Library consortia in India with special reference to UGC-Infonet digital library consortium

Library as a consortium perspective: A systematic literature review

“…Another reason found for forming consortia was consideration of macro-principles, such as improving the country’s higher education system (Chauhan et al, 2011), including the domain of distance learning, when it is a question of sharing electronic resources (Chiwanza and Mutongi, 2018). Certainly, improvement of the education system, especially the state’s, is a national policy, and this type of consortium is a tool used to economize on financial resources (Chauhan et al, 2011), since among its functions is management of electronic resource licensing (Bird and Ashoughian, 2012), thereby preventing researchers from accessing less usual resources such as Sci-hub, #IcanHazpdf, LibGen and others (Sewell and Gaffney, 2016).…”

“…Organizations’ access to shared resources is nothing new in libraries. The first records of formal cooperation between libraries date back to the 19th century, with the creation of the American Library Association (ALA) (Nesta, 2019; Pal, 2016), highlighting cooperation in services (Chauhan et al, 2011). Ideas about cooperation began with the publication of book reports to disseminate collections and progressed to the share of books between libraries, this being reinforced with the creation in 1927 of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA, currently the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions).…”

Implication of 80/20 Rule in Electronic Journal Usage of UGC-Infonet Consortia

“…Studies on the use of UGC-Infonet consortia resource at the institutional level were also reported (Chauhan & Mahajan, 2014;Kumbar & Hadagali, 2009;Madhusudhan, 2008;Singson & Leeladharan, 2010) as well as the cost benefit analysis (Chand & Arora, 2008;Chauhan & Mahajan, 2013). Empirical evidence on the awareness and use of electronic journals through academic consortia are growing in India.…”