Shodhganga : It is the digital repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations hosted by INFormation and LIBrary NETwork (INFLIBNET) Centre, which is an Autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of University Grants Commision (UGC). As name says, "Shodh" stands for research and discovery and the "Ganga" is the symbol of India's everchanging and ever-flowing culture and civilization. It is the reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository. This repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers and it is available for the entire scholarly community in open access.
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Shodhgangotri : It is the repository of Indian electronic research-in-progress or synopses hosted by INFormation and LIBrary NETwork (INFLIBNET) Centre. As name says, "Shodh" stands for research and discovery and the "Gangotri" is the source of origination of the "Ganga". The repository reveals the trends and directions of research being conducted in India and it helps to avoid the duplication of research.
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Searching Interface
swayam : Study Webs of Active-learning for Young Aspiring Minds or swayam is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform of India hosted by Ministry of Education, Government of India. Courses delivered through swayam are available free of cost to the learners. The courses hosted are in four quadreants - (i) Video Lecture, (ii) Specially prepared material that can be downloadable/printed, (iii) Self-assesment tests through tests and quizzes, (iv) an online discussion forum for clearing doubts. Nine National Coordinators are co-ordinating the courses. They are : AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses, NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering, UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education, CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education, NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education, NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education, IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students, IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies, and NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme. Universities/colleges approving credit transfer for these courses can use the marks/certificate obtained in these courses for the same.
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SWAYAM PRABHA : It is an education learning platform initiated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. It includes a group of 80 Direct-to-Home/DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite hosted by INFormation and LIBrary NETwork (INFLIBNET) Centre. Every day, there will be new content for at least four hours which would be repeated five more times in a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. Curriculum-based course contents at post-graduate and under-graduate level covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture, etc. All courses would be certification-ready in their detailed offering through SWAYAM, the platform being developed for offering MOOCs courses. It is currently maintained by INFormation and LIBrary NETwork (INFLIBNET) Centre.
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NDLI : National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources with search/browse facilities, sponsored and mentored by Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) and developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines and all popular forms of access devices. It is designed to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources.
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e-PG Pathsala : It is an educational dedicated portal available in open access. This portal is an MHRD Project that is being developed by dedicated team of NME-ICT department under the guidelines of UGC. The prime objective is to meet curriculum and course content to fulfill the requirement of every postgraduate learner.
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Subject-based Modules including E-Text, Video, Quiz
INDIAN CULTURE : It is a platform which incoporates the data of cultural relevance from various repositories and institutions all over India initiated by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Under the aegis of the National Mission on Libraries, National Virtual Library of India (NVLI) subsequently Indian Culture portal were launched, which provide access towards various cultural information generated in India and about India. It helps the users from all sectors to seek cultural information through well researched services.
INDIAN CULTURE
e-GyanKosh : It is a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country to promote Open Distance Learning (ODL). Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated. In spite of this, IGNOU facilitates IGNOU FB Live recorded videos, IGNOU self-learning materials, IGNOU Youtube Videos, Indial Journal of Open Learning (IJOL) etc supporting Open Educational Resources (OER) policy as recommended by National Knowledge Commission (NKC), Government of India.
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Vidya-Mitra : It is an online learning portal for all the e-content projects developed under the NME-ICT (National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology), MHRD, Govrnment of India. The portal provides facility to search and browse all hosted content wherein a learner can easily access the desired material including audio/video learning material, textual material, multimedia-enriched materials etc. through a single interface.
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Virtual Labs : It is a pro initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). This project is a consortium activity of twelve participating institutes and IIT Delhi is coordinating institute. It is a paradigm shift in ICT-based education. For the first time, such an initiative has been taken-up in remote-experimentation. Under Virtual Labs project, over 100 Virtual Labs consisting of approximately 700+ web-enabled experiments were designed for remote-operation and viewing.
Virtual Labs
NPTEL : National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning or NPTEL is a joint venture of the IITs and IISc, funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Government of India. It was started as a project to take quality education to all corners of the country, NPTEL now offers close to 600+ courses for certification every semester in about 22 disciplines. NPTEL is the largest online repository in the world of courses in engineering , basic sciences and selected humanities and management subjects as claimed. YouTube channel for NPTEL is hugely subscribed educational channel along with transcription and and subtitle.
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@cecgurukul : Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known or CEC is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India. Realizing the potential and power of television to act as means of Educational Knowledge dissemination, UGC started the Countrywide Classroom Programmes. CEC acts as a nodal agency to coordinate, guide and facilitate such Educational production at the National level in collaboration with Educational Multimedia Research Centres (EMRCs). The Youtube Channel for CEC is known as @cecgurukul.
@cecgurukul
data.gov.in : With assistance from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Government of India, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) created, developed, and hosts the Open Government Data Portal, data.gov.in. This platform was started as a project under the Digital India Initiative. The main goal of the Open Data initiative is to make government-owned digital data more accessible and useful to the public so that they can innovate in sustainable ways for the environment, improve public services, and gain the knowledge necessary to make better, data-driven decisions for the countrys development.
data.gov.in
Spoken Tutorial : Spoken Tutorial is an online gateway for self-directed learning. IIT Bombay is the driving force behind this project, which has financial support from the Ministry of Education, Government of India. Because spoken tutorials involve live demonstrations of computer-based activities accompanied by commentary from an expert, they are also known as screencasts. This portal is limited to free and open source software (FOSS) and is used mostly for software learning.
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Research Project Database : The Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre in Gandhinagar is responsible for the design and development of the Research Project Database. Information on numerous financed projects, both current and completed, is available in this database. The funding agencies include the UGC, ICAR, ICMR, DST, and DBT, among others. Currently, the database contains about 13,600 research projects completed by different academics employed at different Indian universities.
Research Project Database
NIScPR Online Periodical Repository :
Full text publications from CSIR-NIScPR research journals are now accessible. All nineteen research journals (ALIS, AIR, BVAAP, IJBB, IJBT, IJCA, IJCB, IJCT, IJEB, IJEMS, IJFTR, IJMS, IJNPR, IJPAP, IJRSP, IJTK, JIPR, JSIR and JST) have full text accessibility. The Natural Products Repository (NPARR) and three popular science magazines, Science Reporter (SR), Vigyan Pragati (VP), and Science Ki Duniya (SKD), are also hosted by NOPR.
NIScPR Online Periodical Repository
INDIA CODE : The Central, State, and Union Territory Administrations; enactments and laws, as well as their occasionally enacted subordinate legislation, are all housed in the digital repository known as India Code.A free text search option is also offered. The search facility can be accessed using a variety of parameters, including the Ministry, Department, Act Number, Act Year, Short Title, and Enactment Date.
INDIA CODE
LII of India : The Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) is a comprehensive online collection of Indian legal information that is free to access, non-profit, and meets international standards. Currently, LII of India contains 50 databases, comprising more than 300,000 rulings from 37 courts and tribunals, Indian national legislation dating back to 1836, more than 800 bilateral treaties, reports on law reform, and over 500 articles from law journals. IndiaLII was created in collaboration with AustLII by four eminent Indian law schools: Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; National Law University, Delhi; National Law School of India University, Bangalore; and NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
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arXiv : More than two million academic publications in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics are available for free, instantaneous, and permanent access on the digital platform arXiv. Established in 1991 by Paul Ginsparg, arXiv is currently run by the Cornell University staff and the arXiv Leadership Team, under the direction of the Institutions, Science, and Editorial Advisory Councils. Funding is provided by Cornell University, the Simons Foundation, member institutions, and donors.
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Internet Archive : Since its founding in 1996, the Internet Archive has functioned as a nonprofit digital library, housing approximately 20 million freely downloaded books and manuscripts as well as 2.3 million contemporary eBooks. A variety of formats, including Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) files for individuals with print disabilities, are available for content on Internet Archive. Over 1100 library institutions have integrated the digital materials in the archive; among them are the Boston Public Library, the Library of Congress, and the Historical Society of Lancaster County.
Internet Archive
MIT OPEN COURSEWARE : Thousands of MIT course lessons covering the whole MIT curriculum are available for free and are part of the collection known as MIT Open Courseware. In addition to offering free course materials, syllabi, lecture videos, notes, and problem sets from MIT classes, it also offers some tools for teachers, such as the OCW Educator Project, which shares teaching ideas from MIT faculty members with educators at the Institute and beyond. For instructors in practice, there is a part titled Instructor Insight; that covers subjects including course design, active learning techniques, and ways to engage students. There is also a podcast feature called Chalk Radio; that lets users listen to the OCW on the go.
MIT OPEN COURSEWARE
videolectures.net : The largest online academic video lecture repository in the world, Videolectures.net was founded in 2007 and offers high-quality videos of lectures given by renowned academics and scientists at prestigious academic events like conferences, summer schools, workshops, and science promotion events from a variety of scientific fields for free and open internet access. This content is meant for the general public as well as the scientific community. With a content time restriction of 17350 hours, the repository currently has 25894 peer-reviewed journal contributions from 19257 authors.
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doab : Scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books are available for free through the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), which was founded by the OAPEN Foundation in 2012. To improve the discoverability of open access literature, DOAB was established. It offers a searchable index of e-books that are released under an open access business model and undergo peer review.
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OAPEN Library : The National Library in The Hague serves as the registered office of OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks), a community benefit organization headquartered in the Netherlands. A platform called OAPEN is devoted to peer-reviewed, open access books. The primary goals of OAPEN are to build a vast library of peer-reviewed, open access books, facilitate the visibility and retrieval of these high-calibre publications, and promote the publication of open access books.
OAPEN Library
Project Gutenberg : A digital library of free eBooks is called Project Gutenberg. Michael S. Hart launched it in 1971, and it was the first to offer free electronic books, or eBooks. The primary goal of Project Gutenberg is to encourage the production and sharing of eBooks. Anyone can contribute to Project Gutenberg without paying fees, meeting membership requirements, or adhering to accuracy standards. All that is intended is to make as many eBooks available as we can in as many formats and languages for readers worldwide.
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Rare Book Room : An instructional website called Rare Book Room was established with the intention of providing the general public with free access to a selection of rare books that have been digitally digitized. A company called Octavo took the lead and scanned some of the greatest books ever written from several prestigious institutions. To date, about 400 books covering a wide range of subjects and rarity have been scanned.
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DOAJ : A website called Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) offers free access to a variety of international journals that have been chosen by the community. DOAJ is a separate, non-profit organization run by Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C. (IS4OA). It has a branch in Denmark and is registered as a community interest corporation in the UK. Regardless of the contribution made by any subject, region, or language, DOAJ strives to make scientific research journals freely and conveniently accessible worldwide.
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SpringerOpen : When SpringerOpen was first established in June 2010, it served as a repository for prestigious, peer-reviewed, fully open access journals in all fields of science. However, as the platform gained popularity and demand, in August 2012, it was expanded to include open access books in addition to journals. Once published, SpringerOpen journals and books are freely and permanently accessible online anywhere in the world. However, an open access fee is charged for all SpringerOpen journals and publications to defray publication costs.
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ELSEVIER Open Access : Elsevier, an open access publisher with a focus on scientific, technical, and medical material, is one of the fastest-growing companies worldwide. Every paper in Elsevier Open Access journals has undergone extensive peer review and is permanently and freely accessible for reading and downloading by anyone.
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Wiley Open Access : Wiley Open Access makes the writers; work openly available to everyone in an effort to guarantee that scholars, students, and educators have equal access to knowledge. The publicly accessible articles are available for readers to read, download, and share. There is an article publication charge, which the author must pay in order for the article to be immediately and completely publicly accessible online for reading, downloading, and sharing. This is referred as gold open access.
Wiley Open Access
OpenDOAR : Scientific Open Access repositories containing various content categories, including research data, can be located in the quality-checked global directory known as the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR). As such, it serves as a good place to start when looking for repositories that are appropriate for publishing publications. A quality-assured list of open access repositories worldwide is offered by the OpenDOAR service. The University of Nottingham, along with Lund University, produced the Directory of Open Access Repositories, a UK-based website under the SHERPA umbrella of services. The Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL), Jisc, SPARC Europe, the Open Science Institute, and Jisc provide funding for this initiative.
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OATD : Graduate-level theses and dissertations published worldwide can be found in the Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) repository. Currently, it has approximately 3.5 million publicly accessible electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) indexed. Over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutes worldwide have provided all of the metadata.
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CERN Document Server : The French term Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, which means European Council for Nuclear Research, is the source of the name CERN. One can read articles, reports, and multimedia content in High Energy Physics (HEP) on the CERN Document Server. Users can search through hundreds of thousands of items, including books, journals, research papers, conference proceedings, videos, and datasets, here.
CERN Document Server
IPL : The Internet Public Library (IPL), recently known as the ipl2, is a non-profit learning resource that offers a database with more than 500,000 essay samples on thousands of subjects. This was a 1995 website that was primarily maintained by students. Resources arranged by subject, periodicals and journals, newspapers, exhibits, references spanning all academic fields, and a sizable collection of teen and young adult materials are the major components of the collections.
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WorldWideScience.org : A web-based worldwide science gateway, WorldWideScience.org is made up of scientific databases and portals from both domestic and foreign organizations. WorldWideScience.org, which is maintained by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) of the U.S. Department of Energy in collaboration with the International Council of Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), enables users to search numerous scientific sources worldwide using a single query.
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WWW Virtual Library : The WWW virtual library is a resource index on the Internet. Agriculture, business and economics, computing, communications and media, education, engineering, humanities, information and libraries, international affairs, law, leisure, science, and society are only a few of the many topics covered by these indexes. Tim Berners-Lee, the man behind HTML and the World Wide Web, founded and oversaw the Virtual Library for the first time in 1991 at CERN in Geneva.
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IEJME : The International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education (IEJME) is a peer-reviewed online open-access journal that publishes important and cutting-edge scholarly works, as well as fresh theories and research in the field that will benefit international research communities. Its mission is to support mathematics education at all levels worldwide. The quarterly IEJME publishes in the months of February, May, August, and November.
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fidmath : A tool for searching both traditional media and web resources on mathematical information is the Mathematics Information Service (fidmath). Here, several library catalogues, review collections, preprint servers, journals, and websites of mathematical relevance can all be simultaneously searched with a single search query.
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The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository : The World Bank is acknowledged by the World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) as the greatest single source of development knowledge as well as the largest open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Built on DSpace, an open source platform mostly utilized in the open access community, OKR was introduced in 2012.
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
OER Commons : Teachers and other educators can search and find open educational resources (OER) and other publicly accessible teaching materials using Open Educational Resources (OER), an online library. Here, resources can be downloaded and shared with others. They can also be downloaded, altered, and then reposted as a remixed work.
OER Commons
ROAD : UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector supports the ISSN International Centre in providing ROAD, a service that was introduced in December 2013. Road offers unrestricted access to more than 19 million bibliographic entries produced by the 89 ISSN National Centers and International Centers in compliance with the ISSN Manuals, cataloging guidelines, which establish Open Access scholarly resources.
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