Advantages and disadvantages of e-journals as perceived by the Academicians of Universities of Karnataka: A survey report

Journals dominate the Information Technology literature. Undoubtedly, these are well-established means of transmission of information from the generator to the end user. Though the information is available indifferent forms like books, magazines and journals, CD-ROM, Internet sources, online databases, microfilms, magnetic tapes etc., a survey conducted at foreign universities reports that majority of users are interested to use e-journals. An attempt has been made in this article to report the advantages and disadvantages of e-journals as perceived by the academicians of universities of Karnataka. It is observed that “It provides current and up-to-date information” and “Site license problem” were the major advantage and disadvantage of e-journals”.