期刊名称：DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology
电子版ISSN：0976-4658
出版年度：2010
卷号：30
期号：2
页码：79-91
语种：English
出版社：DESIDOC, Ministry of Defence, India
摘要：The INDEST-AICTE Consortium, launched in 2003, provides differential access to 12,000 electronic journals and six bibliographic databases from a number of publishers and aggregators to 48 centrally-funded technical institutions, 60 government and government-aided engineering colleges and 820 private engineering colleges, and other organisations. The article describes major functions, activities and services of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium. It briefly touches upon resources subscribed, terms of licenses, policies and practices for archival back-ups, membership programmes including core members, AICTE-supported institutions, and self-supported category of membership. The article outlines governing structures of the Consortium and their roles. It elaborates on strategies used for effective implementation of Consortia amongst member institutions. It briefly touches upon the economics of the Consortium and spells out it future endeavours. DOI: 10.14429/djlit.30.9
