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institutions. During the year under report, the Centre has provided help and support to the institutes
given below in Table 27.

Sl. Institute Name Services Provided
No.
1 ARAI, Pune Maintenance (Renewed-DSpace version upgrade,
Customization, Backup, Statistics generation, Log
maintenance)
2 Ganpat University, Hosting (Renewed)
Mehsana
3 Gujarat University, DSpace Installation, Customization, Hosting,
Ahmedabad Maintenance (Sampada Repository)

4 Central University of DSpace Installation, Customization(Completed),
Rajasthan, Ajmer Training(Pending)

Table 27: Institutions and Services Provided by the INFLIBNET Centre

Besides, the Centre also provides proactive help, support and consultancy to many national and
international institutions over phone and via remote login to setup their repositories. This group is also
responsible for supporting and maintaining INFLIBNET Centre’s Institutional Repositories as well as
other open access initiatives like Shodhganga and Shodhgangotri. This group has provided specialized
training to the technical persons from NASDO, Indian Navy, Goa for smooth running of the Project

called Digitap.

11. INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED) (http://parichay.inflibnet.ac.in/)

Jagdish Arora, Director
Yatrik Patel, Scientist D (CS)
Ashok Kumar Rai, Scientist D (CS)
Raja V., Scientist B (CS)

The INFLIBNET Access Management Federation (INFED), the first and only access management
federation in India, based on Shibboleth, a standard-based open source software, for authenticating

authorized users from colleges, universities and other institutes in India. The federation, set-up with
permission of the Governing Board, INFLIBNET Centre provides seamless access to e-resources from
anywhere, anytime. INFED is member of eduGAIN.

As of now 23 institutes have joined INFED. The INFED is working with 33 publishers that are providing
access to e-resources to e-Shodh Sindhu. Moreover, five publishers have signed our membership as per
the details given below. While seven institutes have set-up their own IDPs, the Centre has setup and

established IDPs on behalf of 7 institutes as per the details given below in Table 28:

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