Services, resources and benefits of the Internet available to academics in Ghana

dc.contributor.author	Markwei, E.D.
dc.date.accessioned	2020-02-06T15:31:09Z
dc.date.available	2020-02-06T15:31:09Z
dc.date.issued	2002
dc.description	Research Article	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The internet, or the International network of computers, offers many services and resources which academics in Ghana can exploit to enhance their academic pursuits. The paper discusses some of these services, namely e-mail, telnet, ftp, Archie, newsgroups, and information discovery services like gopher, WAIS, search engines, directories and information gateways. The benefits to be derived from the use of the Internet by different categories of academics, particularly lecturers, students, administrators, researchers, librarians among others, are discussed. The major benefit is access to information on any conceivable subject located on library catalogues, online databases, newsgroups etc. These sources abound on the Internet for scholarly work. Other benefits are book selection medium, acquisitions, and virtual universities.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/glj.v14i1.33946
dc.identifier.uri	http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/34801
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Ghana Library Journal	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	14;
dc.subject	internet	en_US
dc.subject	computers	en_US
dc.subject	search engines	en_US
dc.subject	librarians	en_US
dc.title	Services, resources and benefits of the Internet available to academics in Ghana	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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