The document discusses resource sharing through library consortia and networks at Assam University Library, Silchar. It outlines the objectives of resource sharing such as reducing costs, avoiding duplication, and providing greater access to information resources. It then discusses the history of resource sharing in India through library networks established in the late 1980s and 1990s. The document focuses on the Assam University Library's participation in the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium which provides access to over 5000 e-journals and bibliographic databases. Usage statistics from 2009-2011 are presented showing monthly access trends for different publisher packages.

1. RESOURCE SHARING THROUGH CONSORTIA
AND NETWORKS IN ASSAM UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY, SILCHAR
-TUHINA CHOUDHURY (DEB ROY)

2. Objectives of Resource sharing
• Reduction in all round cost.
• Avoidance of unnecessary duplication of
information resources and their processing
and maintenance costs.
• Provision of greater access to information
resources to a wider category of users; and
• Development of specialized areas of collection
building, each library concentrating on areas
of its own concern.

3. Resource sharing activities in India
• During the 7th plan period(1985-90), the head of the ‘Working
Group of the Planning Commission on Libraries and
Informatics’ recommended the modernization of library
services and interlinking of library systems.
• CALIBNET(Calcutta Library Network) & DELNET(Delhi Library
Network) was setup with the support of NISSAT(National
Information System in Science and Technology) in 1988.
• INFLIBNET(Information and Library Network) was established
by UGC in 1988 which became operational in 1991
• PUNET (Pune) in the year1992, ADINET(Ahmedabad) in 1993,
BONET (Mumbai) in 1994 were set up with the support of
NISSAT.

4. Contd…from Slide 3
• In 1998, with the support of INSDOC(NISCAIR), Delhi --
MALIBNET was formed in Chennai. BALNET in Bangalore was
registered as a society in 1997.

5. Resource sharing through Library Consortium
Oxford English Dictionary defines Consortium as a ‘temporary
cooperation of a number of powers, companies etc. for a
common purpose. It is an association of similar type of
organization/institution who are engaged for producing and
servicing the common things for providing services for a
specific purpose of its users.’

6. Major Ongoing Library Consortia in India
Name of Consortium URL(website)
INDEST-AICTE Consortium http://paniit.iitd.ac.in/indest/
UGC-INFONET http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/UG
C-InfoNet//
FORSA Consortium http://www.ncra.tifr.res.in/libr
(Astronomy & Astrophysics) ary/forsaweb/index.htm
CSIR-DST Consortium http://www.niscair.res.in
IIM Library Consortia http://wwwiimahd.ernet.in/lib
rary/vslib/consortia.htm
MCIT Consortium http://mcitconsortium.nic.in/
ERMED Consortium (Electronic http://nmlermed.in/aboutArm
Resources in Medicine) ed.htm
HELINET Consortium http://www.rguhs.ac.in
ISI Library Consortia http://www.isical.ac.in
DeLCON Electronic http://www.nbrc.ac.in/delcon
Consortium /index.html

7. Benefits of Consortia
• A comprehensive collection is possible;
• Building communication among different libraries;
• Avoid duplication of core collection specially for core journals;
• Scope of electronic archives;
• Easy access to resource sharing on Internet by developing common
resources databases;
• Effective document delivery systems;
• Better scope for developing a union catalogue;
• Reduce cost of information;
• Time saving;
• Improved resource sharing
• More professional services to users and help to develop a competitive
professionalism among LIS Professionals.

8. Resource sharing in Assam University Library
• INFLIBNET Centre selected Assam University Library as one of the
participating libraries for automation and networking of library
services during IX th plan which allowed access to databases of
books, serials, thesis etc. In the year 2000 SOUL 1.0 was installed in
Assam University Library along with training to Library
Professionals. An ‘In-House Training Programme on SOUL 2.0 was
organized in the Library in collaboration with INFLIBNET in 2011.
Installation of SOUL 2.0 is in process.
• UGC in collaboration with INFLIBNET launched UGC-INFONET
Consortium which assists access to large number of E-Journals. In
2005 Assam University was one of the 50 Universities to be
included to get access to e-journals through this Consortium. The
Consortium Provides access to 5000+ e-journals and a number of
Bibliographic Databases.

9. E-JOURNALS AND DATABASES AVAILABLE THROUGH UGC
INFONET DIGITAL LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FULL TEXT RESOURCES AND NO. OF JOURNALS COVERED
WEBSITE
American Chemical Society(ACS) http://www.pubs.acs.org/ 37
American Institute of Physics http://www.aip.org 18
http://scitation.org
American Physical Society http://www.aps.org 10
http://scitation.org
Annual Reviews http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/ 33
Blackwell-Wiley http:www3.interscience.wiley.com/ 489
Cambridge University Press http://journals.cambridge.org/ 224
Cell Press (Elsevier) http://www.sciencedirect.com/ 34
Emerald-Library Science http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ 29
Institute of Physics http://www.iop.org/EJ/ 46
Jstor http://www.jstor.org/ 1401
Nature http://www.nature.com 01
Oxford University Press http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ 206

10. ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FULL TEXT RESOURCES AND NO. OF JOURNALS COVERED
WEBSITE
Portland Press http://www.portlandpress.com/pp/default. 8
htm
Project Euclid http://projecteuclid.org/ 34
Project Muse http://muse.jhu.edu/journals 411
Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/pblishing/journals/ 29
SIAM Journals http://epubs.siam.org/ 14
Springer Link http://springerlink.com/ 1389
Taylor & Francis http://www.informaworld.com 1365
Economic & Political Weekly http://epw.in/ 1

11. Bibliographic Databases
DATA BASES URLS
JCCC http://jccc-infonet.informindia.co.in/
MathsSciNet http://www.ams.org/mathsscinet
ISID http://isid.org.in/
SciFinderScholar http://cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/Index.html
Web of Science* http://www.rsc.org/lhb
RSC Database(6) http://www.rsc.org/

12. USAGE STATISTICS OF E-RESOURCES THROUGH UGC-IN
FONET IN ASSAM UNIVERSITY
Usage Statistics of 2009
PUBLISH
ER
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
Dec
American 79 374 191 115 26 124 68 102 35 10 92 392
Chemical
Society
American 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Institute of
Physics
Annual 8 2 9 12 30 0 21 7 5 1 1 4
Reviews
Blackwell 31 30 41 64 64 13 45 47 33 27 44 44
Publishing
Institute of 37 42 48 85 40 6 44 64 16 4 25 39
Physics
JCCC 1 9 14 0 55 `110 10 545 63 94 7 60
Oxford 0 38 55 87 41 32 69 32 95 14 24 64
University
Press

13. Contd…from Slide 12
PUBLISH
ER
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
Dec
Project 23 16 33 59 13 5 1 5 12 2 5 4
Muse
Royal 48 65 8 16 6 7 16 12 9 1 7 343
Society of
Chemistry
Springer 106 353 551 342 344 209 271 377 309 103 438 488
Link
Taylor & 271 96 42 25 49 76 66 40 21 5 37 63
Francis

14. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF MONTH-WISE ACCESS TO E-
JOURNALS OF DIFFERENT PUBLISHERS
600
500
Jan
400
Feb
Mar
300
Apr
May
200 Jun
Jul
100 Aug
Sep
0 Oct
Nov
Dec

15. Observations
• In 2009 Journals of American Chemical Society were used
mostly in the month of February and December.
• Journals under JCCC had been used mostly in the month of
August.
• Journals of Royal Society of Chemistry were used at its
maximum in the month of December.
• Journals of Springer Link were used almost consistently
throughout the year.
• The least used Journals were those of American Institute of
Physics.

16. USAGE STATISTICS OF 2010
PUBLISH
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Dec
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
ER
American 485 231 25 161 25 11 93 336 958 108 177 32
Chemical
Society
American 9 5 0 12 12 0 9 24 19 2 6 1
Institute of
Physics
Annual 8 2 3 5 0 0 5 14 55 3 8 0
Reviews
Blackwell 166 149 13 53 13 1 35 736 142 61 74 46
Publishing
Institute of 60 30 20 95 22 3 24 59 116 4 8 0
Physics
Cambridge 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 39 0 0 0 0
University
Press

17. Contd…from slide 16
PUBLISH
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Dec
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
ER
Oxford 45 63 16 32 25 7 19 94 102 17 32 14
University
Press
Project 47 4 4 28 3 0 0 1 2 5 1 0
Muse
Royal 32 17 1 11 9 0 28 291 178 71 69 5
Society of
Chemistry
Springer 580 577 317 767 654 224 974 1049 752 78 363 60
Link
Taylor & 62 57 13 21 15 14 35 736 142 61 74 46
Francis
JCCC 214 135 146 143 79 0 34 700 377 46 81 0

18. Contd…from slide 17
PUBLISH
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Dec
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
ER
JSTOR 0 22 12 2 0 15 118 249 257 101 115 45
Nature 42 28 29 43 41 26 32 25 21 40 12 10

19. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF MONTH-WISE ACCESS TO E-
JOURNALS OF DIFFERENT PUBLISHERS
1200
1000
Jan
800
Feb
Mar
600
Apr
May
400 Jun
Jul
200 Aug
Sep
0 Oct
Nov
Dec

20. Observations
• The usage statistics of the year 2010 indicates that the
journals of American Chemical Society were used mostly in
January, February, August, September & November with
highest usage in the month of September.
• Journals under JCCC,JSTOR, Taylor & Francis, Wiley-Blackwell
etc. were used inconsistently throughout the year.
• The Journals of Springer Link were used almost consistently
through out the year with the highest use in the month of
August.
• The least used journals were those of Cambridge University
Press.

21. USAGE STATISTICS OF 2011
PUBLISH
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Dec
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
ER
American 119 1161 353 230 345 280 867 561 572 128 786 410
Chemical
Society
American 9 6 118 39 19 8 25 19 12 1 77 18
Institute of
Physics
Annual 14 24 75 22 20 26 39 41 40 2 38 5
Reviews
Blackwell 56 52 76 130 75 121 416 713 381 71 281 358
Publishing
Cambridge 3 2 25 28 27 14 29 115 62 4 32 12
University
Press
Institute of 5 4 1 7 0 18 59 84 57 5 83 1
Physics

22. Contd…from slide 21
PUBLISH
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Dec
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
ER
JCCC 45 21 369 182 50 138 267 510 300 12 48 129
Oxford 34 51 38 56 39 126 239 467 297 71 160 279
University
Press
Project 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Muse
Royal 18 33 46 307 209 173 193 264 353 160 151 133
Society of
Chemistry
Springer 311 425 920 1272 504 581 1204 993 768 157 505 673
Link
Taylor & 40 65 119 260 0 0 60 377 217 39 107 107
Francis

23. Contd…from slide 22
PUBLISH
May
Mar
Aug
Nov
Apr
Feb
Jun
Dec
Jan
Sep
Oct
Jul
ER
American 7 0 0 0 0 20 75 135 0 0 0 1
Physical
Society
Emerald 1 4 2 0 18 11 0 8 27 16 22 39
JSTOR 24 60 299 554 279 111 435 1405 1623 177 765 724
Math Sci 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 5
Net
Nature 13 10 10 12 26 20 63 68 27 7 16 36
Project 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
Euclid
Web of 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 54 3 1 0 19
Science

24. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF MONTH-WISE ACCESS TO E-
JOURNALS OF DIFFERENT PUBLISHERS
1800
1600
1400
Jan
1200
Feb
1000 Mar
Apr
800
May
600 Jun
400 Jul
Aug
200
Sep
0 Oct
Nov
Dec

25. Observations
• In the year 2011 the journals of American Chemical Society were
found to be consistently used throughout the year with the highest
access in the month of February and least in the month of January.
• Journals of Springer Link were consistently used with high rate of
usage throughout the year-highest in the month of April and least
in October.
• JSTOR journals had good usage statistics with highest in September
and lowest in January.
• Journals of American Institute of Physics, Cambridge University
Press, Institute of Physics, Project Muse, American Physical
society, Emerald, MathsciNet were found to have low usage
Statistics with journals of Project Muse being the lowest.

26. TOTAL NO. OF USAGE OF E-JOURNALS DURING THE YEAR 2009-
2011
PUBLISHERS 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL NO. OF HITS
American Chemical 1608 2642 5812 10062
Society
American Institute of 3 99 351 453
Physics
Annual Reviews 200 103 346 649
Cambridge University NA 46 353 399
Press
Institute of Physics 450 441 337 1228
JCCC 968 1855 2071 4894
Oxford University Press 551 466 1857 2874
Project Muse 178 95 7 280

27. Contd…from slide 26
PUBLISHERS 2009 2010 2011 TOTAL NO. OF HITS
Royal Society of 538 712 2040 3290
Chemistry
Springer Link 3891 6395 8313 18599
Taylor & Francis 791 1276 1391 3458

28. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF TOTAL HITS OF E_JOURNALS IN THE
YEARS 2009, 2010 & 2011
20000
18000
16000
14000
12000
10000
8000 2009
2010
6000
2011
4000
TOTAL NO. OF HITS
2000
0

29. Observations
• The access hits of Springer Link is the highest followed by
American Chemical Society and the access of Project Muse is
the lowest.
• Access of e-journals increased during the year 2011 as
compared to the year 2010.
• The factors influencing the usage statistics are the semester
exams & vacations, resulting in the inconsistent access to
journals throughout the year.
• Internet Link failure and power cut problem of Barak Valley
affects the usage statistics of e-journals within the University
Campus.

30. DeLCON ELECTRONIC LIBBRARY CONSORTIUM : Objectives
DeLCON Electronic Library Consortium-launched in January 2009 by
Department of Biotechnology, Min. of Sc.& Tech. Govt.of India.
The main objectives and scope are:
• To promote better, faster and more cost-effective ways of providing
information resources to the officials at the consortia member
institution;
• To avoid duplication of subscription of journals and e-resources and
promote the rational use of funds by the consortia members;
• To ensure continuous subscription of e-resources and availability of
these to the scientists working at the consortia member
institutions;
• Better rates and terms for purchase of electronic journals;

31. Contd…from slide 30
• Availability of a larger spectrum of journals to the DBT
Institutions with lesser costs;
• To strengthen library resources and services and co-
operation and communication amongst the member
libraries;
• To provide access to worldwide literature to users;
• To nucleate the culture of electronic access resulting into
evolution of digital libraries;
• Efficient interlibrary loan system between member
institutions.

32. FULL TEXT E-_RESOURCES ACCESSED THROUGH DeLCON
CONSORTIUM BY ASSAM UNIVERSITY
In North East India, 33 institutions are members of DeLCON
Consortia and Assam University is one of them. DeLCON
covers a total of 971 journals and a Database. All the
members can access these through DeLCON
portal(http://delcon.gov.in). The abstracts of papers can be
viewed and accessed free of cost. User statistics of DeLCON
Consortium could not be obtained.

33. RESOURCE SHARING SUNDER JCCC@ INDEST-AICTE
JCCC is J-Gate Custom Content Consortia for a group of
homogeneous consortia members, and JCCC-INDEST is J-Gate
Custom Content for the Indian National Digital Library in
Science and Technology (INDEST), a Consortium set by the
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of
India, on the recommendation made by the Expert Group
appointed by it under the chairmanship of Prof. N.
Balakrishnan13. Assam University Library has been identified
as one of the Resource Centre under JCCC programme. From
the year 2012 Document Delivery Service is being provided by
Assam University Library under JCCC@INDEST-AICTE.

34. FULL TEXT E-_RESOURCES ACCESSED THROUGH DeLCON
CONSORTIUM BY ASSAM UNIVERSITY
E-RESOURCES URLS NO. OF JOURNALS
American Association for Advancement http://www.sciencemag.org 3
of Science
American Association for Cancer http://www.aacr.org 8
Research (AACR)
American Chemical Society http://pubs.acs.org 37
Annual Reviews http://www.annualreviews.org 23
American Society for Biochemistry and http://www.jbc.org 2
Molecular Biology
American Society for Microbiology http://www.asm.org/ 12
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press http://www.cshl.edu 4
Informa Healthcare/Taylor & Francis http://www.informaworld.com 7
Lippincot William and Wilkins http://wwwovidsp.ovid.com 11
(LWW)/Wolter and Kluwer/OVID
Marry ANN Liebert http://www.liebertonline.com 7
Nature Publications http://www.nature.com 40

35. Contd…from slide 34
E-RESOURCES URLS NO. OF JOURNALS
Oxford University Press (OUP) http://www.oxfordjournals.org 18
Springer India http://www.springerlink.com 237
Society for General Microbiology http://mic.sgmjournals.org 3
Society for Haematology http://bloodjournals.hematologylibrary.org 1
Wiley-Blackwell http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi- 86
bin/home
Elsevier Science (Science Direct) http://www.sciencedirect.com 415
American Society of Plant Biologist http://www.asbp.org/ 2
American Association of Immunologist http://www.aai.org/ 1
Scopus Database http://www.scopus.com 1

36. RESOURCE SHARING SUNDER JCCC@ INDEST-AICTE
JCCC is J-Gate Custom Content Consortia for a group of
homogeneous consortia members, and JCCC-INDEST is
J-Gate Custom Content for the Indian National Digital
Library in Science and Technology (INDEST), a
Consortium set by the Ministry of Human Resource
Development, Government of India, on the
recommendation made by the Expert Group appointed
by it under the chairmanship of Prof. N. Balakrishnan13.
Assam University Library has been identified as one of
the Resource Centre under JCCC programme. From the
year 2012 Document Delivery Service is being provided
by Assam University Library under JCCC@INDEST-
AICTE.

37. RESOURCE SHARING UNDER DELNET
• DELNET, the Developing Library Network, was initiated at the India
International Centre Library in January 1988 and was registered as a
society in 1992.
• It was initially supported by the National Information System for Science
and Technology (NISSAT), Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research, Government of India.
• It was later supported by the National Informatics Centre, Department of
Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology, Government of India and the Ministry of Culture, Government
of India.
• DELNET has been established with an aim to promote
resource sharing activities among the libraries. Besides providing
computer services to users, it also collects, stores and disseminates
information.
• DELNET, at present has 1945 numbers of members in India which includes
Assam University Library and 21 numbers of members abroad.

38. DATABASES OF DELNET AND NO. OF RECORDS
DELNET Database NO.OF RECORDS
Union Catalogue of Books-CCF 1,22,57,678
Union List of Current Periodicals 33,931
Union Catalogue of Periodicals 20,235
Database of Periodical Articles 9,22,042
CD-ROM Database 22,234
Union List of Video Recordings 6,000
Union List of Sound Recordings 1,025
Database of Theses and Dissertations 70,293
Union List of Newspapers 1,613

39. Contd…from slide 38
The other databases are: Database of E-Books and Profile of Member –Libraries.
DELNET provides access to:
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
• GISTNIC Databases
• MEDLINE & other Databases of NLM
• U.S. Patents: Full Text
• Full text medical Journals
• Open Access Journals
• Engineering and Technology E-Journals: Table of Contents
• Full Text Medical Books
• Full Text Engineering and Technology E-Journals
• Learning Resources for LIS Professionals
• Digital Libraries of the World
• Usage Statistics of digital resources of DELNET are not available.

40. CONCLUSION
• Resource Sharing and consortia arrangement of libraries is a cooperative activity.
• Libraries, with declining budgets and high cost of journals are under tremendous
pressure in subscribing to printed journals in order to serve the user community.
• Assam University is also facing such problems of financial crunch and escalating
cost of journals especially the foreign ones.
• In this context Library Consortia seems to be a boon not only for the libraries but
also for the users.
• The advantages of e-resources such as timely, retrospective and advanced search
features, easy to access, saves storage space, interactive, supports
multimedia, links to related references, unlimited in size etc. has made e-resources
more and more popular.
• This is evident by the increase in the usage rates of e-journals through UGC-
INFONET Consortium.
Assam University Library has still a long way to go in achieving its aims and
objectives in serving its clientele with better infrastructure and believed that the
use of e-resources will increase more in the coming years.

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