Reddy, Y Nagi; Suseela, V J(INFLIBNET Centre, November 9, 2006)
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Abstract:
The paper describes the importance of journal as an important medium of communicating
recent developments in scientific research and the dependence of academic community
of any University for their research work. It also presents the latest trend of
journal publishing in electronic medium. Since, Indira Gandhi Memorial Library is the
first University Library to introduce one of the major online medium to their academic
community by subscribing EBSCO Online Journals Database, an analytical study of the
usage statistics was undertaken in terms of number of sessions ,searches, abstracts
and full text articles in order to measure deficiencies in the system. The data indicates
that the usage is found extensive during initial years than the subsequent years. Abstracts
and full text articles are more extensively referred Linking activity is also found to
be constantly increased.. It is observed that the user’s unawareness regarding these
developments is primarily affecting the usage of this new medium, whereas audit, renewal
procedures, networking problems, etc. are added to the decline of the usage of
e-journals. The paper suggests that a lot of orientation and publicity is still required to
the academic community to increase the level of usage of such databases.