Problems faced by the postgraduate scholars to access e-resources in Rajasthan

The present study aimed at identifying the constraints faced and suggestions as reported by the postgraduate scholars in the use of e-resources. In Rajasthan, out of five agricultural universities, three agriculture universities namely MPUAT (Udaipur), SKNAU (Jobner) and SKRAU (Bikaner) running postgraduate programmes for more than 20 yr were selected purposively. From each university, 60 respondents were selected randomly. The primary data were collected using questionnaire method and analysed using simple tabular analysis. The results revealed that the major constraints faced by the postgraduate scholars in use of e-resources were lack of trainings for e-resources, lack of professional & skilled persons in the library and lack of knowledge about information technology. As reported by the respondents to use e-resources the major suggestions were strengthening the library by employing the professional and technical staff by the university, training programmes must be organized for the students about use of e-resources and awareness generation by arranging different programmes for the users to educate them about e-resources. Hence, it was recommended that university should organize training programs for better use of e-resources. Besides, the facilities like improvement of internet speed, number of workstations with Wi-Fi facility and increasing the number of terminals and printers in the libraries, computer laboratories with access to internet should also be done.