Online Resources

OER (Open Educational Resources)

Important Links:

Some Useful Websites for Online Educational Support

Audio Books:

Book Sites

Online Educational Support

Answers to Questions:

Search Sites:

Searching for People:

Searching for the Latest News:

Searching for Sports Headlines and Scores:

Searching for Medical Information:

Journals:

Academic Search/Web Research Tools/Reference Managers:

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:

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