ACCESS TO CERA CONSORTIUM IN SKUAST-K, FISHERIES E-JOURNALS: AN INFORMATIVE STUDY

The paper provides the brief background of the Indian Consortium for eResources in Agriculture (CeRA) and the components of the National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) with special reference to the Component-I under the important and most innovative web-based projects, i.e., CeRA, The overview of these project including objectives and deliverables has been highlighted especially keeping in view of the current scenario of the MPKV. There are several library consortia in India, UGC Infonet is mainly meant for universities controlled by UGC and CeRA is meant for agricultural universities. The results reveal that CeRA e-Journal in Fisheries Science is increasing at an exponential rate and currently 87 fisheries Journal are registered in CeRa. These Journals are published from 12 countries from 18 publishers in 07 languages. The maximum Journals are published from USA (81.61%), by Elsevier publisher (29.87%).