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Indian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volume  7, Issue 3, Sept - Dec 2013, Pages 243-249
 

Review Article

An Assessment of Electronic Journals Access among the Faculty Members in Alagappa University

C. Baskaran, S. Kishore Kumar

*Deputy Librarian, Alagappa University, Karaikudi - 630 003, India, **Assistant Librarian, Alagappa University, Karaikudi - 630 003, India.

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The article examines that most of the Associate Professors are highly aware of the availability of Scholarly journals are accessing through UGC-Infonet. The study reveals the Professors and Associate Professors largely use them for teaching purposes and Assistant professors use the resources for studying purpose. The faculty members from Science and Humanities they acquire the experience for accessing the Scholarly journals in particularly Professors and Associate professor are obtained the guidance form the Library staff and Assistant Professors are guidance from the senior faculty members to seek the experience of Scholarly journals access. It is however found that lack of training for accessing is the obstacle in proper and full utilization of Scholarly journals. The paper will help other institutes understand the need for library electronic resources, and motivate them to update the electronic resources in the focal interest of the faculty members in Alagappa University. The paper also indicates how a suitably designed survey can show the searching publishers provide the full text articles based on this preference given to JCCC gate way of Scholarly journals providers and it followed by springer link articles highly used by the team of  the faculty members.

Key words: UGC-Infonet; Consortium; Scholarly journals; INFLIBNET; JCCC.   


Corresponding Author : C. Baskaran