Social Networks and Medias towards Searching Scholarly Information among Social Science Research Scholars in the State Universities of Tamilnadu

Abstract

The purpose of the study analyses about disseminating Scholarly information through Social Networks among the respondents in selected five Universities in Tamilnadu. The recorded that 87 (25.14%) of them were Annamalai University and the majority of the respondents 73 (21.10%) of them were Alagappa University. The majority 97 (28.03%) of the respondents belong to the department of Management/Commerce, 58 (16.76%) were from the department of Education /Physical Education and 38 (10.98%) were from the department History /Geography. The study witnessing that 291 (84.10%) of the respondents belong to aware and use of What Sapp and 55 (15.90%) of the respondents belong not using What Sapp. It finds that 163 (47.11%) of respondents were preferred Ref.Works and 183 (52.89%) of respondents not prefer. 163 (47.11%) of respondents preferred Reference Management Software Ref.Works and 183 (52.89%) of respondents not preferred