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Introduction
At present, universities are investing heavily to launch information services based on digital format, worrying about the low demand in use, nevertheless, systematically offering user training programs. This situation allows us to assume that user training programs have not had a sufficient impact to guarantee their true profitability.
Universities, through their library systems, and specifically through various concrete actions, seek to ensure that users develop information skills, to make better use of available resources, thus promoting better conditions for the creation and strengthening of permanent learning processes, based on the self-sufficiency of the user in accessing and making use of the information available, especially in digital media (Tiscareño-Arroyo and Cortés-Vera, 2014).
Specifically, the biomedical and health areas produce and consume large amounts of digital scientific information, necessary to be stored, organized and later managed. This type of scientific disciplines requires being at the forefront of the development of knowledge (Sánchez-Tarragó and Alfonso-Sánchez, 2007). The informative needs of the studied scientific discipline demand that its users have capacity in terms of informative competences, in such a way that the quality of scientific research based on relevant information is guaranteed; the positive consequence of this will be reflected in medical care and in their patients’ better living conditions
A relevant aspect in educational processes is to consider the ways of learning of all participants (teachers, researchers, students and librarians). Identifying learning styles represents a form of approach and knowledge in academic communities, to enhance behaviors for accessing digital resources efficiently and effectively. In this sense, the scientific disciplines related to the biomedical and health area offer peculiar characteristics in their forms of research and development of scientific content based on more rigorously selected sources; therefore, they require a specific learning style to be stimulated.
Each individual has a particular learning style which they use to internalize new knowledge making it significant (Castro-Eglantier and Granata, 2015). Learning styles are defined as cognitive, affective and physiological traits that serve as relatively stable indicators of how subjects perceive, interact and respond to their learning environments (Alonso et al., 1995).
This research is based on the study of learning styles of digital resources users in the biomedical and health area of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (Mexico)...