Consortia based electronic information resource sharing in Department of Biotechnology Institutes in India

In the current era of IT (Information technology), the information needs of the users have increased considerably that no library individually can meet all the information requirements of the users. This has required the need for efficient association and collaboration between libraries and information centres for sharing their available resources and information through networking. The consortia approach can be considered as a major step towards library collaboration in sharing electronic resources. The paper describes the DBT’s Electronic Resources Consortium (DeLCON).