Evolving Internet poses e-information explosion, architectural, design, bandwidth and deployment challenges in terms of performance prediction, monitoring and control, admission control, extendability, stability, resilience, delay-tolerance, and inter-networking with the existing infrastructures or with specialized networks. The research gap analysis aims at mechanisms and features concerning the Internet itself and hence the book deals at length on Internet research, thrust areas of Internet, conceptual framework of Internet technology, its tools and services including web 2.0 technologies. It also reports the study on use of the Internet as an information source among engineering faculty and research scholars, and the impact of Internet technology on libraries of National Institutes of Technology in India to enhance the optimization of rich information resources and services on the net to the academic and research pursuit of netizens.

Table of Contents:

Internet Research in Information Science
Internet: A Research Tool for Academics
Methodological Analysis of Internet Research in Information Science
Statistical Analysis of Internet as an Information Source Environment
Summary and Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Author Bio:
Dr. Suresh Jange, Deputy Librarian, presently working in Virtual Learning Resource Centre & Digital Library of Gulbarga University, Karnataka, has fifteen years of professional experience. He was awarded Gold Medals in B.L.I.Sc and M.L.I.Sc, and passed the UGC NET exam. He served earlier at ETDC (Dept of Electronics), Hyderabad, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.