INFLIBNET is an autonomous Inter-University Centre of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India. INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in India.

The National Library of India is the county's largest library and the library of public record. The library "operates under the national government’s Department of Culture and is designated to collect, disseminate, and preserve all printed material produced in India, and all foreign works published about the country—where ‘every work about India…can be seen and read’" (Murray, 2009). The collections break down and consist of 86,000 maps and 3,200 manuscripts.