For the first time, the higher Education department will provide access to e-Resources to universities and selected autonomous colleges in the state. The e-resources include research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and discovery service to libraries.
The department has signed agreements with aggregators likeEbscoand Elsevier to provide these Services for the benefit of students, scholars, researchers and faculty members of 32 autonomous colleges and 12 state public universities.
The institutions will get the access through theOdisha State Higher Education Council.
According to the plan, the council will give access toScienceDirectto universities only. ScienceDirect is a website, which provides access to a large bibliographic Database of scientific and medical publications of the publisher Elsevier.