An Excellent tool with Browse and Search facility, JCCC covers research papers from 6700+ journals with millions of articles. Allows 'Table of Contents' browsing with links to full-text if already subscribed or link to generate request for articles not available online. One can also create alerts for favourite journals.
The programme commenced at 2.00 P.M. with participation from Scientific and L & IS professionals of NAL, Raman Research Institute(RRI), Indian Institute of Astrophysics(IIAP), Indian Academy of Science(IASc), Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCR), Centre for Liquid Crystal Research (CLCR). The programme started with a welcome address by Dr. Poornima Narayana, Head, ICAST. She welcomed and briefed about the CSIR journal consortium. While explaining the reasons for subscribing to JCCC, she explained that apart from cost escalation of journals especially the non-availability of ejournals held by M/S Elsevier, one of the most popular and sought after journals were the main causes of concern. Followed by, Dr. Y.M. Patil, Head, Library RRI and Co-ordinator of DST Consortium , briefed the audience about the DST consortium and highlighted the benefits of CSIR & DST Consortium access. Dr. A R Upadhya, Director, NAL, e-launched the product by lighting the e-lamp. Mr. N.V. Satyanarayana, CMD, M/S Informatics Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, the developers of JCCC was overwhelmed by the response of scientist community briefly spoke about the J-Gate and the customized Content being offered through the Consortium. Mr. Shyam Chetty, Chairman Library Advisory Committee & Head, Flight Mechanics Division appreciated the services, support and new initiatives taken by ICAST adding that the scientists are always looking forward to many more such innovative services from ICAST. Dr A.R. Upadhya, Director NAL, in his address showed his concern about escalating prices of journals subscription and how this consortium level approach can solve the problem to some extent. He expressed his contentment about NAL taking a major step in this direction at the initial stage of forming CSIR L & IS Consortium. He hoped that during the 12th five year plan many more high Impact Factor journals including M/S Elseviers Science Direct would be given access to. The vote of thanks was proposed by Mr. Amit Verma of Informatics. The training session was attended by many scientists and Mr. Ravishankar of Informatics described about all the features of the tool with live examples. He also explained the advantages of creating user accounts and personalizing the tool for the benefit of scientists.