UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY PARTNERING FOR E-RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT – AN APPROACH

In the information era, creation and management of resources which ignites knowledge
domain in the process of education and research at higher level gains prominence. Higher
education today is changing from a conventional way of campus based university into an internet
based virtual university (Walmiki and Ramakrishnegowda, 2009). Internet has altered the ways
in which the higher education and research activities are carried out. Today, e-resources
development is an area required to be explored through intensive research. The process of
building strategies to create e-resources requires collaborative efforts from beneficiaries for
knowledge creation. Universities and research institutes are highly involved in partnering to
develop e-resources through collaborative online libraries. In India, Association of Indian
Universities created INFLIBNET to cater the needs of the users through e-resources to promote
academic research which facilitates the industries in particular and society in general.
Universities are facilitating industries by providing efficient human resources to achieve their
goals with available resources. It is also the responsibility of the industries in turn to facilitate
the Universities by creating adequate and contemporary resources which may be in the form of
e-resources to reach the users at macro level. This paper is administered to study the present
status of e-resources to promote higher education and to study the collaborative initiatives of
industries with universities to create e-resources for enhanced knowledge dissemination in
higher education.