International Trends in Library and Information Technology. Vol.2. No.3, 2015 Page 13 Information Seeking in the Present Digital Age by Biomedical Scientists in India Prabhat Ranjan & Dr. Surya Nath Singh Abstract: The present paper deals with some common aspects of information seeking behaviour (ISB) of biomedical scientists especially average age of documents used, frequency of its use, impact of Internet on information publishing and effect of hyperlinks on reading etc. An online survey was organised using SurveyMonkey online software. 1013 scientists were considered for study in which questionnaires sent by 313 were considered for data analysis confirming confidence level 95% and confidence interval within ±5%. It aws found that hyperlinks are supportive in general reading and generally documents are read within a week of publication. Key Words: Information Seeking Behaviour, Hypertext, Hyperlink, Text, Audio-visual Resources, Electronic Resources, Print Resources. 1. Introduction: Texts on print media was used for information preservation and communication from a long time along with graphs, tables, diagrams and images which is being used in electronic format today. Reading on screen (in electronic format) needs extra information literacy (Thurston, 2000), but its soft presence gives chance to edit it repeatedly. Using text on papers/screen is more than only speaking and hearing a text as it needs scripts to write it. Animations and audio-visual resources in electronic format are unique for prints which can include use of texts, graphs, tables, diagrams and images. Goodman (1967) states reading a psycholinguistic guessing game which involves an interaction between thought and language. The process of comprehension involves the reader in a complex, dynamic, ongoing interaction with the text. A reader searches his memory for syntactic, semantic and phonological cues related to the text and makes changes in his previously imagined perceptual image by selecting some appropriate graphic image. Introduction of electronic media changed the process of information publishing; and time lag between information creation and its publishing, decreased drastically. Electronic media