Impact of E-Resources and Web Technology on Reading Habits

E-Resources

Electronic resources are now becoming very popular in users. E-Resources are helping in various fields like teaching, increasing relevance in research and creativity in finding etc. “E resources term used to describe all of the information products that a library provides through a computer network. This includes electronic books and journals, bibliographic databases, and library Website pages etc.” AACR defines an electronic resource as material encoded for manipulation by a computerized device. “E-resources are those resources which include documents in electronic or e-format that can be accessed via Internet in digital library environment. E-resources are that electronic product that delivers a collection of data, be it text, image collection, other multimedia products like numerical, graphical mode for commercially available for library and information centre’s. These may be delivered on CD-ROM / DVD, over the Internet and so on” (Prasanta Kumar Deka, 2007).

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  E-books: Electronic-books are advance version of printed book which is provided by electronic device like computers and Internet. It can be read at any time through computer, ipad, mobile etc.

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  E-journals: An Electronic Journal (known as e-Journal) is that journal which published online. According to School of oriental and African studies University of London “An electronic journal is a periodical publication which is published in electronic text (e.g. PDF) or hypertext format and is available for access in electronic format e.g. on the Internet or on a CD-ROM” (Davis, 1997)

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  Electronic Pre-prints and E-Prints: Electronic pre-print are research articles that are made available for distribution through the network in electronic format before they go through the process of peer reviewing whereas E-print is term generally used to describe electronically mounted copies of the final, peer-reviewed versions of journal articles.

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  E-database: HKIEd Library online Tutorial has defined “An e-database is an organized collection of information, of a particular subject or multi-disciplinary subject areas. The information of an e-database can be searched and retrieved electronically.” (Sharma, 2005) Another definition given by Bangor University Library & Archives Using Library E-databases “E-databases are online collections of resources, for example:

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    A collection of journal articles.

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    A collection of abstracts (short descriptions of articles and other resources).

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    A collection of newspaper articles.

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    A collection of books.

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    A collection of maps.

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    And many other online resource collection.