MHRD

INFLIBNET
National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LlST)
The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LlST)", being jointly executed by the
UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, liT Delhi provides for i) cross-
subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGC-
INFONET resources fortechnical 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-Ll5T: Four Components . v' iJE _
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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.
Beneficiary Institutions .' ,::,1
The following three sets of institutions are benefitting from the N-LiST Project:
I) Universities: Universities covered under Phase-I of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium can now access Web of
Science.
ii) Technical Institutions: IITs, IISc, IISERs and selected NITs (i.e. core members of the INDEST-AICTE Consortium) can now
access selected e-resources namely Annual Reviews, Project Muse and Nature.
iii) Colleges: 6,000 Govt. I Govt.-aided colleges covered under the 12B Section of UGC Act can now access selected electronic resources
including electronic journals, electronic books and bibliographic databases. These resources include more than 2100 e-journals and
51,000 e-books.
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Beneficiary colleges, registered for the N-LiST programme, can access more than 2100 electronic journals, 51,000 electronic books and a
bibliographic database called MathSciNet containing more than two million reviews of research articles in mathematics. Details of
e-resources accessible through the INFLIBNET's proxy server (http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/) are as follows:
Electronic Journals and bibliographic Database
51. No. E-resources I Publishers of Publishing No. of Journals Backfiles from
Electronic Journals Country
1 American Institute of Physics USA 18 Five years
2 American Physical Society USA 10 Five years
3 Annual Reviews USA 33 Ten years
4 Cambridge University Press UK 240 Five years
5 Economic and Political Weekly India 1 1966+
6 Indian Journals.com India 150 2007+
7 Institute of Physics UK 46 Vol. 1+
8 Oxford University Press UK 206 1996+
9 Royal Society of Chemistry UK 29 Ten years
10 Wilson Omnifile USA 1420 1982+
11 MathSciNet (Bibliographic Database) USA 1 1940+
Total 2,154
INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad
National library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LlST)
Electronic Books
SINo_ E-resources I Publishers of Publishing No_ of Books No_ of Publishers
Electronic Books Country
1 Ebrary USA 45,100 250
2 Myilibrary-McGraw Hill USA 1,308 1
3 Oxford Scholarship UK 902 1
4 NetLibrary USA 936 44
5 NetLibrary (open access books) USA 3,500 1
Total 51,746 297
Eligibility I How to Join? . :--=-.
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Faculty, staff, students and researchers from colleges covered under the 12B Section of UGC Act are eligible to access e-resources through
the N-LiST project Colleges, desirous of accessing e-resources, are required to register themselves with the N-LiST Visit the N-LiST
Website and click on "Register" on the navigation bar. Fill-in the Registration Form online and submit it You may also download the
Registration Form and submit it by post Please .
enclose a copy of 12 B / 2 F certificate issued by the
UGC. Ensure to mention static IP Addresses assigned
to your college in Registration Form (if available) else
provide a list of authorized users including faculty, staff,
researchers and students.
User names and password will be created for
authorized users, i. e. faculty, staff, researchers and
students as per the list submitted by you in the
prescribed format (available through the N-LiST Web
site), preferably in excel format Registered member
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colleges are required is pay 5,000.00 ( Rupees Five Thousand) as annual membership fee by bank draft in favour of "INFLIBNET-NLlST"
Account payable atAhmedabad. Colleges that are not covered under the 12B Section of UGC Act but covered under 2F Section of UGC Act
may join as N-LiST Associate Member.
Infrastructure Required @ Colleges
Colleges should have adequate number of Internet-enabled PCs and connectivity to Internet so as to access e-resources through N-LiST
How to Access Electronic Resources under the N-LiST p.rogramme?
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Follow the steps given below in order to access e-resources through N-LiST Project:
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e- resource-s.
E -.Journals (Fulltex1:)
American Institute of PhySICS (18 titlas)
American Physical SOCiety (10 titles)
Aonu iJl Revi_ws(33 titles)
Cambndge University Press (224 titles)
Economic and Political Weekly { EP'Y'O (1 titles)
Indian Journal s (150 titles)
Institute of Physics (46 titles)
Oxfgrd University Pr9SS (206 titles)
Rgyal Soci e ty gf Ch9mistry (29 titles)
H . W . Wilson ( 1. 420 titles)
E - Books
titles)

(902 titles)
Net LibrJIfY (936 titles)
My,Librarv-McGr.W' Hill (1308 titles)
Bibliographic Database
INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad
National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LlST)
I) Login: Launch your Internet Browser (Internet Explorer) and Log on to http://nl istinflibnet.ac.in. Enter Your Username and
Password in text entry box to Login. If you do not have username and password, please contact your college authorities to register with
N-LiST and obtain username and password.
ii) Access E-resources: Once logged-in successfully, list of e-resources subscribed under N-LiST Project is displayed. Click on the
desired e-resource to reach out to the fUll-text e-resource on publisher's website. For further help in search, browse or navigate articles/
book chapters through publisher's website, Click on User
Guide / Help from navigation bar and download user manual
and tutorials.
iii) Searching Journals Titles and Books Covered
under N-LiST Programme: Click on "Search" option
on the navigation bar of N-LiST Website to search
journals covered under the N-LiST Project. Enter name of
journal/book or a subject term in text entry box and click on
"Go". Search results will be displayed with link to full-text of
journal(s) /book(s) on publisher's Website.
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Expenditure on subscription to e-resources for more than 6.000 colleges covered under the 12B Section of UGC Act is being met by the
Ministry of Human Resource Development under the National Mission on Education through ICT, other colleges (not covered under the
12B Section of UGCAct but covered under 2F Section of UGC Act) are welcomed to join the Consortium by paying 46,000.00 (Rupees
Forty Six Thousand) only towards annual subscription to all e-resources and membership fee. Payment may be made by bank draft in
favourof "INFLIBNET-NLlST" Account payable atAhmedabad.
Private colleges that are not covered under the 12B Section of UGC Act but covered under 2F Section of UGC Act are eligible to join the
N-LiST project as its Associate. Universities, other institutions of higher learning and individuals are not eligible to join the N-LiST. The N-
LIST Associates would be required to sign an agreement with the INFLIBNET Centre to ensure fair usage of e-resources.
As on August 25, 2010, a total number of 1336 colleges have registered themselves with the N-LiST programme including 822 Govt. /
Govt.-aided colleges covered under the 12B Section of UGC Act. Log-in 10 and password for accessing e-resources has been sent to
these 822 colleges after obtaining list of authorized users from them. Remaining colleges are being advised to join the initiative as N-LiST
Associates. All e-resources subscribed for colleges under the N-LiST Project are now to these 822 colleges through the N-List
website. Details of registered colleges are available on the N-LiST Website.
The INFLIBNET Centre would conduct awareness and training programmes in various universities to generate awareness regarding
availability of e-resources to colleges under the N-LiST Project. Besides, universities are also being encouraged to conduct awareness
training programmes for its affiliated colleges. Besides, N-LiST website host online tutorials and user's guide for e-resources covered
under the programme.
Contacts ..
Contact@INFLBNET
Dr_ Jagdish Arora
INFLIBNETCentre. An IUCofUGC
Opp. Gujarat University Guest House
Post Box No. 4116. Navrangpura
Ahmedabad - 380009. Gujarat. INDIA.
Tel: 079-26308528/26304695 . Fax: 079-26300990
E-mail: director@infiibnet.ac.in;jarora@infiibnet.ac.in
Web Site: www.inflibnet.ac.in
Mr. Ashok Kumar Rai (ashok@infiibnet.ac.in)
Tel: 079-26308528 extn. 33
Ms. Kruti J Trivedi (college@infiibnel.ac.i n)
Tel: 079-26308528 extn. 1
INFLIBNET Centre. Ahmedabad
Contact @ INDEST, liT Delhi
Prof. G. P_ Agarwal
National Coordinator
INDEST- AICTE Consortium
(indest@library.iitd.ac.in)
Tel: 011-26591451
Dr. Bibhuti Bhusan Sahoo
(bibhuti@library.iitd.ac.in)
Tel.: 011-2659 1444
Principal Investigators
Prof. Surendra Prasad
Director. liT Delhi
Hauz Khas. New Delhi-110016
Dr. Jagdish Arora
Director. INFLIBNET Centre
INFLIBNET Centre. Navrangpura
Ahmedabad - 380009
Mission Director, NME-ICT
Mr_ N K Sinha
Joint Secretary
Ministry of Human Resource and
Devlopment (MHRD)
Shastri Bhawan. New Delhi -110115
E-mail: nksinha.edu@nic.in
Phone: +91-11-23387781
Fax: +91-11-23388492