Indian Journal of Library and Information Sciences

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Application of ITC to the process of resource sharing made the consortium online. UGC-Infonet consortium is one of the land mark achievement in the field of higher education in India. It is only the  possible solution to the ever growing demand for information and ever decreasing the budget to the universities. UGC-Infonet is the E-consortium, the users can access the scientific and research articles on 7x24 hour basis on their desk  top. It provides around 5000 full text journals to the 150 universities in the Xth plan   and planning to cover all the remaining universities as well as to the 17,000 colleges in a phased manner in the XIth plan. At present it includes 25 databases to cover all fields of higher learning of relevance to universities including: Arts, humanities and social sciences, physical and chemical sciences, life sciences, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics.

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The core list of journals used by the users of all the four agricultural university libraries in Maharashtra was extracted by citations analysis of JMAU for the period 1996-2001. Rank list of journals with frequency of citations  was given. The top six journals from rank list were recommended to subscribe in all the libraries under study.
Key words : Citation analysis, sources used for JMAU, authors attitude for sources

The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India established 78 Environmental Information System (ENVIS) centres in different nodes such as governmental nodes, Institutional nodes and NGO nodes to provide environmental related information to scientists, policy planners and decision-makers all over India. This article explains the efforts of ENVIS Centres in dissemination of environmental information to various aspects in general and coastal ecosystem in particular based on the user’s benefits analysis.

Keywords : Information Dissemination, ENVIS, Coastal Ecosystem, Databases

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