Anupam Chanda / Manoj Kumar Sinha
The changing scenario in library environment has arisen for the need and use of E-Resources along with print version. Electronic journals (E-Journals) bring new challenges before the library and information professionals to give full-text access to scholarly publications both in print and electronic version to its end users. Access of information to the remote user has always been a challenge and delivery of information service is not a new concept as it has before printing media was invented. Due to the information explosion, it is challenging to manage the information manually but the more recent technologies have helped to overcome these obstacles. A Consortium could be described as a group of organizations who come together to fulfil a combined objective that usefully requires cooperation and sharing of resources. There are many hundreds of library consortia around the world planned along many different lines. The emergence of the Internet, mainly, the World Wide Web (WWW) as a new media of information delivery triggered the proliferation of Web-based full-text online resources.
