TY  - JOUR
T1  - Attitude of Students Towards Information Access Issues:
The Case of Internatinol Islamic University Malaysia
AU - Mohamud, Ibrahim Kalif AU - Zeki, Akram M. AU - Saidin, Aznan Zuhid 
JO  - International Journal of Soft Computing
VL  - 11
IS  - 4
SP  - 236
EP  - 241
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-9503
DO  - ijscomp.2016.236.241
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijscomp.2016.236.241
KW  - Information ethics
KW  -access
KW  -information access
KW  -ethics
KW  -ethics education
AB  - Among the many challenges of the information age is the information access issues. The vast array
of developed technology devices have resulted in emerging many ethical issues that needs to be addressed.
The continuous rapid development of ICT will continue to raise new ethical issues and students are likely to
have little understanding of the ethical issues associated with using ICT. This study explores the attitude held
by the students of International Islamic University Malaysia’ (IIUM) towards information access issues. It also
investigates the differences of the students’ individual characteristics of gender, age, marital status, level of
study and computer usage with regard to their attitude towards information access issues. Using an adapted
instrument, 219 survey questionnaires were analyzed after collecting them from the undergraduate and graduate
students of IIUM in Gombak campus. Students were found to be sensitive to the unethicality of information
access that is unauthorized access to computing and information resources for personal gain. There were no
significant differences of the students’ individuals’ characteristics of gender, age and marital status with regard
to their attitude towards information ethics issues of access. However, level of study and the frequency of
computer usage showed the existence of significant differences of the students’ attitude towards information
access. It is suggested that Revised and updated ethics education courses integrated in the university’s
curricula can help students develop an ethical responsibility and a proper attitude towards information ethics
issues.
ER  -