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DBT’s Electronic Library Consortium DeLCON D.D.Lal (DeLCON Coordinator & Administrator) DBT Electronic Library Consortium NBRC, NH-08, Manesar, Gurgaon, Haryana. India Email : ddlal.delcon@nic.in; ddlal@nbrc.ac.in Website : http://delcon.gov.in

What is DeLCON Consortium ? The DBT's eLectronic Library CONsortium called as "DeLCON". The 'DeLCON Consortium' has been set up by the DBT to promote the use of electronic databases and full text access to journals by the Research and academic community in the country.

DeLCON Consortium The DBT, Government of India has established ‘DBT’s e-Library Consortium (DeLCON)’ in the year 2009 in the area of ‘Life Sciences’ and ‘Biotechnology’ and now the existing members of the ‘DeLCON Consortium’ are 33 Institutions. The ‘DBT e-Library Consortium’ (DeLCON) has now covered 917 online resources with 20 International Publishers.

PROGRESS & DEVELOPMENT OF DELCON CONSORTIUM :: –> ‘MILESTONE OF DeLCON Consortium’

DeLCON Covered 899 Online Journals in the Year 2009 & in the Year 2010 added 18 New e-Resources & Now, the total Covered DeLCON Journals are 917.

Further, added 7 Institutions Included 17 New Members in ‘DeLCON’ (Including 15 NER Institutions, Wellcome Trust - Hyderabad & BIRAP-New Delhi (in the Year 2010). Further, added 7 Institutions (4 DBT Institutions & 3 NER – Institutions) in the year 2011.

DeLCON Phase – I Members = 10 National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar Department of Biotechnology, (DBT), New Delhi National Institute of Immunology (NII), New Delhi National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS), Pune, Maharashtra Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal, Manipur Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), Thiruvananthapuram International Centre for Genome Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi

DeLCON Phase-II Members = 16 Assam University, Silchar, Assam College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati College of Veterinary Sci. & A.H. Central Agricultural University, Aizawl, Mizoram D. M. College of Science, Imphal, Manipur Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh Guwahati University, Guwahati Manipur University, Imphal Mizoram University, Mizoram Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland North Eastern Hill University, Shillong North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, Arunachal Pradesh North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat, Assam Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh Sikkim University, Gagtok St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Program (BIRAP), New Delhi

DeLCON Phase-III Members = 07 National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, Punjab. Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), Gurgaon. Translational Health Science & Technology Institute (THSTI), Gurgaon National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NABMG), Kalyani, Kolkata. (NER-Institution) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati. Tezpur University, (TU) Assam. Sikkim State Council of Science & Technology (SSCST), Sikkim.

DeLCON CONSORTIUM COVERED 917 e-Journals Am. Assoc. for Advancement of Science http://www.sciencemag.org (3 Journal) 2 Am. Association for Cancer Research http://www.aacr.org (8 Journals) 3 American Chemical Society (ACS) http://pubs.acs.org (37 Journals 4 Annual Reviews http://www.annualreviews.org (23 Journals) 5 Am. Soc. for Biochem. & Molecular Biology http:///www.jbc.org (2 Journal) 6 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press http://www.cshl.edu (4 Journals) 7 Informa Healthcare / Taylor and Francis http://www.informaworld.com (7 Journals) 8 Lippincott (LWW)/Wolter & Kluwer/ OVID http://ovidsp.ovid.com (11 Journals) 9 Marry ANN Liebert http://www.liebertonline.com 10 Nature Publications http://www.nature.com (40 Journals) 11 Oxford University Press (OUP) http://www.oxfordjournals.org (18 Journals) 12 Springer India http://www.springerlink.com (237 Journals) 13 Society for General Microbiology http://mic.sgmjournals.org (3 Journals) 14 Society for Hematology http://bloodjournals.hematologylibrary.org (1 Journal) 15 Wiley-Blackwell http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home (86 Journals) 16 Elsevier Science (ScienceDirect) http://www.sciencedirect.com (415 Journals) 17 Am. Society for Microbiology (ASM) http://www.asm.org 18 19 Am. Association of Immunology (AAI) Am. Association for Plant Biologist http://www.aai.org http://www.aspb.org (01 Journal) (02 Journals) 20 SCOPUS Database http://www.scopus.com (1 Database)

Criteria for Selection of ‘DeLCON Journals’ Selections based on usage / suitability of e-resources to DBT Institutions. Nodal Officer’s Feedback & Requests Minimum Recommendations of 3-5 DBT Institutions Recommendations of DeLCON Expert Committee Based on Funds Availability. Terms and Conditions should be suitable with Publishers Perpetual Access & Back Volumes access Publishers Discount offer and Negotiation.

BUDGETS & FUNDS The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, is funding & Monitoring to ‘DeLCON Consortium’.

The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ not prefer and not agree for ‘FTE’ Model. PRISING MODEL The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ not prefer and not agree for ‘FTE’ Model.

DISCOUNT Expectations The ‘DeLCON Consortium’ expectation is more than 80-85% discount.

DeLCON ACCESS FACILITIES MODE OF ACCESS = ONLINE ONLY 24X7X365 : unlimited IP based in Institution / Full Access without password Limited Remote Access Inter Library Loan (ILL) Facilities for Research Works Search / Advance Search / Key Word Search / Full Text (.pdf) Downloadable Browse / Archive Back Volumes from Vol. 1 Issues 1 or from 1995

SUBJECT COVERAGE UNDER DeLCON LIFE SCIENCES BIOTECHNOLOGY, BIOINFORMATICS BIOCHEMISTRY BIOLOGY/ CHEMICAL BIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE PLANT GENOME PLANT BIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY / PSYCHOLOGY PHYSIOTHERAPY GENOME / GENE / GENETICS MATHEMATICS PHYSICS CHEMISTRY RADIOLOGY MEDICINES COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY CELL BIOLOGY & CELL SC. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY VETERINARY SCIENCES COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSC. SYSTEM NEUROSCIENCE

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IF ANY QUESTION / FEEDBACK PLEASE CONTACT TO : D.D.Lal DeLCON Coordinator & Administrator Tel (D): 0124-2845229 // M.: 09868498482 Email : ddlal.delcon@nic.in; ddlal@nbrc.ac.in Website : http://delcon.gov.in

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