Role of Contributing Institutions – The NDL Movement Presented By Dr. B. Sutradhar, Librarian Central Library (ISO 9001:2008 Certified) IIT Kharagpur

– The role of Contributing Institutions is to create an Institutional Digital Repository for collecting, preserving, and disseminating of the intellectual output of an institution and allow NDL to harvest their metadata for providing single window access facility to all group of users. – The Contributing Institutions includes – Universities, Institutions, Colleges, Schools under different Ministries Organizations and Boards Contributing institutions

YearNo. of Articles/Papers Total

Projects of E-Contents Creation Total 86 NMEICT projects which are engaged for creation of e-contents in different subjects but access to those contents are not known by many people. Apart from that there are many digital library projects done by different organizations in the past but access to DL contents are not known by many people. There is no National metadata standards for all types learning resources

Local Contents Generated by Individual Institution 1.Theses and Dissertations 2.MS, M.Tech & B. Tech. Dissertations 3.Annual Report 4.Working papers 5.Class lecture notes 6.Video Class Lecture notes 7.Convocation Brochure 8.Institute’s lecture series notes 9.PPTS, Reports, Course Materials 10.Previous year question papers, Instruction Materials, 11.Photographs 12.Conference Proceedings organized by the Institutions 13.School project repots, etc. The following contents are not globally available to access but important to the researchers, students, faculty members and individual.

– The main objective of National Digital Library (NDL) is to integrate all the existing digital contents across educational institutions of the nation to provide single window access to the different group of users of our country. – The NDL movement will help all the educational institutions (universities, institutions, colleges and schools) to create an Institutional Digital Repository for collecting, preserving, and disseminating of the intellectual output generated by their teachers, scholars, students and staff. The NDL Movement

– In this NDL movement we need full support and cooperation from all educational institutions irrespective of all subjects and languages to created and preserve our own resources to provide single window access to the different group of users of our country. – We request all our Library professional colleagues to spread the message of NDL Movement. The NDL Movement

Role of Contributing Institutions – The NDL Movement We request our Library colleagues of all educational institutions to do the following to achieve the NDL adjective. We expect that every educational institutions will extend support and cooperate to develop National Digital Library A) To Create an Institutional Digital Repository 1.Institution needs to develop an Institutional Digital Repository in their Library using open source Digital Library software ( preferably Dspace version 5) 2.Institution will have to upload their local contents as well as faculty publications into the IDR 3.Institution will have to identify a nodal officer to communicate with NDL team

A) To Create an Institutional Digital Repository 4.Institution should make it mandatory to upload their local contents into the IDR 5.While uploading the metadata of the content, it must be followed the metadata standards 6.Common Metadata standard for different contents will be provided by NDL team 7.Ensure each faculty members should submit or upload preprint/ post print article in their IDR within 3 months of its publication Role of Contributing Institutions – The NDL Movement

B) Harvesting Metadata of digital contents from institutional IDRs to NDL Server 1. Institutional IDR needs to be accessible from outside of the institute LAN 2. Provide base URL of the IDR Server for Metadata Harvesting 3. Each IDR must be registered in The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OPENDOAR) or Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP) 4. Each IDR must be Open Access Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)Compliant for metadata harvesting 5. Each IDR must be Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) Compliant for full-text harvesting

Role of Contributing Institutions – The NDL Movement C) Document Delivery /Inter Library Loan Service 1.Each Library OPAC/ Web OPAC must be Z39.50 compliant for making union catalogue to know the location of the book for inter library loan 2. Each Contributing Library must send a list of subscribed journals in print and on-line as given format for document delivery services across India. NDL team will send a format. D) Sustainable Development of Institutional IDRs 1.Institutions should keep update their IDR on regular basis. 2.NDL team will provide support Services to the contributing institutes if required 3. Contributing Institutions will report to NDL co-ordinator for any assistance

1.School Children 2.College Students 3.University Library Users 4.Higher technical education Library users 5.Legal Community Users 6.Other users Targeted Users

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