Use of INDEST and UGC-INFONET E-Journal Consortia: A Comparative Analysis Faizul Nisha, Naushad Ali P M and Tabassum Ara

International CALIBER-2008,pg 708-717 Listed study explains about INDEST-AICTE Consortium of MHRD and UGC-Infonet Consortium of INFLIBNET, UGC. It examines use of consortium by users of IIT (D) and Delhi University. The study was conducted on a sample of users of IIT (Delhi) and DU. A total number of 120 questionnaires were distributed among the users of IIT (D) and DU libraries, respectively, in the month of December 2007.50 filled in questionnaire were received from IIT (D) users and 50 from DU users. Out of 100 only 90 were chosen for analysis of data and 10 questionnaires were rejected because of incomplete response from the respondents. The results have indicated that majority of users are aware about INDEST and UGC-Infonet Consortia at IIT, Delhi and Delhi University. Most of the users access e-journals and databases through INDEST and UGCInfonet onsortia. Slow downloading, lack of maintenance, lack of training, lack of infrastructure and language etc. are the major problems that would discourage users for accessing resources on INDEST and UGC-Infonet. At the end, some suggestions have been provided for enhancing the use of resources available at INDEST and UGC-Infonet. It is observed that IIT users (84.44%) are more aware about consortia than Delhi University users (77.7%). At IIT Delhi, 44.44% users and at DU, 71.11% users have shown their resource awareness of INDEST and UGC-Infonet Consortia respectively through colleagues whereas only 15.55% of IIT users and 22.22% of DU users have shown awareness of INDEST and UGC-Infonet through advertisements.

Use of e-resources Through Consortia : A Boon to Users of Indian University Libraries R.P. Bajpai, Bidyut K. Mal and Geetanjali Bajpai ICAL, 2009 Library Services. Pg 500-503 Authors have concluded that academic libraries have really understood that consortia based subscriptions is cost effective and also avoids redundant expenses and duplicate subscriptions. The effort of UGC-INFONET and INDESTAICTE Consortium are appreciable and will definitely strengthen higher education system in India free and or highly subsidized access to scholarly eresources will help educational institutions in fulfill their mission in to reality. In the long run consortia approach will be much more popular in user community and that day is not so far behind when consortia approach will expand the countrys information base.
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Consortia and Cooperative Collection Development in the Libraries of Technological Institutes of North India M P Satija Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal), 2009

Sajita have mentioned about resource sharing demands shared values, vision, and commitment, as well as a good political situation, special funding and full participation by all the stakeholders. Members of a consortium belong to different parent institutions with different organizations and rules, and administration of a consortium is not an easy task. Consortial subscriptions are the most common channel of resource sharing. In view of the globalization of all spheres of life, this trend will continue. INDEST- AICTE and UGC-INFONET, both open-ended consortia, have brought about a revolution in the field of resource sharing. Libraries still have the responsibility for collection development, preservation, retrieval, and dissemination of information. Librarians are often short of time to do justice to all these activities. Vital and well-run consortia are an important source of help. In August 2007 Dr Jagdish Arora, Librarian IIT Delhi and the national coordinator of INDEST-AICTE consortium left the consortium to join a higher post of INFLIBNET Director. A new national coordinator has not been designated. If this situation continues it can affect the working of the consortium. With the introduction of many multidisciplinary courses in the member institutes, the use of consortium resources is expected to increase, so it requires a permanent and active managing body. Any venture to be successful needs continuous support, supervision, and periodic review. These things are essential to make resource sharing a success in India

Digital Library Consortia with Reference to UGC-Infonet: A Need of the Hour in Digital World Prasanta Kumar Deka Sanjay Kumar Sing

International CALIBER-2008 Pg. 520-528 Authores have described about globalization of education and competitive research the demand for the journals has increased over the years. Due to insufficient funds, libraries have been forced to discontinue the scholarly journals, which have great impact to the users. In order to, provide the current literature to academic world; UGC has initiated the UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium. Timely initiative of UGC is a big boon to academic circles in the country, which enables them to access large number of
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scholarly journals from reputed publishers, aggregators and society publications. Under this consortium, about 4500 full text scholarly electronic journals from different renowned publishers across the globe can be accessed. The consortium provides current as well as archival access to core and peer-reviewed journals in different disciplines. The whole programmes have been implemented in different phases. So far 124 Indian universities, which comes under the purview of UGC, have been provided access to these journals and it will gradually be extended to affiliated colleges as well. It covers almost all areas of learning like Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical and Chemical Sciences, Life Sciences, Computer Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics etc. and other subject areas are to be added in near future. The programme is wholly funded by the UGC and monitored by INFLIBNET centre. The UGCInfonet: E-journal Consortium was launched during the concluding day of UGCs Golden Jubilee celebrations by the former honourable President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam at Vigyan Bhavan on 28th December 2003 by dedicating a bouquet of e-journals to the nation and since 2004 the INFLIBNET has initiated UGC Digital Library Consortium under 10 th five year plan. Indian Scenario of Library Profession, Growing in The era of E and Consortium Har Kaur* and R.P Kumar**

Kaur and Kumar have mentioned in this paper is to see the future perspective of electronic vs. print resource in India. A survey has been conducted in North and South Indian institutions to know the informationseeking behavior of the users, who are using e- resources like e-books, ejournals, databases, subject gateways, multi-journal Websites with links to full text, such as PubMed, Ovid, Science Direct, MEDLINE. Evaluation of the quality of information possessed by these resources is also discussed in the context of Credibility, Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity and support of this information. ICT has accelerated the growth of literature manifolds. Consequently health information resources and literature is getting doubled within 2-3 years along with elevation in cost. This rising cost of scholarly resources has encouraged the formation of consortia all over the world. Consortia initiation in India, consortia approach, features, need, pricing models, technology paradigm, problems associated with consortia and solutions are discussed from the exposure of two major consortia of India namely UGC-INFONET and HELINET. Concludes with the observation that our profession is growing with the emergence of medical librarians, as medical information officers, medical information experts, and chief information officers. On the other hand our profession is graying in the absence of this ICT in some regions of India

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