Teachers of colleges affiliated to PU, Chandigarh, provided Remote access to e-resources
To create a congenial ecosystem for enhanced research productivity and to optimize utilisation and mobilization of existing resources, Panjab University has taken a major initiative to provide remote access of PU@ e resources to the teachers of its affiliated colleges.
City Air News
Sep 10, 2022 08:57
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Chandigarh, September 9, 2022: To create a congenial ecosystem for enhanced research productivity and to optimize utilisation and mobilization of existing resources, Panjab University has taken a major initiative to provide remote access of PU@ e resources to the teachers of its affiliated colleges. This initiative will fulfill one of the main objectives of NEP 2020 i.e. to promote digital learning and access to online resources. The Panjab University has 200 affiliated and 6 constituent colleges spread over Punjab and Chandigarh besides Regional Centres at Muktsar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Kauni. The University Library is subscribing to 312 current periodicals, a number of which have on-line access along with the print versions. The Library also has access to about 15000 + core and peer reviewed on-line journals and 14 bibliographical databases from publishers & aggregators in different disciplines through e-Shodhsindhu consortium of INFLIBNET.
Prof Sudhir Kumar, University Librarian said that, in accordance with the vision of the worthy Vice-Chancellor this initiative will fulfill a long pending demand of the teachers of affiliated college of PU for which the university authorities including the Dean College Development Council deserve application. Prof Kumar informed that a circular regarding the same has been sent to the principals of all the affiliated and constituents colleges of PU University through DCDC, PU and already a good response of the faculty members of colleges is being received through e mails. Dr. Neeraj Kumar Singh, Deputy Librarian, said that a step by step procedure has also been uploaded on the notice board page of the A C Joshi Library which will assist the interested faculty members to get membership of the A C Joshi Library.
