Major Functions and Responsibilities of the INFLIBNET Centre:

• establish proxy servers and associated authentication mechanism for colleges to enable them to access e-resources directly from publisher's site;
  
  
• provide fultext access to electronic resources subscribled for educational institutions through proxy servers after establishing authenticity of users;
  
  
• identify gaps in resources and infrastructure and make attempts to fill in those gaps so as to deliver effective and efficient services;
  
  
• generate alerting services from subscribed e-resources deploying technological tools for content delivery such as RSS feed, Atoms, Blogs etc.
  
  
• Setup computer laboratories consisting of 10-20 Internet -enabled PCs to facilitate walk-in users to access subscribed e-resources;
• impart awareness and training programmes for colleges and institutions; and
  
  
• collect and analyse usage statistics of e-resources and find trends of usage in different subject disciplines.