Awareness and Use of Electronic Resources by the Research Scholars of Alagappa University

Electronic resources are playing a significant role in meeting the information needs of the academic and research community for several reasons, including their availability anytime, anywhere, without physical or geographical barriers. Most academic libraries spend a sizable portion of their budgets on procuring electronic resources, and these resources and services need to be utilised effectively. Effective utilisation of the resources alone will compensate for the cost of subscribing to them. In this connection, the authors have undertaken this study among the research scholars of Alagappa University and the major findings of the study reveals that the department and library were the major places for accessing the resources and friends, seminars/conferences/ workshops, user awareness programme, search engines, computer professionals and librarians were the major sources through which they were aware of the resources.