Open Access e-resources and its Usefulness in Today’s Changing World: A Study

In today’s changing world three components are essential, these are content, context and technology. Nowadays, people search for reliable, authentic and exact e-resources. Many of us always search the resources through Google search engine with a thought that Google will provide us with the most relevant and authoritative resources, which is not always true. There are various categories of e-resources like subscribed e-resources and open access e- resources or consortium e-resources. The information is more now, what kind of information people are accessing are these reliable questions. So here come open-access resources which are freely available on the internet and these resources are very much authentic and reliable. In India, many institutions are providing open access e- resources, National Digital Library is one of the biggest open-access platforms in India where all types of resources are available. Sodhganga is an ETD platform where theses and dissertations are available in electronic format which are freely accessible. This paper highlights the awareness of open-access e-resources, its usefulness and the most useful open-access platform. In this paper, the researcher added a list of a few open-access platforms with the URL link, which might help to easily access these e-resources.