Push for resource sharing among higher institutions

"Hyderabad has grown into into a hub of higher education and research institutions. The Osmania University is celebrating its centenary celebrations. Many institutions came during last two decades which include national research institutions. 

All these except GITAM and BITS are public funded institutions. All of them have established libraries and are using ICT to cater to the informational needs of researchers. It is a known fact that the primary journals are major resources for research. 

However, databases are also procured to guide  researchers to identify the articles published in primary journals. The books are not key resources for research.

Budget spent for journals by these institutions is enormous. The total spent by the public funded institutions in India is in hundreds of crores of rupees per year and subscribed journals are in thousands. Unfortunately, resources have restricted users with certain exceptions. Again the user statistics are not encouraging in proportion to budget and number of journals. 

Further, there are many Open Access (OA)/Free journals are to be exploited. There are many researchers, who are not able to access the primary journals due to limited budgets and other institutions do not allow them with certain exceptions, such as an understanding between OU and IICT /NIN for library use. 

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Many institutions are ignoring Open Access journals published by both commercial publishers and institutions.The trained library staff need to rise to the occasion and plan to exploit them. It necessary that both governments and research organisations such as CSIR, ICMR, ICAR, ICSSR, ICHR, ICAR, and universities think seriously how to exploit the public funded resources.