The role of the Egyptian University Libraries Federation in providing electronic information sources: a case study

Abstract

This study deals with the Federation of Egyptian University Libraries from the beginning of its inception in 2005 until now, passing through all the chronological and planning stages of the Federation, from establishing the central unit of the Federation, subscribing to global databases, mechanizing Egyptian university libraries, establishing the university theses repository, and developing the unified automated system. To manage libraries, and implement new projects, including indexing Egyptian periodicals and the electronic publishing project, measuring the extent to which faculty members and their assistants in Egyptian universities benefit from the electronic information sources available through subscribing to global databases, and monitoring the extent of the academic community’s satisfaction with the services provided through the Union’s projects related to research in The unified index and search in the local university theses repository, and the extent to which faculty members and their assistants need training and guidance programs to benefit from digital library projects, and appropriate methods for training from their point of view, and revealing the extent of the impact of the use of the digital library on scientific research in Egypt by measuring the relationship between international publishing For researchers in Egyptian universities and their use of electronic periodicals available in global databases, determining the relationship between the electronic periodicals most used by researchers in universities, and their availability through the acquisition of their digital library.