DBT’s e-Library Consortium

(DeLCON) : A National Consortium of Biotechnology by

Department of Biotechnology (DBT),

Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India

D.D.Lal

(DeLCON Coordinator)

DBT’s Electronic Library Consortium (DeLCON)

NBRC, NH-08, Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana. India

Email : ddlal@nbrc.ac.in; ddlal.delcon@nic.in;

Website : http://delcon.gov.in

IntroductionThe Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India launched its e-Library Consortium in January 2009. The consortium commenced with 10 DBT core research institutions including DBT (HQ) and ICGEB, New Delhi.

Introduction (.. Contd....)

Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India has currently fourteen (14) research institutions under its fold. All these institutions have separate libraries to cater to the information, both hard copy and electronic, needs of their researchers.

In order to provide information input for research, these libraries have been subscribing to a large number of e-journals and other resources.

Separate subscription by each institute amounted to a vast amount of expenditure and there were many avoidable duplication of resources.

Purpose of the Consortium Approach in DBT Institutions

Information explosion Diversity of user needs Financial crunch Impossibility of self-sufficiency

1. Most of DBT Institutions Libraries were

facing problems of Shrinking of Budget

2. Ever-Growing Users Requirements

3. Escalation of cost of Journals and Books

4. Unprecedented technological

advancement especially in the field of

information storage and retrieval

NEED of the DeLCON CONSORTIUM

DeLCON Consortium

The DDBT's eeLectronic LLibrary

CONCONsortium called as "DeLCON".

The ‘DBT e-Library Consortium’

(DeLCON) has now covered 917 online

resources with 20 International

Publishers.

Now the existing members of the

‘DeLCON Consortium’ are 33

Institutions.

Formulation Covered Under DeLCON Consortia

Cost Effectiveness

DeLCON Formulation

Identification Infrastructures Needs

Practical

LicensingIssues

FundingNegotiation &Subscriptions

Sharing Resources,

Risk / Success

Programs

Service

Access Controls

Quality Improvement

Staffing

Payment Issues

DeLCON DeLCON Features Features

and Accessand AccessFacilitiesFacilities

1. Save physical storage space / Save Cost

2. Users don’t need to visit Library

3. No lost or Damage of Titles

4. Can Provide Adjustable Fonts etc. for Disabled

Users

5. Instant Delivery of Purchased Items / Instant

availability of Items

6. Can be used to provide access to out of print

materials

7. Allows Access Over LAN (IP Based) throughout

in Campus

9. IP based in Institution / Full Access without

password

10. Can be used simultaneously by more than

one user

11. Provide Round the Clock access Online

(24X7X365 Formula)

12. Supports different searching capabilities

13. Accommodate unique features (e.g. Link to

related items, reference linking)

14. Can support multimedia information

15. Inter Library Loan (ILL) Facilities for

Research Works

16.Environment Friendly

17.Provide timely access

18.Automatically generate alerting and other

secondary services

19.Do not required physical processing

20.Speed of publication and quick delivery than

the print

21.Search / Advance Search / Key Word Search /

Full Text (.pdf) Downloadable

22.Searching, Downloading & Printing relevant

materials by end users

23.Browse / Archive Back Volumes from Vol. 1

Issues 1 or from 1995

DeLCON Consortium - 2009

DELCON CONSORITUM

(2009)

10 DBT Inst. (8 DBT Inst.+ DBT H.Q. +

ICGEB)

899 Online Resources

16 Publishers

DeLCON Consortium - 2010DeLCON

Extended New Phase-II

(2010)

Added 15 NER +

BIRAP +WT)

Added 18 New Online Resources

Added 4 NewPublishers

27 DBT Memb. 917 Online Resources

20 Publishers

DeLCON Consortium - 2011DeLCON

Extended New Phase-III

(2011)

Added 3 NER Inst.+ 4 DBT Inst)

NO New

Resources

NO NewPublishers

33 DBT Memb. 917 Online Resources

20 Publishers

DeLCON Consortium - 2012

DeLCON Consortium - 2013

DeLCON DeLCON MEMEBERMEMEBER

SSPhase-Phase-WiseWise

DeLCON Phase – I Members = 10 (In 2009)

1. National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar

2. Department of Biotechnology, (DBT), New Delhi

3. National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi

4. National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR),

New Delhi

5. National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune,

Maharashtra

6. Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar

7. Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development

(IBSD), Imphal, Manipur

8. Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD),

Hyderabad

9. Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB),

Thiruvananthapuram

10.International Centre for Genome Engineering and

Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi

DeLCON Phase-II Members = 16 (Added in 2010)1. Assam University, Silchar, Assam

2. College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati

3. College of Veterinary Sci. & A.H. Central Agricultural University, Aizawl, Mizoram

4. D. M. College of Science, Imphal, Manipur

5. Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh

6. Guwahati University, Guwahati

7. Manipur University, Imphal

8. Mizoram University, Mizoram

9. Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland

10. North Eastern Hill University, Shillong

11. North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Arunachal Pradesh

12. North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat, Assam

13. Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh

14. Sikkim University, Gagtok

15. St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya

16. Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Program (BIRAP), New Delhi

DeLCON Phase-III Members = 07 (Added in 2011)

1. National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali,

Punjab.

2. Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Gurgaon.

3. Translational Health Science & Technology Institute

(THSTI), Gurgaon

4. National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NABMG),

Kalyani, Kolkata.

(NER-Institution)

1. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.

2. Tezpur University, (TU) Assam.

3. Sikkim State Council of Science & Technology (SSCST),

Sikkim.

DeLCON Members = 33 (All Merged in 2012)

1. DeLCON Merged all the Phases in the Year 2012.

(2013)

1. Replaced Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance

Programme (BIRAP)’ with National Institute of Animal

Biotechnology, Hyderabad

2. National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB),

Hyderabad is a New DBT Institution recently established

at Hyderabad.

DeLCON DeLCON e-e-

ReSourceReSourcess

DeLCON CONSORTIUM COVERED 917 e-DeLCON CONSORTIUM COVERED 917 e-JournalsJournals1 Am. Assoc. for Advancement of

Science

http://www.sciencemag.org (3 Journal)

2 Am. Association for Cancer Research http://www.aacr.org (8 Journals)

3 American Chemical Society (ACS) http://pubs.acs.org (37 Journals

4 Annual Reviews http://www.annualreviews.org (23 Journals)

5 Am. Soc. for Biochem. & Molecular

Biology

http:///www.jbc.org (2 Journal)

6 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press http://www.cshl.edu (4 Journals)

7 Informa Healthcare / Taylor and

Francis

http://www.informaworld.com (7 Journals)

8 Lippincott (LWW)/Wolter & Kluwer/

OVID

http://ovidsp.ovid.com (11 Journals)

9 Marry ANN Liebert http://www.liebertonline.com (7 Journals)

10 Nature Publications http://www.nature.com (40 Journals)

11 Oxford University Press (OUP) http://www.oxfordjournals.org (18 Journals)

12 Springer India http://www.springerlink.com (237 Journals)

13 Society for General Microbiology http://mic.sgmjournals.org (3 Journals)

14 Society for Hematology http://

bloodjournals.hematologylibrary.org

(1 Journal)

15 Wiley-Blackwell http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/

home

(86 Journals)

16 Elsevier Science (ScienceDirect) http://www.sciencedirect.com (415 Journals)

17 Am. Society for Microbiology (ASM) http://www.asm.org (11 Journals)

18

19

Am. Association of Immunology (AAI)

Am. Association for Plant Biologist

http://www.aai.org

http://www.aspb.org

(01 Journal)

(02 Journals)

20 SCOPUS Database http://www.scopus.com (1 Database)

1. No Print Journals Under ‘DeLCON Consortium’

2. Stopped Print Journals by DBT Institutions, So, avoided

Duplication and saved Money

3. Maintaining Print is not compulsory for DeLCON or

Member

4. Freedom to DeLCON Members (DBT Institutions) to go for

print (Individually) on Deep Discount Pricing, if they want,

separately from DeLCON

5. Adjustment (or refund) of Paid subscription by DBT

Institution were taken care by DeLCON during the

subscription in the year 2009.

PRINT JOURNALS & PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONPRINT JOURNALS & PRINT SUBSCRIPTION

1. Minimum Three to Six (3-6) Months Free

Trials Were Compulsory for all the

Publishers

2. All DBT Institutions (Phase-I, Phase-II &

Phase-III) experienced at least 3 months

Free Trials Access for each of Journals,

which were covered under DeLCON.

FREE TRIALSFREE TRIALS

New Journals Added 2013

New Journals Added

1. New England Journal of Medicine

1. PNAS

1. Back Volumes Access from Vol. 1 / Issues 1 by

Society Publishers

2. Back Volumes Access from 1995 onwards by

Commercial Publishers (Without any

additional cost)

1. Most of Society Publishers provided perpetual

access form the Vol.1/Issues 1

2. Commercial Publishers Given Perpetual

Access for Subscribed Years

BACK VOLUMES & PERPETUAL BACK VOLUMES & PERPETUAL ACCESSACCESS

1.Payment in ‘Foreign Currency’ to ‘Foreign Publishers’ or actual publisher only.

2.Credit Periods for Payment 180 days

3.No Late Fees & Interest on late payment

4.All the payment via Wire Transfer / Bank Transfer directly to original / actual foreign publisher

PAYMENT ISSUESPAYMENT ISSUES

One Remote Username and Password (Off Campus Access) for Each of Member for travelling Scientists

Administrative Password to Consortium Manager

Possibilities to exchange (close / replace) Journals which are not useful.

OTHER ISSUESOTHER ISSUES

1. Selections based on usage / suitability of e-

resources to DBT Institutions.

2. Nodal Officer’s Feedback & Requests

3. Minimum Recommendations of 3-5 DBT

Institutions

4. Recommendations of DeLCON Expert Committee

5. Based on Funds Availability.

6. Terms and Conditions should be suitable with

Publishers

7. Perpetual Access & Back Volumes access

8. Publishers Discount offer and Negotiation.

Criteria for Selection of ‘DeLCON Journals’

PRISING MODELPRISING MODEL

The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ not

prefer to go as ‘FTE’ Model.

Subject CoverageSubject CoverageUnder DeLCON Under DeLCON

ConsortiumConsortium

SUBJECT COVERAGE UNDER DeLCON

LIFE SCIENCES

1. BIOTECHNOLOGY,

2. BIOINFORMATICS

3. BIOCHEMISTRY

4. BIOLOGY/ CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

5. IMMUNOLOGY

6. NEUROSCIENCE

7. PLANT GENOME

8. PLANT BIOLOGY

9. MICROBIOLOGY

10. PHYSIOLOGY / PSYCHOLOGY

11. PHYSIOTHERAPY

12. GENOME / GENE / GENETICS

13. MATHEMATICS

14. PHYSICS

15. CHEMISTRY

16. RADIOLOGY

17. MEDICINES

18. COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

19. CELL BIOLOGY & CELL SC.

20. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

21. MOLECULAR & CELLULAR

BIOLOGY

22. VETERINARY SCIENCES

23. COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSC.

24. SYSTEM NEUROSCIENCE

Budgets, Funds & Budgets, Funds & Management Management

The Department of Biotechnology

(DBT), Govt. of India, is

funding & Monitoring to

‘DeLCON Consortium’.

DeLCON Monitoring & DeLCON Monitoring & CommitteesCommittees

1. National DeLCON Steering Cum

Negotiation Committee

2. National DeLCON Sub-Committee

3. National DeLCON Monitoring Committee

4. National DeLCON Review Committee

PROGRESS & DEVELOPMENT OF

DELCON CONSORTIUM :: –>

‘MILESTONE OF DeLCON

Consortium’

‘‘DELCON DELCON CONSORTIUM’ CONSORTIUM’

4 Years 4 Years JourneyJourney

(2009-2012)’(2009-2012)’

DeLCON Covered 899 Online Journals in the

Year 2009 & in the Year 2010 added 18 New e-Resources &

Now, the total Covered DeLCON Journals

are 917.

Included 17 Members in ‘DeLCON’ (Including 15 NER Institutions, Wellcome Trust - Hyderabad &

BIRAP-New Delhi (in the Yr 2010).

Further, added 7 Institutions (4 DBT Institutions & 3 NER – Institutions) in the year 2011.

Merged all Phases in the Year 2012

RECENT UPDATION

UNDER ‘DELCON

CONSORTIUM’

1.DeLCON Consortium Completed 4 Years

(2009-2012) successfully.

2.All the Phases of DeLCON (such as Ph.I,

Ph.II & Ph.III) are now merged as a

Single ‘DeLCON Consortium’ from 2012.

3.DBT has re-constituted the ‘DeLCON

National Steering-cum-Negotiation

Committee’ in 2012.

NEW UPDATES under ‘DeLCON Consortium’

1. Prof. B. Ravindran, Chairperson DeLCON & Director ILS,

Bhubaneswar

2. Prof. Subrata Sinha, (Director, NBRC), Manesar

3. Dr. T. Madhan Mohan, (Adviser, DBT), New Delhi

4. Smt. Anuradha Mitra, (JS&FA, DBT), New Delhi

5. All the Directors of DBT Institution or their representatives

6. Dr. Jagdish Arora, (Director, INFLIBNET), Ahmedabad

7. Dr. R. R. Hirwani, (Director, CSIR-URDIP), Pune

8. Dr. Summan Mallik, (Dy. Director), CDRI, Lucknow

9. Sh. Sanjay Goel, (Director, IFD, DBT), New Delhi

10. Dr. Probodh Borah, (Scientist, CVS-AAU), Guwahati, Assam

11. Dr. S. Sureshkumar Singh, (Scientist,NERIST), Arunachal Pradesh

12. Dr. Gulshan Wadhwa, (PSO, DBT), New Delhi

13. Sh. Vinod Kumar, (Dy. Manager, BCIL), New Delhi

14. D. D. Lal, (NBRC), Manesar

Recent ‘DeLCON National Steering-cum-Recent ‘DeLCON National Steering-cum-Negotiation Committee’ MembersNegotiation Committee’ Members

DBT’s E-LIBRARY CONSORTIUM (DeLCON) Website Was Initially hosted at NBRC Website:

http://www.nbrc.ac.in/delcon/

Further DeLCON Website Developed by INFFLIBNET and the existing Website : http://delcon.gov.in/

DeLCON Consortium DeLCON Consortium ManagementManagement

1. Presently, under DeLCON Consortium, 33

Institutions, 20 Publishers, 917 online

resources are Involved.

2. NBRC is Managing ‘DeLCON Consortium’ since

Year 2009

3. DeLCON Website Management

4. Payment & Funds Management

5. Usage Statistics Management

6. IP Update Management

7. Password Management

Future Plan of DeLCON

Consortium

Now extended the DeLCON Consortium for next 3 years (2013-2015)

Separate Funds Arrangements / Allocation for DeLCON

No deduction of any funds from any of the Institutional Budgets

Now, DeLCON Consortium will function as a Programme Mode (DeLCON Cell)

Future Plan of DeLCON Future Plan of DeLCON 2013.. 2013..

Addition / deletion of e-resources those are not useful

Additional Funds Arrangement for New resources

More Training Programme / Seminar / Conference / Workshop to promote use of DeLCON e-Resources

Additional Manpower for DeLCON

Future Plan of DeLCON Future Plan of DeLCON 2013.. 2013..

Regular Quarterly meeting with Nodal Officers to resolve their queries / feedback & interactions with Nodal Officers

Setup of Video Conferencing to resolve the issues / Problems of Members

Institutional demands / needs

Signing of MOU / MOA Among the DeLCON Members

Future Plan of DeLCON Future Plan of DeLCON 2013.. 2013..

Signing of multiples years (3 years) License Agreement with publishers

Development of Federated Search Engines

Cross Sharing of Institutional Resources basis on Interlibrary Library Loan

Future Plan of DeLCON Future Plan of DeLCON 2013.. 2013..

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INSTITUTIONSINSTITUTIONS Very muchVery much

INTERESTED INTERESTED to be a part to be a part of of ‘DeLCON’‘DeLCON’

53

REQUESTREQUEST RECEIVED RECEIVED ININ ‘2010- ‘2010-

20112011’’

54

SANT GADGE BABA AMRAVATI UNIVERSITY, AMRAVATI, MAHARSTRA

Website: http://www.sgbau.ac.in/

55

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New DelhiWebsite : http://www.sgrh.com

56

Amrita School of Biotechnology, Kollam, KeralaWebsite: http://www.amrita.edu

57

Lady Doak College, Madurai, TamilnaduWebsite: http://www.ladydoak.org

58

PUNJAB UNIVERSITY CHANDIGARHWebsite: http://www.puchd.ac.in/

59

Central Coir Research Institute, Alappuzha, Kerala

Website: http://www.ccriindia.org

60

BIRLA Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand

http://www.bitmesra.ac.in

61

Regional Cancer Centre, ThiruvananthapuramWebsite: http://www.rcctvm.org

62

Barwale Knowledge and Study Centre, Jalna, Maharastra

Website: http://www.barwalefoundation.org/html

63

Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, Himachal Pradesh

Website: http://www.juit.ac.in/

REQUESTREQUEST RECEIVED RECEIVED ININ ‘2012’ ‘2012’

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat

Website: http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/

66

Tea Research Association, Jorhat AssamWebsite: http://jorhat.nic.in/ttc.htm

6767

National Institute of Technology, CalicutWebsite: http://www.nitc.ac.in/

68

Central University of GujaratWebsite: http://www.cug.ac.in/

696969

NIRMA UNIVERSITY, GujaratWebsite: http://www.nirmauni.ac.in/

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, SAS Nagar,

MohaliWebsite: http://www.niper.gov.in/

Tripura University, Tripurahttp://www.tripurauniv.in/

Pune University, Pune http://www.unipune.ac.in/

Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

http://www.pondiuni.edu.in/

Advance Centre for Treatment Research & Education in Cancer (Tata Memorial Hospital),

Mumbaihttp://tmc.gov.in/

South Asian University, New Delhihttp://www.southasianuniversity.org/

REQUESTREQUEST RECEIVED RECEIVED ININ ‘2013’ ‘2013’

National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi

http://www.nihfw.org/

Bioinformatics Centre, Biotech Park, Lucknowhttp://www.biotechpark.org.in/index1.htm

Rangia College, Assamhttp://www.rangiacollege.org/

ConclusionsConclusions The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ is resources-sharing Organization

formed by DBT.

The DBT e-Library Consortium is an association established

by formal agreement, usually for the purpose of improving

services through resource sharing among its members.

The DeLCON Consortium is at the doorsteps to prove the library

cooperation locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

The DeLCON Consortium with its collective strength of

participating Institutions, has attracted highly discounted rates of

subscription with most favourable terms of agreement.

The DeLCON Consortium exploiting the features of the e-journals

as well as in effecting savings.

HOW TO ACCESS

‘DeLCON CONSORTIUM’ WEBSITE

http://delcon.gov.in

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