Abstract: Technology has evolved everything. From style statement to reading patterns everything is seeing a change. In present era trend of reading has undergone a major shift. There was a time when people would spend hours sitting in a library, moving from shelf to shelf to read a book of their choice. Today that habit of people has got replaced by online reading to a larger extent. On just a single click a person can get access to loads of information. With their smart phones or I pads people get information about whole world. People no more need to visit a library to read a book when the same material is available free of cost on the internet.
Research has brought to the fore that Gen X and its progeny take much fewer rounds of libraries. They get whole of information readymade and need to put in no much effort to get the material of their need. However, this changing news consuming patters has created a digital divide among the users and non-users of internet. A section of society who has not been touched by the technology believes that the real flavour of reading comes by sitting in a library and not by holding laptops or phones in hand. This paper will try to find out how new media’s resources are being used by the university students and scholars in Kashmir.
Keywords: e-resources, digital divide, electronic revolution, new media.
Title: Rise of E-Resources: An Overview
Author: Irfan Hashim, Asma Riyaz, Lubna Fayaz Reshi
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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