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Abstract:
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Academic libraries in India have been affected by an uncertain financial environment
in which resource buying has been restricted, causing them to look at ways of
extending their purchasing capabilities to compensate for reduced budgets.
Technological developments, electronic publishing of scholarly journals, emerging of
consortia, prizing models of the publishers gives new opportunities for libraries to
provide instant access to information. Library consortium is the one of the emerging
tool kit for libraries to survive in the e-publishing environment. An attempt has been
made to identify the objectives, types, major issues and approach for co nsortia in
Indian environment. The paper also highlights some of the important consortia
arrangements at International level. The proposed models for academic libraries
through different vendors / publisher has been discussed at the end. |