Digital Library of India
| Headquarters | Kharagpur, India |
|---|---|
| Employees | <50 (June 2017) |
| Website | ndl |
| Users |
 915,000+ (June 2017) |
| Current status | Active |
The National Digital library of India (NDL) is the largest online library. The NDL provides free access to many books in English and the Indian languages.
The Library was launched in pilot form in May 2016. As of 2017[update], NDL hosts 7,203,195 items in its repository, with over over 150,000 volumes in English.
Representative titles include:
Because of copyright laws, texts are out of copyright in India. As such the books are not sources for current or topical information, but they can be useful for finding accounts of historical events, and establishing historical context.
The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language optical character recognition (OCR) software. Books in Urdu and Persian are also available at the NDL. Examples include " Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain and Makateeb-e-Sanai by Professor Nazir Ahmad.
User registration is open to users from around the world. However, contents from some popular sources are only freely accessible to registered users. Some of these registration-only works are from sources such as:
The publications are mainly in PDF or QuickTime format. The Library is also mirrored at the Internet Archive, where a variety of other formats are available including ereader formats such as ePub and Kindle mobi.
Access can also be had via mobile app, available for Android at Google Play.
The Library is part of the online services of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, also IIT KGP known as IIT KGP and a partner in the Million Book Project.
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