National Digital Library of India (NDLI), in its continued effort to facilitate and encourage creation, collaboration and dissemination of knowledge among people of the nation, have extended support to various Institutes and Organizations to create, manage, maintain and share their digital assets.
This voluntary collaboration between the Institutes and NDLI seeks to promote reading, research, and the spirit of enquiry among the students, academic teams, and management of the institutions, by making available metadata and in some cases full content of copyright free assets from these Institutes’ repository for larger reach and dissemination.
For Institutes having challenges and limitations in IT resources, NDLI extends hosting and infrastructure support in form of providing dedicated hosting URL, repository application (DSpace) configuration support, and storage space.
However, the organization have to collaborate with NDLI in following aspects:
NDLI currently supports DSpace for hosting the IDR service. The list of institutions that are using this service is as follows:
URL: https://ignou.ndl.gov.in
New Delhi
Using since June 2017
URL: https://dlnluassam.ndl.gov.in
Assam
Using since August 2017
URL: https://cwds.ndl.gov.in
Using since April 2018
URL: https://makaias.ndl.gov.in
Kolkata, West Bengal
URL: https://presiuniv.ndl.gov.in
Using since June 2018
URL: https://sarvodaya.ndl.gov.in
Karnataka
Using since December 2018
URL: https://cry.ndl.gov.in
Mumbai, Maharastra
Using since June 2019
URL: https://dlc.ndl.gov.in
Dispur, Assam
Using since Feb 2020
URL: https://nagalanduniv.ndl.gov.in
Nagaland
Using since March 2020
URL: https://insa.ndl.gov.in
Using since July 2020
URL: https://ggdcs.ndl.gov.in
Salboni, West Bengal
Using since July 2024
URL: https://cuklibrary.ndl.gov.in
Using since August 2024
URL: https://bbcollege.ndl.gov.in
Asansol, West Bengal
Using since September 2024
URL: https://cottonir.ndl.gov.in
URL: https://rkmvivekatirtha.ndl.gov.in
West Bengal
Using since October 2024
URL: https://khandolacollege.ndl.gov.in
Goa
URL: https://prajyotiniketan.ndl.gov.in
Pudukad, Kerala
Using since November 2024
URL: https://aiktc.ndl.gov.in
Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra
URL: https://snggdcg.ndl.gov.in
Using since December 2024
URL: https://rcca.ndl.gov.in
Salcete, Goa
URL: https://ssgc.ndl.gov.in
Nagpur, Maharastra
URL: https://matanginicollege.ndl.gov.in
Kulberia, West Bengal
URL: https://ssm.ndl.gov.in
Howrah, West Bengal
Using since January 2025
URL: https://mtieat.ndl.gov.in
Dandapalle, Andhra Pradesh
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. It is sponsored and mentored by Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI provides user group-specific services such as Examination Preparatory for School and College students and job aspirants. Services for Researchers and general learners are also provided. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is designed to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources. It is developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
Learn more about this project from here.
NDLI is a conglomeration of freely available or institutionally contributed or donated or publisher managed contents. Almost all these contents are hosted and accessed from respective sources. The responsibility for authenticity, relevance, completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability of these contents rests with the respective organization and NDLI has no responsibility or liability for these. Every effort is made to keep the NDLI portal up and running smoothly unless there are some unavoidable technical issues.
Ministry of Education, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), has sponsored and funded the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project.