Vol. 11, Special Issue 2 (2022)

Author(s):
Ravta Ram, Tikam C Goyal, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, Rohitash Kumar and Suman Meena

Abstract:
The present investigation on 90 postgraduate students was conducted in purposely selected all the constituent veterinary colleges of the Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (RAJUVAS), Bikaner with the purpose to know the extent and pattern of utilization of e-resources. The study results revealed that majority of the postgraduate students (68.89%) of RAJUVAS, Bikaner fell in the medium category of extent of utilization of e-resources, followed by 17.78 per cent with low level of utilization of e-resources and the rest (13.33%) of the respondents had a high level of utilization of e-resources in all the three constituent colleges of the university. It was reported that the postgraduate students of the RAJUVAS were mostly using e-resources for the study purpose (MPS 96.67), followed by the purpose of communication (MPS 96.29) and keeping themselves up-to-date about the subject (MPS 95.92). Further, the most preferred format of using e-resources among the postgraduate students was the PDF with 98.89 MPS and the most important factor that influence the usage of e-resources among the postgraduate students was easier access to information to an extent of 97.78 MPS.