INFOPORT: INFLIBNET Subject Gateway for Indian Electronic-Resources

A Subject Gateway to Indian Electronic Resources developed by the INFLIBNET Centre was launched by Prof. Mahendra P Lama, Vice Chancellor, Sikkim University during the inaugural session of 8th PLANNER 2012 on 1stMarch, 2012. 

The InfoPort is designed and developed by the INFLIBNET Centre to serve as a comprehensive gateway to all Indian scholarly content. The gateway open-ups the Indian scholarly content scattered over the Internet through an integrated interface that support search, browse and multiple listing. 

The resources covered in the infoPort are organized under ten major categories (000 to 999) according to the Dewey Decimal Classification. Resources in the InfoPort are also arranged alphabetically by subjects. 

The Info-Port is now accessible at: http://infoport.inflibnet.ac.in/

National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)

National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST), an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the Mission on Education through ICT which was launched in May 2010 with multi-fold objectives is receiving a good response as seen from the number of subscribers it has got in a year. http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/

The project facilitates access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges through proxy servers. It provides scholarly information in the e-format at discounted rates.

Executed by the University Grants Commission – InfoNet Digital Library Consortium (UGC-InfoNet), Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET), Ahmedabad, and Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST)-AICTE Consortium, there are as many as 1960 universities, technical institutions, and colleges registered as subscribers to the project.

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