E-LIBRARY
Online Resources
OER (Open Educational Resources)
Important Links:
- E-Pathshala
- E-gyankosh
- NPTEL
- Spoken Tutorial
- Consortium for Educational Communication
- NDLI
- DEEKSHARAMBH
Some Useful Websites for Online Educational Support
- www.academicearths.org
- www.coursera.com
- www.edx.org
- www.open2study.com
- www.academicjournals.org
- codeacademy.org
- youtube.com/education
Audio Books:
Book Sites
- https://www.intechopen.com/books/
- https://www.doabooks.org/
- bookboon.com
- http://ebookee.org
- http://sharebookfree.com
- http://m.freebooks.com
- obooko.com
- manybooks.net
- epubbud.com
- bookyards.com
- getfreeebooks.com
- http://freecomputerbooks.com
- essays.se
- sparknotes.com
- pink.monkey.com
Online Educational Support
- http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=21
- http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites
- http://ocw.tufts.edu - Tuft University
- http://ocw.upm.es - Univesidad Politechnica, Madrid
- http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
- http://ocw.usu.edu/ - Utah State University
- http://open.umich.edu/ - University of Michigan
- http://ocw.nd.edu/ - Nore Dame University
Answers to Questions:
Search Sites:
- About.com
- AllTheWeb
- AltaVista
- Ask Jeeves!
- Excite
- HotBot
- LookSmart
- Lycos
- Open Directory
- Mamma
- Webcrawler
- AOL
- Dogpile
- 10pht
Searching for People:
Searching for the Latest News:
Searching for Sports Headlines and Scores:
Searching for Medical Information:
- Health AtoZ
- KidsDoctor
- MedExplorer
- MedicineNet
- National Library of Medicine
- Planet Wellness
- WebMD Health
Journals:
- Index Copernicus - Multidisciplinary
- African Journal Online
- African Journal Series
- Development Consortium Services
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- South African Journals
- Open Access Journal Search Engine
- Lund University
- Free Scientific & Medical Materials
- Access & Publication
Academic Search/Web Research Tools/Reference Managers:
- Microsoft Academic - Multidisciplinary
- Scirus
- Google Scholar
- Digital Bibliography Library Browser
- Live Search Academic
- USA Government for Science
- CiteSeerX - Computing & Information Sciences
- Mendeley - Academic Social Network/Collaboration
- WorldCat - Multidisciplinary
- Voc & Tech Education
- INSPIRE - Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System
- Social Science Research Network
- GSI Repository
Tools for Researchers:
- Journal TOCs (Free Table of Content for Individual researchers from more than 25000 scholarly Journals)
- Mendeley (A free reference manager and PDF organizer and academic social network from Elsevier)
- Zotero (Free Bibliographic and PDF Organizer from George Mason University)
- Journal Ranking (Based on Scopus, Elsevier)
- Open Rev (Open Science reviewing tool from Harvard University)
Courses Online:
Academic Search Engine:
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
- Google Scholar
- Microsoft Academic Search
Open Access Scholarly Archive:
- arXiv (Oldest and largest preprint archive of Physics, Math, Stat, Comp. Sc. and Quantitative Biology)
- INSPIRE (High Energy Physics)
- SAO/NASA (Astrophysics Data)
- bioRxiv (Preprint archive of Biology, Started in 2013 by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory)
- Faculty of 1000 Biology (Biological Science)
- Science Central (Centralized Institutional repository harvester of DBT & DST)
- Chemical Science Repository (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- PeerJ PrePrints (Preprint archive of Biology)
- European (Humanities and Social Sciences across Europe)
- PubMed Central (3.1 Million full text peer reviewed articles related to biomedical and Life Sciences from National Institute of Health, USA)
- Wolfram Mathworld (Mathematical Science)
- OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repository)
- ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repository)
- Social Science Research Network
- RePEc (Economics and Development)
- OALib
- HINARI (Access to Research in Health Programme)
- OARE (Research in Environmental Science)
- West Bengal Public Library Network
- NSDL (National Science Digital Library)
- OAIster
- EconStor (Articles on Economics)
- Bangla - Anwesan
E-Books & Digital Library:
- OpenStax College (Text books for Undergraduates from Rice University, USA)
- Open Text Book (Gateway to access text books of several prestigious Universities of USA)
- DOAB
- Hathi Trust (Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries of academic & research institutions around the world)
- World Digital Library
- OAPEN (Freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences from Europe)
- Digital Book Index (Search Millions of books through Single window)
- National Digital Library
- INTECH (Engineering and Physics)
- Bengali Books (Rare Bengali Books from University of Heidelberg)
Open Access e-Journals:
- DOAJ (Single Gateway to search all Open Access Journals)
- Hindwai (437+ Peer-reviewed Journals in S&T)
- Highwire Press
- SCOAP3 (Particle Physics journals from Elsevier, Springer, Hindwai, etc.)
- CSIR Journals (Single Gateway to search all CSIR India journals)
- Indian Academy of Science Journals
- Springer Open
- The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
- Public Library of Science (PLOS) (Biological & Medical Sciences)
- Bentham Open Access (Search 230+ peer-reviewed open access journals)
- Open Biology (Biological Science from Royal Society)
- BioMed Central (Biological & Medical Sciences, from Springer Science)
- Biomedical Journals from India
- BioOne (Biological, Ecological and Environmental Science)
- Wolters Kluwer Health (Bio Medical Science)
- E Life Sciences
- Open Access Biological Journal Gateway (184 Journals of Bioscience)
- Chemistry Central (Chemical Science from Springer)
- INIS (Nuclear Science)
- Intech Open (Books and journals of Science & Technology)
- Internet Library of Early Journals (A digital library of six 18th and 19th Century journals from Oxford University)
- Open Humanities Press (Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Jurn (Single gateway to search Arts & Humanities OA Journals)
- Periodicals and Newspapers from Bengal
e-Thesis:
- NDLTD (Millions of E-Thesis from thousands of universities around the world)
- OATD (Search 1.6 million electronic theses across the Globe)
- Shodhganga (E-thesis repository of Indian universities)
- PQDTOpen (Open Access Dissertation and Theses from ProQuest)
- EBSCO Open Dissertations (Search Millions of e-Theses)
Open Courseware & MOOC:
- E-pathshala (From UGC-INFLIBNET)
- MIT OpenCourseWare (From MIT, USA)
- NPTEL (From IISC & IITs)
- OER Commons
- Open Education Consortium
- Coursera (725 Courses from 110 leading universities around the World)
- edX (228 Courses from world’s leading universities)
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