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Digital Library Initiatives - National and International

Digital Library Initiatives Introduction 
 Digital Library Initiatives in India. 
 1. Digital Library of Books 
            1.1 National Digital Library of India (NDL India) 
            1·2 Digital Library of India 
            1.3 Vigyan-Prasar Digital Library 
            1.4 NCERT online text books 
 2. Digital Library of Manuscripts 
            2.1 Kalasampada: Digital Library Resources for Indian cultural heritage 
            2.2 National DataBank on Indian Art and culture (NDBIAC) 
            2.3 National Mission for Marucripts 
            2.4 Mukta bodha : Digital Library and Archiring Project 
 3. National Digital Library of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation 
            3.1 Shodh Ganga : Indian ETD Repository. 
            3.2 Vidyanidhi Digital Library 
 4. Digital Library of Institutional Repositories 
 5. Digital Library of Journals - Initiatives by Scientific Society and Publishers. 
            5.1 Indian Academy of Sciences 
            5.2 Indian National Science Academy 
            5.3 NISCAIR Research Journals 
           5.4 Indian Medlars centre. 
           5.5 Open Journal System@INFLIBNET 
           5.6 Indian Journals.com 
          5·7 Med know Publications Pvt. Ltd. 
          5.8 Kamla-Raj Enterprises 
 6 Digital Library of online, Courseware 
          6.1 NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) 
          6.2 E- Gyankosh 
          6.3 Learning object Repository CEC. 
          6.4 ePG Pathshala 
          6.5 Indo-German eGurukul on Digital Libraries 
7. Library Consortium in India 
           7.1 UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium 
           7.2 INDEST-AICTE Consortium. 
           7.3 National Knowledge Resource Consortium 
          7.4 MCIT Consortium. 
          7.5 DAE Consortium 
          7.6 ERMED Consortium 
          7.7 DRDO E-Journal Consortium. 
          7.8 DeLCON 
          7.9 CeRA 
          7.10 NLIST 
          7.11 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library. 
          7.12 Archives of Indian Labour. 
          7.13 C-DAC Projects

                                                                                                                                                                       

 Digital Library Initiatives - National and                    International                                                         

  Digital library Initiative Introduction                                                

 The formal project of digital library under the Digital library Initiative (DLI) was started in 1994 as a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in 1994. Six universities were given the funds for investigation and development of underlying technologies for digital libraries. The second phase of the project was initiated in February 1998. (Devika, 2003). The landmark initiatives that led the path towards the Digital Library movement are the CMU, MERCURY project; CORE project at cornell university the TULIP project and ENVISION, cornell Institute of digital collection, Yale university open book project, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD), National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) Education Digital Library (NSDL). 

 The formal project of digital library under the Digital Library Initiative (DLI) was started in 1994 as a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in 1994. Six universities were given the funds for investigation and development of underlying technologies for digital libraries. 

 The second phase of the project  was initiated in February 1998. (Devina, 2003). The landmark initiatives that led the path towards the Digital Library movement are the CMU, MERCURY project; CORE project at cornell university the TULIP project and ENVISION, cornell institute of digital collection,  Yale University open Book Project, Networked Digital library of Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD), National Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) Education Digital Library (NSDL). 

 Digital Library development  in emerging country like India is taken up with preserving art culture and heritage  of India in mid 1990. India became de -  facto signatory of the UNESCO universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted unanimously by the UNESCO General conference at its 31st session held on 2 November 2001 to strengthen the access to diverse cultural resources available  across the country. Indian state and non-state agencies in collaboration with the carnegie Mellon University, Universal Digital Library. 

 National policy on Digital Library : The National Task Force on IT and software Development (2003) has given some valuable recommendation for development of DLs in the country related to development of pilot project on Digital Library, preservation of vast wealth of Indian traditional knowledge, digitization of Indian Theses and Dissertations and copyright protection. However there is no any clear cut national  policy on Digital Libraries. 

 1. Current Digital Library Initiatives in India Government institutions of National importance, national level institutions, research organisations, universities, state government institutions, financial institutions, private institutions are key player for initiating digital libraries in India. Some of the important digital library  initiatives and programmes initiated across the country  are as follows : 

  1.1 Digital Library of Books                                                               

 1.1.1 National Digital Library of India (NDL India) (https://ndl. iitkgp.ac.in/) : 

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through Information and communication Technology (NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) Pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository  of learning resources with a single  window search facility. NDL india is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading Indian languages. It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life - long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently abled learners. The pilot project is devising a framework that is being scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity  to serve all levels and disciplines of learners. It is being developed at indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. The union Human Resource Development Minister, Prakash Javadekar, Launched the digital initiative programme called the 'National Digital Library of India' on 17 June, 2018, on the occasion of National Reading Day. 

 1.1.2 Digital Library of India (http://www.dli.ernet. in/) : 

Digital library of India was formally launched by the them president of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in 8th September  2003 to preserve knowledge and cultural heritage of India. It is part of universal Digital Library project of the US-NSF and Million Books Project envisaged by carnegie Mellon University, USA. participating  institutions are indian institute of Information Technology Hyderabad; ERNET (Education and Research Network) India; Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) 

 1.1.3 Vigyan-Prasar Digital Library (http://www.vigyan prasar.gov. in /digilib/) : 

Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, was established in 1989 for communication of science and technology  Vigyan Prasar maintains an open access digital library to spread scientific knowledge, where the digital collection contains digitized full-text versions of all significant scientific works that are being published by Vigyan Prasar. 

 1.1.4 NCERT Online text Books (http://www.ncert. nic.in / textbooks/testing/index.       html) : 

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) was established by the Government of India in 1961 as an autonomous organization to assist and advise the state and central governments in the implementation of their policies for education, expecially to bring about qualitative changes in school education. The NCERT has initiated a national portal where school textbooks, based on the National Curriculum framework 2005, are freely available on the internet for students and teachers. This portal provides easy navigation to textbook chapter by title/ subject of the book for a particular class. The entire book or individual chapters can be downloaded as per the terms of use as mentioned in the copyright notice. The service provides easy access to textbooks of all subjects published by NCERT for classes I to XII in Hindi, English  and urdu. 

 1.2 Digital Library of Manuscripts                                                     

 1.2.1 Kala sampada : 

Digital Library Resources for Indian Cultural Heritage (http://www.ignca.nic in/dlrich.html) : The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with the Ministry of communication and Information Technology initiated a digital  library on indigenous cultural heritage named Kala sampada Digital Library. Resources of Indian cultural heritage (DL-RICH) for the development of a data bank of cultural heritage. 

 1.2.2 National Databank on Indian Art and Culture (MDBIAC (http://ignca.nic.in/        ndb- 0001. htm) : 

In its second phase of digitization project, INGICA Started National Databank on Indian Art and Culture (NDBIAC), a pilot project of Department of Information Technology, Ministry of communication and Information Technology (MYCIT), and Archaeological survey of INDIA, Government of India with an aim to enhance the accessibility of Indian cultural resources using digital technology. NDBIAC provides access to digitized images and audio visuals provided by ASI and state archaeology departments. It also gives access to virtual walk throughs of archacological monuments, back issues of ASI yournal "Indian Archaeology – A Review", ASI reports and rare books in Indic languages (Hindi and Sanskrit) and English. The project is pilot project and aim to cover over 1 lakh visual, 1000 hours of audio and video, 25000 rare books on art and culture and walk-through of some of the archaeological monuments. 

1.2.3 National Mission for Manuscripts (http://www. namami.org/index.html) :     

The Department of culture, and Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India, launched the National Mission for Manuscripts in February 2003 with an aim to locate, document, preserve and render vast collection of manuscripts  which are available in variety of themes, textures and aesthetics, scripts, languages, calligraphies, illuminations and illustrations. NMM established a network of 47 MRC (Manuscript Resource Centres), 32 MPC (Manuscript Partner Centres) and more than 200 MCPC (Manuscript Conservation Partner Centres) across the country for identifying, inventorying, preservation and conservation of endangered documentary heritage collections available in the form of manuscripts NMM maintains a National Database of Manuscripts named 'Kriti sampada'.  At present total 20 lakh data are available on NMM website. 

 1.2.4 Muktabodha : 

Digital Library and Archiving Project (http: //www.muktabodhalib.org/digital library.html) : The Muktabodha Digital Library and Archiving Project is initiated by Muktabodha Indological Research institute in July 2003 to preserve scriptural texts related to the Tantric and Agamic traditions,  as well as India's oral tradition of Vedic chanting and the ritual and philosophical knowledge associated with it. 

 1.3 National Digital Library of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation 

 1.3.1 Shodh Ganga : Indian ETD Repository (http:// shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/) : 

Shodhganga is a national repository of electronic theses and dissertation. It was launched on 20 th May 2010 by INFLIBNET centre under support of university Granto commission with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world wide. UGC in its notification dated 1st June 2009 mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities. Shodhganga stands for reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and maintained by the INFLIBNET centre. 151 universities have signged Mou with INFLIBNET centre to join in Shodh Ganga project and deposit their theses. INFLIBNET centure also maintain repository. of approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph. D. programme called Shodhbrangotri with an aim to measure trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities and to avoid duplication of research. Shodhbonga provides access to more than 11000 electronic theses and dissertations. Shodh ganga Received the eINDIA JURY CHOICE Award for best ICT enabled Higher Education Institute of the year 2011. Shodhgangotri provides access to more the 1712 synopsis submitted research scholars. 

 1.3.2 Vidyanidhi Digital Library (http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/) : 

Vidyanidhi is a portal of doctoral research in India. Implemented by Department of Library Science, university of Mysore, Supported by NISSAT, DSIR, Government of India, Ford Foundation and Microsoft india. It began as a pilot project in 2000 with support from govorment, the Ford Foundation and Microsoft India archive of dissertations, as well as a set of resources for doctoral research in India. Vidyanidhi also has strategic support from the UGC. The vidyanidhi Digital Library has two players : a metadata database and the full text of theses. More than 5000 full text and 50,000 bibliographic records of theses submitted to the universities in india have been hosted in vidyanidhi. 

 1.4 Digital Library of Institutional Repositories                                

 An Institutional Repository (IR) is a digital collection or archives of a university's intellectual output. Universities and other institutions are producing digital information base of their Ph.D. these and dissertations, articles, reports, conference, proceeding, lecture notes, presentational, audio-video records using open source software and making them available to their end users. There are 92 institutional and subject wise repositories have been registered in Registry of open  Access Repository (ROAR). Institutional repositories initiated in india can be viewed at http://roar.eprints.org/. 

 1.5 Digital Library of Journals - Initiatives by Scientific Society        and Publishers                                                                                    

 1.5.1 Indian Academy of Sciences (www.ias.ac.in/pubs/journals/) : 

The Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS) is a scientific academy funded by the Government of India. Digital platform is developed to provide online access to 11 peer reviewed journals with all backfiles and other publications including reports, newsletter, patrika, year book and annual report etc. published by Indian Academy of Science. It provides access to 11 journals with back files.

1.5.2 Indian National Science Academy (www. insa.ac. in) : 

the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) was established in 1935. It is funded by Government of India. INSA under the support of NISSAT, has initiated e-journal@insa Project in 2002 to facilitate conversion of INSA journals from print to digital format and host these materials online. This portal provides access to current and back volume full text literature of INSA journals, organize scientific discussion, proceedings and monographis annual report, year book etc. It provides access to 7 journals with back files. 

 1.5.3 NISCAIR Research Journals (http://nopr.niscair. res. in/) : 

NISCAIR has developed Online Periodicals Repository (NOPR) to preserve its 7 research journals, working paper, preprints, technical reports, conference papers and data sets in various digital formats. All publications can be access full text in PDF format through NOPT platform. National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was then established to provide comprehensive S and T information to students of science, engineering and technology. NSDL provides curriculum based access to e-book and lecture notes, Presentation for the undergraduate students of science. 

 1.5.4 Indian Medlars Centre (IndMED@NIC: http:// indmed.nic.in) (Open MED@NIC:http://openmed. nic.in) : 

National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Indian council of Medical Research (ICMR) had collaborated to setup Indian Medlars Centre to provide information support and services to medical research community. The centre produced two important resources; the first is INDMED@NIC, which indexes more than 100 prominent biomedical journals of India from 1985 onwards. This bibliographic database is accessible online. The second resource is MEDIND@NIC that provides open accesss to the full text articles of 62 Indian biomedical journals. Different publishers, mainly learned societies in the respective specialized areas, publish these journals in print-on-paper format. The new project entitles "National Databases of Indian Medical Journals" is in process for maintaining , updating  and improvising these two important national resources. 

 1.5.5 Open Journal System @INFLIBNET 

 Open journal system @INFLIBNET Centre provides digital platform for hosting of electronic version of journals into open access mode with all processes of sub-mission, peer-reviewing editing, layout designing and publishing built into it. It encourages universities and institutions that are publishing journals in print format to use the OJS@INFLIBNET for hosting electronic version of their journals free-of-cost on server at the INFLIBNET centre. The OJS@INFLIBNET provides full-text access to 14 journals published by universities and higher education institutions.  It provides access to 14 open access journals.

 1.5.6 Indianjournals.com (www. indianjournal.com) : 

Indianjournals.com implemented by Divan Enterprises, New Delhi. It provides single window access to multidisciplinary indian journalis published by different scholarly societies and institutions. It provides access to eleven open access journals and periodicals. This journals gateway also provides access to subscription-based content.

 1.5.7 Medknow Publications Pvt. Ltd. (www.medknow.com/journals.asp) : 

Medknow publications private limited is a publisher of high-quality peer-reviewed scholarly open access journals in India. It publishes, maintains and hosts 48+ open access peer reviewed scholarly journals, mainly in the biomedical subject areas on behalf of leamed societies and associations. It provides access to 48 journals. 1.5.8 Kamla - Ray Enterprises (wwww.krepublishers. com/KRE-New-J/index.html) : The kamla Ray Enterprises is a Delhi-based publisher established in 1933. Kamla-Ray publishes seven print-based peer-review scholarly journals mainly in the areas of social sciences which are also available in electronic format on open access. These journals are OAI-compliant. The publisher maintains an archive of each of these open access journals starting from volume one. 

   1.6 Digital Library of Online Courseware                                        

 1.6.1 NPTEL (www.npted.iitm.ac.in ; http://youtube .com/nptelhrd/) : 

The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) (www.nptel.iitm.ac.in) is an open courseware initiative by even Indian Instituters of Technology (IITs) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). This initiative funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). The main objective of this programme is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing more than 200 curricula based video and web courses. 

 1.6.2 e-Gyankosh (www.egyankosh.ac.in) 

 Indira Gandi National open university (IGNOU) is a mega open university that offers distance and open education to millions of learners in India and other countries. It produces self-instructional study materials for various programmes and also hosts a number of educational broadcasting chennels. IGNOU has initiated the establishment of a National Digital Repository of learning resources eGyankosh. This repository envisages to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources of open and distance learning (ODL) institutions in the county. The repository supports seamless aggregation and integration of learning resources in different formats such as self-instructional study materials, audio video programmes, and archives of radio and television based live interactive sessions. 

 1.6.3 Learning Object Repository CEC (www.ceclor.edu.in) : 

Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) is an inter university centre on electric media, established by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The CEC in coordination  with its 17 educational multimedia research centres, has been producing television programmes in various subject categories in English, Hindi and regional languages. Some of the audio-visual programmes are based on syllabus-based topics at the school, polytechnic, college and university levels. CEC established the Learning Object Repository (LOR) and the Digital Video Repository (DVR) to provide worldwide access to these qualitative learning resources. The LOR is a bank of short duration reusable learning objects for special benefits to students and teachers for face to face learning as well as to other users globally. The streaming video technique is used for online viewing of these learning objects. The LOR portal can be searched by subject, topic, title of the learning object, and keywords. This portal can also be navigated through subject catagories. 

 1.6.4 ePG Pathshala (http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ about.php) : 

The MHRD, under NME-ICT has allocated funds to the UGC for development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level. The INFLIBNET centre is assigned the responsibility for technical and administrative coordination of the programme as per the guidelines of standing committee, ePG Pathshala. High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in different subject across all discipliners of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being developed under this initiative named e-PG Pathshala. 

 1.6.5 Indo-German eGurukul on Digital Libraries (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mmb/) : 

The Indo-German eGurukul on Digital libraries is a collaborative project of DRTC and Goethe-Institute in New Delhi to facilitate self-spaced learning on digital libraries. 

 1.7 Library Consortium in India                                                         

 Beside, accesses to e-resources to Indian institutions are also available through library consortia some of the major example of library consortia in India which provides access to peer reviewed journals to their member institutions is as followers : 

1.7.1 UGC - INFONET Digital Library Consortium (http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ) 

The UGC INFONET Digital Library consortium was launched by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the then president of India, in Decembar 2003. The consortium provides differential access to e-resources to 206 universities and 150 institutions covered under associate membership programme. These e-resource covers almost all subject disciplines including arts, humanities social sciences, physical sciences, chemical sciences, life sciences, computer sciences, mathematics, statistics, etc. It provides current as well as archival access to more than 8,500 core and peer reviewed electronic journals and ten bibliographic databases from 28 publishers, scholarly societies and aggregator, including university presses in different disciplines. 

 1.7.2 INDEST-AICTE Consortium (http://www.paniit. iitd.ac.in/indest) : 

The Indian National Digital library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST) Consortium was setup by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in year 2003 to provide access to selected electronic journals and databases to technical institutions including IISe, IITs, NITs, IIMs and a few other centrally-funded Government institutions. The total numbers of members, in the consortium has now gone up to 325 including 65 core member institutions, 60 AICTE supported engineering college and 200 members under self supported categories. It provides access to 20748 peer reviewed  journals and 10 bibliographical database to its member institutions. 

1.7.3 National Knowledge Resource Consortium  (NKRC) [http://nkrc.niscair.res.in) : 

The National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC), established in year 2009, is a network of libraries and information centres of 39 CSIR and 24 DST institutes. NKRC origin goes back to the year 2001, when the CSIR set up the electronic journals consortium to provide access to 1200 odd yournals of Elsevier Science to all its users. Over a period of time, the consortium not only grew in terms of the number of resources but also in terms of the number of users as more like-minded institutes evinced interest to join the consortium. Currently, NKRC facilitates access to 8000 + ejournals of all major publishers, patents, standards, citation and bibliographic databases. Aparts from licensed resources, NKRC is also a single point entity that provides its users with access to a multitude of open access resources. It provides access to 8061 peer reviewed e-journals and 7 bibliographical database. 

 1.7.4 MCIT Consortium (http://www.mcitconsortium.nic.in) : 

The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) Consortium Caters to the information requirement of 9 institutions including NIC, CDAT and CDOT (with its offices in multiple locations). Setup in 2005 with funding from the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), the consortium subscribes to 5 electronic resources including IE/ online, ACM Digital Library, Indian Standards, Science Direct and JCCC. Other activities of the consortium include establishing institutional repositories, national making union catalogues, creation and maintenance of library automation software called e- Granthalaya, It provides access to 1818 e-journals and 14,000 ebook to its member institutions. 

1.7.5 DAE Consortium 

 The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Consortium, set up in 2003, caters to the information requirement of 36 institutions including BARC, TIFR and SAMEER. Funded by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India, the consortium subscribe to 2000 e-journals from 4 publishers including Science Direct, Springer and MathSciNet. The consortium is administered by one of the DAE intuitions by rotations. It provides access to 2,000 peer reviewed e-journals from four publisher to its member institutions. 

 1.7.6 ERMED Consortium (http://ermed.jccc.in/) 

 Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED) consortium, setup at 2008, is an initiative taken by Director General of Health Services (DGHS) to develop nation-wide electronic information resources in the field of medicine for delivering effective health care for all. The consortium is being coordinated through its headquarter setup at the National Medical Library (NML). DGHS provides fund for the purchase of electronic resources under the ERMED consortium for Government medical colleges and institutions. Private medical colleges and institutions can join the consortium under its self-supported category. ERMED e-journal consortium has 98 members including ICMR, DGHS, AIIMS, NTR health university and govemment medical colleges/institutes across the country. 

 1.7.7 DRDO E-Journal Consortium (www.dsl.drdo .gov.in/ejournals) : 

Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defense is the largest government funded research and development organization in India with a chain of over 50 laboratories and establishments spread across the country. DRDO e-journal consortium was established on january 2009 to provide access to e-rources to S and T Community of DRDO. The consortium is governed by a monitoring committee having the representatives from different subject clusters and headquarters. It provides access to 568 full text e-journal to 50 DRDO Labs. JCCC service was added to facilitate access to contents of all the journal titles subscribed by 20 major DRDO labs. If provides access to 568 and 1 bibliographic database to its member institutions. 

 1.7.8 DeLCON (http://delcon.gov.in) 

 DBT e-Library Consortium (DeLOON) is funded by Department of Biotechnology. Establish in 2009, the consortium provides access to more than 600 journals and bibliographic database to 33 membar institutions which includes 14 DBT institutions, and 18 institutions located in North Eastern Region (NER) and Bio-technology Industry Research Assistance Programme (BIRAP). It provides access to 682 e-journals to its member institutions. 

1.7.9 CeRA (Consortium for e-resources in Agriculture) (http://cera.iari.rep.in and amp; amp; http://cera. jccc.in) : 

CeRA an ambitious initiative from IARI, aims to provide scholarly information in the broad spectrum of agricultural science to foster academic quality research amongst its institutes and other agricultural universities. It was established in 2008 by ICAR as a sub project of NAIP, funded by the world Bank. The consortium is managed by IARI and promoted by ICAR. It covers about 3,000 scholarly journals from seven major publishers. The consortium has 134 member institutions comprising of deemed universities, national research centres, agriculture institutions, national bureau, ICAR institutions, etc. It provides access to 1766 peer reviewed e-journals and 3 bibliographic databases. 

 1.7.10 NLIST (http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/) 

 The project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content" (NLIST) being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET digital  Library consortium, INFLIBNET centre  and the INDEST-AICTE consortium, IIT Delhi, provides for access to scholarly content to colleges, universities as well as centrally-funded technical institutions through its four distinct 

 Components :  

i. UGC-INFONET e-resources to technical institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs, NITs, etc) 

 ii. INDEST e-resources to universities. 

 iii E-resource to 12,000 Govt aided and non aided colleges; and 

 iv. National Monitoring Agency at the INFLIBNET centre to manage access, monitor promote and import training to promote optimal usage of e-resources and for monitoring all activities involved in the process of providing effective and eficient access to e-resources to colleges. 

 1.7.11 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) (www.tkdl.res.in) : 

TKDL is a collaborative project of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), the council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Ministry of Science and Technology and Department of a AYUSH and the Ministry of Health and Family welfare, which this is being implemented at NISCAIR. 

 1.7.12 Archives of Indian Labour (http://www. indialabourarchives.org/) : 

The archivers of Indian Labour were created by the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute and the Association of Indian Labour historians (AILH). The archive preserves documents, build's collections, and initiates research in labour history. 

 1.7.13 C-DAC Projects (http://cdac.in/index.aspx? id=mc_hc-digi-lib) : 

Centre for Development  of advanced computing (C-DAC) is the premier R and D organization of the Department of Electronics and information Technology (Deity), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R and D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. 

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