Acquisition Process for Electronic Journals in Academic Libraries

Abstract

Academic libraries are one of the several, and in fact, the most important source of information available to the academic community. With the growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), many more ways of information flow are being opened. Libraries generally contain electronic as well as non-electronic resources, including journals which are indispensable secondary sources of information for academia with respect to research. This paper presents the process involved in the acquisition of electronic versions of journals for academic libraries. This is against the backdrop of inadequate and obsolete journals in these “information houses”. Implications of and hindrances to e-journal acquisition in this digital age are also discussed.