Accession of Scholarly Electronic Information Resources for Libraries: Issues and Opportunities

Kavita Biradar, Geeta Kittur

Abstract: The study indent to identify various modes of accessing electronic information resources such as journals website, publishers portals, aggregators portals, library consortia, library networks, institutional repositories, academic social media and cloud storage. The study also discuss some of mode of accessing electronic information resources including current access, back volume access, perpetual access, only access open access and other. The study discussed some issues facing by especially Indian libraries and possible suggestion as made to improvement of library service and resource in terms of electronic information resources.

Keywords: electronic information resources, accession of e-resources, scholarly e-resources