Library Consortia
By
M. SURULINATHI
surulinathi@gmail.com
Department of Library and Information Science
Library Consortia
 A Consortium could be described as a group of
organizations who come together to fulfill a
combined objective that usefully requires cooperation and the sharing of resources. And need to
have a clear mutual goal in order to ensure their
success.
 The aim should be to deliver “more than the sum of
the individual parts”. A library Consortium
formation can be local, regional, state, national and
inter institutional level.
Need for library consortium
 Information explosion
 Diversity of user needs
 Financial crunch
 Impossibility of self-sufficiency
Advantages Of Consortia
 Consortia-based
subscription
to
electronic
resources provides access to wider number of
electronic resources at substantially lower cost;
 Optimum utilization of funds.
 Facilities to build up digital libraries and better
Services
 Cost Sharing for Technical and training support
 Electronic Journals demand neither library space
nor shelving costs nor can they be stolen from the
library
 Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Disadvantages of Consortia
 Absence of a printed copy of Journals
 Require training of staffs in handling electronic
documents etc.
 Consortia requires high initial investments in
licensees and information and communication
technology.
 Copyright problems
 Unreliable telecommunication links and insufficient
bandwidth
 Lack of archiving and back files availability
Examples of E-Journals Consortia India
 INDEST – AICTE Consortium (http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/)
 UGC INFONET
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(http://web.inflibnet.ac.in/info/ugcinfonet/ugcinfonet.jsp)
FORSA Consortium (Astronomy and Astrophysics Libraries)
(http://www.iiap.res.in/library/forsa.html)
CSIR Library Consortium
http://www.niscair.res.in/ActivitiesandServices/MajorProjec
ts/majproj.htm#ejournalconsortia)
ISRO Library Consortium
IIM Library Consortium
HELINET (Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka)
(http://www.rguhs.ac.in/hn/newhell.htm)
ICMR Library Consortium
UGC InfoNet
Digital Library Consortium
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UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium was
formally launched in December, 2003 by Honorable Dr.
A P J Abdul Kalam, the President of India soon after
providing the Internet connectivity to the universities in
the year 2003 under the UGC-Infonet programme.
 The Consortium proved to be a recipe to university
libraries which have been discontinuing subscription of
scholarly journals because of "Serials Crisis". The term
"serials crisis" refers to exponential and continuing
increase in subscription cost of scholarly journals.
About UGC Infonet
 The Consortium provides current as well as archival access to
more than 7000+ core and peer-reviewed journals and 10
bibliographic databases from 26 publishers and aggregators in
different disciplines. The programme has been implemented in
phased manner.
 In the first phase that began in 2004, access to e-resources was
provided to 50 universities who had Internet connectivity under
the UGC-Infonet Connectivity programme of the UGC.
 In the second phase, 50 more universities were added to the
programme in the year 2005. So far 160 Universities out of 181
that come under the purview of UGC, have been provided
differential access to subscribed e-resources.
 The benefit of subscription to e-resources would also be extended
to the colleges, to begin with the College for Potential with
Excellence (CPE) and autonomous colleges
Current Members
The members of core group of Institutions are as follows:
 Universities covered under Phase I (50)
 Universities covered under Phase II ( 50)
 Universities covered under Phase III (75)
 Associate Members (97)
 IUCs and Other Institutions (5)
 National Law Schools/Universities (14)
Subject Coverage
 arts,
 humanities,
 social sciences,
 physical sciences,
 chemical Sciences,
 life sciences,
 computer sciences,
 mathematics and statistics, etc.
The programme is wholly funded by the UGC and executed by the
INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Centre, Ahmedabad.
E-Resources: Full text Databases
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American Chemical Society - http://www.pubs.acs.org/
American Institute of Physics - http://journals.aip.org/
American Physical Society - http://publish.aps.org/browse.php
Annual Reviews - http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/
Cambridge University Press - http://journals.cambridge.org/
Elsevier Science - http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Emerald - http://www.emeraldinsight.com
Economic & Political Weekly (EPW) - http://www.epw.in
HeinOnline - http://home.heinonline.org/
Institute of Physics - http://www.iop.org/EJ/
J-STOR - http://www.jstor.org/
Manupatra - http://www.manupatra.com/
Nature - http://www.nature.com/nature/
Oxford University Press - http://www.oxfordjournals.org
Portland Press - http://www.portlandpress.com/pp/journals/default.htm
Project Euclid - http://projecteuclid.org/
Project Muse - http://muse.jhu.edu/
Royal Society of Chemistry - http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/
SIAM - http://epubs.siam.org/
Springer Link - http://www.springerlink.com/
Taylor and Francis - http://www.informaworld.com/
Westlaw India - http://www.westlawindia.com/
Bibliographic Databases
 SciFinder Scholar
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html
 MathSciNet - http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/
 Royal Society of Chemistry(6 Databases)
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/CurrentAwareness/index.asp
 ISID - http://isid.org.in/
 JCCC
http://jccc-ugcinfonet.in or www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in
 Web of Science (Through N-LIST Programme)
http://isiknowledge.com/
Open Access Resourses
 About Open Access
oaeresources.php
 Open Access E-Journals
oaeresources.php#ejournals
 Open Access Directories
oaeresources.php#directories
 IRs@member Institutions
oaeresources.php#IRs
E-RAMS
INDEST
 The
Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD) has set-up the "Indian National Digital
Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology
(INDEST) Consortium"
 The Ministry provides funds required for subscription
to electronic resources for (48) institutions including
IISc, IITs, NITs, IIMs and a few other centrally-funded
Government institutions through the consortium
headquarters set-up at the IIT Delhi.
 The Consortium has an active mailing list and a Web
site hosted at the IIT Delhi.
Members
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Core Members
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) provides
funds required for providing differential access to various electronic
resources subscribed by the Consortium for 48 core member
institutions. The members of core group of Institutions are as follows:
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IITs and IISc (8)
NITs , ISM, SLIET and NERIST ( 21)
IISERs (5)
IIMs, IIIT, IIITM and NITIE (14)
Members
 AICTE - supported Members (60)
AICTE provides funds for access to e-resources to (60)Government engineering
colleges or technical institutions.
 Self-supported Institutions (1096)
The consortium, being an open-ended proposition, invites AICTE-accredited
and UGC-affiliated institutions to join hands with the leading Engineering and
Technological Institutions in India and share the benefits it offers in terms of
lower subscription rates and better terms of agreement with the publishers.
(1096)other engineering colleges and institutions have already joined the
consortium on their own. For further details, click at Join
 [Self- supported members under new scheme (198)]
Full text Databases
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ABI / Inform Complete http://www.il.proquest.com/pqdauto
ACM Digital Library - http://portal.acm.org/portal.cfm
ASCE Journals -http://scitation.aip.org/publications/myBrowsePub.jsp
ASME Journals ( + A M R ) http://scitation.aip.org/publications/myBrowsePub.jsp
ASTM Standards & Digital Library
Standards: http://enterprise.astm.org
Journals: http://journalsip.astm.org/
Capitaline http://www.capitaline.com/intranet/INDEST_consortium.htm
CRIS INFAC Ind. Information - http://www.crisil.com/
McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering (FKA DEL) http://www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/
EBSCO Databases http://search.epnet.com/
Elsevier's Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Emerald Full-text http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Emerald Management Xtra http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
Engineering Science Data Unit (ESDU) http://www.esdu.com/
Euromonitor (GMID) http://www.portal.euromonitor.com/portal/server.pt
IEEE / IEE Electronic Library Online (IEL) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/
Indian Standards Intranet Version INSIGHT http://www.insight.asiancerc.com/
Nature http://www.nature.com/
ProQuest Science ( formerly ASTP ) http://www.il.proquest.com/pqdauto
Springer Link http://www.springerlink.com/
IET Digital Library http://www.ietdl.org/
Emerald E-books (Business Mgmt & Economics Collection) http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
INFORMS Pub suite http://journals.informs.org/
GALE Gale Cengage Learning, (IEC, BCRC and GREENR) http://lr.cengage.co.in
ICE Publishing(Thomas Telford)Journals http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com
Bibliographic Databases
 COMPENDEX on EI Village
 http://www.engineeringvillage2.org
 INSPEC on EI Village
 http://www.engineeringvillage2.org
 J-Gate Custom Content for Consortia (JCCC)
 http://jccc-indest.informindia.co.in/
 MathSciNet http://www.ams.org/mathscinet
 SciFinder Scholar
 http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html
(access through a Z39.50 Client to be installed on each PC)
Web of Science ttp://isiknowledge.com
E-RAMS
N-List
 The Project entitled "National Library and Information
Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)",
being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital
Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDESTAICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) crosssubscription to e-resources subscribed by the two
Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for
universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical
institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to
colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources
to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other
beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the
INFLIBNET Centre.
Current Status
 As on Aug 6 2011, a total number of 1960
colleges have registered themselves with the
N-LIST programme including 1398 Govt. /
Govt.-aided colleges covered under the 12 B
Act of the UGC.
 Log-in ID and password for accessing e-
resources has been sent to the authorized
users from these 1398 colleges.
Members
 Universities: Universities covered under the Phase I of the UGC-INFONET
Digital Library consortium will have access to Web of Science subscribed by
the INDEST-AICTE Consortium for the technical institutions (IITS IISC).
Technical Institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs): IITs, IISc,
IISERs and selected NITs, i.e. core members of the INDEST-AICTE
Consortium, would get access to selected e-resourcesINDEST-AICTE
Consortium would get access to selected e-resources namely Annual
Reviews, Project Muse and Nature (1 title) subscribed by the UGCINFONET Digital Library consortium.
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Colleges: 6,000 12 B colleges that are funded by the UGC will have access to
electronic resources subscribed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library
consortium or its member universities as well as few selected e-resources that
were found most appropriate for colleges including e-journals and e-books.
These resources include more than 2100 e-journals and 51,000 e-books.
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E-Journals
 American Institute of Physics (18 titles) http://journals.aip.org/
American Physical Society (10 titles) http://publish.aps.org/browse.html
 Annual Reviews (33 titles) http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
 Cambridge University Press (224 titles)
 http://journals.cambridge.org/
 Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) (1 titles)
 http://www.epw.in/
 Indian Journals (150 titles) http://www.indianjournals.com/
 Institute of Physics (46 titles) http://www.iop.org/EJ/
 Oxford University Press (206 titles) http://www.oxfordjournals.org
 Royal Society of Chemistry (29 titles) http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/
 H. W. Wilson (1420 titles)
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml
E-books
 E-brary (52000+ titles)
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/inflibnet
 Oxford Scholarship (902 titles)
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/
 Net Library (936 titles)
http://www.netlibrary.com/
 Myilibrary-McGraw Hill (1308 titles)
http://lib.myilibrary.com/browse/open.asp
Other Resources
 Bibliographic Database
 MathSciNet
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/
E-Resources for Universities
Web of Science
 http://isisknowledge.com
E-Resources for Technical Institutions (IITs, IISc,
IISERs and NITs)
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 Annual Reviews http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
 Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/
 Nature http://www.nature.com/
Open Access
 Open access (OA) refers to unrestricted online
access to articles published in scholarly journals, and
also increasingly to book chapters or monographs.
 Open access journals are scholarly journals that
are available online to the reader "without financial,
legal, or technical barriers other than those
inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself
Indian Academy
 The Indian Academy of Sciences was founded and
registered as a society in 1934 with the aim of
promoting the progress and upholding the cause of
science, in both pure and applied branches.
 It strives to meet its objectives through promotion of
original research and dissemination of scientific
knowledge to the community via meetings,
discussions, seminars, symposia and publications.
IAS Journals
 Sadhana - Proceedings (Engineering Sciences)
 Pramana - Journal of Physics
 Proceedings (Mathematical Sciences)
 Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy
 Journal of Genetics
 Proceedings - Earth and Planetary Sciences
 Bulletin of Materials Science
 Proceedings - Chemical Sciences
 Proceedings - Plant Sciences /Animal Sciences
 Journal of Biosciences
 Current Science
Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre
 Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich
and unique source of information, often the only
source for research work that does not find its way
into various publication channels. Doctoral
dissertations are manifestation of result of four to
five years of intense work involving huge investment
of resources, both mental and physical and
infrastructure and other support from the
universities. A thesis reflects quality of research work
conducted by a student and the ability of an
institution to lead and support original work of
research in a given discipline.
eprints@IISc
 ePrints@IISc
repository collects, preserves and
disseminates in digital format the research output
created by the IISc research community.
 It enables the Institute community to deposit their
preprints,
postprints
and
other
scholarly
publications using a web interface, and organizes
these publications for easy retrieval.
 ePrints@IISc complies with the Open Archives
Initiative (OAI) framework allowing publications to
be easily indexed by web search engines and other
indexing services.
ETD@IISc
 Digital repository of Theses and Dissertations of
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. You
can search, browse and access theses and
dissertations from this collection.
 This repository has been developed to capture,
disseminate and preserve research theses of Indian
Institute of Science. It complements ePrints@IISc,
the research publications repository of IISc.
NISCAIR
 National Institute of Science Communication and
Information Resources (NISCAIR) came into
existence on 30 September 2002 with the merger of
National Institute of Science Communication
(NISCOM)
and
Indian
National
Scientific
Documentation Centre (INSDOC). Both NISCOM
and INSDOC, the two premier institutes of the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
were devoted to dissemination and documentation of
S&T information.
DOAJ
 The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is
to increase the visibility and ease of use of open
access scientific and scholarly journals thereby
promoting their increased usage and impact.
 The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover
all open access scientific and scholarly journals that
use a quality control system to guarantee the
content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open
Access Journals.
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