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Major Consortia in India

Major Consortia in India. 27 th Feb 2012 By Prakash Chand. Factors for Consortia Formation. Social Economical Technological. Objectives. To arrest decline of knowledge resource base particularly journals holdings

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Major Consortia in India

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  1. Major Consortia in India 27th Feb 2012 By Prakash Chand

  2. Factors for Consortia Formation • Social • Economical • Technological

  3. Objectives • To arrest decline of knowledge resource base particularly journals holdings • To enlarge the knowledge resource base comparable to world leading institutions • To hold down the escalating cost of journals • To enable system wide integrated resource sharing

  4. Major Consortia in India • NKRC (CSIR – DST) • INDEST – AICTE Consortium • UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium • N – LIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Contents • DAE Consortium • CeRA (Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture) • DRDO E-Journals Consortium (DESIDOC) • DeLCON (DBT Electronic Library Consortium) • Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED) • Health Science Library and Information Network (HELINET)

  5. NKRC (CSIR –DST) • Established in 2002 • Operation & HQ – NISCAIR, New Delhi • Funding – CSIR & DST, GoI • Nature – STM • Number of participating institutions – 65 • Annual spending –Appx. Rs.600 Million • Serving to about 10,000 users

  6. INDEST - AICTE • Established in 2003 • Operation/Mgt. HQ. IIT Delhi • Funding – MHRD, GoI • Nature – S&T, Humanities & Social Sciences • Number of participating institutions – 1397 (IIT’s, IIM’s, IISc, and AICTE institutions) • Access to about 12000 jls = 6 databases • Annual spending –Appx Rs.600 Million • Serving to about 100,000 users from 35 e-Resources

  7. UGC –INFONET Digital Library Consortium • Established in 2003 • Funding – UGC • Operation Mgt. HQ. INFLINET, Ahmdabad • Nature – S&T, Humanities & Social Sciences • Number of participating institutions – 161 Universities • Annual spending –Appx Rs.1200 Million • Serving to about 600,000 users

  8. N – LIST ….Collaborative programme of INDEST and UGC-INFONET • Initiative of MHRD to facilitate access to e-Resources to Colleges have research excellence potential. It has four components: • Access to select UGC-INFONET e-resources to technical institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs) and monitor its usage; • Access to select INDEST e-resources to selected universities and monitor its usage; • Enabling access to 6,000 Govt./ Govt.-aided colleges and monitoring their usage; and • Monitoring Agency for colleges and evaluate, promote, impart training and monitor all associated activities related to e-access. Total colleges registered for = 2321; 1&2 by INDEST and 3&4 by INFLIBNET

  9. N-LIST CONT • Estd. 2010 through an initiative of MHRD under the Mission of Education through ICT • Operation Mgt. HQ. INFLIBNET, Ahmdabad • Serving to – 279183 users • Nature – All subjects • Acess to 3000 plus e-Journals and 75000 e-Books

  10. DRDO E-Journals Consortium • Established in 2007, Came in existance Jan. 2009 • Funding – DRDO, MoD, GoI • Nature – S & T and others • Number of participating institutions – 50+ DRDO institutions • Annual spending –Appx Rs.200 Million • Serving to about 7,000+ users

  11. CeRA • Established in 2007 • Operation Mgt. HQ. IARI, New Delhi • Funding – ICAR, GoI • Nature – Agriculture • Number of participating institutions – 126 plus • Annual spending –Appx Rs.100 Million • Serving to about 10,000 users

  12. DeLCON • Established in 2009 • Operation Mgt. HQ. NBRC, Gurgaon • Funding – DBT, Govt. of India • Nature – Biomedical Sciences • Number of participating institutions= 33 (14 DBT, and 18 NER institutions plus ICGEB) • Access to: 917 jls plus SCOPUS database • Annual spending: Appx Rs.80 Million • Serving to about 2,000 users

  13. Present Scenario • Primarily serving to higher education and R&D institutions of the country • Access to adequate knowledge resources • Adequate funding is available • Libraries/Institutions have established new departments to operate/manage consortia • Demand & extent of relevance is strictly gauged by usage data • Licensing system has evolved

  14. Future Trends …. • Libraries/Institutions seem to continue consortia in more matured way • Sprit of cooperation, collaboration, and coordination as was viewed in beginning is still strong and need to be stronger • Psychology of owning is in decline with slow pace • Competitive, fair, and transparency is in demand • Monopoly of big players has gone up • Society publishers are victim of monopolistic commercial approach of big players

  15. Future Trends • Pricing structure is shifting to value of information gauged by usage • Courage to publish more in foreign journals by Indian Authors • Acquisition in big way of Indian journals by international commercial publishers • All major international players have opened their offices in India • Large scale marketing/publicity events are being organized

  16. Market Potential Users are on increase Spending is on increase India’s economy is growing satisfactorily Authorities have understood to provide global level playing field

  17. Concerns • Pricing structure • Archival issues • Fair use • Transparency • Governing laws • Others

  18. Thanks All the best Unity is the Strength Thank you

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