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7.2.7.1. Cost Recovery

The recovery of cost incurred on e-resources subscribed through the N-LIST Programme can be judged
in terms of intensity of use of resources. The cost recovery is calculated on the presumption that if the
electronic resources were not available through the N-LIST programme, articles downloaded from
these resources by the member colleges would have been sourced on inter-library loan or through
document delivery services at a cost of US $ 15.00 per article. (Average cost of article taken from a study

conducted by the American Research Libraries (ARL). As is evident from the figure 34 given below that
the N-LIST Programme has recovered the cost incurred on subscription for all e-resources.

The total cost that has been recovered for the year 2016 amounts to Rs. 147.89 crores as against the total
expenditure of Rs. 7.93 crores with Rs. 139.96 crores as the cost of articles downloaded in excess.

1000

147.89 139.96
Rs. in Crores 10 7.93
100

1
Amount Spend Cost Recovered Difference

Fig.34: Cost Recovery Factor of e-Journals Subscribed under the N-LIST Programme for 2016

7.2.7.2. Lower Rates of Subscription

The N-LIST programme has used a highly innovative pricing model for subscription to e-resources
wherein one subscription (equivalent to one subscription paid for a university under e-Shodh Sindhu) is
paid for a set of 200 colleges given the fact that extending the prevalent pricing models to college would

have been highly expensive, unaffordable and impractical for the college component of the N-LIST
Programme. As such, a total number of 19 subscriptions (on prorate basis) were paid for 3,800 colleges
during the financial year under report.

7.2.7.3. Cost Avoidance

Cost avoidance is calculated in terms of difference in cost paid by the N-LIST programme for colleges

and list price of e-resources including e-journals and e-books. Figure 35 given below shows that there is a
notional savings of Rs. 13,318.70 crores considering the fact that the same sets of resources on list price
would have cost Rs. 13,326.95 crores as against Rs. 8.26 crores spent under the N-LIST programme for
the year 2016.

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