N-LIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) initiative constitutes a comprehensive framework aimed at the provision of scholarly content and information services at a national level.

The initiative known as the "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)" is a collaborative effort involving the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre, and the INDESTAICTE Consortium at IIT Delhi. This endeavor aims to facilitate access to scholarly content for educational institutions such as colleges, universities, and centrally funded technical institutions. The N-LIST project is comprised of four distinct components: 

i) Provision of UGC-INFONET e-resources to technical institutions, including IITs, IISc, IISERs, and NITs.

ii) Dissemination of INDEST e-resources to universities.

iii) Delivery of e-resources to government, government-aided, and non-aided colleges.

iv) Establishment of a National Monitoring Agency based at the INFLIBNET Centre. This agency oversees access management, monitoring, promotion, and training to ensure optimal utilization of e-resources, along with supervising all aspects of the process to provide efficient access to these resources within colleges.

The N-LIST initiative was officially inaugurated on May 4th, 2010, by the former Honourable Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Kapil Sibal, at Shastri Bhawan in New Delhi. By June 1, 2013, a total of 3,328 colleges were enrolled in the program, with 3,031 eligible colleges already benefiting from the resources offered under the N-LIST framework.