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March, 2017, hosts more than 38,000 e-texts and 63,000 video (self-learning / e-tutorial). A mobile app
has also been developed that can be download from Play Store (for Android) and Apple Store (for iphone

and ipad).

The Centre hosted National Workshop on MOOCs organized by the UGC and INFLIBNET Centre at
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Gandhinagar on 24 May, 2016. Principal Investigators, Paper Coordinators, Content writers of e-PG
Pathshala and other stakeholders benefitted from the programme. During the Workshop, experts with

in-depth experience on creation of content for MOOCs made presentations. Soon after imparting
National Workshops on MOOCs, the INFLIBNET Centre committed itself to support re-purposing of e-
content developed under e-PG Pathshala for MOOCs courses. As such, reviewing of e-contents
developed under e-PG Pathshala and its repurposing into MOOCs format under SWAYAM project

continued to be an important activity that kept us busy interacting with various stakeholders including
principal investigators for various subjects, paper coordinators and content writers. The INFLIBNET
Centre, as anchor institute for library and information science, took-up the task of re-purposing seven

courses, namely Knowledge Society, Information Sources System and Services, Information and
Communication Technology for Libraries, Management of Libraries and Information Centres &
Knowledge Centres, Information Storage and Retrieval, Digital Libraries and Bibliometrics and

Scientometrics, into MOOC format under the SWAYAM. 15-week certificate course on “Digital Library”
was offered on SWAYAM platform from November, 2016 onwards. 683 learners joined the course during
its first offering.

Providing access to scholarly content through library consortia is one of the key and most prominent

activity of the Centre. During the year under report, e-ShodhSindhu Consortium continued to offer
differential access to more than 15,000 full-text journals from 25 publishers, 5 bibliographic databases, 2
legal databases, 4 factual databases and one standards database to 356 institutions. The College
component of the consortium, called N-LIST, continued to provide access to 6,500+ journals and

30,10000+ e-books to more than 3000 colleges under the N-LIST programme. The access to the e-
resources is provided to various categories of institutes including CFTIs, central universities, 12(B)
universities, national law schools and IUCs of the UGC that were earlier part of the INDEST-AICTE

Consortium and UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium during the year 2015. The Consortium also
provides access to three e-resources, namely, ASCE, ASME, IEEE-ASPP to 94 AICTE-funded institutes
(including 22 Universities / department of Universities) with the funding from the AICTE.

Imparting training to manpower working in university and college libraries in the use of ICT is an
important objective of the Centre. During the year under report, 45 workshops and training

programmes were organized that benefitted 2,562 participants. These workshops and training
programmes included one In-house Training Programme on SOUL 2.0 was organised at Manipur
University, Imphal. Two INFLIBNET Regional Training Programme on Library Automation (IRTPLA)

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