Ugc-Infonet: An Indian E-Journal Consortium model for higher education

Author

Gowda, Purushothama

Author_Institution

Dy. Librarian Mangalore University Library Mangalore University, Mangalaganhgotri-574 199

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 June 2010

Firstpage

256

Lastpage

262

Abstract

Application of ITC to the process of resource sharing made the consortium online. UGC-Infonet consortium is one of the land mark achievement in the field of higher education in India. It is only the possible solution to the ever growing demand for information and ever decreasing the budget to the universities. UGC-Infonet is the E-consortium, the users can access the scientific and research articles on 7 × 24 hour basis on their desk top. It provides around 5000 full text journals to the 150 universities in the Xth plan and planning to cover all the remaining universities as well as to the 17,000 colleges in a phased manner in the XIth plan. At present it includes 25 databases to cover all fields of higher learning of relevance to universities including: Arts, humanities and social sciences, physical and chemical sciences, life sciences computer science, mathematics, statistics.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational institutions; further education; Indian e-journal consortium model; Ugc-Infonet; chemical sciences; computer science; higher education; life sciences; social sciences; universities; Art; Chemicals; Computer science; Computer science education; Databases; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Government; Libraries; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Financial Theory and Engineering (ICFTE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dubai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7757-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7759-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFTE.2010.5499385

Filename

5499385