USER ISSUES / EXPECTATIONS
REGARDING E-JOURNALS: A STUDY OF
USER EXPERIENCES AT UNIVERSITY
ENGINEERING COLLEGE JNTU
KAKINADA
Dr. B.R. Doraswamy Naick
Assistant Professor & Head I/c,
University Central Library
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada
Kakinada- 533 003, Andhra Pradesh

INTRODUCTION
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Electronic journals form the most productive source for carrying out research and development activities in medial sciences.
e-journals in general are highly effective in any meaningful research activity.
This resource is widely regarded as the most favored source by R & D workers as well as other users of the libraries in pursuit of quality research, education and knowledge.
Print journals encompass all conventional print editions published and distributed as paper copies, while online editions refer to journals editions available online through
Internet.

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University Kakinada (JNTUK)
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The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University (JNTU) was originally ‘The College of Engineering, Vizagpatnam’ at the time of its establishment in 1964.
Kakinada has a rich political literacy and cultural heritage passed on through generations.
This college became a constituent of the
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University w.e.f 02-10-1972 through an act of legislature along with other sister institutions under the control of the then Director of Technical
Education, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

SCOPE & LIMITATION
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This study is based on the
USER
ISSUES/EXPECTATIONS REGARDING E-
JOURNALS of the users of Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University Kakinada (JNTUK),
Andhra Pradesh.
A study like the present one is essential to aimed at conducting user survey
 To Improve the existing library services
 Envision of new services
 To rationalize the limited financial resources in an economic way
 To evaluate the performance of the library and enhance the user satisfaction.

OBJECTIVES
 To examine the awareness of e-journals among the engineering students.
 To know the place from where engineering students access e-journals.
 To find out the purpose of using e-journals.
 To examine the problems while using ejournals.
 To know the level of satisfaction with the available e-journals.
 To examine the need for conducting user awareness programes in using e-journals.

METHODOLOGY
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To conduct this study, survey method through questionnaire tool was used.
The present study was conducted on a sample of a total number 100 final year
B.Tech & M.Tech students of University
College of Engineering, JNTUKakinada.
Copies of questionnaire were distributed to
100 engineering students in the month
August, 2012.
However, 95 of them responded and the same was used for analysis.

AWARENESS OF e -JOURNALS
 Most of the students (92.63% of respondents) are familiar with the availability of e-journals.
SOURCES OF e -JOURNALS
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It is evident that 75.79% of the students know the availability of electronic journals from the library staff.
21.05 % of them from friends and faculty.
Remaining are from others.

PLACE OF ACCESS OF e -JOURNALS
 Most of the students (95.53% of respondents) are accessing e-journals from central library.
PURPOSE OF e -JOURNALS
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It is evident that 94.74% of the students using e-journals for their research work.
68.42% of the students use for updating their knowledge.

PROBLEMS IN USING e -JOURNALS
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45.26
% of the respondents facing problems in using e-journals
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The major problems are listed below
There is no access from my desktop - 97.33%
Downloading is very slow - 82.67%
Other problems
(power cuts, UPS down etc)
Lack of training
Internet connectivity
- 57.33%
- 78.67%
- 42.67%

VALUE OF e -JOURNALS
 Most of the students (54.74% of respondents) feels e-journals are most helpful .
Skills regarding usage of e -JOURNALS
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It is evident that 61.05% of the students considers themselves as Moderate.
28.42 % of them are Expert.

LEVEL OF SATISFACTION
 64.21% of the respondents are satisfied with the availability of e-journals.
NEED OF e -JOURNALS Training
 87.37
% of the students feels that awareness program is necessary in using e-journals.

SUGGESTIONS
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To overcome dissatisfaction with the types e-journals availability in Engineering
College Library, a survey needs to be conducted to know the specific e-journals required by them so that steps can be taken for their subscription.
To provide electronic journals facility efficiently and effectively the number of computers must be increased in the central library as well as departmental labs in the campus.