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7.2. N-LIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content)

The Project entitled “National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-

LIST)”, graduated as a regular scheme of UGC under UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium as
college component, is merged into e -Shodh Sindhu: Consortia for Higher Education E-Resources. The
NLIST, launched in 2010 as a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development under its
National Mission on Education through ICT, was jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library
Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi upto FY 2012-13. The
NLIST project, uses a highly innovative access model to provide access to 6,318 e-journals and 31,39,309

e-books to all Govt. Govt.-aided through a proxy server installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. Electronic
resources subscribed under NLIST project covers e-resources on all relevant areas taught in colleges
such as arts & humanities, social sciences, physical and chemical sciences, life sciences, computer
sciences, political sciences, library and information science, law, business, mathematics, statistics, etc.

7.2.1. Current Status

The NLIST, college component of e-Shodh Sindhu has registered a total number of 5,563 colleges as on
March 31, 2017 including 4,234 eligible colleges that are already getting access to resources subscribed
under the N-LIST programme. Log-in IDs and passwords have been issued to more than 9,57,608 faculty
members, students and researchers after obtaining list of authorized users from these 4,234 registered
colleges.

7.2.2. Number of Colleges

Figure 28 given below reflects year wise increase in number of colleges who joined the NLIST

Programme during the year 2010 to 2017. The number of colleges that have joined the NLIST
Programme has increased from 1069 in 2010 to 4234 in 2017. Due to changes in eligibility criteria of
membership, there has been slight decrease in total number of registered colleges in 2017.

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No. of Colleges 2000 1069 1988 2838 3242 3890 4100 3816 4234

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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Fig. 28: Year wise Registration of Colleges

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