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7.1.4. Electronic Resources

The Consortium subscribes to electronic resources covering all major subject discipline being taught in
CFTIs, universities and colleges. It includes wide variety of materials including e-journals, bibliographic

databases, factual databases, reviews published by scholarly societies, university presses, institutions,
commercial publishers and aggregators. The member institutions are provided differential access to
these resources based on their needs and activity profile as per the decision of the National Steering
Committee of the Consortium. The list of e-resources available to various categories of institutions is
given in Appendix XI.

7.1.5. Archives and e-Books Purchased under e-Shodh Sindhu

The e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium also purchased / subscribed to South Asia Archives (SAA) and World E-
Book Library (WEL) on behalf of National Digital Library (NDL). The World e-Book Library include 3
million (30,00,000) primary sources spanning past 1,000 years of world history in more than 320
different languages. In addition, contemporary journal collections of WeL include scholarly journals and
academic articles from every academic field. The South Asia Archive contains more than 4.5 million
pages spanning the period of 18th and mid-20th century from documents across the Indian
subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The access to SAA and
WEL is available to all the institutions covered under the e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium as well as
institutions under other Govt. funded Consortium like CERA, DelCON, CSIR-NKRC, DRDO etc. The
access to both these resources is also available to individuals through the National Digital Library.

7.1.6. Major Achievements of e-Shodh Sindhu

I) Increase in Content Accessible to Each Category of Institutions: Total number of unique journal
titles subscribed under e-Shodh Sindhu increased to 11719 from 11064 (5.9% increase)

with substantial increase in access to journals for each categories of institutions as mentioned
below in Table 12:

% of Increase in
Categories of No. of Journal Titles
No. of Journals
Institutes
2015 2016 (eSS)
Universities 7847 8481 8.10
IITs 4277 7949 85.90
New IITs 494 3904 690.30
NITs* 504 3713 636.70
IISERs 460 3884 744.30

IIITs 1470 4416 200.40
IIMs 6034 9607 59.20
NITTRs 166 2764 1565.10
NIFFT 1426 4192 194.00

* Including SLIET, ISM and NERIST

Table 12: Increase in Content Accessible to Each Category of Institutions

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