Colleges that are covered under 12(B) & 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act and are under direct purview of UGC are entitled to get access to e-resources under NLIST programme except for Colleges imparting education in Agriculture, Engineering, Management, Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and Nursing. NLIST is college component of e-ShodhSindhu. NLIST subscribes to a sub-set of e-resources that are subscribed under e-ShodhSindhu. As such, Colleges that are already getting access to e-resources under NLIST do not require membership of e-ShodhSindhu.
The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services
Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the
e-ShodhSindhu Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi
provides for
i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e.
subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and e-ShodhSindhu resources for
technical institutions
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.
The project has four distinct components, i.e.
The INDEST and UGC-INFONET are jointly responsible for activity listed at i) and ii) above. The INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar 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.