Grassroots, Vol.51, No.I January-June 2017

Library Philosophy and Practice, 2021

Worldwide, faculty members mostly use EIS for teaching, learning, research, and professional development. Though, evidence is lacking to address the EIS preferences among the academicians of private sector universities in the study context. To fill this gap, using a convenient sample technique, a survey was conducted, and a structured questionnaire was used as a data collection tool from 630 permanent faculty members of private sector universities at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A total of 360 questionnaires were administrated, and 250 useable responses were received with a response rate of 69.44%. The major findings revealed that 38% of respondents were lecturers followed by 32% Assistant Professor, about half 48% of the respondents were in the age group of 46 years or above. More than 19 research articles were published by 46.04 % of faculty in national and international journals. Most (48.26%) of the lecturer used EIS, followed by Associate Professors, while most (95%) of them preferred ejournals for different academic needs. The EIS has placed itself at the top priority in academia and impacted academics in terms of keep pace with research and improvement in teaching and learning. This study recommends improving access to the internet, development of indigenous electronic resources, access to international databases, research journals to cope with the challenges of EIS requirement and uses of faculty members. This study suggested HEC, and university higher authorities to allocate sufficient funds for subscribing international electronic resources/e-database and other EIS. Further research with a broader scope would provide additional information about this significant research area.

2013

Electronic information resources (EIR) have made a profound impact on scholars, libraries, publishers and information professionals. Due to the digital revolution more and more scholarly journals are either converting into or are born in electronic form. Libraries and information centers provide access to both free and subscribed e-journals to users. The use of e-journals has become common in the developed countries. The awareness and use of e-resources is also growing in the developing countries like Pakistan with the growth of digital technologies. University of the Punjab provides online access to full text e-journals through its central library website. Higher Education Commission's (HEC) National Digital Library Programme (NDLP) for faculty members, students and researchers is the main source for this access. NDLP was specifically initiated to provide desktop access to scholarly e-journals and databases to the academic community and researchers of Pakistan to enhance the quality and quantity research culture. However, recent studies have revealed that researchers commonly use general internet resources and free scholarly journals more than the subscribed high quality e-journals. This research study aims to investigate the faculty members' use patterns of e-journals, underutilization of HEC subscribed e-journals, reasons of non-use and their preferences for e-journals. The University of the Punjabthe largest and oldest university of Pakistanwill be taken as a sample to study use patterns of e-journals by academic staff. The design of the study will be mixed method based on Sequential QUAN → qual pattern. This design will be used to achieve the objectives of the study. The data will be collected first quantitatively and then qualitatively. Questionnaires and interviews will be used to collect data from academic staff of 12 faculties serving on permanent and contract basis. Data will be analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings of the study will be significant for librarians in addressing the barriers in the use of the scholarly literature available to the community and will guide librarians to devise a strategy of ejournals effective and efficient access to the community. The reasons of non-use and less use identified from the findings will also bring into light the needed type of information literacy programme to facilitate the faculty members and researchers.

A sample of seventy faculty from the University of Karachi Faculty of Arts were surveyed. The study explores the University of Karachi's facilities for using electronic resources. Some departments have fully-equipped computer labs, while some have a few computers. A few departments also provide computers to individual academics in their offices. An Internet connection is available to 92.9 percent of the departments. A majority of the academics have computer skills that facilitate the use of electronic resources, although a majority have little knowledge of electronic resources, which is not a positive aspect of the findings. Most use both electronic and printed resources, or only printed sources. Electronic resources are used for research and for preparation of lectures. Lack of knowledge and lack of facilities are the main reasons for not using electronic resources. Nearly all respondents are satisfied or quite satisfied with available resources.

2020

This study has made an attempt to analysis the engineering college faculty members use of electronic resources and its impact of academic growth in Namakkal district in Tamilnadu. Based on the aim, survey method is applied and standard, structured and pretested questionnaire as a tool of this study. Percentage analysis, one-way ANOVA and post-host statistical tools are used for data analysis. Pie and bar charts also used for data representation. 1070 fully filled questionnaires received from the respondents. Among the total sample, 618(57.767) respondents are male and 425(42.243) respondents are female faculties who participated in this research. According to the designation of the respondents, 470(43.925), 331(30.935) and 269(25.140) are assistant professors, associate professors and professors. Based on the experience, 342(31.963) of them have 0-5 years of experience in teaching in engineering colleges, 299(27.944) of them have 6-10 years of experience, 159(14.860) percent of them have 11-15 years, 140(13.084) of them have 16-20 years of experience and the remaining 130(12.150) of them have 21 years and above teaching experience in engineering colleges. Statistical significant difference is observed between the gender, experience and designation of the faculty members' frequency of accessing online journals. There is a statistical significant difference in the opinion about the usefulness of the e-journal of the faculty members' designation. Significant difference is observed between the gender of the respondents and their opinion about the increase of research publication while using the electronic information sources. Highly significant is observed between the educational qualifications of the respondents and their opinion about the increase of research publication by using the e-journals. There is a statistical significant difference in the designation of the faculties and their opinion about the increase of research publication by using Electronic Journals.

The emergence of the internet is a new medium of information storage and delivery represents a revolution, which will have a lasting impact on the electronic publication and delivery of information system in the twenty-first century. The developments in information technology have brought e-journals as a boon to research community, which are becoming a major source for scholarly communication. As e-journal is a journal available online or offline containing research papers, review articles, scholarly communications. In the electronic environment teaching, learning and research are being supported by e-journals which are emerging as new powerful tool. E-journals have an impact not only on libraries but on authors and publishers too. The present study aims to find out the use of electronicjournals by post graduate students and research scholars in the Faculty of Science, University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia University. A well-structured questionnaire was administered to collect the primary data from respondents. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the awareness, satisfaction level of users and suitable recommendations to improve facilities and services related to the use of e-journals.

9th KSCLA National Conference on Library in the Life of the User, 2019

The present paper examines the use of e-sources among faculty members and students. A total of 2463samples were selected from 11 state universities in Karnataka. A well designed questionnaire was used for the data collection and data has been analyzed using SPSS. The study found that, 62.9% majority of the rural respondents is using the Internet, followed by urban (37.1%) respondents. It is very interesting to note that 66.7% of the respondents used the Internet every day. The present study consisted of an equal number of males (51.3%) and female (48.7%) respondents are used e-sources. The study indicated that most of the respondents are used e-sources for the exam purpose (41.9%). The study found that, most of the respondents preferred to read e-books/journals (57.8%), followed by newspapers/magazines (46%). The study found that, all most all the respondents are preferred to use of e-sources for the academic work and also a few of them not aware of the gazetteers, bulletins, encyclopedias and other e-sources.

The Electronic Library, 2009

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to find out the level of awareness and use of e‐journals by the researchers of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) – both central universities funded by the University Grants Commission.Design/methodology/approachA well‐structured questionnaire is administered to the research scholars of the AMU and BHU to collect data regarding the use of e‐journals.FindingsThe survey reveals that most of the research scholars are aware of the availability of e‐journals and largely use them for reference purposes in their research work. They fully agree that with the usage of e‐journal the quality of research work improves with enrichment of appurtenant contents and materials leading to high‐quality manuscript. It is however found that lack of training is the obstacle in proper and full utilization of e‐journals.Research limitations/implicationsThe present paper consists only of e‐journal users and the geographical area is r...

Library Philosophy and Practice, 2013

University of Pune library subscribes to a number of electronic journals to satisfy the information needs of its users. The present study is an attempt to find out whether the users of University of Pune prefers the new format of journals and whether the electronic journals are able to satisfy the information needs of the users. Samples were selected from each category of users comprising of faculties, research students and post-graduate students for the present study.

Trends in Information Management, 2013

The present study reflects the usage, popularity and effectiveness of electronic sources of information among users at BGSB University, Rajouri. Methodology/approach/design: The study is undertaken by surveying the respondents and the questionnaire as a data gathering tool is employed. Findings: The study reveals that there is a growing trend towards the use of electronic sources of information especially among the younger generation.

This paper tries to focus the use of E – Information by scholars of science in Periyar University, Salem. The study examined the types of information resources used by the research scholars, frequency of use, purpose of use of e- resources, research scholars’ preference of sources, changes in the research work, level of satisfaction in e- resources and barriers faced by the research scholars while accessing the same.