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This App By IIT Kharagpur Students Will Grant You Access To 65 Lakh Books!
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- April 6, 2017
Standing in long queues at the college library in search of your research paper guide or a reference book is passé!
Here’s some news from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur to satiate the quest of bibliophiles!
Wondering what it is?
Well, you can now access 65 lakh books, research papers, theses, journals and periodicals free of cost with the help of just one app. IIT Kharagpur has developed an app for National Digital Library of India, wherein anybody with a smart phone can download it and have a free access to a knowledge repository immediately.
Initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, this project includes text books from eight state education boards, NCERT textbooks; previous exam papers of JEE, GATE and UPSC and research papers published from institutes like Indian Institute of Science (IISc), audio-books under the same cloud.
P P Chakraborty,director of the institution, told Times of India, “With the exponential growth in mobile usage, the NDL app will enable access to rich digital content of libraries across the country and even foreign repositories to users even in the remotest of areas, which is unique not just in the Indian, but also in the global context. The world has never seen a digital repository like NDL, which is focused on education.”
Despite being only available for Android users at the moment and launched just a month back, the application, has been downloaded over 1, 00,000 times.
Aavailable in three languages – English, Hindi and Bengali, apple users fret not because the team will soon launch the app for iOS users too.
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