Introduction Definitions of E-resources Types of E-resources Literature Review Objectives of the study Methodology Scope and Limitation Conclusions

1. USE OF ELECTRONIC
INFORMATION
RESOURCES BY THE
MEDICAL
PRACTITIONERS AND
FACULTIES IN THE
MEDICAL COLLEGES
OF DELHI: A STUDY
Presenting by Abdul Moid

2. INTRODUCTION
Medical
LibrariesE-Society
The early
Libraries

3. DEFINITION OF E-RESOURCES
According to AACR2
an electronic resource is: "Material
(data and/or program(s)) encoded for
manipulation by a computerized
device. This material may require the
use of a peripheral directly
connected to a computerized device
(e.g., CD-ROM drive) or a connection
to a computer network (e.g., the
Internet)."

4. TYPES OF E-RESOURCES
PRIMARY
SECONDAR
Y
TERTIARY
Periodicals
Patents
Standards
Thesis
Manuscripts
Dictionaries
E-Encyclopaedia
Thesaurus
Index
Bibliography
Abstracting Periodicals
Guide to literature
Bibliography of
Bibliographies
Directories
Yearbooks
List of research in progress

5. LITERATURE REVIEW
In this section, there is a review of existing
literature which helps to clarify the nature of the
problem, while highlighting gaps. It explains how
the present research brings out to open the gap
or problems through an examination of literature
by other researchers. In order to survey the
studies in the area of electronic resources and
their use, a number of sources were consulted.
Such as

6. A study has been conducted by Chetam
Sharma on the use and impact of E-
Resources at Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University. Which was a case
study. He examined the existence of various
e-resource databases in Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University Library. it showed that
the maximum number of teachers and
research scholars prefer to use E-Journals,
on the other hand the minimum number of E-
Maps has been use by the teachers and
minimum numbers of the research scholars
have been use E-Thesis.
“Use and Impact of E-Resources at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
University (India): A Case Study.”

7. Another study, Asefeh Asemi has conducted a
study on the Awareness and use of digital
resources in the libraries of Isfahan University of
Medical Sciences, Iran. The purpose of the study
is to investigate the relationships between
awareness and use of digital resources among
students in Isfahan University of Medical
Sciences. In this study, it show in Percentage
distribution of respondents by faculty, Number of
students by level of awareness of digital
resources distribution of students by method of
use of digital resources etc.
“Awareness and use of digital resources in the libraries of Isfahan
University of Medical Sciences, Iran”

8. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

9. •Review of Literature
•Questionnaire Construction
•General Information about the Respondents
•Attitude of the Respondents
•Questionnaire Survey Step
•Sampling
•Data Analysis Method
•Pilot Study
METHODOLOGY
As there are many roads lending to a city likewise
there are many methods are available to solve the
research problems. According to the research area
and scope as well as nature of research problem the
researcher has to choose one of the appropriate
methods suggested by the experts.

10. QUESTIONNAIRE
Close-ended Open-ended

11. Government
Private
Homogenous dept

12. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College,
Aligarh Muslim University
50 questionnaires
questionnaire will be further modified

13. SCOPE & LIMITATION
•Confined to the medical practitioners and
faculties of the colleges
•Homogenous group
•limited to the medical practitioners and
faculties of the colleges of the Delhi only
•Only the medical professionals not the LIS
professionals, non teaching staff

14. CONCLUSIONS
The present age is rightly characterized as the
age of information. The fact that information is a
key resource for the economic, socio-cultural and
political development of a nation is gaining
increasing acceptance. Electronic resources
have ushered in a variety of media that can help
library information management systems in
efficient and effective acquisition, organization
and dissemination of information. E-resources
have found increasing acceptance in library and
information centres.