Coronavirus Lockdown: National Digital Library reaches out to students with 3.5 crore academic content

The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has reached out to students with 3.5 crore academic content to help them study during their stay at home, an NDLI spokesperson said.

With educational institutions around the country shut due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus, the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) has reached out to students with 3.5 crore academic content to help them study during their stay at home, an NDLI spokesperson said.

The NDLI is a project under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and is spearheaded by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Students can access academic content by either logging into the official website of NDLI i.e. ndl.gov.in or by visiting the ‘Corona Outbreak: Study from Home’ section in the NDLI’s mobile application, the spokesperson said.

Of the 3.5 crore academic content, the Union HRD Ministry has given people free access to 78 lakh content after the imposition of the lockdown while they need to register themselves to get complete access to the remaining content, she said.

The content provided is in form of e-books, audiobooks, lecture materials, thesis, reports, articles, journals, question papers and their solutions, simulation tools and video lectures in engineering, science, management, humanities, and law streams, the spokesperson said.

Along with this, an updated and consolidated research resource repository on coronavirus has also been made available to the students, she added.