Role of Consortia for Effective Use of e-resources in Higher Education: A Practical Approach in Indian Libraries

Consortia based access of e-resources has been provided in most of the Indian libraries of higher education and research institutes during last decade. In consortium mode, users are able to access adequate desired scholarly e-journals in Indian libraries. This paper provides brief overview of popular library consortiums of India. The present paper also describes the techniques to increase utilization of the e-resources. Various emerging technologies i.e. RSS feeds, Google Reader, Delicious etc have been demonstrated practically for effective utilization of eresources with minimum efforts. Findings of this paper highlighted emerging technologies and role of consortia for effective use of e-resources in Indian Libraries.