The university grants commission (UGC) has decided to provide expensive e-journals free of cost to the research scholars from 12th Plan starting from April 2012. The decision is aimed at promoting research among students. It is to be noted that UGC had been giving subscriptions to the universities for various e-journals such as science, direct through partial payment and has now asked the government to make available these journals free of cost under the N-LIST scheme (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure).
"The students of science will surely get advantage from these e-journals and can use them for their research work," said A K Nagawat, director of infonet in University of Rajasthan (RU).Speaking on the issue, a UGC official said that high quality teaching and research essentially depends on the access to latest information which should be available to a teacher and hence UGC wants to provide journals without cost for two years and will be available on a subsided rate for subsequent years. However, the UGC -Infonet digital library consortium for access to e-journals project on monthly contribution of Rs 5,000 received a lukewarm response.” The issue with the institutions is not the shortage of fund but there is an inherent lethargy in the system that causes under-utilization of such schemes of the UGC," said the UGC official.
[Source: Daily Bhaskar]
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