Information seeking behaviour of agricultural scientists with particular reference to their information seeking strategies
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ing periodicals 147 39.2 8 Workshop, seminar and conference proceedings 117 31.2 9 Indexing periodicals 111 29.6 10 Pre-Print/reprints directly from authors 75 20.0 11 Dissertations/theses 72 19.2 12 Bibliographies/library catalogue 68 17.6 13 Library acquisition lists 27 7.2 14 Note: Number of respondents is 375. Weighted index is calculated on 5-point scale with weight assigned as follows: solely = 5, most of time = 4, often = 3, to some extent = 2, and not at all = 1
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