2. INFLIBNET
•An autonomous IUC Of UGC
•Headquarter in Gujarat University
campus
•Established in 1991
•Started as a project under IUCAA
•It became an interdependent IUC in
June 1996
3. OBJECTIVES
• To promote and implement
computerization.
• To evolve standards and uniform
guidelines.
• To provide reliable access to
document collection of libraries.
• To provide access to bibliographic
information sources.
4. • To develop new methods and
techniques for archival.
• To optimize information resources
utilization.
• To create database of projects,
institutions, specialists etc.
• To encourage co-operation among
libraries, documentation centres and
information centres in the country.
5. FUNCTIONS
•To facilitate academic communication.
•To undertake system design and studies in the field of
communications, computer networking, information
handling and data management.
•To establish appropriate control and monitoring system for
the communication network and organize maintenance.
•To collaborate with institutions, libraries, information
centres and other organizations.
•To generate revenue.
6. GOALS
• 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.
7. MAJOR ACTIVITIES
•e- consortium
UGC-INFONET DLC
N-LIST Program
•e-PGPathshala
•Indcat union database
•Open access initiative
INFOPORT
IR@INFLIBNET
OJAS
shodhganga
shodhgangotri
•Research project
•SOUL
•Vidwan database
8. UGC-INFONET DLC
•The UGC- infonet digital library consortium was formally
launched in december,2003 by honourable president of
india Dr A.P.J.abdul kalam.
•To provide the internet connectivity to the universities in
the year 2003 under UGC –infonet programme.
•University libraries which have been discontinuing
subscription of scholarly journals because of “serial
crisis”.
•The term serial crisis refers to exponential and
continuing increase in subscription cost of scholarly
journals.
10. N-LIST
The project entitled “National library and
information services infrastructure for scholarly
content(N-LIST)”,being jointly executed by the
e-shodhsindhu consortium and INDEST-AICTE
consortium.
The N-LIST project provides access to e-
resources to students, researchers and faculty
from college and other beneficiary institutions.
11. e-PG pathshala
•e-PG pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD
under its national mission on education through
ICT (NME-ICT)being executed by the UGC.
•The content and its quality being the key
component of education system,high quality,
curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70
subjects across all disciplines of social sciences,
arts, fine arts, humanities, natural and
mathematical science.
•A gateway to all post graduate courses.
13. INDcat union database
•INDcat: online union catalogue of Indian
universities.
•It contain bibliographic records of books, theses
and serials contributed by participating
universities in all disciplines.
• i.e computer science, philosophy, religion, social
science, technology, arts, literature, history and
science.
•Currently indcat has more than 95.93 lakhs
unique bibliographic records of book, thesis and
serial database.
15. INFOPORT
•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 different 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.
17. IR@INFLIBNET
•INFLIBNET centre build its own institutional
repository by using Dspace Digital library
software.
•This repository have only those content that is
clipping the media, seminar and conference
proceeding(planner, caliber) and INFLIBNET
publication(annual report, newsletter)
OJAS
INFLIBNET centre has discontinued the OJAS
services with effect from 31 march 2018
19. shodhganga
•Shodhganga is the electronic dissertation and thesis digital
repository.
•Shodh stand for “research and discovery" of the researcher
output that originate from the Sanskrit word .
•Ganga stand for the largest repository of the scholar
output, in India gangs is the holiest, longest, larger 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 facilitate the
open access, to improve the quality of research output ,to
decrease the duplication of works.
21. shodhgangotri
•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 stands for the “research and discovery”
and ganotri stand for the origination of the
ganga river.
23. Research project
•Research project database is details of the
accomplished and ongoing funded projects
carried out by various faculty members
working at various universities in India.
•It contain more than 13600 research projects
information funded by various funding
agencies viz UGC,ICAR,ICMR,DST and DBT etc.
•The details of the project information have
been collected from the project directors and
funding agencies.
25. SOUL
•The SOUL 2.0(software for university libraries) is
state-of the art integrated library management
software designed and developed by the INFLIBNET
centre with experience gained by the centre over
the years based on requirements of colleges,
universities and other academic libraries.
•First version launched in Chennai caliber 2000 .
•Second version launched by prof s.k Thorat
chairman of UGC in January 2009
27. VIDWAN database
•The INFLIBNET VIDWAN database gives the
information of the expert of the various fields
and research network in India.
•It also provides the information about the
expert of their publication, background,
experience .
•The main aim to build this database is the
information exchanges and networking
opportunities among the scientist.
28. INFLIBNET services
1. Catalogue based service
2. Database service
3. Document supply service
4. Collection development
5. Communication based service
29. INFLIBNET resources
1. University catalogue
2. R&D library catalogue
3. National library catalogue
4. National union catalogue
5. Indigenous database
30. Conference and workshops
INLIBNET conducts an annual event called
convention on autonomous of libraries in
educational and research
institutions(CALIBER) on different places in
India.
31. PLANNER: promotion of library automation
and networking in north eastern region.
The topic is recent & related to library
automation.
It also supports workshops all over
India which are related to libraries