New Aspects of Challenges and Opportunities of Biomedical Information Access in Cyber Age in India

Prabhat Ranjan, Nath Surya, Singh
2014 Library and Information Technology   unpublished
Information paradigms of library users are being changed due to new style of publishing, availability and retrieval of information in the present digital era. Preferred form and formats of information, effect of electronic age on reading, satisfaction with existing ICT infrastructure of biomedical libraries, relatively significant features of print/electronic and other aspects have been discussed in this paper. The main objective is to analyse changes in respect to biomedical information access
more » ... and library use. Simple random sampling has been applied for the sampling processes. Survey Monkey online service and Microsoft Excel have been used for data collection and data analysis software. The questionnaires were sent to 4379 persons via their email including students in which 526 questionnaires received were found eligible for study. It was found that electronic format is preferred for information search, but for reading print is more preferred than electronic. Satisfaction rate with ICT infrastructure of biomedical libraries is positive. Navigation and skipping is more common in electronic where underlining and annotation is more common in prints. Texts are favoured form of information accessed.
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