National Digital Library of India

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Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library (NDL) project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. It is being developed at IIT Kharagpur.



Salient features

  • Educational materials are available for users ranging from primary to post-graduate levels.
  • NDL has been designed to benefit all kinds of users like students (of all levels), teachers, researchers, librarians, library users, professionals, differently abled users and all other lifelong learners.
  • Information can be personalized based on the education level, choice of language, difficulty level, media of content and such other factors. This is thus like a ‘customised service’ provided in a 24×7 integrated environment where learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time.
  • Repository hosts contents from multiple subject domains like Technology, Science, Humanities, Agriculture and others.
  • More than 60 types of learning resources are available – books, articles, manuscripts, video lectures, thesis, etc.
  • Items are available in more than 70 languages.
  • Repository integrates contents from different Indian Institutional Repositories.



How to access

  • Users can access the National Digital Library – https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
  • The NDL mobile app for Android can be accessed at – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhrd.ndl&hl=en/
  • The NDL system is accessible to all users for general browsing. However, one needs to register with a user id and password and login using those for accessing some classified materials.

Source : National Digital Library