E-Resources mandated by AICTE for engineering institutes- Contact Details

 The Education Promotion Society of India (EPSI) has written to Union Minister of HRD Mr. Kapil Sibal voicing its concern on the arbitrariness and unfairness shown by the AICTE for mandatory subscription to E-Resources from select few foreign publishers.

In the recently released 'Approval Process for 2012-2013' document, AICTE has clearly made it mandatory for all higher education institutions (including management institutions) to subscribe to e-Journals of selected companies. Shockingly, AICTE has also clearly mentioned the ‘Annual subscription price per Institute’ in the document. (See image below: Source http://www.aicte-india.org/downloads/CORRIGENDUM_171111.pdf) Annexure I.

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As per AICTE norms the following E-Resources are mandated to engineering institutes all over India. All the library professionals are struggling and find difficult to get the subscription details and publishers contact details

1. IEEE 
CSE, IT, MCA, ECE, E& I
$4,980


Saurabh Kumar Rai
Sr.Executive Business Development.
Global Information Systems Technology (GIST) Pvt. Ltd.
877 Udyog Vihar, Phase V, Gurgaon-122016
Phone.: (0124) 4614032
Mobile: 09871222519
Fax. no.: (0124) 4052913
srai@gist.in
(Address common to Sl. No. 1-5)


2. ASME
MECH
$2,156


3. ASCE
CIVIL
$2,520


4. EBSCO
MBA
$3,500


5. MC Graw Hill
Compulsory to All
$1,969


6. Elsevier
Compulsory to All
$6,500


Charu Singh
Inside Sales Executive, Elsevier India |T 0124- 4774212 | M 09560334872 |Charu.Singh@elsevier.com
Reed Elsevier India | Building No. 10B | 14TH Floor, DLF CYBER CITY- II, New Delhi (Gurgaon) | India- 122002


7. ASTM Digital Library
Compulsory to All
$1,100


K Gupta
General Manager
Book Supply Bureau
New Delhi
Mobile : 011-24611991, 2463422
gupta@bsb.co.in


TOTAL for all the Journals (Sl. No. 1-7)  $22,725

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