Illumine: A Tool to Augment the National Digital Library of India with Full Texts of Research Papers

The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is envisioned as a national educational asset to enable 24x7 learning for learners of all ages and disciplines. It indexes research papers from various publishers, but the full text is often access-restricted and therefore, not freely available to users of NDLI. However, full texts of many papers are available in institutional digital repositories and preprint servers. We have developed a browser extension Illumine that allows NDLI users to automatically search the web and retrieve full texts of papers whenever they are available. We describe the design of the tool and report experiments done on a corpus of papers indexed in NDLI. The tool is freely available to all NDLI users.