1.4 Benefits of access to digital resources

  • The digital resources can be ubiquitous that means it can be easily accessed by many people at the same time regardless of the geographical location. Think of the information which is shared though the internet for instance.
  • Navigating the contents can be easy through the use of Search feature
  • It is easy to share digital resources to different individuals
  • Digital resources can be hard to be destroyed by physical calamities such as fire, flood.
  • Updating digital resources is much easier than updating resources in physical form.
  • You don’t need room or physical space to store digital resources as opposed to what you could do for physical resources.
  • A lot of information can be stored in a very small gadget like flash drive which is portable.
  • Support editing, publishing, annotation and integration of information