National Digital Library of India

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National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

Type of site	Education
Available in	12 Search Languages languages
Headquarters	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal , India
Country of origin	India
Key people	Dr. B. Sutradhar, Jt. PI of NDLI, Librarian of Central Library, IIT Kharagpur
Employees	>92 (January 2023)
URL	www.ndl.gov.in
Commercial	No
Registration	Free
Users	87,09,389+ (July 2024)
Launched	19 June 2018
Current status	Active
Content license	CC0

The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of educational resources, including textbooks, articles, videos, audiobooks, lectures, simulations, fiction, and other instructional materials for the academic community. This initiative is managed by the Government of India's Ministry of Education, through its National Mission on Education via Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). The primary objective of the project is to aggregate and organize metadata, providing full-text indexing from various national and international digital libraries and other relevant sources. NDLI offers complimentary access to an extensive collection of books and supports content in multiple languages, with search functionality available in the twelve most widely used Indian languages. The platform is developed, operated, and maintained by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal.^[1]

The NDLI provides access to educational resources across various disciplines and academic levels, aggregating content from multiple national and international sources such as books, articles, theses, audio-video lectures, and Open Educational Resources (OERs). The platform supports multiple languages, ensuring resources are accessible to a broad audience. Constructed using open architecture standards, open-source software, and open metadata formats, NDLI provides access to over 100 million items in 39 Indian languages, among 452 total languages.^[2]