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Senthil & Madhusudhan: Assessment of DRDO e-Journal
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Table-2: Budget details of labs in Lakhs
Table-2 reveals that the total budget for all DRDO libraries
is 39 crores in Indian Rupees, which are purely utilized to
procure books and other print and e-documents. The labs
DRDL and DRDE occupy the first place, spending rupees
four (4) crores annually, which is 10per cent of the total
budget. The lab INMAS was spending rupees three (3)
crores and DESIDOC with Rs. 2.50 crores which occupy
with second and third place respectively. The lab DMRL
with Rs. 2 crores occupies the fourth place. The labs
GTRE and ASL occupies fifth place with Rs. 1.50 crore.
Four labs, RAC, DIHAR, CEPTAM, and CEMILAC,
occupied the last place with Rs. 5 lakhs annual budget.
3 Labs subscribing e-journals in addition to
DRDO Consortium
Keeping in view the multiplicity of research projects
pursued by DRDO Scientists and technical officers, there
is a need to subscribe to more specialized subject e-
journals due to multidisciplinary with widening scope and
coverage in addition to common e-journals existing in the
DRDO Consortium. In this context, a dichotomous
question was asked the librarians about whether the labs
are subscribing to e-journals separately apart from the
DRDO e-journals consortium. The data revealed from
Librarians shows that out of 50 libraries, only four (4)
libraries were subscribing to e-journals that were not
covered in the DRDO e-journals consortium. These e-
journals are core collections to their areas of interest, and
they were subscribed for their lab users by the librarians.
A set of four supplement questions were asked the four (4)
lab Librarians who were subscribing e-journals in addition
to DRDO e-journals consortium to provide the details of
(i) Total allotted budget for the subscription for e-Journals,
(ii) Name of the publisher(s), (iii) Number of Titles, and
(iv) Name of the Title(s) (Table-3).
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Table-3: Lab additional e-journals subscription details (n=4)
Note: * DESIDOC- Defence Scientific Information & Documentation
Centre; DRDE- Defence Research & Development Establishment;
DLRL- Defence Electronics Research Laboratory ; and DRDL - Defence
Research & Development Laboratory.
The result depicted in Table-3 reveals that Rs. 245 lakhs
were spent by the four (04) labs on additional subscription
e-journals, which are primarily used for subscription e-
journals from Elsevier publishers. Out of four (4) DRDO
labs, three were subscribing to Elsevier journals. Besides,
DLRL was subscribing to nine (9) e-journals from the
Institute of Physics (IOP) publisher. The lab DRDL was
subscribing seven (7) e-journals from Elsevier publisher,
eleven (11) from Springer, six (6) from Taylor & Francis,
and nine (9) from Sage publishers. DESIDOC was
subscribing entire package of Elsevier e-journals on
articles level subscription, and DRDE was subscribing
Chemical engineering package of e-journals from Elsevier.
It is concluded from the data that 75 per cent of the labs
were primarily interested in Elsevier publications.