USE OF E-RESOURCES BY RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY, INDIA

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to determine the extent to which research scholars of Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (India) are aware and make use of e- resources, to highlight the problems faced by them in accessing e-resources, their views on usefulness of e-resources compared to that of print resources and the place from where they prefer to access information.A well structured questionnaire was administered among research scholars of Institute of Technology ,Banaras Hindu University to collect the necessary data, keeping in view the objective of the study. Research scholars prefer e- resources against print resources because of its various good features, for their research progress and are looking in future to have more e-resources access within university campus with better internet connectivity. The present paper consists of e-resources users’ population limited to Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Similar studies can be done at various universities, organizations to know the changing information seeking behavior of scholars and accordingly needful changes can be done to have right information at right time to right person. There are number of attempts to find out the use of e-resources but this is first of its kind and hence paving way for further research in India and abroad.