- "This generation of doctoral students operate in an environment where their research behaviour does not use the full potential of innovative technology.
- Doctoral students are insufficiently trained or informed to be able to fully embrace the latest opportunities in the digital information environment.
- Doctoral students are increasingly reliant on secondary research resources (eg journal articles, books), moving away from primary materials (eg primary archival material and large datasets).
- Access to relevant resources is a major constraint for doctoral students’ progress.
- Open access and copyright appear to be a source of confusion for Generation Y doctoral students, rather than encouraging innovation and collaborative research. Authentication access and licence limitations to subscription-based resources, such as e-journals, are particularly problematic. "
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This particular issue on the lack of digital skills may be in part because of the lack of faith on the information that can be found in the internet. With the surge of the internet, there also came the surge of information that is difficult to validate, unlike those that are readily printed on books with reliable bibliographies.
This particular issue on the lack of digital skills may be in part because of the lack of faith on the information that can be found in the internet. With the surge of the internet, there also came the surge of information that is difficult to validate, unlike those that are readily printed on books with reliable bibliographies.
Bogdan Warrick
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