Abstract:
It is a popular belief that the students depend mainly on electronic resources in the digital age and
that they are quite conversant with using the technology-based information resources in their
academic research. In the Sri Lankan context, more and more research is required to understand
the information usage trends of the undergraduates. An initiative was taken by the principal
researcher at University of Peradeniya to study the "Information seeking and research strategies
of undergraduates in the digital age: a survey". This major study covered ten different aspects
related to information resource usage and information-related research tasks and the main
objective of the study was to raise awareness about the information seeking and research trends of
the undergraduates of the university and to make recommendations to address the identified
issues. This paper presents one aspect of this major study.
