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<abstract xmlns="http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0">Focusing on the information availability for the acquisition and transmission of human knowledge, it describes a project for the development of a consortium assembling universities and research institutes libraries of the Sao Paulo State, Brazil. It proposes to enhance the information access, increase users satisfaction, and reduce costs of international electronic journals subscriptions, through cooperation and resources sharing activities among those institutions. It highights the advantages of those procedures and presents the objectives, management and installation steps of the project, submitted to the Fundacao de Amparo á Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo-FAPESP.</abstract>
