses, most graduate students searched ‘scholarly articles’ from Google Scho lar in the same way they searched in library bibliographic database and academic publishers. Also, most graduate students prefer searching academic resources in search engines than in library databases. It mea ns that Google Scholar is one of the most important resources for searching academic information. For graduate students, Google Scholar is being recognized as increasing comprehensiveness of search results through its prowess at finding academic resources.