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PAPER ID:IJIM/V.2(VII)/278-282/38
AUTHOR: Nagaraja Chari Sharabhu and Dr. D. Ravinder
ABSTRACT: ICSSR took initiative to disseminate the social science knowledge and information by undertaking supporting activities and interventions through establishing network of libraries among its’ supported institutions under one umbrella. Under the Social Science Libraries Network, one of the major activities was consortia based subscription to e-journals with a major financial contribution from ICSSR. For the best utilization of library budgets with the option for a common purchasing and sharing of information resources among all institutes the consortia based subscription to e-resources has been initiated at ICSSR. The present study has been a keen analysis on the satisfactory remarks about the features and facilities of JSTOR consortia database between the library professionals and users of the selected institutes and found that on an average in all the features of the e-resources are acceptable with a positive response about its user friendly nature and enhanced the research output among the research fraternity.
KEYWORDS: Jstor, Online Databases, E-Resources, Icssr, Consortia
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