A survey on Usage of Central Library Databases by Faculty Members and Students at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2014-2015

Today, due to the presence of new technologies and changes in library' mission, they have become a place for providing information services rather than to store books; therefore,this challenges assessing the quality and suitability of the resources that it contains. This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency and utilization of the Central University Library' databases of medical students and faculty deals.This descriptive study was conducted; the population encompassed EBSCO databases, PubMed, Science Direct and Springer shared to the central library of Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences; and frequency method was used to collect data.After data collection, findings indicated that significant differences existed between the usage rate of databases, and Pubmed was the highest use in this regard. Moreover, according to the academic disciplines variation, the use of databases between different users was so significant that most users of Medical School and School of Dentistry showed the lowest rate. In addition, EBSCO databases and Springer which rarely provide full-text articles were indicated the lowest rate among users mentioned that due to time allocated and it was not economically affordable.It is the fact that the use of databases is inevitable, since some databases are required to pay a subscription, therefore, users must be more careful to select and subscribe them in order to reduce affordably the university' economical cost and to increase its usefulness to users.