Use of Information Resources by Marine Scientists in South India: a Study

This article explores the marine science libraries enables, the scientists effecting with information distributed across the world. The availability of information resources in the institutional libraries for searching, retrieving, and reading scholarly materials, the usage of information resources with the results were analyzed with more often to used sources like  Internet sources 71%, journals 69%, online sources 68.2%, CD ROMs 45.6%, research reports 34.3%, subject portals 29.7%, and very least percent of use of encyclopedias and directories. This data suggests that the primary goal of marine science libraries continued importance to scientists, and greatly usage of journal literature to support their research work.