Role of E-journals and E-books for higher education

Abstract

This paper deals with importance of e-journals and e-books for higher education professional development. E-resources are to explore accumulate useful knowledge over and above faster copying, searching and to distributing for higher education. E-journals and e-books e-publishing has revolutionized the format of recorded knowledge. Libraries play a very important role in this fast changing e-environment of publishing. Their role includes identification of selection of information, its organization of management, storage retrieval and dissemination to right users at the right time at right place at right price and in right format. The goal of any academic libraries is to meet the teaching, research and other information needs of the user. The proliferation of the literature on all the subjects, price of journals hike in currency conversion rate and the budget crunch made the libraries depend upon each other. This leads to library co-operation, resource sharing and networks etc. At present the online databases, E-journals facilitate formation of the consortia at resource sharing among the libraries.