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The present paper highlights the CeRA (Consortium for e- resources in Agriculture) which is an ambitious initiative from IARI (Indian Agriculture Research Institute) aiming to provide scholarly information in the broad spectrum of Agricultural Sciences to foster academic quality research amongst its institutes and other Agricultural Universities. Group of more than 280 students who opted the course Library and Information Services PGS-501 (Post Graduate Studies-Course 501) were interviewed with short structured questionnaire and analyses was done on the effective tool for the Agricultural Researchers on the CeRA. It is a case study, the outcome and findings are very positive and effective. The subject disciplines covered under CeRA are broad to cover. There by meet the academic and research needs of faculty, research scholars and students across these disciplines.
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Motebennur, M. (2012). Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture - An Effective Tool for the Agriculture Researchers: A Case Study. In: Dodero, J.M., Palomo-Duarte, M., Karampiperis, P. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 343. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35233-1_33
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