Abstract Internet is available in the Pondicherry University campus. The present study is aimed at studying Internet usage among research scholars of Pondicherry University (PU). It is intended to assess Internet awareness of research scholars, the types of Internet users, purpose and frequency of using the Internet, problems in accessing the Internet, search methods used in accessing them, satisfaction with Internet usage, adequacy of Internet, and user training provided by the university library in accessing the Internet. The survey method is adopted in the present study. A sample of 100 research scholars of Pondicherry University were selected by the simple random method, out of 800 full-time research scholars. A well-structured questionnaire was designed, keeping in mind the objectives of the study. Data was collected from the research scholars using the questionnaire tool. The fndings of the study reveal that a majority of research scholars (91%) use the Internet from their respective departments. A majority of them (41%) replied that the use of the Internet improves/refnes the quality of their research by 50% to 75%. A majority of research scholars (62%) use the Internet for less than one hour daily for social networking purposes. Most of the research scholars (67%) replied that they never prefer the SGML format to read the information on the Internet. A majority (60%) use the PDF format. A majority (73%) use e-books on the Internet. Most of the research scholars (75%) use Google. A majority (74%) are aware of e-mail services. A majority (85%) face the problem of low speed Internet. A high percentage of research scholars (36%) create new entries. A major problem faced by the research scholars was ‘slow Internet connectivity’ (70%). The majority of them (70%) replied that Pondicherry University. Keywords: Internet, Internet Services, Internet Uses, E-mail, E-Books, User Surveys, University Libraries Internet Usage among Research Scholars of Pondicherry University: A Survey Md. Soleman Pharcy* * Master of Library and Information Science Department, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India. Email: solemanpharcy@gmail.com International Journal of Information Studies & Libraries 6 (1) 2021, 35-42 http://publishingindia.com/ijisl/ Introducton The Internet is a community of networks that includes hundreds of thousands of smaller domestic, instructional, business, and authority’s networks. Internet is likewise defned as the global public on-hand community of interconnected PC networks that transmit information through packet switching and the use of the usual Internet Protocol (IP). Internet is the shipping automobile for the data saved in documents or fles on every other PC. It contains, collectively, numerous data and offerings, which includes digital mail, on-line chat, record switch, and the interlinked Web pages and different fles of the World Wide Web. The Internet itself now no longer comprises only data. It is a moderate misstatement to mention a “record turned into determined at the Internet.” It could be greater accurate to mention it turned into determined via or the usage of the Internet. What it turned into determined in (or on) is one of the computer systems connected to the Internet. Every aspect of the daily lifestyle of the citizen is affected by the Internet, whether it is shopping, business, banking, communication, paying bills, social amassing, party, learning, schooling, and so on. The Internet is everywhere, knocking on our doors, making life smoother and less complicated. Moreover, in terms of schooling and studies, the Internet is paving manner for a brilliant jump and certain library and data Centre has no exception. The Internet has made data available at our fngertips. The libraries in developed countries around the world have followed Internet centres to offer rapid and improved library offerings to their customers; however, this is not the case with many of the developing countries (one-third). Open access to journals and books