This presentation discusses the use of electronic resources by researchers in science and engineering institutions. It begins with an introduction on how e-resources have become extremely useful for research over the last 50 years by solving storage problems and controlling the flood of information. The objective is to empower users in an e-learning environment with ICT systems to better understand curricula by seeking and sharing e-resources. It describes characteristics of e-resources like timely access, search capabilities, and multimedia inclusion. Advantages include faster publication, inclusion of audio/video, searchability, downloadability, and conservation of journals. Types of e-resources include e-manuscripts, e-maps, e-books, e-magazines, e-

1. A presentation on
Use of E-resources in view point of a
researcher in science and engineering
institutions
Presented by -
Susmita Nath
Research Scholar
Dept. 0f Physics
NIT, Silchar

2. Outline
• Introduction
• Objective
• E-resources
• E-resources in research
• Conclusion

3. Introduction
 Over the last half a century, numerous studies
have indicated that E-resources are extremely
useful for research, teaching and life-long learning.
 Electronic resources solve storage problems and
control the flood of information.
 E-learning systems have been introduced with the
emergence of and developments in information
technology .

4. Objective
The main objective of this study is to empower users in an e-
learning environment with an Information Communication
Technology (ICT) web based system in order to play a bigger
role in seeking and sharing e-resources for better
understanding of the curricula.

5. E-resources
Print resource refers to conventional print editions published
and distributed as paper copies while e- resource refers to
editions available online through computer networks
(Internet).

6. Characteristics of electronic resources
 Provide timely access;
 Support searching capabilities;
 Accommodate unique features such as links to related
items.
 Contain multimedia information;
 Do not require physical processing;
 Environment friendly;
 Automatically generate alerting and other secondary
services

7. Advantages of electronic resources
• The speed of publication and delivery of the journal
issues is much faster .
• Inclusion of audio and video base text is possible.
• To access and retrieve relevant articles, a good number
of search engines are available
• Downloading and printing of relevant articles is possible.
• Help in minimizing the problems related to the
conservation and preservation of journals.

8. Types of E- resources
• E-Manuscripts
• E-Maps
• E-Books
• E-Magazines
• E-Thesis
• E-Newspaper
• E-Mail
• E-Research Reports

9. It is a search engine that indexes the content of scholarly
material published on the internet and in electronic books
and journals

10. Electronic resources for all steps in research
• Finding research problem / topic
• Gathering background literature
• Collecting data
• Analyzing data
• Writing research report

11. Conclusions
E-resource has a tremendous impact on scientific
research in terms of-
• inspiring collaboration and joint research work,
• resulting in faster completion of tasks,
• Enormous time saved in terms of article retrieval or time
spent at the library,
• immensely helps in publishing more scientific papers,
• helps in getting information related to specific scientific
processes,
• assist in more organized archival of research papers and
finally aids in gaining more scientific knowledge.

12. References
• A general overview of the e-resource industry. The E-Resources
Management Handbook.
• Electronic Journals and Academic Libraries, Library Hi Tech, 17(1)
10-16.
• Use of UGC infonet e-journals by research scholars and students of
University of Delhi, Delhi”, Library HiTech, Vol. 26 No. 3. pp. 369-386
• Use of Electronic Journals by the Research Scholars of Faculty of
Science and Faculty of Engineering, In:NACLIN 2007, p309-319

13. Thank you
very much
For your patient hearing