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Item PERii electronic journals: Assessing access and use by postgraduate students in the School of Education at the University of Dar es Salaam(University of Dar es Salaam Library Journal, 2017) Katabalwa, A. S.; Underwood, P. G.This paper is based on the findings of a study that assessed the awareness of Programme for Enhancement of Resources Initiative (PERii) electronic journals, their use and challenges encountered by postgraduate students. The study was carried out at the University of Dar es Salaam and involved postgraduate students in the School of Education. A combination of questionnaire for postgraduate students and interviews for Reference Librarians was used to collect data. Findings revealed that the majority of the respondents became aware of PERii electronic journals through various sources. The resources are widely used, including for the exploration of ongoing scientific debates through peer reviewed papers. The challenges encountered are largely infrastructural, including inability to access resources from home, together with limited information and computer literacy. Recommendations for improving access and use of PERii electronic journals are given.Item The role of libraries in promoting health literacy for combating non-communicable diseases in Tanzania(ISDS LLC, Japan |, 2017) Mnzava, E. E.; Katabalwa, A. S.Health literacy is an important aspect to every individual in the society. This is due to the fact that a health literate person understands his/her health status, take prevention and control measures of various diseases. The purpose of this paper was to discuss how health literacy for prevention, control and treatment of non communicable diseases can be conducted by libraries in Tanzania. The researcher reviewed several literatures and found out that libraries have a big role to play to ensure that community recognize their information needs, search for relevant information and make use of the information to make informed health decisions. The study concluded that because non communicable diseases impose a double burden to the government and her people a call for immediate actions from various stakeholders’ such as health libraries is required.Item Use of electronic journal resources by postgraduate students at the University of Dar es Salaam(Emerald Insight, 2016) Katabalwa, A. S.Purpose – ThispaperaimstoassesstheuseofelectronicjournalresourceattheUniversityofDares Salaam.ThestudyinvolvedthepostgraduatestudentsintheSchoolofEducationattheUniversityof DaresSalaam. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of questionnaires for postgraduate students and interview for the reference librarians was used, whereby 100 postgraduate students and six reference librarianswereinvolvedinthestudy.SPSSandcontentanalysiswereusedtoanalysethedata. Findings – Major findings of the study reveal that majority of the students reported using electronic journal resources for various purposes including working on the assignments, research proposal writing,literaturereview,researchreportwriting,currentawareness,leisureandforextraexploration of ongoing scientific debates through peer-reviewed papers. The challenges encountered in the use of electronic journal resources include power outage, inadequate bandwidth, slow download speed, inability to access the resources from home, lack of training, lack of awareness, limited access to computersanddifficultyinsearching.Finally,therecommendationsforimprovingtheuseofelectronic journalresourcesareprovided. Originality/value – Thisisthefirsttimeanefforthasbeenmadetoassesstheuseofelectronicjournal resourcesbypostgraduatestudentsintheSchoolofEducationattheUniversityofDaresSalaam.The studycouldbeusedtoassessthepostgraduatestudents’needforelectronicresourcesattheUniversity ofDaresSalaamandotherusersinhigherlearninginstitutions.