This paper present the development of digital library, challenges, services and the preservation of digitizes information (Digital Information). If information technology pushes, the crashing costs, and global connectivity are the signs for the coming decade, digital library is the next step in the revolution. Digital library is innovations, the implementation of which is nascent in the developing countries. New technologies for knowledge creation and management in the future and also digital technologies present a preservation solution for the document or information in the library with increased to access to digitized document or information over the networks. Digital technologies are update day to day. The purpose of this article is to describe basic concept, process, need and purpose, services of digital library and discuss the challenges of digital preservation problem in the digital scenario.

Advancement of information technology and communication tools has forced to develop technological skills to effective and efficient utilization of it. To survive in present scenario the users should have knowledge about digital literacy which comes through experience. It is a lifelong learning process of capacity building for using digital technology, communication tools and/or networks in creating, accessing, analyzing, managing, integrating, evaluating, and communicating information in order to function in a knowledge based economy and society . Digital literacy enhanced the information retrieval, utilization, evaluation and creation of new knowledge. The basic purpose of the study to explore the awareness and impact of digital literacy among the research scholars in the field of library and information science of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University. This paper highlighted the use of devices, internet access, awareness and impact of digital literacy on Research scholars.

There has been a paradigm shift the world over, the way how information and knowledge is being generated, stored, accessed, disseminated and consumed. Information and communication technology (ICT) is the game changer in this and it has propelled the growth of large numbers of electronic resources across the world. Organizations now spend a major portion of their budget for subscribing to electronic resources such as e-journals, e-books, bibliographic/full –text databases, online services and web portals. The advent of IT has made a clear and pervasive impact in almost every area of library services. As such, the library environment has undergone a rapid changes leading to new generation of libraries with an emphasis on e- resources. Moreover, as the popularity of e-resources increases, the librarians and staff are also concerned about e-resources, their methods accessing, evaluation, selection, organization etc. The present paper is an aim to know how to manage e-resources in the modern LIS for better digital information services and challenges facing with e-resources. The paper defines the need of e-resources and their management in libraries. Discusses the features, types, advantage & disadvantage of e-resources.

The paper provides detailed picture of repositories under Health and Medicine (HM) category available in Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR). In this study HM repositories listed in Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) are analyzed for number of items archived so far, software used, type of material archived in these repositories etc. 268 repositories listed under Health and Medicine in DOAR were searchable. The study discloses the leading countries with repositories providing HM content and also highly used software used in these repositories.

Ethics discusses men’s habits and customs, or in other words their characters, the principles on which they habitually act, and considers what it is that constitutes the rightness or wrongness of those principles, the good or evil of those habits. Ethics are professional standards of conduct. Ethics are in question in situations where there is conflict of interests. The present paper studies ethics from different perspectives and tries to analyze it in an electronic environment and discusses important Acts to protect misuse of information.

This study describes and discussed various factors which affect to research output particularly academicians of faculty of Science and technology of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Result of research shows that factors related to Financial, infrastructure, professional and institutional are more perceived factors for barrier to research outputs. Outcome of the survey are helpful to understand kinds of barriers to be considered by the academicians through which some strategies can be determined.

Today electronic information is available enormously and accessible due to developments in publishing industry and user are preferring e-information due to 24x7 availability at their desk as well as easy flexible search of e-databases libraries are spending huge amount of money for subscribing databases such as full text archiving back sets of journals.

In today’s e- environment most of information and Knowledge resources are in electronic format. The whole subscription process and its access continuity depend on the agreement that the subscribing Library or individual subscribers sign with the online access provider, mainly the publishers of online journals or databases. The present study presents preliminary findings of a content Analysis of 4 e-journal licenses of Society and Commercial publishers. This study explored whether license clauses varied among commercial publishers, society, and whether differences existed between consortia and site licenses. This study can be helpful for libraries to understand the legal issues of licenses related to subscription of e-journals.

The study examines the Opinion of faculty member’s towards accessing INDEST E-Resources. It also highlights the Core purpose, augmented purpose, Basic Advantages and disadvantages, Importance of INDEST E-Resources, Reading pattern of INDEST E-resources and satisfaction of using INDEST E-Resources. The analysis found that faculty has positive attitudes about the use of INDEST E-Resources and they are satisfied by using INDEST E-Resources to full fill their academic needs.

Sources of Information available via the Internet are increasing exponentially. This comes with a steady increase in Internet use for education and research. Since past few years free online information sources like e-journals, e-books, e-databases have increased considerably. The traditional library systems are going to transform into digital library systems. Earlier, information and knowledge were passed by word of mouth or through manuscripts, and communication was a slow process. Today it is passed from one individual to an infinite number of other users through a number of media and formats which makes rapid and widespread dissemination of information possible. Results of the present study shows that the age wise respondents’ purpose of visit of institution library. It could be noted that out of the total 615 respondents, 19.43 percent of them purpose of visit of institution library for prepare examination. The study also shows that the status wise respondents’ awareness of e-resources.

Today electronic information is available enormously and accessible due to developments in publishing industry and user are preferring e-information due to 24x7 availability at their desk as well as easy flexible search of e-databases libraries are spending huge amount of money for subscribing databases such as full text archiving back sets of journals.

Today electronic information is available enormously and accessible due to developments in publishing industry and user are preferring e-information due to 24x7 availability at their desk as well as easy flexible search of e-databases libraries are spending huge amount of money for subscribing databases such as full text archiving back sets of journals.

Today electronic information is available enormously and accessible due to developments in publishing industry and user are preferring e-information due to 24x7 availability at their desk as well as easy flexible search of e-databases libraries are spending huge amount of money for subscribing databases such as full text archiving back sets of journals.