Vol. 11, Special Issue 2 (2022)

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

Abstract:
The present study was conducted in purposely selected all the constituent veterinary colleges of the RAJUVAS, Bikaner i.e. CVAS, Bikaner, CVAS, Navania, Udaipur and PGIVER, Jaipur to find out the constraints encountered by postgraduate students in utilization of e-resources. A sample size of 90 postgraduate students selected through multi-stage stratified random sampling technique. The study findings revealed that majority of the postgraduate students (72.22%) fell in the medium category of severity of constraints, followed by 16.67 per cent in low category of constraints and rest (11.11%) were in high category of constraints severity encountered by the postgraduate students in utilization of e-resources. The pooled analysis of data indicates that the postgraduate students of all the three constituent veterinary colleges of RAJUVAS, Bikaner perceived lack of subscription to more standard journals (MPS 59.25), lack of professional and skilled persons in library (MPS 55.18) and paid software’s are not feasible to access (MPS 52.59) as the constraints with utmost severity in utilization of e-resources.