Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess pharmacy students' attitudes toward the use of Web-based pharmacy reference guides. Reference guides exist to assist the user to quickly locate the desired information through defined search strategies. Web-based guides have several distinct advantages over a printed format. One major advantage is that they can be easily edited and posted on an Internet server. A Likert-type rating scale was developed to assess pharmacy students' attitudes toward the usefulness and effectiveness of the pharmacy reference guides. A total of 270 students from four drug information/literature evaluation pharmacy school courses were surveyed; 182 (67%) students returned the survey. Percentages from five questions with the assigned rating of one through five (strongly disagree to strongly agree) indicated that most students either agree or strongly agree that the Web-based guides were easy to use and effective in locating pertinent drug information resources. In summary, the results indicate that the guides are performing the intended purpose.
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