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E-JOURNAL CONSORTIA AND
KNOWLEDGE DELIVERY: A CASE OF Ch.
CHARAN SINGH UNIVERSITY, MEERUT
Dr. (Ms) Shiva Kanaujia Sukula
Astt. Librarian
Central Library,
Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut
Abstract:
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E-journal consortia function as a critical information service
platform for higher education centres in this age of shrinking
budgets and soaring journal prices. The literature reflects the
need and provision of consortia-based information services
that can cater to vast number of users with limited resources.
This study pertains to Ch. Charan Singh University campus,
Meerut (India) and various aspects such as need; reasons,
benefits and quality assessment of e-journal consortia and
knowledge delivery are discussed. The article gives a picture
of the e-journal consortia of Ch. Charan Singh University,
Meerut (India) and further steps to be taken for enhanced
services.
Introduction
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Limitations of University
Population explosion, knowledge explosion,
document explosion,
Need of Consortium: limitations in finance and
diversity in users’ needs
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UGC-INFONET Program, ERNET : Ejournals demand electronic environment in the
university such as network (intranet) to spread
the facility all over the university
Efforts of UGC in knowledge delivery
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Demand for the journals: globalization of
education and competitive research
UGC: the Internet to cover the gap between the
demand and supply of journals
UGC-InfoNet: member universities: quality
information: affordable price
E-Journal Consortium And Knowledge Delivery:
Purpose In Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut
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Experiment with innovative information services;
Fast research concepts and procedures will move
forward;
University library will be able to design and plan
more effective networked environments;
University will share information and insights on how
e-journals can be utilized more effectively.
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List Of Publications Subscribed Under Ugc-Infonet EJournals Consortia In Ch. Charan Singh University,
Meerut
Name of the Publisher
URL
FULL TEXT DATABASES
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American Chemical Society (31)
American Institute of Physics (18)
American Physical Society (10)
Annual Reviews (29)
Cambridge University Press (189)
Elsevier Science (34)
Emerald (28)
Encyclopedia Britannica
Institute of Physics (36)
J-STOR (457)
Nature (1)
Portland Press (4 )
Project Muse (222)
Royal Society of Chemistry (23)
Springer & Kluwar Journals
(1217)
Blackwell
Taylor and Fracis (1105)
Oxford University Press
http://www.pubs.acs.org/
http://www.aip.org/
http://www.aps.org/
http://arjournals.annualreviews.org
http://journals.cambridge.org/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/
http://www.emeraldinsight.com
http://search.eb.com/
http://www.iop.org/EJ
http://www.jstor.org/
http://www.nature.com/
http://www.portlandpress.com/pp/d
efault.htm
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals
http://www.rsc.org/
http://www.scienceonline.org/
http://www.springerlink.com/
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
PORTALS
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Ingenta - Gateway Portal (5400)
J-Gate Gateway Portal (15000)
http://www.ingenta.com/
http://www.j-gate.informindia.co.in/
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES
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Chemical Abstracts Service (1
Database)
Biological Abstracts (1 Database)
MathSciNet Database ( 1Database)
Royal Society of Chemistry (6
Databases)
Laboratory Hazards Bulletin
Methods in Organic Synthesis
Natural Product Update
Chemical Hazards in Industry
Analytical Abstracts
Catalysts & Catalysed Reactions
http://stnweb.cas.org/
http://web5.silverplatter.com/
http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspir
http://www.rsc.org/
http://www.rsc.org/is/database/
http://www.rsc.org/is/database/moshome
http://www.rsc.org/is/database/npuhome
http://www.rsc.org/is/database/chihome.
http://www.rsc.org/is/database/aahome
http://www.rsc.org/is/database/ccrpub
Open Access Journals
General List of Open access eprints
http://dmoz.org/Science/Publications/
Archives/
Free_Access_Online_Archives/
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/
PubMed Central (PMC)
http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
CogPrints
http://cogprints.org/
Networked Computer Science Technical
Reference Library
http://www.ncstrl.org
CERN Document Server (CDS)
http://weblib.cern.ch/
Citebase
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgibin/search
The Economics network (RePEc)
http://repec.org/
BioMed Central
HighWire Press Free
http://www.biomedcentral.com/start.a
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/fr
sp
eeart.dtl
BBS Prints Interactive Archive
http://www.bbsonline.org/
Citeseer
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
Cognitive Science
http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Eprints.org archives
http://software.eprints.org/
Public Library of Science
Directory of Open Access Journals
Coverage of subjects
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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical and
Chemical Sciences, Life Sciences, Computer Science,
Mathematics, Statistics
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Access: to current and archival literature
Knowledge
consortium
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Delivery
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E-journal
World Wide Web allows informal distribution of
information
Discipline-based consortia (dedicated to research
fields or specific concepts) are becoming essential
platforms for scholars
Resources for pre-print and peer-reviewed articles,
primary research, and an interactive exchange of
ideas and even information materials
Need of consortia in Ch. Charan Singh
University, Meerut
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Integrated access to the organized and indexed digital
collections
Digital collections integrated with traditional library
collections
Assurance of continued availability of information
resources: round-the-clock instant access
Access to users beyond the physical space and time
limits of the library.
Opportunity to minimize the local costs of content
management, thereby reducing the need for physical
content handling.
Infrastructure for Knowledge Delivery
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Campus wide network and ensures uniform access all over the
campus.
Open to all students at the university.
Works on lines similar to the terminal rooms in traditional
computer centers.
30 departments are being served.
Around 500 of computers to serve networked information
services.
The University is planning to increase the number of
computers in order to facilitate more users.
Library is able to pool the print and electronic resources and
has infrastructure to share more information effectively using
the Internet and the web technology.
Impact Of The Consortium On Academic
Community
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strategies for the electronic information services are based on
the practices in the print environment
consortia-based information environment, savings: storage,
access, and circulation
focus on increasing support for fair use in the electronically
empowered consortia-based environment,
 To explore cooperative content agreements with
information providers that maximize economies of
scale,
 To keep public information in the public domain, to
invest in local campus networks, and to encourage a
competitive market in scholarly information content.
 Electronic access far outstrips the traditional journals
system for providing access, especially among research
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Benefits to the academic community:
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Print journals are replaced by e-journal.
Though the journal is in electronic form, yet
individual articles can be ordered in print form
E-journal is "secondary to" the print journal
Electronic version is published several months
after the print version
Qualitative Assessment Of Knowledge delivery
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choosing print or electronic information, user
preference, user satisfaction, and ease of
administration
consortia as a means to derive the best possible
purchase bargain with collective buying power, which
is true, but is not an end in itself
the university is conducting focus group sessions
structured around following areas:
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How academic community identifies, obtain, and use
information for research and teaching activities.
The ways academic community would ideally like to get
information; they need and why.
Impact on librarians:
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Saving time and money
Consortium significantly reduces the number of
difficult, time-consuming tasks faced by university.
Helping librarians to help the academic
community
the library and information professionals face
pressures from researchers who expect information
to be easily and freely available on the web.
Some Measures for Better Knowledge Delivery:
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Complete and Consistent Content
Open Linking
Non-English Content
Conclusion:
We are living in very turbulent times where things change rapidly in our
nearest environment. The commercial publishers and intermediaries
offer already today their own integrated electronic libraries. If library
does not make significant progress towards making instant access for
the users to a significant amount of electronic information resources,
there is a risk that academic institutions decision makers and key users
will shop elsewhere for satisfaction of their information needs. The
most important things here are making funds available for this
development by reducing the library "paper work" and adjusting staff
numbers involved in those processes. Universities must change their
primary operations drastically in the coming years. Conventional
educational strategies are way too expensive to meet the demands for
further education and lifelong learning in our societies. Libraries
cannot avoid changing their operations drastically as well - if they
want to survive.
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