{"id":14597,"date":"2015-12-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/12\/05\/india-s-national-digital-library-wants-to-give-you-a-million-free-e-books\/"},"modified":"2015-12-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T12:00:00","slug":"india-s-national-digital-library-wants-to-give-you-a-million-free-e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/12\/05\/india-s-national-digital-library-wants-to-give-you-a-million-free-e-books\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s National Digital Library Wants to Give You a Million Free E-Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/tech\/india-s-national-digital-library-wants-to-give-you-a-million-e-books-for-free\/story-uvu5MiuqR4jolD5vHLXVsK.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, December 3, 2015 (Hindustan Times): The National Digital Library will roll out a collection of a million digitized books and journals, according to an official. The Library will also bring over 100 institutes under its fold. &#8220;The first thing that will come in February is the National Digital Library (NDL) with one million books and journals that will be used by students across the country,&#8221; R. Subrahmanyam, additional secretary for technical education in the human resource development ministry told IANS during the launch of Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) scheme on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year-old National Digital Library is a collaborative effort between the U.S. and India to digitize a million books ranging from technical literature to art. According to a Medianama report, the project has 13 nodal centers that are linked together through internet connections that are as slow as 512 kbps. The NDL will ensure &#8220;uniform high standards&#8221; of e-content free of cost on a single platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEW DELHI, December 3, 2015 (Hindustan Times): The National Digital Library will roll out a collection of a million,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}