The document discusses digital library initiatives in India led by INFLIBNET Centre. It provides background on INFLIBNET, which was established in 1996 as an autonomous inter-university centre under UGC. INFLIBNET plays a major role in India's digital library initiatives and has delivered services and resources to promote information access. Some of INFLIBNET's key digital library initiatives discussed include e-SodhSindhu, INFOPORT, IR@INFLIBNET, Shodhganga, Shodhgangotri, e-PGPathsala, and Vidwan Database. These initiatives aim to provide access to e-resources, boost Indian scholarly content, build institutional repositories, and create databases of research theses

1. Abid Fakhre Alam
PGDLIM, SLIS
CUG

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 Emergence of “WWW” has create the new
divergence in the field of Library and Information
Science. So, One of the Divergence is Digital Library.
 Digital Library promote the Resource sharing
between Researcher.
 First Digital Library Initiative was started in the year
1994 as the joint initiative of the National Science
Foundation, Department of Defense Advanced
Research Projects agency and National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
Introduction
To be Cont..

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 INFLIBNET play one of the major role in the Digital
library Initiative of the India.
 INFLIBNET was setup as an Independent,
Autonomous Inter-University Centre under UGC in
1996.
 The Centre has deliver Good Services and Resources
to promote Information Access and transfer, Sharing
of Resources, Help to build the Social Network, and
to Promote the Scholarly Communication.

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 Archives of Indian Labour
 Digital Library of India
 National Digital Library
 Down the Memory Lane
 Digital Library of Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
 ETD at Indian Institute of Science
 Cultural Heritage Digital Library in Hindi
 Librarian's Digital Library
 Nalanda Digital Library
 Vidyanidhi: Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal
 National Mission for Manuscripts
List of the Digital Library
Initiative in India

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 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)
 Vigyan Prasar Digital Library
 Digital Library of Art Masterpieces
 Indian Parliament Library
 Khuda Baksh Oriental Public Library
 Indira Gandhi Memorial Library
 Indian Institute of Astrophysics
 Electronic Theses and Dissertation Project of INFLIBNET
Centre
 Raman Research Institute
 Muktabodha: DL and Archiving
 Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Science and
Technology (INDEST)
 India Education Digital Library
 Mobile Digital Library
 CSIR Exploration

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 An Indian Autonomous Inter-University Network
Body of the University Grant Commission (UGC).
 It was established in 1991 under the UGC National
Program Initiative of the Government of India
 INFLIBNET works as the Network to modernize
Libraries and to optimized the utilization
Information among Academician and Researcher.
INFLIBNET
(INFormation and LIBrary
NETwork)

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 e-Consortium
 e-sodhSindhu (UGC-INFONET DLC, NLIST Program &
INDEST-AICTE)
 Open Access Initaitives
 INFOPORT
 IR@INFLIBNET
 Shodhganga
 Shodhgangotri
 Project & Consultancy
 e-PGPathsala
 Vidwan Database
DL Initiative at
INFLIBNET

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 This comes under the Digital Library Initiative by Ministry of
Human Resource Development (MHRD) Government of India and
executed by INFLIBNET.
 Result of merging three consortia that is INDEST-AICTE
Consortium, UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, and
NLIST.
 The main purpose is to provide access to e-resources to the
Institutes in India including Full-text, Factual and Bibliograophic
Databases to the Academician
 Summary for the Year 2018
 91 - Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs)
 217 - Universities
 108 - Technical Institute
 3000+ - Colleges
 10000+ - e-journal
 3135000+ - e-books
 20 - Resources
 4 - Databases
e-sodhSindhu

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 INFOPORT of INFLIBNET Centre boost Indian Scholarly
Content.
 It is the Subject Gateway of the Electronic resource of the India.
 It basically provide the e-resource of the Indian Scholar that
scatter in the web into one place
 Support the difference interface like Browsing, Searching, and
so on.
 The Team behind the INFOPORT collect the resource by
contact to the Scholar and Librarian from the different colleges
and Universities in India.
 Follows the DDC classification Scheme for arrangement of the
content on the site.
INFOPORT

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 INFLIBNET Centre build Its own Institutional
repository by using DSpace Digital Library Software.
 This Repository have only those content that is
affiliated to INFLIBNET Centre such as News
Clipping and Media, Seminar and Conference
Proceeding (Planner, Caliber) and INFLIBNET
Publication (Annual Report, Newsletter)
IR@INFLIBNET

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 Shodhganga is the Electronic dissertations and thesis Digital
Repository.
 Shodh stand for Research and Discovery of the Researcher
Output that originate from the Sanskrit word and Ganga stand
for the largest repository of the scholar output , In India Ganga
is the holiest, longest, largest river.
 On 5th May, 2016, UGC mandates the e-these and e-dissertation
submission of the researcher in the universities to initiate the
Open Access to the Scholarly Community world wide.
 The main purpose behind the Shodhganga is to faciliate the
Open Access, to improve the Quality of Research Output, to
Decrease the duplication of works.
 At that Time, 411 Universities and 14 CFTI in India sign MoU to
participate or contributed this Initiative.
Shodhganga

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 Shodhgangotri is the Digital Repository of the e-
synopses and e-research proposals of the Research
Scholar of the Institute for their PHD programme
that are deposit and approved by the universities.
 Shodh stand for the “Research and discovery” and
Gangotri stand for the origination of the Ganga
river. The origination of the Research output.
 At that time, 5867 synopses were upload by the 67
university and Institute.
Shodhgangotri

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 e-PGPathsala at INFLIBNET is the Initiative Started
in November, 2015 under the National Mission of
Education of the MHRD through Information and
Communaction Technology that has being Executed
by the UGC.
 There are 70 Subjects across Social Science, Arts, Fine
Arts, Humanities, Linguistics and Languages with
Quiz.
e-PGPathsala

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 The INFLIBNET's VIDWAN database give the
Information of the Expert of the various fields and
Researcher network in India.
 It also provide the Information about the expert of their
Publication, Background, Experience , etc.
 The main aim to build this database is to collaborate with
the expert and to create the information exchanges and
networking opportunities among the Scientist
 This database financial support from the National
Mission on Education through ICT
Vidwan Database

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 The INFLIBNET Center has stepped up its digital
library-related activities and services with effective
and efficient information support to the Community
by their activities and Information product like e-
pgpathsala, INFOPORT, N-List, etc.
Conclusion

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