INDEST-AICTE Consortium: Present Services and Future Endeavours

The INDEST-AICTE Consortium, launched in 2003, provides differential access to 12,000 electronic journals and six bibliographic databases from a number of publishers and aggregators to 48 centrally-funded technical institutions, 60 government and government-aided engineering colleges and 820 private...

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Published in:DESIDOC journal of library & information technology 2010-03, Vol.30 (2), p.79-91
Main Authors: Arora, Jagdish, Trivedi, Kruti
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic data bases
Electronic periodicals
India
Library consortia
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Summary:The INDEST-AICTE Consortium, launched in 2003, provides differential access to 12,000 electronic journals and six bibliographic databases from a number of publishers and aggregators to 48 centrally-funded technical institutions, 60 government and government-aided engineering colleges and 820 private engineering colleges, and other organisations. The article describes major functions, activities and services of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium. It briefly touches upon resources subscribed, terms of licenses, policies and practices for archival back-ups, membership programmes including core members, AICTE-supported institutions, and self-supported category of membership. The article outlines governing structures of the Consortium and their roles. It elaborates on strategies used for effective implementation of Consortia amongst member institutions. It briefly touches upon the economics of the Consortium and spells out it future endeavours.
ISSN:0974-0643
0976-4658
DOI:10.14429/djlit.30.9