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It is an attempt to investigate the influence of political conditions on the usage of electronic resources.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Transaction logs in the form of COUNTER reports from Project MUSE database that represent usage at University of Kashmir, were mined for five years \u2013 January 2008 to December 2012. The data was divided in to two time periods; conflict period \u2013 2008 to 2010 and peace period \u2013 2011 to 2012.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 There is a strong relationship between peace, conflict and e-resource usage. The results confirm peace and conflict as explanatory factors on the use of electronic resources in conflict zones, like Kashmir.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Research limitations\/implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 Understanding how users behave in the online academic environments, the academic administrators can help to satisfy the perceptions and needs of users associated with the electronic resource settings.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The study shows that more attention should be given to prevail peace in conflict zones in order to maximise the use of e-resources.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 The study is the first of its kind as it is trying to relate the user behaviour with political setups in a conflict zone, Kashmir.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/prog-06-2013-0026","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,5,9]],"date-time":"2014-05-09T10:13:13Z","timestamp":1399630393000},"page":"127-139","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Digital user behaviour of academicians in a conflict zone, Kashmir"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"48","author":[{"given":"Sumeer","family":"Gul","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tariq","family":"Ahmad Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Suhail","family":"Ahmad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2021010122322993200_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Armour, G. 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