INFLIBNET is an autonomous inter-university center established in 1991 under the University Grants Commission of India. It aims to modernize university libraries in India through automation, digitization of resources, and providing access to scholarly electronic resources. Some of its key programs and services include e-ShodhSindhu, an electronic resource consortium providing access to over 10,000 journals and databases; e-PGPathshala containing e-learning materials for 77 postgraduate subjects; and IndCat, an online union catalogue of books, theses, and journals held in major university libraries in India.

2. Introduction
 INFLIBNET stands for Information and Library Networks.
 Started under Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in 1991.
 Became an interdependent IUC in 1996
 Autonomous inter-university center under UGC.
 Headquarter in Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad.
 Major player in promoting scholarly communication in India.

3. Goals of INFLIBNET
 Achieve complete automation of libraries in educational institutions.
 Create union catalogues of documents available in libraries in online and real-time
environment.
 Promote digitization of legacy documents and creation of content in e-format in
universities.
 Promote setting-up of open access digital repositories in universities.
 To provide effective and efficient access to knowledge.
 To provide access to peer-reviewed scholarly electronic resources.
 Strengthen educational institutions with value added services.
 Develop tools and techniques to access information anywhere, anytime

4. Products and Services
 e-consortium
 UGC-INFONET DLC (Merged as e-ShodhSindhu)
 N-LIST program (Merged as e-ShodhSindhu)
 INDEST-AICTE (Merged as e-ShodhSindhu)
 e-PGPathshala
 IndCat Union Database
 Open Access Initiative
 INFOPORT
 IR@INFLIBNET
 OJAS
 Shodhganga
 Shodhgangotri
 Research Project
 SOUL
 Vidwan Database

5. e-ShodhSindhu
 Based on the recommendation of an Expert Committee, the Ministry of HRD
(now renamed as Ministry of Education) has formed e-ShodhSindhu
 Merging three consortia initiatives, namely UGC-INFONET Digital Library
Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium.
 The e-ShodhSindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival
access to more than 10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals
 A number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different
disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators
 To its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions,
universities and colleges

7. E-PGPathshala
 The MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-
ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for development of e-content.
 77 subjects at postgraduate level.
 Content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences,
arts, fine arts & humanities, natural & mathematical sciences,
linguistics and languages

9. IndCat
 Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities
 Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in
major university libraries in India.
 The union database contains bibliographic description, location and
holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject
areas