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 • 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

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)

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

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

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

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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: 1.

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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 4.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Concerns

• Pricing structure • Archival issues • Fair use • Transparency • Governing laws • Others

All the best Unity is the Strength

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