UGC Infonet Overview - New

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UGC-Infonet & E-journals

ConsortiumPresentation

By

Dr. T A V MurthyDirectorINFLIBNET Centre

&

Dr. V S CholinScientist-B

INFLIBNET Centre

[email protected]

[email protected]


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What is UGC-Infonet?

University Grants Commission has launched anambitious programme to bring about a qualitative

change in the academic infrastructure, especiallyfor higher education. Under this initiative UGC ismodernizing the university campuses with state-of-the-art campus wide networks and setting up

its own nationwide communication network namedUGC-Infonet. INLFIBNET is responsible forexecution and monitoring the entire project w.e.fJan, 2003


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The Mission

UGC-Infonet will become a vehicle for distancelearning to facilitate spread of qualityeducation all over the country.

UGC-Infonet will be a tool distribute educationmaterial and journals to the remotest of areas.

UGC-Infonet will be a resource for researchersand scholars for tapping the most up-to-dateinformation.

UGC-Infonet will form a medium forcollaboration among teachers and students,not only within the country but all over theworld.


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Cont.. UGC-Infonet will be an Intranet for University

Automation.

UGC-Infonet will encompass entire University

System for most efficient utilisation of preciousnetwork resources.

UGC-Infonet will establish a channel forGlobalisation of Education and facillitate the

universities in marketing their services anddevelopments.


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Who are involved in t

he project?

University Grants Commission (UGC)

Information and Library Network Centre(INFLIBNET)

Education Research Network (ERNET) onturnkey basis

Universities


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ERNETDesign & Installation

Maintenance

Providing BackboneHosting of Mirror sites

Training

INFLIBNETDecide type of connectivity

Monitoring of Network

Provide the content in terms of

Bibliographic database and e-

subscription

Help Universities to setting up IT

Infrastructure

UGCOver all monitoring

Constitution of Joint Technical and Tariff committee for

smooth execution of project

Providing finance support to the project

UniversityPlace firm order to ERNET

Provide necessary accommodation

Identify two persons for training

Campus network/ access center


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UGC

ERNET INFLIBNET University

Constitution of JTTC

Guide lines

Identify UniversitiesDesign Network

Implementation Methodology


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Network Architecture

UGC-Infonet is based on open IP platform,employing state-of-the-art technologies like IPMulticast, TCP spoofing and other tools that

provide interactive education on PC, enablingonline response to queries. Open systemarchitecture will ensure high data rates accessto Intranet and Internet resources.


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Connectivity Options for

the universitiesUGC-Infonet is overlaid on

ERNET Infrastructureincluding a nation wideterrestrial backbone and a

complementary satellitewide area network.Available options are:

Digital Leases Lines (LL)

Radio Link

SCPC Broadband VSAT

(FTDMA)


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Main Features of the UGC-Infonet

Scaleable Architecture to grow fromUniversities to affiliated Colleges.

Nation-wide Terrestrial Backbone using Fiber

Optic links

Integrated Satellite WAN supporting broadbandand SCPC VSAT technology.

Comprehensive Network Management Systems

for overall monitoring of the network, down toeach and every device.

Linkage with other academic and ResearchNetworks all over the world.


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Cont.. Dedicated Data Centre for web hosting, e-

journals and Mail Boxes.

It will be dedicated for UGC-Infonet

Protected with firewalls and IDS Co-located with Satellite Hub

With single hop access to the universitiesover VSAT

Mirror sites spread all over the country forcontent hosting

Broadband Multimedia and Video Channels forDistance Learning.


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UGC-Infonet summery as on 1 Oct,

2004Agreement Signed 140

Sanction Released 150

Connected 117

N Pipline 20

Total InernationBandwidth Involved in

150

90Mbps

Total InternationBandwidth installed in114 Universities

70.5Mbps

FTDMA 34

SCPC 43

LL 40

Bandwidth Summery 64 Kbps 4

128 Kbps 44

256 kbps 2

512 Kbps 42

1 Mbps 6

2 Mbps 19

Connected Universities


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Pie Charts

Pi t t i iti

t Programme as on 1.10.2004

1 Mbps

6

2 Mbps

19

64 Kbps

4128 Kbps

44

256 Kbps

2512 Kbps

42

64 Kbps

128 Kbps

256 Kbps

512 Kbps

1 Mbps

2 Mbps

117 Universities

Pie Chart of Allocation ofE Journals to Uni ersities

512 Kbps

20

256 Kbps

0

128 Kbps

7

64 Kbps

02 Mbps

17

1 Mbps

6

64 Kbps

128 Kbps

256 Kbps

512 Kbps

1 Mbps

2 Mbps

50 Universities


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Cont..

FTDMA

64 Kbps

4

256 Kbps

1

128 Kbps

29 34 Univ

isties

SCPC

512 Kbps

35

128 Kbps

6

1 Mbps

2

43 Univeristies

Leased Li e

1 Mbps

4

512 Kbps

7

2 Mbps

19 256 Kbps

1

128 Kbps

9

40 Universities


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Monitoring of the UGC-Infonet

Each university sendsbandwidth utilizationreports INFLIBNET

INFLIBNET ismanaging discussionforum athttp://groups.yahoo.co.in/group/ugc-infonet/ for discussing

of issues related toUGC-Infonet amongparticipatingUniversities.

Traffic Analysis for DAMA VSAT: "Goa U., Panaji"

Max Speed: 512.0 kbits/s

Router Address: 202.41.99.12_20

The statistics were last updated Monday, 27 September 2004 at 15:22,

at which time 'DAMA1' had been up for33 days, 17:01:57 .

`Daily' Graph (5 Minute Average)

Max In:503.7 kb/s (83.9%) Average In:134.0 kb/s (22.3%) Current In:485.8 kb/s (81.0%)

Max Out:125.0 kb/s (20.8%) Average Out: 38.4 kb/s (6.4%) Current Out:123.7 kb/s (20.6%)

`Weekly' Graph (30 Minute Average)



`Monthly' Graph (2 Hour Average)




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University Grants Commission

The E-Journals Programme for Universities

electronic access to scholarly literature in

all areas of learning


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The Infonet Paradigm

Provide Internet connectivity to Universities /Colleges in Academic sector under the domain ofUGC

Provide access to literature and research

publications in all areas of learning

Facilitate the creation of multimedia content tosupplement and aid the traditional learningprocess.

Provide training to the community throughorientation and refresher courses.


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Access to LiteratureAccess to research literature,reviews and databases

University libraries are

depleted of these resources

Infonet programme provide E-access to the literature.

Funds provided by the UGC, and the programme isadministered by INFLIBNET.

Subscriptions provided to over 50 Universities and 50

more from this month.


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Who are our users?

Universities

Total No. : 311+

Covered under UGC : 171+

INFLIBNET supported : 142 so far

These 142+ universities - core group to begin with

Colleges

More than 14,000

Govt.- 20%, Private 80%

Who are likely to be covered in phased manner


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Current journals collection in a university

Average number of titles subscribed: 250

60% titles : Indian publications

Few universities do not subscribe to any

foreign journals

Abstracting/ indexing journals (e.g)

Chemical Abstracts : 25

(98 Chemistry Depts)

Biological Abstracts : 9

(101 Biological Sciences Depts)

What is the journal collectionbase?


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Problems faced by Universities

Increase in price

Fluctuation in conversion rates

No proportionate funding to sustain the existingcollections

What is the way out?

Large number of journals are available in e-form

Access is provided on the Internet through web

Subscription under consortia/ national sitelicensing

Why is this problem?


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Present Status UGC-Infonet E-journals Consortium is quite an ambitious program

initiated by chairman UGC to facilitate free access to scholarlyjournals in all areas of learning.

The program is being executed by INFLIBNET Ahmedabad on behalfof UGC

Academics are helping in identifying the resources

We have conducted Regional meetings at different places to takethe expert opinions of university librarians across the country whileselecting the journals

Expert opinions have also been taken from existing consortiums infew subjects;

National Negotiation committee set up by UGC recommended

number of resources to be subscribed in different areas of learning;


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Present Status contd The very purpose of this initiative is

Universities across the country are now facing acute shortage offunds to subscribe the costly journals and are deprived of accessto latest literature published.

The situation calls for optimum use of resources through rationaluse.

Thanks to the electronic publishing industry which made itpossible to access the resources at much affordable cost.

This consortia initiative has helped to get discount of more than85-90% on many scholarly journals and databases.

The research and academic community can now have an access toresources at their finger tips through this initiative.

This initiative provides archival access and also provision formirror sites.


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This facility enables the subject experts and academicians tobrowse, download print the relevant articles for their research and

academic development.

The resources subscribed under the program are available onIntranet of UGC-Infonet Program in each campus enabling multiuser simultaneous access.

INFLIBNET will also maintain one print copy of the journals

subscribed for many titles as a national archive at Ahmedabad.

The resources are accessed based on the IP address at individualuniversities.

The consortium received number of proposals and finalized with20 publishers / vendors to cover journals and databases insciences, humanities, social sciences.

Many other journals & databases are also under consideration andbeing taken up.

Subscription for minimum 3 years initially and to be reviewed atthe end of three years


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31

222

23 + 6 DB

72

36

E-Resources Subscribed under UGC-Infonet

29

100 +100 subscribed,Access all 1200 titles

19

8

319

28 Lib. Sci.

34 Life Sci.

In addition -Access to 2 Gatewayportal services to 28 univ. each


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More is yet to come !!


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To Conclude Consortia for buying e-infn. become very popular in last 2 decades

Encouraging to note that successful consortia examples

I would say that UGC-Infonet Consortium is a very systematicapproach carried out

Many commercial publishers have taken initiative to provide trialaccess for two to three months for all their full text journals viz.Elsevier, John wiley and many others.

This shows their academic interest to enter into this consortia andto become a part of this noble initiative and attractive discountsoffered by the publishers with eagerness to enter Indian market

The e-subscription initiative of UGC-Infonet is expected to bringremarkable change in the academic environment.

It is time now to inform our scholars to take the advantage and usethe resources extensively and get the benefit


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To Conclude We will be able to cover many more universities including

colleges at much cheaper cost, as the major cost is paid for first50 universities

The resources subscribed under UGC-Infonet E-Journalsconsortium for 50 universities would cost Rs. 190 Crores ifuniversities subscribe the resources individually,

This effort shows an overall savings ofRs. 167 Crore Rupeesto the National Exchequer for 50 universities.

More than 2000 scholarly journals and databases are madeavailable for access.

The cost for additional universities even much cheaper than thefirst 50 universities enabling more universities to get access to

scholarly journals. With time, via Infonet, education in Indian universities will shine

at the global level as solar energy shines everyday, whichindicates that no one should be deprived of education because oflocation or time inconvenience.


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