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50 universities contributed their synopses into Shodhgangotri. Total number of synopses submitted into
repository grew to 3,871.

6.4. InfoPort: A Subject Gateway to Indian Scholarly Internet Resources
(http://infoport.inflibnet.ac.in/)

Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS)
Swapnil Patel, Scientist B (CS)
Roma Yogesh Asnani, STA (LS)

INFOPORT: INFLIBNET Subject Gateway for Indian Electronic Resources is designed to facilitate
registering of an Internet resource into the portal and extending its access to users. INFOPORT supports
browsing of Internet resources by Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Scheme. The main functional
parts of INFOPORT are:

• Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) Search;

• Search Cloud;

• Free-Text Search;

• Alphabetical Search;

• Resource Type Search; and

• Intute Search

During the year under report, number of features and functionalities of subject gateway were enhanced
based on feedback from users and additional Internet resources were added to the portal. The interface
is populated with more than 1,760 e-resources.

7. Consortia-based Subscription to E-resources

The INFLIBNET Centre has set-up a consortia, namely e-Shodh Sindhu Consortium and its college
component called “National Library and Information Services infrastructure for Scholarly Contents (N-
LIST)” to extend access to e-resources to universities and colleges respectively. Two separate entities
within the umbrella of e-Shodh Sindhu were maintained not only to cater to the diverse needs of two
sets of institutions, namely CFTIS and universities and colleges, but also to satisfy the requirements of

different economic models. A brief description of the two consortia is given below.

7.1. E-Shodh Sindhu Consortium

The MHRD in September, 2012 constituted an Expert Committee on Library Consortium with an aim to

survey the current scenario of Government-funded library consortia in India, explore the possibilities of
joint negotiations and collaborative services amongst various consortia. The survey report on Govt.-
funded library consortia carried out by the INFLIBNET Centre revealed that there is more than 65.71%

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