| The increasing price of electronic journals, indexing and abstracting databases along with the traditional published print Subscriptions has forced library community to explore alternative means of Subscription The emergence of library a very promising development in this direction The phenomenon of consortia or group of libraries maintaining information resources together has become very common these days, in India during last Few years we witnessed many consortia based Subscription This paper briefly discusses the concept, need advantages and also the major consortia initiatives in India. |