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Library consortia: a step forward the information society

Bedi, Shalu and Sharma, Kiran (2008) Library consortia: a step forward the information society. In Mahajan, Preeti and Vohra, Ranjana and Chakravarty, Rupak, Eds. Proceedings rends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in Global Information Society, pp. 185-189, Chandigarh, India.

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Abstract

The increasing price of electronic journals, indexing and abstracting databases along with the traditional published print subscriptions has forced library community to explore alternative means of subscription. The emergence of library consortia is a very promising development in this direction. The Phenomenon of consortia or group of libraries maintaining information resources together has become very common these days, In India, during last few years we witnessed many consortia based subscription. This paper briefly discusses the concept, need, advantages and also the major consortia initiatives in India.

Keywords:library consortia, e-journals, INFLIBNET, UGC-INFONET, ERNET, CSIR, FORSA, HELNET, IIM
Subjects:B. Information use and sociology of information. > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
ID Code:13173
Deposited By:Chakravarty, Rupak
Deposited On:15 April 2008
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