Use of electronic resources among academics at the university of maharshi dayanand university rohtak Haryana: a study

This paper is an attempt to study the use of electronic information resources, the collection of print and electronic journals its awareness among the users, and the places where the users are accessing these resources. A total number of 120 users from the, postgraduate, research scholar and faculty members were selected and their response was obtained with the help of questionnaire. The findings show that users from all these categories were using e-resources; the awareness about e-resources encourages users to use such resources to the maximum; and the users are using computer centre and hostels more for accessing the information. The impact of e-resources was visible from the decrease in number of printed journals in comparison to the increase in number of electronic journals. The use of e-journals has increased manifold. The printed material is being quickly replaced by the electronic resources.