UGC- Infonet E-journal consortium: An Indian model for higher education

Abstract

UGC-Infonet consortium is one of the land mark achievement in the field of higher education in India. UGC-Infonet is the E-consortium, the users can access the scientific and research articles on 7×24 hour basis on their desk top. It provides 5,000 plus full text journals to the 176 universities in the Xth and Xlth planperiod and also planning to cover 6,000 colleges out of the 17,000 plus college in the year 2009. INFLIBNET has also the plan to cover the remaining universities and colleges in a phased manner before the end of the Xlth plan. At present it includes 20 full text database, 10 bibliographic and open access databases. These databases covers all most all fields of higher learning.