SCOPE AND IMPORTANCE OF ASME JOURNALS IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH – A SURVEY THROUGH GMRIT LIBRARY RESOURCES

Academic institutions depend more and more on electronic resources based on the advantages of electronic resources and application of information technology which has brought several services to the users. Consequently, the academic community has been enjoying the variety of services influenced by technology driven applications. The present engineering college libraries are subscribing different packages as per the AICTE as the management coming forward to subscribe the electronic resources for their libraries. The present paper content deals with usage reports of the e-resources journal of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) monthly for last three years in GMRIT