Attitude of Students about E-resources for Academic and Research Work in Agriculture Universities of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

E-resources are now an essential part of all intellectual activities in higher education. Realizing the value of e-resources, the majority of Indian colleges have made generous investments to give students access to these materials to assist learning, teaching, and resources. Every country's finest learning and intellectual centres are universities, and university libraries are what fuel all of these centres' intellectual pursuits. The present study aims to study on attitude of students (Post-Graduate and Ph.D level) about e-resources in Academic and Research work of agriculture universities of Uttar Pradesh. The study was conducted during 2022 in the state using a structured questionnaire and data were collected through Online Google Form. About 240 responses were received and analysed. Out of total respondents’ 26 percent were females while 74 percent were males, 23-29 years of age (57.50%) and 46% belonged to rural background. To measure the attitude of students towards e-resources, the scale was developed by the investigator for data collection from the students. Majority of the students had medium level of attitude. Students from four agriculture universities, had more or less similar attitude towards e-resources which might be due to more or less same awareness about various e-resources available in their universities. It was found that most of the students strongly agreed with the fact that “e-resources are useful to update the knowledge globally” with 92 MPS. Students of agriculture universities had a positive and favourable attitude towards e-resources but required proper exposure and training at the right time for the better utilization of all e-resources.