1Research Scholar, Department of Extension Education, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University B.H.U., Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
2Professor & Head, Department of Extension Education, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University B.H.U., Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
3Assistant Librarian, Department of Extension Education, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University B.H.U., Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
*Corresponding author email id: rsmeena10@gmail.com
Online published on 16 July, 2019.
This study was conducted in the year 2017. The respondents were 220 research scholars of three different Agricultural Educational Institutes of Uttar Pradesh namely on CSAUAT, Kanpur; NDUAT, Faizabad and I.A.S., BHU. The finding of the study revealed that majority (93.18%) of the respondents had knowledge about e-resources, majority (63.64%) of the respondents had knowledge about the subscribed consortium of their library followed by 27.73% of the respondents who were not having the knowledge about the same along with 8.64% of the respondents who did not know about the same, majority (63.64%) of the respondents were aware of the e-resources subscribed by their Institute/University, majority (89.55%) of the respondents indicated friends as their source of awareness about e-resources followed by Institute/University website (61.82%).
Awareness, Agricultural educational institutes, Consortium, e-resources, Knowledge, Research scholars
