Awareness and Utilization of Electronic Resources among Junior Research Fellows with Special Reference to Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu
Author : J. Tamil Vanan, J. Manalan, D. Joyson Soundrarajan and T. RajaVolume 9 No.1 Special Issue:February 2019 pp 32-36
Abstract
Electronic is the electronic depiction of information. This information is available in various forms like e-books, e-journal, e-learning tutors, etc. The study aimed at finding the awareness and utilization of e-resources by the junior research fellows Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore. A questionnaire was distributed to the end- users to collect the data. The distribution was done to the selected samples; collect the sound samples. The study aims to find the awareness about the availability of e-resources. The result as reveal what type of e-resources preferred, what searching engine was used most, problem faced during accessing the e-resources, ranking of the available e-resources and to find the percentage of received e-resources from library services. The analysis also reveals few other data which should help to improve the library services.
Keywords
End Users, E-Resources, Awareness, Researchers, and User Study
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