Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) : www.inflibnet.ac.in
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an autonomous InterUniversity
Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It is a major
National Programme initiated by the UGC in 1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat
University Campus, Ahmedabad. Initially started as a project under the IUCAA, it
became an independent Inter-University Centre in 1996.
INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India and connecting them as well as information centres in the country through a nation-wide high speed data network using the state-of-art technologies for the optimum utilisation of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in India.
Shodhganga(http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/) provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers.