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RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021UGC-CAREPeer ReviewedISSN: 0972-2750Assessment of DRDO e-journals Consortium in India by librarians:an analytical studySenthil, V & Dr Margam MadhusudhanManuscript Received on –3 rd August 2021Primary Reviewed on –15 th August 2021Peer Reviewed on –26 th September 2021Accepted for publication30 th September 2021ABSTRACT:Senthil, VResearch ScholarDLIS, University of Delhi&Scientist 'F' and GroupHead, TICL & IPR at GasTurbine ResearchEstablishment, Bengaluru.Email:senthildrdo@gmail.comDr MargamMadhusudhanProfessorDepartment of Library &Information ScienceUniversity of DelhiDelhiEmail:mmadhusudhan@libinfosci.du.ac.inIntroduction: DRDO e-journals consortium is an essential resource for the scientificcommunity and the backbone for conducting research activities. An effort is made toinvestigate the fifty (50) DRDO librarian's responses on the use of DRDO e-journalsconsortium and their opinion, adoption of new publishers, the impact of e-journals, andproblems in accessing e-journals by the users. The responses received to 14 questions wereanalyzed and presented in 6 Tables and 2 Figures.Purpose: To examine and evaluate the use of e-journals covered under DRDO e-journalsconsortia by the 50 DRDO librarians.Research problem: To assess and verify how the DRDO scientific community can meet theirinformation needs and satisfaction level with the DRDO e-Journals Consortium and find outthe requirement of additional facilities/resources to cater to the research activities effectively.Objectives: To find out the awareness of DRDO e-Journals Consortium, use it, ascertain thesatisfaction level with content and coverage of e-journals available under DRDO e-JournalsConsortium, and examine the problems faced by the users in DRDO labs in India.Methodology: A structured questionnaire was designed and distributed to all 50 (fifty)librarians working in DRDO Libraries in India. All 50 librarians have filled thequestionnaires and returned their questionnaires (personally and electronically), eliciting aresponse rate of 100 per cent.Findings: The study found a positive approach that most respondents affirmed that the usagehas increased. However, a significant percentage of the librarians were not happy with thecoverage of the e-journals. The finding also enumerated several key areas of concern. None ofthe libraries was equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity and access to e-journals on mobiledevices. This was one of the deficits in DRDO labs that need to be addressed for library usefor accessing e-journals.KEYWORDS:DRDO; Electronic Journals; DRDO e-journals consortium; Librarians-India70https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lis
Senthil & Madhusudhan: Assessment of DRDO e-Journal…IntroductionLiterature ReviewIn defense science and innovation, e-journals hold anoticeable situation as they are a fundamental wellspringof current information. They give a stage to thecorrespondence of thoughts, the trading of involvement,and the transmission of momentum data to researchers'locale, which is engaged with massive innovative workexercises. The DRDO e-journals consortium is an essentialresource for the scientific community and the backbone ofthe research activities. It has very significant publishersthat publish scientific journals and magazines directly tocater for the information requirements for their ongoingresearch activities of the R&D community of DRDO. Thescientists are thrust for the information and mostly dependon libraries for their needs. Numerous purposes mayinfluence the use of e-journals by defence scientists andtechnologists, and the motivation behind utilizinge‐journals varies from one to another. An endeavour ismade in this investigation to assess the librarian’sresponses on the use of DRDO e-journals consortium andtheir opinion on the publishers covered in the consortia,adoption of new publishers in the consortia, the impact ofe-journals, and problems in access of e-journals by theusers.DRDO e-journals ConsortiumThe scientific community widely uses the e-journalsconsortium established by Defence Research andDevelopment Organisation (DRDO) to enhance researchactivities. “The mission of the DRDO e-journalsconsortium is to provide scientists with information andaccess to information in support of scholarly activity andresearch. It covers multi-disciplinary subject areas to fulfillthe information needs of the DRDO scientific communitywas implemented by DESIDOC on 01 January 2009covering 446 titles from ACM, ACS, AIAA, AAASScience, IEEE, Jane’s and Elsevier) and one serviceprovider (JCCC Service)” (Senthil and Madhusudhan,2018). The online access to these e-journals has beenprovided to the research community on their desktop andinvested Rs. 20 crore (approx.) for subscribing to these e-journals for all DRDO labs per year" (DRDO e-journalconsortium, 2020).The following publishers are covered under the DRDO e-Journal Consortium for the benefit of the DRDO scientificcommunity.(i)(ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi)(vii)(viii)(ix)(x)(xi)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)The American Chemical Society (ACS)The American Institute of Aeronautics andAstronautics (AIAA)The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)ElsevierInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE)Jane’sNatureScienceTaylor and Francis (T&F), andWiley71https://lisrbu.wixsite.com/dlis/rbu-journal-of-lisMansoureh et al. (2020) stated that "the importance ofpurchasing of e-journals through consortia have hadsignificant benefits to publishers through bundles or bigdeals models, rather than for institutions and universities."Chisita and Fombad (2020) recommended that "thereshould be a policy that obliges all members of theconsortia to use interoperable systems to develop aconsortial catalogue for better usage of e-resources and e-journals.""The concept of library consortium gravitates differentmember libraries to meet the goal of working as a teamwhich closes the gap between information resource-richlibraries and those that are resource deficient to bebridged" (Saini, 2017). Another study by Senthil andMadhusudhan (2018) try to "evaluate the implementationof DRDO e-journals, coverage of publishers and titles,subject-wise distribution of titles among DRDOlaboratories, need of e-journal consortium among the labs,and expenditure details along with yearly growth. Thestudy also highlights the usage of e-journals publisherwisein the consortium and would be helpful in theefficient collection development policy of e-journals."Another study by Moorthy and Pant (2012) reported that"most of the labs in DRDO require a different set ofjournals and it is hard to fulfil their demands and tonegotiate with the publishers for better terms, whichconcurs with the findings of this study." “However, in theR&D community especially for defence R&D, wherescientists are involved in core technology areas, the valueof information is more important instead of its utilization"(Modi et al., 2018).Another interesting study by Jotwani (2014) studied "thetrends in acquisition of e-resources vis-a-vis their printcounterparts and analyzes the usage of these resourcesduring 2004-11. Data analysis revealed that IIT librariesspend a significantly large proportion of their budgets toacquire e-resources. There is a clear shift in the collectiondevelopment policies of these libraries where e-resourceshave become a vital part of their core collections." “Usersatisfaction concept in libraries has evolved to include afocus on the users’ perspective of the library andabundance of resources available and the difficulty inbeing able to determine these resources also createproblems for users” (Ijiekhuamhen et al., 2015). Tripathiand Jeevan (2013) reveal that "the usage of e-resourcesshould be consistently monitored and users attitude,behaviour and properly fine-tuned to suit the user's needs."There are numerous issues for libraries giving admittanceto e-journals, for example, slow Internet connectivity,limited access to computers, difficulty to read from thecomputer, retrieval problems (including loading),difficulty to access the full text, access throughaggregators and publishers, and lack of training/guidance.Nowadays, e-journals are accessing via the IP addresses ofthe institutions. Users' problems while accessing e-journalsdepend on the users' perception and may change from userto user, whereas the e-journals collection is not steadybecause of connection break and inclusion changes,including change of their publishers or name of the titles.Numerous studies found that the main “obstacle in properutilization of e-journals was poor internet connectivity
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