The VIDWAN Database

The VIDWAN database constitutes a preeminent repository encompassing comprehensive profiles of distinguished scientists, researchers, and faculty members actively engaged in scholarly pursuits within esteemed academic institutions and prominent research and development establishments across India. Commenced in the year 2012, this database serves as an invaluable resource furnishing pertinent details pertaining to the professional trajectory, contact particulars, proficiencies, and noteworthy achievements of these subject-matter experts. Notably, the repository encompasses a robust compilation of over 9,000 profiles, collectively representing a diverse spectrum of domains, emanating from a cohort of 650 distinct educational and research entities.

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.

INFLIBNET: Shodhganga, A Reservoir of Indian Theses:

Shodhganga serves as a prominent digital repository established to facilitate the submission of electronic renditions of theses and dissertations authored by research scholars affiliated with Indian universities. The primary objective of this repository is to grant unrestricted access, within the realm of open academia, to the global academic community. This initiative stems from the directive laid out by the University Grants Commission (UGC) Notification of 2009, specifically pertaining to the 'Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree', wherein the onus of curating the digital repository of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) is entrusted to the INFLIBNET Centre.

ShodhGanga operates on the technological framework of Dspace, a platform recognized internationally for its adherence to established protocols and interoperability standards. The repository's web portal, ShodhGanga Website, constitutes a comprehensive resource offering pertinent information to students, research supervisors, and university authorities. It encompasses a range of topics, including but not limited to the obligations of stakeholders, access guidelines, procedures for submission, and the structural framework of metadata associated with ETDs.

"ShodhGangotri: A Repository of Synopsis Submitted to Indian Universities for Enrollment in Ph.D. Programs"

The initiative known as "ShodhGangotri" serves as a complementary endeavor to the pre-existing "ShodhGanga" platform. While "ShodhGanga" functions as a comprehensive repository housing complete theses submitted to universities across India, "ShodhGangotri" is specifically designed to accommodate endorsed research synopses tendered by aspiring scholars seeking enrollment into the Ph.D. program within Indian universities. In pursuance of this novel initiative, designated research scholars and their supervisors within university settings are urged to furnish electronic versions of the officially sanctioned research synopses, which are pivotal for the purpose of enrollment into the Ph.D. program.

The repository established under the aegis of "ShodhGangotri" serves a dual purpose: firstly, it serves as a medium through which prevailing research trends and trajectories within Indian academic institutions are discernible, and secondly, it functions to mitigate the likelihood of research redundancy and overlap. It is worth noting that the synopses archived within the "ShodhGangotri" repository will subsequently be correlated with the comprehensive full-text theses accessible through the "ShodhGanga" repository.

NISCAIR: Now NIScPR

NISCAIR: Now NIScPR (NISCAIR+ NISTADS).

The National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), located at New Delhi, India, was an information science institute in India founded in 2002. In 2021, the institute was merged with National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies to form National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (NIScPR)

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