The Project entitled "National Library and
Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content
(N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital
Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium,
IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources
subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE
resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical
institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The
N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students,
researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary
institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The
authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and
download articles required by them directly from the publisher's
website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through
servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.
N-LIST: Four Components
The project has four distinct components, i.e. i )
to subscribe and provide access to selected UGC-INFONET e-resources
to technical institutions (IITs, IISc, IISERs and NITs) and monitor
its usage; ii) to subscribe and provide access to selected INDEST
e-resources to selected universities and monitor its usage; iii) to
subscribe and provide access to selected e-resources to 6,000 Govt./
Govt.-aided colleges and monitor its usage; and iv) to act as a
Monitoring Agency for colleges and evaluate, promote, impart training
and monitor all activities involved in the process of providing
effective and efficient access to e-resources to colleges.
The INDEST and UGC-INFONET are jointly responsible
for activity listed at i) and ii) above. The INFLIBNET Centre,
Ahmedabad is responsible for activities listed at iii) and iv) above.
The INFLIBNET Centre is also responsible for developing and deploying
appropriate software tools and techniques for authenticating
authorized users.
For access to NLIST contact Knowledge Centre, Christ
University.
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