Abstracting and Indexing
The Digital Repository for Indian Scholarly Texts & Information (DRISTI) is committed to maximising the visibility, accessibility and scholarly impact of the publications hosted on its platform. All published works are prepared in accordance with internationally recognised metadata standards and are designed for compatibility with major abstracting, indexing and discovery services.
DRISTI publications are assigned internationally recognised identifiers and are structured to facilitate discoverability through academic search engines, library catalogues and research repositories.
Indexing and Discoverability
Publications hosted on DRISTI are eligible for inclusion or compatibility with the following services, subject to the policies and independent evaluation criteria of each platform:
- International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through Crossref
- Crossref Metadata Services
- Crossmark
- Google Scholar
- Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
- OpenAlex
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
- WorldCat
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), where eligible
- OAPEN Library, where eligible
- J-Gate
- Indian Citation Index (ICI), where applicable
- Dimensions
- Semantic Scholar
- Institutional Repositories
- National and International Library Discovery Services
- University Library Catalogues
Metadata Standards
To enhance discoverability and interoperability, all publications are published with rich scholarly metadata, including:
- ISBN and DOI registration
- ORCID integration for authors
- Dublin Core metadata
- MARC21 compatibility
- OAI-PMH compliant metadata harvesting
- Abstracts and keywords
- Author affiliations
- Citation metadata
- Creative Commons licensing information
Long-Term Visibility
DRISTI continuously works to expand the reach of its publications by adopting international publishing standards, persistent identifiers and interoperable metadata. The platform also supports long-term digital preservation and compatibility with global scholarly infrastructure, ensuring that published research remains accessible, citable and discoverable for researchers worldwide.
