{"title":"Information seeking behaviour of medical practitioners: A study of majha region of Punjab","authors":"A. Kaur, S. Kaur","doi":"10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00036.5","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper assesses the information seeking patterns of medical practitioners; their information searching techniques and channels, difficulties in the way of information gathering, familiarity with, and use of e-resources, purpose and frequency of using information sources etc. The purpose is to know how medical practitioners spare time from their busy schedule for meeting their information needs, especially in the light of e-resources.","PeriodicalId":338989,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5958/2249-5576.2018.00036.5","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper assesses the information seeking patterns of medical practitioners; their information searching techniques and channels, difficulties in the way of information gathering, familiarity with, and use of e-resources, purpose and frequency of using information sources etc. The purpose is to know how medical practitioners spare time from their busy schedule for meeting their information needs, especially in the light of e-resources.