AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS BY THE MEMBERS OF FACULTY AND RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY, MADURAI

This paper ascertains the awareness and utilization of electronic journals by the members of faculty and research scholars of Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. It is found that 85.5% respondents access Open source journals, 78.6% respondents access E-Journals daily while 91% of the respondents use e- journals for writing journal articles. 83.4% respondents access E- Journals in Library and 57.2% respondents cite that difficulty of accessing electronic journals is trouble in finding relevant information from E-journals. 67.6% of the respondents’ opinion about usefulness of E-Journals is great extent. It is inferred from the Chi-square analysis that there is no association between the respondents’ gender and their opinion about the level of satisfaction of the E –journals