• Sanganagouda Patil
• Dr. K Sanjeevi

The study aims at discussing the importance of library consortia in India in the emerging context of digital resources. Now the libraries have in the transition state and experienced many transformations over the years. Due to the development of Internet and telecommunications technologies, the present situation has changed even further. Information searching pattern, gathering habits and seeking behavior of the users has increasingly complex to the growing knowledge in print as well as electronic forms, and not a single library is self-sufficient to access all books/e-books, journals/e-journals, and other library documents because of their library financial constraints. Moreover, users have diversified demands of the information requirements; it is very difficult to fulfill the demands of the users of the library with the existing library resources and services. To overcome this problem, Library Consortium is the only solutions in the present context. However, for the price of resources, the vendor-conquered market, the lack of competition, and other reasons, we need the consortium's approach. The many experiences of accessing e-journals through this method, is there a viable alternative to journal price increases or not. In this paper an attempt has been made to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the consortia, the needs of the consortia in the current Indian context, and the advantages and disadvantages of consortia-based subscription, consortia initiatives in India, and the brief view on J-Gate e-Journal Consortium, merits & demerits of J-Gate consortium have been discussed.

: LIBRARY CONSORTIUM, E-RESOURCES, INFONET, CSIR, INDEST, HELINET, J-GATE

"EMERGENCE OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA IN PRESENT INDIAN SCENARIO; A BRIEF VIEW ON J-GATE CONSORTIUM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.b455-b466, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108187.pdf

"EMERGENCE OF LIBRARY CONSORTIA IN PRESENT INDIAN SCENARIO; A BRIEF VIEW ON J-GATE CONSORTIUM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppb455-b466, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108187.pdf