National Digital Library of India

National Digital Library of India (NDL India): 

                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. Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. 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. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. 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 has been developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Some of the Special Features are:-

1.  More than 60 types of learning resources are available.

2.  Educational materials available for users rainging from Primary to Post Graduate Level

3.  Items are available in more than 70 Languages

4. Repository hosts contents from multiple subject domains like Technology, Science, Humanities, Agriculture and Others

5. 10 Millions items have been authored by more than 3 Lakh authors
6. Repository integrates contents from different Indian Institutional  Repositories.

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