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Resource sharing through consortia: A case of
National Knowledge Resource Consortia
(NKRC)
by
M. Manjunath
Monthly presentation: September 5, 2011
Introduction
Journals are a vital source of information for the scientific
research and development. The number of periodicals at
present is estimated to be 250,000. Of these, 25,000 are
scientific, technical and medical (STM) journals, 15,000
are refereed scholarly periodicals and 12,000 are
refereed scholarly periodicals which are available online.
Journal titles are growing three folds every 15 years and
their cost, 2.5 times every 10 years. Obviously, no single
library can afford to procure all journals even in a single
discipline. With the emergence of IT applications,
Introduction ..
particularly Internet, there has been a major shift
from traditional print journals to electronic journals
(e-journals) in view of many advantages of the latter,
i.e. fast, easy, ‘anywhere-anytime’ accessibility,
sharability, hyperlink facility to related texts, cost
effectiveness and obviation of the storage problem
encountered in the case of print journals. As a result,
the number of e-journals is fast growing and at
present 15,000 are available in S&T areas alone.
DST CONSORTIUM
An exercise by DST in forming the consortium was initiated during2006
DST decided to join the CSIR E-Journals Consortium
Action was initiated and DST Working Group was formed – 25th June2008
DST Representatives joined CSIR Representatives for negotiationsin various meetings with publishers – 25th June and 27th Aug, 2008,NISCAIR, CSIR, New Delhi
DST Working Group had its first meeting on 25th August 2008 at RRI,Bangalore and looked into various modalities, terms and conditionsfor joining the CSIR Consortium.
DST CONSORTIUM …
On DST’s decision to join CSIR Consortium, the Working
Group started working on collecting information on Serials
Subscription details from each DST Institution;
A complete list of journals and databases holdings was compiled
including journals subscribed in 2008;
About 22 major publishers were identified from whom 678 (with
multiple copies – 1468 nos.) titles were subscribed by DST
institutes libraries;
DST CONSORTIUM …
With other publishers, journals subscribed were 277 nos. (with multiple tiles – 386)
The total journals subscribed – 955 with multiple copies – 1422
The total cost for DST Libraries spending for foreign journals was ofthe order of Rs. 18.00 crores;
24 databases were subscribed costing 3.58 crores from 17publishers, notable among them are: ACS journal Archive, CeramicAbstracts Delphion, JSTOR, PROLA, SciFinder, Science Direct,SCOPUS, Scientific American Online, Web of Science, etc.
TABLE 1 : Publishers-wise Journals details
Name of publisher No of journals subscribed /no of copies No of Institutions Approximate paid in Rs
American Chemical Society 28;68 9 6525018
Americna Geophysics Union 15;26 5 2398970
AIP/APS 24;94 12 12909693
American Soc for Microbiology 16;19 7 1219528
Annual Reviews Inc. 12;15 7 153782
Black Well Publishers 62;78 14 8740480
Cambridge University Press 12;13 11 580938
Elsevier 185;232 16 32455368
I O P 46;83 11 9831830
John Wiley 33;37 13 6495928
Lipincot 18;18 2 1571237
Nature Publishing 27;61 16 6436379
Optical Society of America 5;12 4 1300027
Oxford University Press 41;46 9 2064875
Royal Society Chemistry 15;24 6 2480559
Sage Publishers 7;8 6 440525
Springer 71;96 19 15788692
Taylor and Francis 28;39 18 16133081
Univ of Chicago Press 6;10 7 495640
World Scientific 9;13 6 976185
Databases 24;44 14 35656213
Other Publishers 277;386 19 14769179
Table 2 : Major Databases SubscribedSl.
No.Name of Journal Publisher
No. of
InstitutesSubscribed
1 ACS Journal Archives ACS 4
2 PROLA AIP 4
3 SciFinder ScholarChemical Abstracts
Services2
4 Scientific American Archive Online EBSCO 2
5Science Direct - Materials Sci Jou
CollectionsElesevier 2
6 Science Direct Elsevier 3
7Science Direct - Earth & Planetary Sci
CollectionElsevier 2
8 SCOPUS Elsevier 2
9 Web of Science ISI 5
10 JSTOR-Gen Science Collection JSTOR 3
11 Ceramic Abstracts ProQuest 3
12 Delphion (Patent Database) 2
Table 3: Institutional Subscription
Name of Institution
No of Journals
subscribed
No of databases
subscribed
Total amont paid in
rupees
Ranking
Ascending Order
Indian Assocation for Cultivatin Science 141 3 39481866 1
Bose Institute 270 6 29326688 2
JNCASR Library 109 3 18022111 3
S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences 124 3 15077572 4
Raman Research Institute 139 5 12032000 5
Agharkar Research Institute 44 3 8324002 6
ARCI 20 3 7495878 7
Indian Institute of Astrophysics 137 7 7179896 8Sree Chitra Tirunal Inst for Medical Sci &Tech. 130
nil
5589277 9
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism 64 2 4550953 10
Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany 77 nil 4488120 11
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology 75 nil 4344796 12
ARIES 8 nil 3814703 13
D S T Library 61 nil 2911875 14
Techn Inf Forecasting & Assessment (Tifac) 38 961613 15
Indian National Science Academy 42 nil 918835 16
Centre for Liquid Crystal Research 11 nil 909207 17
Indian Science Congress Assocation 25 nil 414694 18
National Academy of Science, India 8 nil 201686 19
Vigyan Prasar 4 nil 21138 20
Table 4:
Number of Journals Subscribed by DST Institutes
1 – 20 4 ARIES, CLCR, NASI, Vigyan Prasar,
21-50 5 ARCI, ARI, INSA ISCA, TIFAC
51-100 4 BSIP, DST, IIGM, WIHG
101-150 6 IACS, IIAP, JNCASR RRI,
SCTIMST, SNBNCBS
150-300 1 BI
Table 5: No. of Publishers with whom negotiations are being done Publisher Product CSIR DST
Wiley-Blackwell Print + Online To be negotiated To be negotiated
Springer " negotiated "
AIP Online only negotiated "
ASCE Online only negotiated same pricing
ASME Online only negotiated same pricing
ACS Print + Online negotiated To be negotiated
CUP Print + Online negotiated same pricing
OUP Print + Online negotiated same pricing
RSC Print + Online negotiated To be negotiated
Taylor & Francis Print + Online negotiated To be negotiated
Emereald Print + Online negotiated To be negotiated
IEEE Online only negotiated To be negotiated
ACM Online only negotiated same pricing
Nature Online only negotiated To be negotiated
Elsevier Print + Online negotiated To be negotiated
Web of Science Online only negotiated same pricing
Derwent Innovation Index Online only negotiated same pricing
Delphion Online only negotiated same pricing
ASTM Standards _ per site same pricing
Indian Standards _ per site same pricing
National Knowledge Resource Consortium:
Financial resource is a great cause of concern in these days of shrinking budget, cost escalation and information explosion for any given library. Consortia are a boon to librarians in the digital environment enhancing the power of online access to a variety of information resources. CSIR e-journal consortium started in the year 2002.
DST funded autonomous organizations joined this consortia in April 2009. This CSIR-DST consortium was renamed as "National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC)". Since RRI is a DST funded autonomous organization, RRI library has become a major player in this consortium activity.
National Knowledge Resource Consortium…
Participants - 39 CSIR labs and 27 DST funded institutes
Publishers – products of 17 publishers are shared amongthe consortium participants.
Online access to 4000 journals are available since 1997.
Databases like SciFinder Scholar and Web of
Science are made accessible through this consortium.
NKRC …
Legal structure
Government-supported
Primary functions
Electronic content licensing
Electronic content loading/presentation
Interlibrary loan/document delivery
Training
Union lists/shared online catalogs
Number and type of member libraries: 56 Public, 6 Academies
CSIR Labs
1. Biological Sciences
• Centre For Biochemical Technology (CBT), Delhi • Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad• Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow• Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore • Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants (CIMAP), Lucknow• Indian Institute of Chemical Biology (IICB), Calcutta • Institute of Microbial Technology (IMT), Chandigarh • Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow - 226001 • National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow -226001 • Regional Research Laboratory (RRL,JM), Jammu Tawi – 180001 • Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technolonogy (IHBT), Palampur
CSIR Labs ..
2. Chemical Sciences • Central Electrochemical Research (CECRI), Karaikudi• Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), Madras • Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute(CSMCRI),
Bhavnagar • Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad • Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP), Dehradun• National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune• Regional Research Laboratory (RRL,JOR), P.O. Jorhat• National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune• Regional Research Laboratory (RRL,JOR), P.O. Jorhat
CSIR Labs …
3. Engineering Sciences
• Central Mining Research Institute (CMRI), Dhanbad
• Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi
• National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), Bangalore
• National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur
• National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur
• Regional Research Laboratory (RRL,BHO), Bhopal
• Regional Research Laboratory (RRL,BHU), Bhubaneshwar
• Regional Research Laboratory (RRL,TVM), Triuvananthapuram
• Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC-G), Ghaziabad
• Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC-C), Madras
• Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee
• Central Fuel Research Institute (CFRI), Dhanbad
• Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Calcutta
• Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur
CSIR Labs …
4. Information Sciences
• National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR), New Delhi
• National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (NISTADS)
5. Physical Sciences
• Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI) Pilani
• Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh
• National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), Hyderabad
• National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi
DST Labs
Agharkar Research Institute, Pune
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational-Sciences (ARIES), Nainital
Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow
Bose Institute, Kolkata
Centre for Liquid Crystal Research, Jalahalli, Bangalore
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune
International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Hyderabad
The Institute of Advanced Study in Science & Technology, Assam
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
DST Labs …
National Accreditation Board for Testing & Calibration Laboratories, New Delhi
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata
Sreechitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi
Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun
Professional Bodies
Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore
Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi
The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad
The Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata
Accessible resources at RRI
AAAS
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Physics
Annual Reviews
Emerald
IEEE
Indian journals.com
Institute of Physics
Nature Publishing Group
Accessible resources at RRI
Optical Society of America
Oxford University Press
Royal Society of Chemistry
Sci-Finder
Springer
Taylor and Francis
Web of Science & DII
Wiley-Blackwell
World Scientific Publishing
NKRC advantages
Have access to more number of journals
NISCAIR makes payment directly to the publisher or vendor on behalf of all participating libraries.
Negotiations and bargaining will be easier.
License and agreements will be handled by NISCAIR.
Will have person to person contact with librarians of all the participating libraries during coordinators / nodal officers meet and through e-mails and thus enhances resource sharing among libraries.
NKRC disadvantages
Payments are not made in time and have online access problems for participating libraries.
All available resources may not be useful to all the participating libraries due to heterogeneous group.
Librarian’s of participating libraries may have
difficulties in attending the meetings.
Usage statistics all the publishers are not still available on the NKRC site.
Conclusion
RRI library was subscribing to around 170 journals and 5
databases (PROLA; ACS archives etc.)
RRI is a member of FORSA consortia and had access to
journals of Springer; Taylor & Francis; UCP IOP Science
etc.
We were not able to provide access to many of the
journals which were requested by our users.
NKRC came into picture and we were able to get access
to around 4000 journals from April 2009 onwards through
this consortia.
Conclusion…
It has been observed that out of 4000 journals
available through NKRC 500 journals are useful to
RRI Library.
The usefulness is not decided by usage statistics of
the journal but on the basis of subject.
It is too early to say anything on the benefits of
NKRC as it barely three years old.