E-resource: Friendly to visually impaired too!!! – A unique user of the electronic resources at INFLIBNET.

Under UGC- Info net consortium INFLIBNET has subscribed online resources for the use of Research and Academic community of the country providing opportunity to access scholarly journals and databases. Shri Durlabbhai M. Patel, born visually impaired working as a lecturer in Govt. Polytechnic, Ahmedabad and doing his Ph.D. entitled “Historio-Political Readings of the Major fiction of Amitav Gosh” in English literature from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad is one among those who regularly visits the center to get the information for his research work.

He opines that E- Resources available in INFLIBNET is of very much helpful for his research work and got tremendous benefit out of these with the help and co-operation of INFLIBNET staff. He fondly remembers that he got many important articles to develop his research hypothesis. He expressed that if he get the information in print he has to get it scanned and has to listen the content of the literature with the help of software developed for the people, who are visually impaired.

Instead of that he is getting the scholarly literature directly in Electronic format under the UGC-infonet E-journal consortium, taking it either in floppy or in CD takes it to the home and listens it in his PC with the help of ‘Jaws for Windows Software’ by which he is saving his time and money. He says that the electronic information available in INFLIBNET is of high value as compared with print as well Braille counterpart and can get idea about latest developments in the arena of English Literature.

He owes his thanks to Dr. TAV Murthy, Director and other staff at INFLIBNET for their much needed assistance in getting the value information and urges the authority to make arrangement for installing the ‘Jaws for Windows 5.0’ software, by which he can directly listen the E-content and get the idea more easily.

Source: INFLIBNET Newsletter,

Dated: 10(2-3) April- September 2004.