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Academic web resources
• A Web Resource is any item you find online that you can watch, read, listen to, or
interact with, such as videos, fact sheets and online quizzes.
• Web resources used for academic purpose are called academic web resources.
• Online dictionary and e-journals are the most popularly known academic web
resources.
3. • Academic Web Resources are effective in
teaching learning process.
• It plays a vital role in education field.
• These web resources enhances the
learning level of student.
4. E-Journals
• E-journals (electronic journals) is a periodical publication
which is published in electronic format,usually on the
Internet.
• It consists of full text and bibliographic databases.
• An e-database is an organised collection of information.
• Full text databases contain the whole content of an article
such as citation information ,text, illustration, diagrams and
tables.
• Bibliographic databases only contain citation informationof
an article such asauthor’s name, journal title,publication date
and page numbers.
5. • E-journals (electronic journals) also offer benefit to full text
searching and downloading of articles.
• Many publishers of e-journals offer their journals through
consortia of libraries at much lower rate.
• INDEST and INFLIBNET are low such consortia from
operating in India.
• Emarald, OCLC and J-Gate are some of the examples of
e-journal aggregator services.
6. Advantages of e-journals
Easily available and easily searchable
Offer evidence for their claims
Offer clarity
High speed and inexpensive
Freedom to collect journals
7. Disadvantages of e-journals
Visibility of screen
Limitation in the
availability of data
Search engines
ignores PDF file
Limitations of
computer monitor
Difficulty in reading
computer screen
8. Online Dictionary
• Online dictionary is a digitalized
dictionary which is controlled and operated
by means of internet.
• It offer immediate, direct access through
large databases to a word’s spelling and
meanings plus a host of informations
including it’s varient spelling,
pronounciation, origin and derived forms
as well as supplementary notes.
• It is an excellent tool for individuals who
are hungry for knowledge.