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Web Links |
Description |
| 1. |
e-PG Pathshala: Gateway for eBooks up to PG |
e-PGPathshala is a one portal under which High quality, curriculum based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts & humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being developed by MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT. |
| 2. |
e-Yantra: Engineering for better tomorrow |
e-Yantra Project is an initiative by IIT Bombay that aims to create the next generation of embedded systems engineers with a practical outlook to help provide practical solutions to some of the real world problems. |
| 3. |
NPTEL |
NPTEL has been offering self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams for more than a decade. From March 2014 NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses, the highlight being the certification exam through which the student gets an opportunity to earn a certificate from the IITs. |
| 4. |
Swayam: Free Online Education |
SWAYAM MOOCs platform is World’s Largest Online Free E-Learning Platform Portal designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., Access, Equity and Quality by covering School/Vocational, Under-Graduate, Post Graduate, Engineering and Other Professional Courses. |
| 5. |
SWAYAMPRABHA: View digital courses on TV |
The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 22 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new content for at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. The contents are provided by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, and IGNOU. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal. |
| 6. |
VIDWAN: Expert Database and National Research Network |
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. |
| 7. |
Virtual Labs: Web-enabled experiments designed for remote – operation |
Virtual Labs have been designed to provide remote access to labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs cater to students at the undergraduate level, postgraduate level as well as to research scholars. Virtual Labs enable the students to learn at their own pace and enthuse them to conduct experiments. Virtual Labs can be used to complement physical labs. |
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Open Access E-Journals Links |
Description |
| 1. |
BMC |
A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine, specialist journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome, and the BMC Series. |
| 2. |
Directory of Open Science Articlese-Yantra: Engineering for better tomorrow |
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. |
| 3. |
Elsevier |
All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. |
| 4. |
JSTOR |
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. |
| 5. |
KARGER |
Karger Open Access empowers researchers, policy makers and others to easily read and share trusted, peer-reviewed articles in health sciences, facilitating a rapid and impactful exchange of knowledge in these communities. |
| 6. |
Oxford Academic |
Open access at Oxford University Press (OUP) is mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. OUP embrace both green and gold open access (OA) publishing to support this mission. |
| 7. |
Springer |
The SpringerOpen portfolio has grown tremendously since its launch in 2010, it offer researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals. Publishing with SpringerOpen makes your work freely available online for everyone, immediately upon publication. |
| 8. |
Taylor & Francis |
Taylor & Francis Group’s flourishing program of full open access journals enables you to make your research freely and permanently available so anyone, anywhere can read and build upon your work. |
| 9. |
Wiley |
Wiley Open Access journals are supported by a network of authoritative journals and societies as well as internationally renowned editorial board members. All research articles published in Wiley Open Access journals are immediately freely available to read, download and share. Wiley Open Access publishes a number of online journals across biological, chemical and health sciences. |
| 10. |
Science Direct |
Science Direct is the world's leading source for scientific, technical, and medical research. Explore journals, books and articles. |
| S.No. |
Free E-Books |
| 1. |
Bookyards.com |
The world's biggest online library where you can find a large selection of free ebooks and Top publishing authors. |
| 2. |
DigiLibraries.com |
DigiLibraries.com offers a digital source of free eBooks for any taste, a vast range of titles in digital format and our free eBooks collection is growing all the time. |
| 3. |
eBook Junkie |
eBookJunkie is a platform for independent authors to distribute and promote their work, and a news source for everything related to e-books and e-readers. |
| 4. |
eBookLobby.com |
Open Library Accessible Books Open Library provides online digital copies in multiple formats, created from images of many public domain, out-of-print, and in-print books. |
| 5. |
E-Books Directory |
A growing list of freely downloadable eBooks, documents and lecture notes from all over the internet.. |
| 6. |
Open Library Accessible Books |
Open access at Oxford University Press (OUP) is mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. OUP embrace both green and gold open access (OA) publishing to support this mission. |
| 7. |
Planet eBook |
Planet eBook, the home of free classic literature! The latest version of the site, with its mobile-friendly design and multi-format eBooks, attempts to make our collection of eBooks available on all devices. |
| 8. |
Project Gutenberg |
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the public domain. |
| 9. |
The Internet Archive |
The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account. |
| 10. |
Worlddigitallibrary |
The collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project. It has a selection of rare books, manuscripts, and other materials dating back to 8,000 BC. |
