Ugc-Infonet: An Indian E-Journal Consortium model for higher education

Application of ITC to the process of resource sharing made the consortium online. UGC-Infonet consortium is one of the land mark achievement in the field of higher education in India. It is only the possible solution to the ever growing demand for information and ever decreasing the budget to the universities. UGC-Infonet is the E-consortium, the users can access the scientific and research articles on 7 × 24 hour basis on their desk top. It provides around 5000 full text journals to the 150 universities in the Xth plan and planning to cover all the remaining universities as well as to the 17,000 colleges in a phased manner in the XIth plan. At present it includes 25 databases to cover all fields of higher learning of relevance to universities including: Arts, humanities and social sciences, physical and chemical sciences, life sciences computer science, mathematics, statistics.