About HELINET Consortium
The Digital Library initiative at RGUHS is first of its kind in the country in promoting e-learning culture and e-readiness preparedness for accessing huge amount of scholarly international Medical e-journals and e-books. With the State-of-the-art infrastructures, RGUHS developed the Digital Library and information centre for identifying, procuring, storing, processing, disseminating the Scholarly information resources in the field of Health Sciences by minimizing the cost of recurring expenditure in the libraries of affiliated colleges and conceptualized the Health Science Library and Information Network HELINET for seamless access to world class Health Science Literature and Information resources, round the clock to the students, teachers and researchers in all the affiliated colleges of RGUHS.
In the year 2003, HELINET consortium has been established by the Digital Library to provide core international e-journals, e-books and databases to all the colleges.
The major benefit of this consortium today is providing access to core international e-journals, e-Books and other databases. The Helinet provides access to more than 20,000+ eJournals, 20,000+ Textbooks and Reference Books, 40,000+ Digitized UG & PG Dissertations, and Other Multimedia Resources.
The HELINET Consortium created a memorable picture in the mindset of users of health science community which is reflected in the usage. There is commendable growth in the utilization and progress in the e-awareness developed towards enrichment of scientific knowledge by the digital library and information centre of RGUHS. The HELINET Consortium has set a role model for adoption, implementation and extensive use by the larger medical community in the country as a National Focal Point.