Library capacity building though E-Journal Consortia: The Indian Scenario

Abstract

The proliferation of E-publishing across the world have brought in a revolution in scholarly journal publication, ubscription, access and delivery mechanism. E-journals are electronic equivalents of their print counter parts possessing many added features. E-journals offer a range of potential advantages to libraries and end-users: multiple simultaneous access to the same issue, remote access, in-built searching facilities, multi-media apabilities and reduced storage concerns. As a result of the above, libraries today buy licenses for an ever-increasing number of E-Journals from a range of different publishers and providers. At the same time the library budgets are dwindling and hence librarians are forced to work together for alternate strategies towards collection enrichment and sharing of resources. Consortium based library subscriptions to E-journals and electronic full-text Databases are picking up good momentum in India. Over the past five years more than ten national level Co...