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E-Resources for Indian Universities: New Initiatives


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Academic Libraries in India are facing the problem of shrinking/static budgets and simultaneous exponential rise in journal prices. The need of the hour is to find a pragmatic solution to this problem. Something substantial has to be done in order to facilitate access to scholarly resources to research scholars and faculties. UGC-INFONET and INDEST- Consortium are two major initiatives that have come to the rescue of academic libraries so that they can cater to the needs of academia depending upon them. These revolutionary steps are providing scholarly resources including peer reviewed journals, databases, abstracts, proceedings, etc. These efforts will definitely boost the higher education system in our country.

Keywords

UGC-INFONET, INDEST-Consortium, E-Resources.
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Rupak Chakravarty
Panjab University Library, Chandigarh 160014
India

Sukhwinder Singh
Panjab University Library, Chandigarh 160014
India


Notifications

  • UGC-Infonet [a network for Indian Universities]: user guidelines. New Delhi: ERNET, 2003, p1-100.
  • Arora (Jagdish); Rai (A K). Using Electronic Resources: a Compendium for INDEST Member Institutions. New Delhi: INDEST Consortium IIT Delhi, 2004, p1-93, I-xxii.
  • http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/ugcinfonet/ugcinfonet.jsp
  • http://pubs.acs.org/about_category.html
  • http://www.biosis.org/products_services/ba.html
  • http://www.iop.org/EJ/
  • http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/
  • http://www.rsc.org/is/journals/j1.htm
  • http://journals.cambridge.org/
  • http://npg.nature.com/
  • http://www.aip.org
  • http://www.aps.org
  • http://www.library.iitb.ac.in/indest/index.html
  • http://www.ugc.ac.in/newsletter_oct/14.htm
  • http://www.sciencemag.org/
  • http://search.eb.com/
  • http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
  • http://www.jstor.org/

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Authors

Rupak Chakravarty
Panjab University Library, Chandigarh 160014, India
Sukhwinder Singh
Panjab University Library, Chandigarh 160014, India

Abstract


Academic Libraries in India are facing the problem of shrinking/static budgets and simultaneous exponential rise in journal prices. The need of the hour is to find a pragmatic solution to this problem. Something substantial has to be done in order to facilitate access to scholarly resources to research scholars and faculties. UGC-INFONET and INDEST- Consortium are two major initiatives that have come to the rescue of academic libraries so that they can cater to the needs of academia depending upon them. These revolutionary steps are providing scholarly resources including peer reviewed journals, databases, abstracts, proceedings, etc. These efforts will definitely boost the higher education system in our country.

Keywords


UGC-INFONET, INDEST-Consortium, E-Resources.

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