Aggregation of Library Resources in the Digital World: A One-Stop Shop

With the arrival of the network and digital age, the library's holdings of resources have undergone a drastic change in which the proportion of digital resources occupies an instant increase. This article discusses the need for integration of distributed islands of knowledge, i.e., online journals, scattered OA literature, digital repositories, websites, blogs, OA journals, etc., to provide a one-stop shop access to users with the use of existing technologies and techniques. Several integrated models of digital resources that are suitable for libraries have been proposed.