How To Join

Universities / colleges falling into categories mentioned in eligibility of membership may submit their application along with a signed participation agreement. The federation may request additional information with regard to participating institution.

Participating universities and colleges or Service providers are required to assign its officers and / or faculty as its Administrative and Technical contacts to the INFED.

Universities / Colleges covered under the 12(B) and 12(F) Section of the UGC Act would be accepted as members of the INFED on receipt of application along with signed agreement along with a photocopy of notification issued by the UGC about 12(B) and 2 (F) status of the university. Application from other institutions / research organizations would be examined  and accepted on case to case basis.

Membership Form

Rules of Membership

Use of Personal Data

Membership FEE

• Core Members of the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium

  INFED does not propose to charge any fee from the core member universities / CFTIs of the e-ShodhSindhu Consortium. However, as the workload and membership database increases for core members, INFED may propose a nominal membership fee for core member universities.

• Other Institutions

  Membership for other institutions would be opened only after complete implementation of INFED for all publishers. Charges for other institutions would be announced at a later date.

• Publishers

  No fee will be charged from publishers providing access to their e-resources to the universities and colleges under e-ShodhSindhu Consortium and N-LIST programme respectively.