Information Research in Social Sciences

Information is the basic necessity of mankind and is a valuable input for research. The book explores the role of various information resource in supporting research in social sciences. This book will help in understanding of the awareness, use, availability, usefulness and problems of specify types of primary, secondary, tertiary sources and human, institutional social and mass media including non-bibliographic in print and electronic form among social scientists in a university environment and it will have significance in design, planning and development of information resources in print, non-print, microforms, electronic form including the use of internet resources for making provisions for library and information services to scientists. This will enable in promoting the use of information sources including the provision of special training in the use of the information sources among social scientists and developing skills in searching to meet their nascent information needs.