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correlation, 0 is no linear correlation, and “1 is total negative linear correlation. The Figure 25 and Figure
26 given above reflect significant increase in the number of research publications in various disciplines

since the beginning of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The Pearson correlation
coefficient for UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium is 0.9563 and for INDEST AICTE Consortium is
0.8867. This indicates that there is a strong and positive correlation between these two variables.

7.1.9. Document Delivery through J-Gate Plus@ e-Shodh Sindhu

The J-Gate Plus@e-Shodh Sindhu is a virtual library of journals literature created as a customized e-

journal articles access gateway and database solution for member institutions of e-Shodh Sindhu. It
provides article level access to e-journals subscribed under the Consortium as well as e-journals
subscribed by 26 university libraries designated as ILL Centres of the INFLIBNET Centre. Moreover,
inceasing number of CFTIs are now contributing their journal subscription details in the J-Gate Plus. It
acts as a gateway to search 47,000+ journals including 25,000+ journals subscribed by the Consortium as
well as universities designated as ILL Centres. The J-Gate Plus interface facilitates triggering of e-mail

request for articles that are not accessible online and are available only in universities designated as ILL
Centres.

During the period under report, 778 ILL requests were received from member universities to the
INFLIBNET Centre out of which 739 requests were fulfilled. Details of numbers of article requests
received from member universities are given below in Table 17:

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Sl. DDR - DDR
Requested By DDR -F DDR -P Total
No. DU UF
1 Annamalai University Library 4 109 0 0 113
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Library -
2 0 96 0 1 97
Acharya Nagarjuna University
3 Tata Institute of Social Sciences 1 55 0 0 56
4 Mohanlal Sukhadia University 1 27 0 0 28
5 Alagappa University 0 22 0 1 23
6 Manonmaniam Sundaranar University 0 19 0 0 19
7 Sikkim University 0 18 0 0 18
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher
8 0 15 0 1 16
Learning
9 Barkatullah University 0 15 0 0 15
10 Gurukula Kangri Vishwavidyalaya 0 15 0 0 15
Indian Institute of Technology -
11 0 15 0 0 15
Kharagpur
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science
12 0 14 0 0 14
& Technology
13 Periyar University 0 13 0 0 13
14 Gulbarga University 0 11 0 1 12

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