Use of Web Based Resources Among the Social Sciences Faculty and Researchers in the Universities of Punjab and Chandigarh

Harvinderjit Singh; Baljinder Kaur

doi:10.14429/djlit.42.5.18142

Harvinderjit Singh Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala - 147 002, India https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2737-9906
Baljinder Kaur Department of Library & Information Science, Punjabi University, Patiala - 147 002, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4909-8948

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.42.5.18142

Keywords: Internet, Awareness of web-based resources, Social sciences databases, Use and users

Abstract

This study is focused to assess the awareness and use of web-based resources among the social sciences faculty and researchers of select three universities from Panjab and Chandigarh namely Punjabi University, Patiala, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. A survey method was used to collect the primary data from the sample of 532 respondents including faculty and researchers from the total population of 1061 including 08 departments of Social Sciences in three universities. The proportionate random sampling method was used to select the sample. The data were collected through structured questionnaire and further analysed using SPSS. Chi-square test and mean based ranking was used to analyse the data. The study reveals that most of the social sciences faculty and researchers were aware and use web resources to some extent but, significant difference was found between them. The study concludes that the majority of the social sciences faculty and researchers are satisfied with web resources for their academic and research work.