Sir, The official response from INFLIBNET concerning Mr. Velayudhanpillai posting is hereby forwarded for the information of all concerned. In face of increasing budgetary constraints, many libraries will find themselves in great difficulty in case the UGC-INFONET Consortium service is shut down. Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ashok Kumar Rai Date: Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium discontinued...! To: tshahab@jamiahamdard.ac.in Cc: Jagdish Arora Dear Dr T Shahab, Thanks for your email. The UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium, launched in 2004, continued to

serve the academic community through X and XI Plan Period with cooperation of UGC, publishers and universities. However, the Scheme has been dis-continued in XII Plan Period because of paucity of funds. The INFLIBNET Centre as well as UGC are making all efforts to revive the Scheme which would require allocation of funds from the MHRD to UGC.

Regular efforts are being made in this direction, we are hopeful that the efforts being made by the INFLIBNET Centre, UGC and other stakeholders would bring the desired results. The INFLIBNET Centre is in regular touch with the UGC. We will keep the universities updated in this regard.

Thanks and regards Ashok

*From: *"T. Shahab ." *Subject: **Fwd: [LIS-Forum] UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium discontinued...!* *Date: *30 January 2014 9:46:06 am IST *To: *director@inflibnet.ac.in

Sir Would you please take trouble to give your official response to this mail. Regards Dr. T. Shahab HMS Central Librart Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gopakumar Velayudhanpillai Date: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:52 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium discontinued...! To: "lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in"

UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium discontinued...There is a message running over the header image of UGC Infonet Project website stating that the Project is closed from 31st of March 2012. Yesterday universities received e-mails from INFLIBNET authorities that the UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium has been discontinued in 12th plan due to paucity of funds.Not able to understand what is happening...!If the universities are trying to subscribe to these journals we will not be able to get even one by tenth of the facilities we get through infonet. This leads to a scary situation. In the 70s and 80s people had to run to big institutions like IISc and IITs to get access to such academic literature. After INFLIBNET came into existence the huge divide existed for access to academic literature was to an extent avoided. Now those days are here again. Authorities at the UGC should take up this issue very seriously and continue with the digital library consortium. Hope the co! nfusion will be over in no days. Dr GOPAKUMAR V.

University Librarian,Goa University

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