National Digital Library of India

Ministry of Education 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 24x7 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 400 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