investigating the electronic journals’ status in comparison with printed journals among the faculty members of payam-e-noor university: a study

this research aims at investigating electronic journals’ acceptance among payam-e-noor university faculty members as well as studying the influential factors in that. of all faculty members approached in this study, 169 ones returned the questioners. findings show that e-journals’ acceptance among faculty members is at average level on the basis of which it seems both printed and electronic journals have got equal positions among such a group. findings also reveal that computer and internet problems with the coefficient determination of ß=0/31 are the strongest factors in making e-journals not acceptable. in addition, faculty members’ computer and internet skills with ß=0/175 and their knowledge of online full text databases with ß=0/12 make positive effects on e-journals acceptance, while access to e-journals’ causes weak effect (b=0/05). results indicate that the more age and experience, the slighter tendency to e-journals’ use. therefore, there is no significant correlation among gender, major, educational level and ejournals’ acceptance.