Open Access & Content Attribution Policy

Shubhaarti Digital Library is a software platform that aggregates, organises, and delivers bibliographic metadata and open-access full-text records from publicly available scholarly sources.

We do not author, publish, or own any of the academic articles, periodicals, theses, conference proceedings, or books that appear in our catalogue. Every record in our system originates from an external publisher, institution, or repository that has made its content freely available under an open-access licence or has deposited it into a public archive.

All records indexed on this platform are sourced exclusively from recognised open-access channels, including but not limited to those listed below. Every source is linked, so any claim made here can be checked against the source itself.

No paywalled, subscription-only, or copyrighted-restricted content is intentionally ingested. If you believe a record in our catalogue should not be here, please contact us immediately at subscriptions@shubhaarti.in.

We own: • The Shubhaarti Digital Library software platform (reader, search engine, access control, analytics) • The classification taxonomy, domain structure, and navigation design • Any original descriptions, summaries, or organisational annotations authored by our editorial team

We do not own: • The text, figures, or data of any indexed article, journal, thesis, book, or proceeding • Any intellectual property belonging to the original authors or publishers • The right to grant licences on content we did not create

Users of this platform access content subject to the licence terms set by the original rights-holders. Where a document is published under a Creative Commons licence, that licence applies directly between the user and the rights-holder.

Shubhaarti Digital Library charges for access to its software — the organised, searchable, domain-structured interface through which open-access content can be discovered and read.

This is equivalent to paying for a premium library management system or a reading application: the software experience is the product. The underlying content is open-access and freely available on the public web; we provide a curated, institutional-grade environment for accessing it efficiently.

Institutional subscribers pay for: • Domain-wise curated collections and structured access control • In-browser reading with progress tracking and analytics • A managed, organised catalogue across 40+ academic disciplines • Continuous ingestion of newly published open-access works

Every record displayed on this platform shows the original author names, publisher name, journal or source title, DOI, ISSN/ISBN, and publication year wherever that data is available. Where full text is accessible, a direct link to the publisher's original page is also provided.

If you are an author or publisher and wish to have a specific record removed from our index, please write to us at subscriptions@shubhaarti.in with the title, DOI, or URL of the record in question. We will review valid takedown requests as soon as reasonably practicable.

Bibliographic metadata is ingested automatically from third-party sources. While we strive for accuracy, we cannot guarantee that all metadata (titles, authors, abstracts, DOIs) is free of error. We do not verify the scientific accuracy or peer-review status of any article.

Shubhaarti Digital Library is not responsible for any reliance placed on content discovered through this platform. Users should always verify information against the original published source.

For content attribution concerns, takedown requests, or legal enquiries:

Email: subscriptions@shubhaarti.in