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http://dx.doi.org/10.1633/JISTaP.2014.2.1.5

Exploring the Usefulness of e-Resources for Engineering College Teachers and Scholars for their Academic and Research Activities - A Study

Puttaswamy, R.M. (Library and Information Centre B N M Institute of Technology)
Krishnamurthy, M. (Department of Library & Information Science Mangalore University)

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Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice / v.2, no.1, 2014 , pp. 62-70 More about this Journal

Abstract

The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), an apex body of controlling technical education in India, has made mandatory subscription of e-Resources to all its Engineering College Libraries. This policy has directly helped the teaching community, research scholars, and student's paternity, which has benefits for their teaching, research activities, and curriculum, respectively. This study emphasizes the usefulness of e-Resources among the teachers and scholars of engineering colleges in the Bangalore region under Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka. Survey methodology has been used as the basic research tool for data collection with the help of questionnaires. 866 teaching faculties in VTU were selected randomly on the basis of willingness of users who access the e-Resources for their academic and research activities in the survey. The survey results were tabulated and analyzed with descriptive statistics methods using the SPSS 20 software package. The findings reveal that e-resources are useful for engineering college teachers and scholars for their academic and research activities.

Keywords

e-Resources; research activity; teachers; research scholars; academic; engineering colleges;

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