Role of National Digital Library of India (NDLI) for facilitating open access resources (OARs): an investigation on COVID-19 research repository
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-08-2021-0072 |
| Published date | 31 March 2022 |
| Date | 31 March 2022 |
| Pages | 493-507 |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology,Records management & preservation,Information repositories |
| Author | Sonam Singh |
Role of National Digital Library of
India (NDLI) for facilitating open
access resources (OARs): an
investigation on COVID-19
research repository
Sonam Singh
Senior Library and Information Officer, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
New Delhi, India
Abstract
Purpose –This paper aims to proffer a glimpse of diverse e-resources and materials accumulated by
National Digital Library of India (NDLI) for facilitating open access resources (OARs) during the difficult
times of global pandemic. Out of all the resources, an attempt has been made to place a focus on COVID-19
research repository maintained at NDLI platform to facilitate related research activities for envisaging
experimentsby scientists and researchers.
Design/methodology/approach –The study is based on COVID-19 researchrepository assimilated by
NDLI, and a detailed investigative researchhas been made about various resources and materials available
for research community. The official website of NDLI (direct link of NDLI website: https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
has been referred for collection of requisite data for study. The collected information has been presented
through eight tables, two charts and two figures,which have further been analyzed and interpreted to attain
the objectives.
Findings –The brief examples in this paper indicates that a wealth of OARs related to COVID-19 such as
scholarly communications, data sets, documents and videos and journals and conferences, etc. are available for
access and research by scientists and researchers to expand their research during and also beyond this global
crisis. Social distancing has forced academics to displace to online platform from physical deliverables.
Institutions are forced to adopt new technologies for delivering education in online mode such as online teaching,
online access of educational resources, online conferences, webinars and a host of such related activities. NDLI
has been instrumental in thisjourney by accumulating providing research materials through its platform.
Originality/value –In addition to the blendedlearning process, this paper provides a structured overview
about COVID-19research repository facilitated by NDLI to provideaccess about related research activities by
scientists and researchers. This investigative research on NDLI platform has been done originally by the
author with a sacrosanct aim to help serious academia and has a high referral value for the scientific,
technocraticand realistic researchers with deepthrust on availability of all materials underone roof, i.e. NDLI.
Keywords Open access resources, Open access, COVID-19, Coronavirus, E-resources,
National Digital Library of India, Open educational resources, Pandemic, Lockdown
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
The whole world is facing an unprecedented challenge posed by COVID-19. Human lifehas
become disruptive and mankind is facing numerouschallenges and countries all around are
forced to close down and people are bound to their homes. Education sector is no longer
untouched with this exceptional situation, where schools, colleges, universities and other
educational institutes have been closed from the beginning of spread of this pandemic. To
Role of
National
Digital Library
of India
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Received23 August 2021
Revised30 November 2021
29December 2021
Accepted9 February 2022
DigitalLibrary Perspectives
Vol.38 No. 4, 2022
pp. 493-507
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