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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 ICSSR Sponsored Seminar on “Trends and Strategic Issues for Libraries in Global Information Society” March 18-19, 2008, Organized by: Department of Library & Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, pages pp. 185-189, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

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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 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.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:Library Consortia/ E-Journals/ INFLIBNET/ UGC-INFONET/ ERNET/ CSIR/ FORSA/ HELNET/ IIM
Subjects:Geographic Digital Libraries
Scholarly Communication
Economics of Information
Academic Libraries
ID Code:2289
Deposited On:18 April 2008
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