249 Copyright © 2013, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 18 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4070-2.ch018 Managerial Perspective of E-Resources in Academic Libraries ABSTRACT The rapid increase of e-resources together with several value-based applications has been gradually superseding the traditional means of communication in almost all parts of the world. The transformation enforced government-funded consortia to build ICT environments in academic institutions and created a pressing demand on the libraries for increasing their acquisitions. The bundled (packages) resources available to libraries through several means are raising issues about their usefulness, real beneft as per user’s preferences, and also the usage. Issues of the kind invariably require thought, exceptional policy decisions, and implementing standard procedures for the optimum utilization of expensive resources and their management. The chapter discusses the features of e-resources, challenges encountered by the library administrators, the existing and innovative practices in their evaluation and organization, while highlighting the supporting technologies and integrated management tools emerging as per the latest requirements of academic institutions. INTRODUCTION Advancements in the computer generation of scholarly information as well as documents in electronic form and the emergence of electronic publishing during early 90s have revolutionized the entire process of scientific communication, ensu- ing instantaneous dissemination of content over the worldwide networks very easily to scholars. The e-publishing was initially applied for highly priced peer reviewed research journals in a view to disseminate research results speedily to the re- searchers working all over the world and no sooner extended to other popular forms of information material viz. Abstracts, indexes, books, serial publications, reference sets, statistical handbooks and technical manuals etc. The rapid increase of e-journals in developed countries coupled with the addition of advanced applications has been gaining value among the scholarly circles since they can search and retrieve the information in the form of text, data and also as multimedia objects, further replacing the traditional print resources those exist over decades as well superseding the traditional V. J. Suseela University of Hyderabad, India