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*Dr.A.ThirumagalLibrarian,Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,Abishekapatti,Tirunelveli -627 012athirumagala@yahoo.com

**M.ManiAssistant Librarian,Thamirabharani Engineering College,Chathirampudukulam Village, Thatchanallur,Tirunelveli – 627 358.mmani.lib@gmail.comContact: 93612 48931.

An e-journal (electronic journal) is a journal published online.

Electronic journals are scholarly journals or magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission.

It is very important source for the scientific research and development.

E-journals are becoming vital to carry any meaning full research.

This resource is widely used by R& D workers and other users of the libraries to carry out day-to-day qualitative research, education and knowledge.

Simultaneous access by more than one user

Links to related items Do not require physical processing Ease of downloading On-line submission(article) Wider dissemination Automatic alerting service Access to Non-subscribed materials

(open Access)

Anytime, anywhere access and round the clock

More than one person can read them at a time

They can be published more quickly than paper publication

E-journals are quite cost effective as compared to the printed versions

Quick access to back issues.

User unfriendliness Lack of accessibility Eye strain The need for training on the part of staff and

users Misconduct and security issues The infrastructure investments like computer

systems and peripherals, technology expertise for networking LAN and WAN

Environment –friendly

Save physical storage space

Provide timely access

Contain multimedia information

Support searching capabilities

Consortium Based

Direct subscription

Open Access

INFLIBNET - N-LIST Consortium - (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content)

INDEST-AICTE Consortium

National Medical Library – ERMED Consortium

journals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access

right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles"

• It includes 126 international peer-reviewed journals.

• It covers advancing fields such as nanotechnology, biomedical science and computational science.

• Also it includes materials science, medical science, life sciences, banking and finance, and business management.

• Researchers will also be able to request for complimentary copies and recommend journals.

The next generation literature awareness tool Systematically highlights and reviews the most

interesting papers published in the biological sciences.

Provides scientists with a continuously updated insider's guide to the most important papers.

• Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006

• Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online.

• Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 4731 open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

• The Open J-Gate site is updated every day.• Open J-Gate indexes articles from 4731 Journals.• In that 2577 of them are peer-reviewed scholarly

journals.

Directory of Open Access Journals It covers 3810 journals in the directory 1338 journals are searchable at article level today 244280 articles are included in the DOAJ

service It aims to be comprehensive and cover all open

access scientific and scholarly journals Users can "read, download, copy, distribute,

print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.

Thus the paper effectively discusses

the nature, advantages and types of

open access e-journals. A detailed

study of the major open access e-

journals has been carried out and

presented.

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amp; Information Technology, 29(5), 18-23.

  Mckinney, Michelle. (2009). Open science directory Reference Reviews, 23(1), 46-47.

  Chalabi, Lydia and Dahmane, Madjid (2011). Open access in developing countries:

Afraid open archives, Information services & Use.31, 111-119.