Social Networks and Medias towards Searching Scholarly Information among Social Science Research Scholars in the State Universities of Tamilnadu
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2019
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3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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
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Social networks, Social media, Mendaley, Google scholar, Research gate
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Baskaran, C. (2019). Social Networks and Medias towards Searching Scholarly Information among Social Science Research Scholars in the State Universities of Tamilnadu. 3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p44