Building and Managing of Electronic Resources in Digital Era in India with Special Reference to IUCAA and NIV, Pune: A Comparative Case Study

This paper discusses and presents a comparative case study of two library of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and Information Centre and Library (ICL) of National Institute of Virology (Indian Council of Medical Research) (NIV-ICMR). It covers the processes for acquiring/subscribing various e-resources, get access under UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium/Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED), including free databases available and developing e-resources in form of own preprints/ own publications/institutional repository/own videos lectures archives with help of open sources software and managing by trained library professionals and providing e-resources access altogether via single point search facility for all e-resources in campus (via IP based) and out of campus (via EZproxy) of all type of e-resources for scientists/users in the field of Astronomy/Astrophysics and Virology/Biomedicine.