USE OF ELECTRONIC JOURNALS BY RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Abstract

with the application of information and communication technology (ICT), particularly the internet ,there has been a shift from traditional print journals to online journals. The number of peer reviewed online journals increased by over 570 times between 1991-2000.Print Journal refers to conventional print editions published and distributed as paper copies and online journals refer to journal editions available online through computer net-work(internet).The journal editions available online through Internet are also also called electronic journals. Online journals are simply serial publication in which the end products are made available in digital format and whose contents may or may not be peer-reviewed. Basically Internet is used for the dissemination of the online journals. After a print-run of some 340 years, the scholarly journals have now assumed a parallel digital life.