SRI SARADA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN(AUTONOMOUS), SALEM-16

RESEARCH CELL

SWAYAM

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and

designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz.,
access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best
teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged.
SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have yet
remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join
the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture,

(2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3)
self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion
forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning
experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art
pedagogy / technology.

NPTEL

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a

project of MHRD initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay,
Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education
to anyone interested in learning from the IITs. The main goal was to create
web and video courses in all major branches of engineering and physical
sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management
courses at the postgraduate level.

NPTEL Online Certification Courses

Since 2013, through an online portal, 4-, 8-, or 12-week online

courses, typically on topics relevant to students in all years of higher
education along with basic core courses in sciences and humanities with
exposure to relevant tools and technologies, are being offered. The enrolment
to and learning from these courses involves no cost. An in-person, proctored
certification exam (optional) will be conducted at Rs. 1000/- per course and
a certificate is provided through the participating institutions and industry,
when applicable.

NDL-INDIA

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National

Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology
(NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot
project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources
with a single-window search facility. Filtered and federated searching is
employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the
right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDL India is designed
to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading
Indian languages. It is being arranged to provide support for all academic
levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular
form of access devices and differently-abled learners. It is being developed to
help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to
enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the
world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from
multiple sources. The pilot project is devising a framework that is being
scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity to serve all levels and
disciplines of learners. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur.

DELNET

DELNET was started at the India International Centre Library in

January 1988 and was registered as a society in 1992. It was initially
supported the National Information System for Science and Technology
(NISSAT), Department of Scientific and Industrial Reseach, Government of
India. It was subsequently supported by the National Informatics Centre,
Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology, Government of India and the Ministry of Culture,
Government of India. DELNET has been established with the prime objective
of promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development
of a network of libraries. It aims to collect, store and disseminate
information besides offering computerised services to users, to coordinate
efforts for suitable collection development and also to reduce unnecessary
duplication whenever possible. DELNET has been actively engaged with the
compilation of various Union Catalogues of the resources available in
member-libraries. It has already created the Union Catalogue of
Books,Union List of Current Periodicals, Union Catalogue of Periodicals,CD-
ROM Database,Database of Indian Specialists, Database of Periodical
Articles, Union List of Video Recordings, Urdu Manuscripts' Database,
Database of Theses and Dissertations, sample databases of language
publications using GIST technology and several other databases. The data is
being updated in these databases and is growing rapidly. All the DELNET
databases have been resident on DELSIS, an in-house software developed
on BASISPlus, an RDBMS, the product of Information Dimensions Inc. of
USA which has been provided to DELNET courtesy National Informatics
Centre, New Delhi.

INFLIBNET

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre is an

autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission
(UGC) of India. It is a major National Programme initiated by the UGC in
March 1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat University Campus,
Ahmedabad. Initially started as a project under the IUCAA, it became an
independent Inter-University Centre in June 1996. INFLIBNET is involved in
modernizing university libraries in India using the state-of-art technologies
for the optimum utilisation of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a
major player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians
and researchers in India.
URKUND

URKUND is an automatic text-recognition system made for detecting,

preventing and handling plagiarism, no matter language. It is free to
download for use within schools and academic organisations that are
subscribers of the URKUND system. It usually takes about 1 hour
for Urkund to generate a report, however at busy times this can take at least
24 hours. You should allow plenty of time before your assignment deadline
in order to receive the similarity report back and make any changes needed.
The Urkund score is the percentage of the document which is similar to
other documents within the Urkund database. A low score indicates that
there is little similarity and a score of 100 indicates that the entire
submitted item has been copied from a single or multiple sources.
URKUND Plagiarism Checker provides instructors and learners with
a significance score to show what percentage of a document is drawn from
other sources, as well as access to URKUND's site for a full report on the
submission.