PROJECT OBJECTIVES

  • To act as a Digital Scholarship Centre to specialize on new technologies and tools such as data acquisition, visualization, and digital asset management, digital preservation, training and consultations as a part of the suite of services and resources.
  • To Automate AU libraries using Koha ILMS to facilitate sharing of digital library resources with a unified ‘Online Union Catalogue’.
  • To strengthen the Krishikosh platform- a digital repository for dissemination of agricultural knowledge generated under NARES.
  • To sensitize the stakeholders through capacity building programmes / workshops knowledge management in the networked digital environment and introduce new knowledge delivery models like MOOCs.
  • To work on Altmetrics which are complementary metrics to traditional and citation-based metrics and sensitize the stakeholders through capacity building workshops.