e-Shodh Sindhu: The New Consortium

e-Shodh Sindhu

Based on the recommendation of an Expert Committee, the MHRD has formed e-Shodh Sindhu merging three consortia initiatives, namely UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium.The e-Shodh Sindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.

Aims and Objectives

The main objective of the e-Shodh Sindu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources is to provide access to qualitative electronic resources including full-text, bibliographic and factual databases to academic institutions at a lower rates of subscription. The major aims and objectives of the e-Shodh Sindhu are as follows:

1. Setting-up e-Shodh Sindu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources by augmenting and strengthening activities and services offered by three MHRD-funded Consortia;
2. Develop a formidable collection of e-journals, e-journal archives and e-books on perpetual access basis;
3. Monitor and promote usage of e-resources in member universities, colleges and technical institutions in India through awareness and training programmes;
4. Provide access to subscription-based scholarly information (e-books and e-journals) to all educational institutions;
5. Provide access to scholarly content available in open access through subject portals and subject gateways;
6. Bridge digital divide and move towards an information-rich society;
7. Provide access to selected e-resources to additional institutions including open universities and MHRD-funded institutions that are not covered under existing consortia;
8. Take-up additional activities and services that require collaborative platform and are not being performed by existing Consortia; and
9. Moving towards developing a National Electronic Library with electronic journals and electronic books as its major building blocks.

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