Library e-Consortia with Reference to UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium: A Savior to Libraries

Tawfeeq NazirResearch scholar at DLIS

University of Kashmirtawfeeq17@gmail.com

Cell no:09906424299

The ‘Information Revolution’ has made Libraries around the world to adopt new philosophies and technologies for information dissemination and also reduce the cost of information.

Maintaining the dept and depths of collection is greatest challenge confronting libraries, be it, academic, special, national or public, Libraries .it is difficult to acquire all the materials needed by the clientele.

Partnership and cooperation in local, national and international level have become enviable for all libraries.

Library Consortium

Resource sharing/library cooperation is achieving through the establishment of consortium over networks.

LIB 1 LIB 2 LIB 3 LIB n

LIBRARY CONSORTIUM

LAN /MAN /WANINTERNET

Library Group of Libraries Consortium User

Similar DisciplineGeographical Location

Library Consortium Library Consortium

Brings together librarians and

libraries for activities and

objectives that cannot be as effectively

undertaken individually.

Need for Library Consortia

• Information explosion

• 2.Diversity of user needs • 3. Financial crunch • 4. Impossibility of self-sufficiency

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For libraries Time Saving due to centrally

managed negotiations One licence agreement

Know-how and technical support for access problems

Usage statistics Dealing with current issues (national licences etc.)

Advantages: Library Consortia

Advantages: library consortia

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For publishers Only one negotiating party One billing

One payment Market penetration via the consortium

Workflow

1 Library Needs 2 Offer Conditions Negotiations

Libraries

Consortium

Publishers

4 Agreement with publishers/Access to resources

3 Approval of Libraries

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Professors, ResearchersStudents & users

UGC –INFONET Digital Library Consortium

• Launched by ex-president of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Azad in 2003• Funding – UGC(University Grants Commission)• Operation Mgt. HQ. INFLIBNET, Ahmadabad • Provide Access to research Literature, Reviews and Databases• Nature/Scope – S&T, Humanities & Social Sciences

Members of UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium

• Universities

– Total No. : 311+

– Core Members : 171+

– Associate Members

• Colleges

– More than 14,000

– Govt.- 20%, Private – 80%

What is the journal collection base?

The Consortium provides current as well as archival access to more than 5,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and 10 bibliographic databases in different disciplines from 23 publishers and aggregators.

The access to all major e-resources was given 50 universities in first phase in the year 2004. It has now been extended to 171 universities in three different phases.

E-Resources Subscribed under UGC-Infonet

Conclusions

UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium provide access to high-quality scholarly content to universities in India and proved to be a boon to the research output of universities. The Consortium acts as a single-window service for a large number of universities with their diverse research and academic interest .

All the best

Unity is the Strength

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