Contribution of UGC in promoting Academic Libraries Services

UGC is a statutory organization set up for the determination and maintenance of standards of higher education in India. UGC initiated Major project under the IUCAA, Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre. INFLIBNET is involved to support teaching and research in higher education and modernizing university and college libraries in India. The e-ShodhSindhu provide access to current as well as archives of more than 10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines. This paper describe role of UGC in higher education, financial support and collection development, Institutional Library network in academic libraries.