| Nishy P
Coordinator, CSIR e-journals Consortium 14 Satsang Vihar Marg New Delhi 110 067 INDIA nishyp@niscair.res.in Phone : +91 11 26960465 |
Nishy P Number of office staff: approx. 120 library staff |
Brief description
As a result of constant decline of journals information base in CSIR labs, it was decided to setup E-Journals Consortium in 2001. Consequent upon, as a network project of CSIR implementation was entrusted to NISCAIR, New Delhi under its tenth five year plan. It aims at providing access to 4500 world-class e-journals to the CSIR personnel through pooling and sharing of resources. A beginning in this direction was made on 10th June 2002 with CSIR entering into an agreement with M/s Elsevier Science to e-access their 1500+ journals at an add-on cost of 9% of the subscription for the journals in print form. This initial move met with tremendous success- the e-access of 400 unique titles, which are being earlier subscribed in print form only, became about 15 times over a span of three years.
Based on success of first initiative, steps were taken to achieve the envisaged targets and the project was approved on 8th March 2004 for the 10th five year plan. The project ended its 10th plan period and agreements have been entered into with 19 publishers, facilitating access to 4500+ world-class e-journals, Patent databases, standards, bibliographic databases etc to all CSIR labs, as against the print base of 20-200 print journals.
The consortium has conducted awareness and training programmes; printed brochures and developed a web portal for enhancing the usage of e-resources among CSIR scientists. As a result the usage has been increased in terms of downloads from 11,000 to 3,85,000 full text articles. Consortium based access to information resources has facilitated substantial revenue saving to CSIR system. There was a significant growth in terms of number of papers and IF (Impact Factor) from CSIR which shows quantitative as well as qualitative improvement in Research output in the years following the access to e-journals through consortium.
Now the project has been approved in 11th five year plan for continuing access to the large pool of information resources and also to expand the resources base comparable to world’s leading institutions. In year 2009, autonomous institutions and professional bodies under Department of Science technology (DST) are also joined the consortium for accessing information resources. Now consortium has agreements 29 information products including journals, bibliographic databases, patents, standards and protocols.
Legal structure
Government-supported
Primary functions
Number and type of member libraries
56 Public, 6 Academic
Additional material/URLs
Last updated September 2009