Introduction

IndCat is a free online Union Catalogue of Books, Theses and Serials of major university/institute libraries in India. The IndCat contains bibliographic information, location and holdings of Books, Theses and Serials. It provides the records in standard bibliographic formats i.e. MARC, MARCXML. It covers all major subjects, i.e. Psychology, Statistics, Political Science, Economics, Law, Public Administration, Education, Commerce, Linguistics, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Life Sciences, Botany, Zoology, Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture, Management, Architecture, Sports, Literature, History, Computer Science etc. A Web-based interface is designed to provide easy access to the merged catalogues. The IndCat is a major source of bibliographic information that can be used for Inter-Library Loan, Collections Development as well as for Copy Cataloguing and Retro-Conversion of bibliographic records.