LUCKNOW, Aug. 8 -- More than six in every 10 users of Lucknow University's Tagore Library now access its digital collections through smartphones, reflecting a shift in the way students study and conduct research. University data from the past two years shows the library's remote access facility has become a daily academic tool, with research scholars driving the highest number of e-resource downloads and demand for scientific and legal databases remaining strong.

According to usage statistics, 2,482 users, or over 63%, accessed the remote library portal through mobile devices, compared to 1,454 users (36.9%) who used the web application, indicating that students increasingly prefer accessing academic content on the go.

Research scholars...