Chand, Prem; Prakash, K; Satyabati, Thiyam; Chauhan, Suresh K(Inflibnet centre, February 8, 2007)
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Abstract:
The escalating price of electronic journals, Indexing and abstracting
databases along with traditionally published print subscriptions has forced
library community to explore alternative means of subscription. The
consortia based subscription is perhaps a solution for subscription of peerreviewed
journals. In India, during last five years we have witnessed many
consortia based subscription, ranging from subject specific to institution
specific. The advancement of Internet and telecommunication has made it
possible to subscribe network based resources to the users. The paper
describes about the initiative taken by INFLIBNET in this direction and
highlights the importance of current trends of usage statistics of networked
resources of various publishers. Further the authors describe the patterns
of electronic journal usage by the members of UGC-Infonet Digital library
consortium during the last three years.