Dear Sir, You are correct in stressing on the need for engineering libraries to have access to ACM Digital Library. Apart from ACM Digital Library, engineering libraries will do well to have access to IEEE conference proceedings as well. IEEE conference proceedings which are available in CD format are supplied in print format, if so required, by Curran Associates Inc., New York. Their website : www.proceedings.com lists more than 10,000 conference proceedings from over 500 scholarly and professional societies and associations, including IEEE. . . This is for general information for all engineering librarians. Thanking you, With best wishes M N Seetharaman former Head of the Information Centre, NAL, Bangalore & Chief Librarian, IIT Madras -------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr. J. K. Vijayakumar" Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:31 PM To: ; Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] New AICTE specifications regarding subscription ofE-Journals

Very good move by AICTE, which will provide access to high-end literature and in turn will improve the learning, teaching and research output of the country. Librarians will have a great role in providing access, training and literature search helps to the user community, and maximize the usage of thee resources.

I was wondering why ACM Digital Library is not mandatory for Engineering Libraries, as per AICTE? This is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology. Its founding society, ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. I believe this resource should be included as mandatory for technical institutions.

- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR,

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From: silent listener Subject: [LIS-Forum] New AICTE specifications regarding subscription of E-Journals To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Date: Monday, October 24, 2011, 2:01 AM

Dear fellow professionals,

As you already know as per new AICTE specifications E-Journal packages of IEEE, ASME, ASCE, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, ASTM Digital Library are mandatory for Engineering Libraries.INDEST-AICTE consortium is giving access to the packages. I would like to know whether any other agencies handling the subscription whis is reliable or we wanna subscribe it directly.Valuabe suggestions in this regard may be posted

Thanking you Joseph zacharia

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