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The Table 14 given below, provide the cost per download of an article. The cost per download is lowest
for JSTOR (Rs.7.19) and the highest for Project Euclid (Rs. 362.69), whereas the Consortium average is
Rs. 83.30.

Sl. No. Resource Name Total FT Cost per Use

Downloads (in Rs.)
1 ACM Digital Library 199419 105.26

2 American Chemical Society 1686447 48.68
3 American Institute of Physics 600368 72.60
4 American Physical Society 179986 116.62
5 Annual Reviews 161313 164.55
6 ASCE Journals Online 235768 112.51

7 ASME Journals Online 217707 110.70
8 Emerald - CFTI/Univ Collection 516252 148.99
9 IEEE Explor 2595768 32.60
10 Institute of Physics 219066 147.31
11 JSTOR 3347417 7.19
12 Nature 372192 64.04

13 OSA Optics InfoBase 71831 91.39
14 Oxford University Press 478500 141.21
15 Portland Press 58752 66.02
16 Project Euclid 7001 362.39
17 Project Muse 147305 344.57
18 Proquest-ABI/Inform Complete 165286 54.92

19 Royal Society of Chemistry 756695 47.47
20 ScienceDirect - 10 Subject 7252021 103.62
Collections
21 SIAM 54088 311.67
22 Springer Link 1876265 135.70
23 Taylor and Francis 669075 104.57
24 Wiley Blackwell Publishing 1238905 136.51

Average Cost per Article 83.30

Table 14: Cost per Download for Full-Text e-Resources for the Year 2016

7.1.8.2. Correlation between Number of Downloads & Publication Pattern of Institutions

Since e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium is formed merging the INDEST-AICTE Consortium and the UGC-
INFONET Digital Library Consortium, the Consortium has made an analysis of correlation between the
number of full-text downloads and the publication pattern of botph these institutions as shown in Table

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