User Manual for Accessing DELNET Discovery Portal

The official website of DELNET-Developing Library Network is

www.delnet.in DELNET networks more than 6300 libraries in India and

outside the country. It provides access to more than 3.5 crore records of

Books, Journal Articles, etc. A link of Delnet Discovery Portal appears on

the website www.delnet.in

Once you click to New Discovery Portal link welcome page appears of DELNET

Discovery Portal displaying the name of the member Institute . You may notice

your institution name on the webpage .

(For those Institutions, who have leased-line connection for Internet and

have shared their Static/Gateway Ip with DELNET)

For those Institutions who have Broadband connection i.e. non-static IP the

access will be made through login/password only.)

Login & Password is provided by the DELNET to the librarian of Member Institute. Once you put

login & password, you can see our Main database page for the online services of DELNET. Your

Institution name is displayed.

It contains the numerous database offered by the DELNET.

You can access our Union catalogue of books and journals in

Search the DELNET Digital Library Resources

In Advanced Search you may kindly search the books for Inter-library

loan and Journals to get the photocopy of particular articles under the

Document Delivery Service of DELNET

If you want a book on loan you may kindly search in our union catalogue

with different aspects like with the Title and author name or by the subject

etc.

For example if you want to find a book through the title. You may just

kindly type the title of the book and select the Title in drop-down in “ All

Fields” and click on the link of ‘Find’ or simply do enter .

Title:- Wings of Fire

You can see number of hits are showing related to your query

For example if you want a book on Mathematics..

Just type mathematics and select the Subject in drop-down in “ All Fields”

and click on the link of ‘Find’ or do simply enter.

You can see no. of records are here

Choose any one record of book, which you want and click on ‘Get more

details’

Click on the link of ‘ Request a book’

Now the System is asking for ILL password. ILL passwords has been given by the

DELNET to the librarian of member institute at the time of confirmation of Delnet

membership.

After the submission of ILL password . You can see that the Name of your institute,

address and the name of the librarian is showing here. Now you have to fill some

necessary information of the requester like

Requester’s Name, Designation and email id etc. In the Message box you may kindly

send any message for Delnet like for any specific edition or a volume of the book.

After filling the form do kindly click on ‘sent email’

Now you have successfully submit the book request on loan to DELNET

If you are looking for a particular journal you can search like this in our

union catalogue

You can see that this journal is available in our so many institution (we use

location code for the name of member institute).

If you want any article. You may kindly write to us , we will provide you

the photocopy of the requested article under the DDS-Document Delivery

Service of ours. (photocopy charges will be charged for it Rs. 2 for per

page)

Here you can see the database of E-BOOKS

Just click on E-BOOKS

You can see the main categories of subjects are given here..

For example just click on first subject i. e. Arts & Photography

You can see the subcategories also.

Just click on the first title

Now you can see the details of the book. Now click on Download link.

To Download the book in pdf form just click on ‘ Digital PDF’, now you

can see book has been downloaded.

Full text Medical books:-

Just click on the link of ‘full text medical books’

For example Click on the first title

Click on to the link of “ To Download the PDF

E-journals

For example Click on to the first e-journal (Agriculture) .

You can see the list of Agriculture e-journal.

For example Click on the first journal ‘ Advances in Agriculture &

Botanica’

You can see the list of all the volumes. Click on the required Volume &

Issue

Click on the required article

You can see the link of Thesis/Dissertations. Just click on the link of Global

full-text Thesis and Dissertation

You can see the Country-wise list of of Institutions link are provided here,

who are providing the Electronic ETDS.

For example if you click on the link of “ Indian Institute of Science”

You can see the web page of ETD’s of Indian Institute of Science has

opened.

To get the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations, click on

the link

You will find this page:-

You can also see the links of other Online Databases are given there:-

• Medline and other databases of NLM

• US Patents:Full Text

• Cambridge Dictionary Online

• ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Lib & Info. Science

In Others Link

In the link of About us. You can see the number of information of which is

available here like About Ourselves, our objectives and there are so many important

links are given here for Director’s Report, DELNET Newsletter, DELNET membership

& Consortium for e-journals , Latest programmes , Application form and DELNET

MOU for Institutions. Address of DELNET Cordination Units etc.

• “Watch DELNET ONLINE DEMONSTRATION ON YOUTUBE”, in this

link you can see the DELNET Online demonstration of old portal on

Youtube.

• DELNET Consortium for E-journals

• How to access Delnet Online,

• Poster of Member Libraries

• In Profile of Member Libraries You can see the Addresses/Profile of Delnet

Members

• Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Regulations

• In the link of UPLOAD LIBRARY RECORDS, DELNET Member

Institute can upload their data to merge their records in the Delnet Union

catalogue online with the help of login & password provided by the Delnet.

For any query Kindly contact:-

DELNET-Developing Library Network

J.N.U Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj

New Delhi - 110070

New Telephone No. : (011)-26742222, 26741266, 26741232, 26741246,

26741305

Fax : (011)-26741122

E-mail: hkkaul@gmail.com,sangs@delnet.ren.nic.in,

sangskaul2003@yahoo.co.in