Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, JAN-FEB 2018, VOL- 5/43 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v5i43.11237 INFLUENCE OF E- JOURNALS IN ACADEMIA AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS P. Arulpragasam Librarian, Seva Sadan’s College of Education (NAAC-@ A) Ulhasnagar- 421003
The article describes to highlight the important of e-journals for the access in the academic libraries. As academia progresses towards the 21st century, increases in student numbers, distance learning, changes in copyright licensing and lack of funding means that academic institutions have to look more closely at the use of electronic resources in order to meet these challenges. The “wired campus” and “virtual university” mean more users looking for electronic resources and increased pressure on libraries to provide these services. Electronic journals have become an increasingly important part of academic library collections; Electronic journal usage has created a new set of issues such as archiving, copyright, cataloguing, site licensing, remote access, hardware requirements and journal design. Today availability of e-resources in a university library is very common. This paper deals with different aspects of electronic journals and their impact on users, authors, indexing services, scholarly communication, accessibility and libraries. The academics are still in the process of adopting this medium. There is variation in the use of electronic journals from discipline to discipline. Researchers have positive attitude towards electronic journals. Budget allocation for journals has been shifting from print to electronic form, which has necessitated a change in collection development policies of libraries. The article describes all such aspects of electronic journals. Keywords: electronic journals, academic libraries, user awareness, e-journal usage, e-resources.
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INTRODUCTION Scholarly communication is a social phenomenon whereby intellectual and creative activity is passed on from one scholar to another. It can be formal and informal. Formal communication is when contributing to the journals and informal when presenting the results in the conferences and other meetings. Scholarly communication has many roles as making formal knowledge available to the public, developing new knowledge and teaching. The four major functions of scholarly journals are dissemination of information, quality control, canonical archives and recognition of authors (Rowland, 1997). Generally, the communication of research findings between scientific communities is through the scholarly
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