Monday, May 18, 2020

National Digital Library of India: Great source for ‘Study from Home’


National Digital Library of India: Great source for ‘Study from Home’
By
Prof. Narayan Barse
Librarian and Coordintor Department of Library and Information Science
VPM’s Joshi-Bedekar College

According to the Jt. Principal Investigator of the project of National Digital Library of India (NDLI) ‘Students can effectively study through NDLI During COVID-19 Lockdown’. On behalf National Digital Library of India (NDLI) Prof. Partha Pratim Das Jt. Principal Investigator, NDL Project and Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur has sent email communication to the teachers and requested them  to inform  students that they can get benefited by visiting https://www.ndl.gov.in/  or  https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/    and clicking “Corona Outbreak: Study from home” button on top to access, free of cost, Video lectures, Notes, Questions, Solutions, IIT JEE past questions with detailed solutions, Practice Questions and Solutions for JEE preparation, etc. from authoritative sources to continue their study effectively during this difficult situation arising out of suspension of classes and closure of libraries due to COVID-19 Lockdown.  They can choose relevant discipline button to access contents relevant to them. National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is constantly updating these resources, communication about which are being sent periodically through NDL India Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn pages. Teachers can also advise student to follow these channels for regular updates.

National Digital Library of India: Project:

The National Digital Library of India is a project under Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. It is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books in English and the Indian languages. It was established in 2006.

Ø  As on today (31/03/2020) there are 47944566 items hosted in NDLI. Items are available in more than 70 languages.
Ø  More than 60 types of learning resources are available in NDLI
Ø  Educational materials are available for user ranging from primary to post graduate students and researchers
Ø  Repository hosts contents for multiple subject domains like Technology, Science, Humanities, Agriculture and others
Ø  The repository integrates contents from different institutional repositories of 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 is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
For accessing the NDLI resources log on to  https://www.ndl.gov.in   or https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in  you will be on the homepage  of the National Digital Library of India.  The homepage will prompt the users about general guidelines by one pop up window with following guidelines

COVID-19 Lockdown not to affect your study. Study through National Digital Library of India (NDLI).
General Guideline
  1. Though the resources can be accessed without being logged-in, for better experience it is advised to access NDLI after logging in. If you are not a registered user of NDLI, please register and then login.
  2. School students: Please click the "School" button.
  3. College Students: Please click the button relevant to your discipline.
  4. If you want to explore further you may "Browse by Source" using the Browse button and select the "Source" you are interested.
  5. You may also search the repository by Clicking "Search" button and putting topic of study (such as "Binomial Theorem") in the "Search" window.



If you are not registered user of the NDIL you can registered yourself with few simple steps and the you can have a personalised page of the NDLI to welcome you with your name



Following Types of Learning Resources are available in NDLI
Ø  Books Thesis
Ø  Audio Lectures
Ø  Video Lectures
Ø  Question Papers
Ø  Solutions
Ø  Data Sets
Ø  Reports
Ø  Web Courses
Ø  Annual Reports
Ø  Articles
Ø  Manuscripts
Ø  Technical Reports
Ø  Manuals
Ø  Albums
Ø  Monographs
Ø  Technical Manuals
Ø  Law Judgements



Subject Domains in NDLI
Ø  Computer Science, Information and General Works
Ø  Technology
Ø  Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Ø  History and Geography
Ø  Philosophy and Psychology
Ø  Social Sciences
Ø  Religion
Ø  Language
Ø  Literature and Rhetoric
Ø  Arts, Fine Arts and Decorative Arts
Feature Sources in NDLI
Ø  LibriVox: 200000 free Public Domain Audio Books
Ø  NPTEL: MHRD Projects the hosts 10000+ Video Lectures in Engineering
Ø  NCERT: English and Hindi books on different subjects for primary to 12th Standards
Ø  Shodhganga: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Projects of INFLIBNET
Ø  e. GRANTH -KRISHKOSH: More than 50000 Agricultural Books, Reports and Journal Articles

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