Introduction
Scientific periodicals occupy a significant place in the scholarly communication cycle.
The publishers have been successful in the speedy dissemination of content as per the
researcher’s needs by applying latest techniques, adopting new formats viz. magnetic
to the latest electronic, in addition to print. Electronic journals are produced, archived
and distributed through disks or online portals and are popularly known as e-journals
or online journals and synonymously called virtual journals or web editions. They are
supplied in the form of individual articles or journals or databases to the subscribers
directly and through consortia. The collection management of print and electronic
serials became the most challenging task to the librarians, “. . . due to continuous
escalation of serials costs; stagnant library budgets; emergence of new formats of
information resources and increased emphasis on accession ownership Nissonger
(2004)”. Further the e-journal database as a whole has formed as an indispensable