10 Dec 2008

IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities
Inflibnet Centre, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Self-description:
"[U]nified Online Library Catalogues of books, theses and journals available in major university libraries in India. The union database contains bibliographic description, location and holdings information for books, journals and theses in all subject areas available in more than 112 university libraries across the country. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for inter-library loan, collections development as well as for copy cataloguing and retro-conversion of bibliographic records. The IndCat consists three components available in open access to users and librarians.
* Books: Over ten millions bibliographical records of books from more than 112 university libraries.
* Theses: [220 206] Doctoral theses submitted to various Indian universities till date.
* Serials: Currently subscribed journals by the universities and holdings information on [22,471] serials available in various university libraries."
URL http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Pankaj Jain (pankajaindia--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30