A Study of Mazandaran University’s Advanced Studies students’ Familiarity with, and the Usage Amount of Gray Literature

Nematolluh Taluyea-Feeroozjahe, Seyed Ali Asghar Razavi*, Mitra Ghiasi
Page No. 44-64

This study, and identify different groups of gray sources, including theses, scientific publications,
conferences and so on leads, which aims to investigate the rate of use of graduate students at
Mazandaran University of gray.The methodology used in this survey and description. The study
population included 3328 students of Mazandaran University graduate (master's and PhD degree
in) formation and for data analysis, in order to describe and evaluate the general characteristics of
respondents charts, descriptive statistics, use was made of data collection A questionnaire was
used. To analyze the data and determine the relationship between variables, inferential statistics
tests Kolmogorov-Smirnov test single factor t, Pearson correlation and partial correlation spss16
was used in the software.The results obtained from this study showed that the rate of use of
graduate students at Mazandaran University of gray is desirable. Request help from students of
librarians in the field of search, and access to gray, indicating a lack of awareness of students of
search methods and access to gray, as well as a lack of required software search. The results
indicate that students achieve less access to government documents and technical research reports
are gray. Trading of resources between the gray and the access and usage, there is a significant
relationship, with a confidence level of 0.95 was approved. In other words, by increasing the
availability of resources, increase the use of 0.372.
Keywords : Graduate Students, gray resources, knowledge and use