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Networks & Platforms We Use

DELNET – Developing Library Network, New Delhi

DELNET (Developing Library Network), New Delhi, is one of the major library resource-sharing networks in India. It was started at the India International Centre Library in January 1988 and was registered as a society on 30 June 1992. Initially, DELNET was supported by the National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. Subsequently, it received support from the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, and the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. DELNET is presently connected with more than 10,000 institutions across 28 States and 8 Union Territories of India, including universities, colleges, research institutions and other organizations.

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DELNET provides access to a large number of bibliographic and full-text resources through its various portals. Its Union Catalogue of Books contains more than 4.70 crore records, along with 1,13,653 records in the Union List of Current Periodicals, 63,879 records in the Union Catalogue of Periodicals, 12,99,967 records in the Database of Periodical Articles, and 1,57,507 theses and dissertations. DELNET's Knowledge Gainer Portal provides access to more than 1.6 crore full-text e-books, e-journals, e-articles and other electronic resources. DELNET has also introduced the ViSiOn Portal, which provides video recordings of lectures on various subjects, and the COnCour Portal, which provides information about thousands of online courses. DELNET offers important services such as Inter-Library Loan (ILL), Document Delivery Service, Union Catalogues, resource sharing and access to electronic resources. Its headquarters is located at JNU Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi – 110070.

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a Ministry of Education, Government of India initiative sponsored under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) to provide learners with a single-window search facility for a wide range of digital learning resources. Developed and coordinated by IIT Kharagpur, NDLI serves as a single-source knowledge repository providing access to resources for school education, higher education, research, career development, cultural archives, newspaper archives, judicial resources, patents and standards, etc.

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Its collection includes books, articles, journals, theses and dissertations, question papers, lecture notes, audio lectures, video lectures, presentations, manuscripts and other digital learning resources from various content providers. NDLI also offers services such as NDLI Club, Digital Preservation Centre (DPC), Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) Hosting Service, DEEPAK and CHAVI. It supports multilingual and multidisciplinary learning and enables users to discover resources through subject, educational level, resource type and content-provider-based browsing.

NPTEL – National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning

NPTEL is a joint initiative of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India. Launched in 2003, it provides high-quality education through online learning and has expanded from Engineering and Science to Engineering, Basic Sciences, Humanities, Management and other disciplines.

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NPTEL offers free online courses, including 4-week, 8-week and 12-week courses, through its online certification programme. It currently provides 3,200+ unique courses for self-study, has recorded 3.79 crore+ course enrolments and 75.6 lakh+ examination registrations, and has 7,900+ NPTEL Local Chapter colleges. It also offers SWAYAM-NPTEL courses, NPTEL+, GATE preparation, industry-supported courses, faculty development initiatives, internships and translation of course content into Indian languages.