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Inclination towards Electronic Resources by Academic Community in History: A Study

NEETIKA SHARMA

Abstract


Information sources in print format continue to be the principal format for the academic community in the discipline of history but over the last few decades, what has changed is the advent of e-resources has increased the use of e-books, e-journals, e-indexes, archives and catalogues by them in their efforts to identify appropriate primary and secondary sources of information. The present paper focuses on the different categories of e-resources by the academic community of two state universities in India. The main aim is to examine which information sources the academic community in history considered to be the most important and how they discover and access them. It attempts to find out the most used categories and core e-resources in the field of history and also to find out how far their information needs are fulfilled by the information resources available.


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