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OAOB is a not-for-profit project, initiated by National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Srujanika, Bhubaneswar and Pragati Utkal Sangh, Rourkela. It disseminates the available information in Odia language treasured in our local libraries and individual collections. The project is made available online to millions of readers worldwide. An open access repository containing resources pertaining to Odia literature and culture, OAOB provides free access to researchers, scholars, historians, librarians, and the general public at all point in time.

The mission of the project is to preserve the cultural history of Odisha by digitizing old, rare and new literary and other texts written in the Odia language. The primary focus is to digitize rare and copyright-free Odia documents (books, texts, and manuscripts) which are under deteriorating condition in libraries, archives, and individual collections to make them openly accessible to all.