The National Knowledge Resource Consortium (NKRC), established in year 2009, is a network of libraries and information centres of 43 CSIR and 26 DST institutes. NKRC's origin goes back to the year 2001, when the CSIR set up the Electronic Journals Consortium to provide access to 1200 odd journals of Elsevier Science to all its users. Over a period of time, the Consortium grew in terms of the number of e-resources. The following e-resources have been accessed through NKRC:

• Elsevier - ScienceDirect
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy
• Emerald
• IEEE/IEL
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• iThenticate- Plagiarism Detection Software
• J-Gate
• Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• Springer Nature - Nature Main Journal
• Springer Nature -Springer Journals
• Taylor & Francis
• Web of Science
• Wiley