Open Educational Resources

  • Online Course Contents and Materials

    • MOOCs - Offer online courses to students all over the world, in the millions, for free.

    • Open Michigan - Find openly-licensed images, video, textual materials, & other content.

    • Open Yale Courses -  A full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied.

    • Swayam - A platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post graduation.

    • UC Berkeley OCW - This site contains free content on a wide range of topics from colleges and universities from across the world.

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  • Open Access Journals

    • Bentham Open  - Publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals

    • Bioline International - A not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals

    • CSC - Open Access Library - An online searchable repository containing full-text of documents, reports and publications produced by CSC Journals

    • De Gruyter  - Publishes books and journals in 29 subject areas

    • DOAJ - A unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world

    • Dove Medical Press  - The publication of Open Access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology and especially medicine

    • EconPapers - Provide access to RePEc the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software

    • Frontiers - To make science open, peer-review rigorous, transparent, and efficient and harness the power of technology to truly serve researchers’ needs

    • Hindawi - One of the world's largest fully open access journal publishers

    • IBIMA -  An academic publisher of 40+ open access journals

    • IDEAS - Is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet.

    • Indian Academy of Science - The Academy today publishes 12 journals, several of which grew out of the original Proceedings.

    • Lippincott Open Access - Provides scientific and scholarly material, primarily research articles published in peer reviewed journals.

    • MAUSAM - A journal by Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology, Ministry Of Earth Sciences.

    • MedCrave Online Journals  - 100 journals, with subjects from science, technology and medicine to language and the arts.

    • MedIND -  Is a leading online provider of almost 1 million pages of health information.

    • OMICS International - Own 700+ peer-reviewed clinical, medical, life sciences, engineering, and management journals.

    • Open Access On MUSE - Offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers.

    • Open Humanities Press - Since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication.

    • PubMed Central - National library of medicine publishes over 4000 journals.

    • Research Papers - Specializing in the research and analysis of scientific and technical information.

    • ROAD  -  Is freely accessible on the Internet, and containing scientific serial publications.

    • SCIEDU Press - Sciedu Press publish scholarly journals, scientific, and educational books.

    • SciELO - SciELO Network provides Open Access (OA) to journals’ contents.

    • Science Alert - Currently provides 119 peer-reviewed open access journals.

    • Science Publications - Publishing with over 10,000 articles published in 30+ open access journals.

    • SciencePG -  Pulishes of 320+ open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

    • Scienpress Ltd -  Provides free access to research information to the international community.

    • SciTechnol - Publises peer reviewed international journals committed to promote research in the fields of science and technology.

     

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  • Open Access Books and Textbooks
    • AMS Books Online - Offers an extensive collection of books on the history of mathematics
    • DIKSHA - Broadcast contents on DIKSHA is accessible any time, anywhere.
    • E-Books Directory -  is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible ebooks. Now have exactly 10655 free e-books in 709 categories.
    • e-KUMBH - AICTE is to provide outcome based Technical Education Books in different Indian Languages to the students and faculty members across all technical institutions in India.
    • IntechOpen - Provides more than 6,500 peer-reviewed open access books.
    • Million Book Project - Books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project.
    • Open Access On MUSE - Offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities works from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers.
    • OAPEN - OAPEN is dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books.
    • Open Humanities Press - Since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication.
    • Rare Book Room - An educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world.
    • Rastriya e-Pustakalaya - Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya (राष्ट्रीय ई पुस्तकालय) or National Digital Library (NDL) is a digital initiative by the Department of School Education and Literacy, MoE, Government of India, for facilitating availability of quality digital books beyond the academic curricula.
    • World e-Book Library - Is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other heritage works.

     

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  • E-Theses/Dissertations
    • EBSCO Open Dissertations - is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.
    • IIA Ph.D. Thesis - Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India is developed to capture, organize disseminate and preserve the research publications of IIAP.
    • LSE Theses Online -  The online archive of PhD theses for the London School of Economics and Political Science
    • MIT Theses - Contains selected theses and dissertations from all MIT departments.
    • NDLTD - Is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
    • OATD - OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
    • Shodhganga - INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

     

    Digital Libraries
    • Internet Archive - is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
    • Million Book Project - Books from the Indian scanning centers of the Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project.
    • National Digital Library of India - Is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other heritage works.
    • Traditional Knowledge Digital Library - A representative database of TKDL, contains about 1250 formulations selected from various classical texts of Indian Systems of Medicine such as Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Sowa Rigpa.
    • Universal Digital Library - The mission is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge.
    • World Digital Library - The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.
    • World eBook Library - Collection offers millions of works by the greatest thinkers of the last 1,000 years, works from America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, in over 300 different languages.

     

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