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ii) Print / Core-Independent Subscription: Four publishers, namely Oxford University Press,

Emerald, AIP and APS have offered print–independent subscription to their entire collections of
journals for universities as well as for CFTIs. The CFTIs / universities can drop their print / core

subscription for these four publishers.

iii) Rates of Subscription Freezed at 2015 Level: Several publishers including, ACM Digital Library,
IEEE / IEL Online (Category I Institutions), ASME, ASCE, IoP, Annual Reviews, Elsevier Science,

Nature, Springer, Wiley, AIP, CUP, Taylor & Francis, etc. have offered their e-journals on the rates
applicable in 2015 without increase in annual subscription rates. In 2017, increase was restricted
from 0 to 4%.

iv) Decrease in Rates of Subscription for Increased Number of Institutions: Some publishers have
brought down their rates of subscription with increase in number of subscribing institutions. Such
publishers include: ABI / Inform, EPW, Web of Science, etc.

v) Upgraded Access to IEEE journals: IEEE access was upgraded to Level II for 34 Institutes including
IITs and NITs during 2017.

vi) Access to e-resources to Centrally-funded Technical Institutions at Rates applicable to

Universities: Project Muse, SIAM and Project Euclid have agreed to provide access to their
respective e-resources to CFTIs at rates applicable to universities.

vii) Applicability of TDS without Increase in Rates of Subscription: All publishers, including
university presses, scholarly societies and not-for-profit publishers have agreed for TDS deduction
without increase in subscription rates. It essentially means that 10 to 11% of total payments made

to the publishers is being recovered as tax from the publishers that was not applicable for INDEST
part of expenditure.

viii) Access to e-Resources to New Eligible Institutions: Consortium has proposed to extend access

of e-resources to new members of the e-Shodh Sindhu which includes 30 CFTIs, 13 universities and
1,000 colleges during the year 2017.

ix) Total Savings by eSS and Member Institutions: Total savings by the eSS and member

institutions is Rs. 30.55 crores (for the year 2016) which includes savings on no-increase in rates of
subscription and discontinuation of print subscription to OUP and Emerald journals by the

member institutions.

x) Meta data of all publishers’ journals are available to users through National Digital Library.

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