USE OF WEB-BASED INFORMATION RESOURCES BY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AT MOHANLAL SUKHADIA UNIVERSITY, UDAIPUR

摘要

Explores research scholars' and teachers' use of Web-based information resources at Mohanlal Sukhadia University. The main objectives are to examine the use of different Web-based information resources, sense of using Web-based resources, use of popular interface in search process and to find out the barriers experienced in using Web-based information resources by social scientists. The study reveals that highly used services in daily basis is e-mail 20 (29.41%), followed by open source literature 12 (17.65%) and websites 11 (16.18%). Google and yahoo are the most preferred search interface in accessing the information. Study also shows that social scientists like to read print version then e-resources if both are available and lack of computer labs is the major barrier in accessing the Web-based information'.