Open E-Resources


Open Reference Sources

 1 . Columbia Encyclopedia
 2 . Encyclopedia.com
 3 . 
Information Please: On-Line Dictionary and Internet encyclopedia

SUBJECT ENCYCLOPEDIAS  
  
  1 . Art Cyclopedia
  2 . Encyclopedia of Psychology
  3 . Encyclopedia of the Orient
  4 . Encyclopedia Mythica
  5 . Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  6 . Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
  7 . Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  8 . Medical Encyclopedia
  9 . Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
10 . Symbols.com: encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
11 . 
Webopedia

LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES

1 .  Acronym Server
2 . Dictionary.com
3 . Dictionary of Acronym
4 . Punjabi to English Dictionary
5 . Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
6 . One Look Dictionary Search
7 . Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
8 . Virtual Library: General Reference Dictionaries

SUBJECT DICTIONARIES

1 . Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
2 . Medical Dictionary
3 . Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
4 . Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus
5 . Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
6 . 
Visual Thesaurus

YEARBOOKS, ALMANACS AND HANDBOOKS

1 . Guinness Book of World Records
2 . Human Development Reports
3 . Information Please Almanac
4 . Minerals Yearbook
5 . 
World Health Report

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

1 . Biographical Dictionary
2 . Biographies: Famous People, Biographical Information…
3 . Biography.com
4 . ILLustrator Biographies
5 . Indian Biographies
6 . Ready Reference: Biographies
7 . 
Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

1 . Census of India
2 . City Population

GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

1 . Imperial Gazetteer of India
2 . Imperial Gazetteer of India(Maps)
3 . Maps of India
4 . Population Reference Bureau
5 . Thesaurus of Geographic Names
6 . Virtual Reference-Maps
7 . World Atlas
8 . World Flag Database
9 . 
World Gazetteer

STATISTICAL INFORMATION

  1 .  Asian Development Bank
  2 . Demographic and Health Surveys
  3 . International Monetary Fund
  4 . Reserve Bank of India
  5 . United Nations Statistics Division
  6 . UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  7 . NICEF Statistical Data
  8 . WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
  9 . World Bank: Data & Statistics
10 . World Trade Organization(WTO)


STANDARDS AND PATENTS

1 . Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS)
2 . Current Awareness Services: Patents and Standards
3 . European Patent Office(EPO)
4 . United States Patents (USPTO)


INDIAN REFERENCE SOURCES

  1 . Asia Trade Hub
  2 . Ayurveda Portal
  3 . Bureau of Indian Standards
  4 . Census India
  5 . Cookery
  6 . Department of Ayurveda, Yoga …
  7 . Five Year Plans
  8 . Gateway to Government of India Info over the web
  9 . Income Tax India
10.  Indian Railway Reservation Enquiry
11.  Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA)
12 . National Archives of India
13. National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources(NISCAIR)

Note: – The accuracy of the information posted on the above websites must be authenticated by contacting the respective organizations/government departments through phone or e-Mail.

OPEN ACCESS E-BOOKS PLATFORM 

1 . World eBook Library (http://community.worldlibrary.in/)
2 . OPEN ACCESS eBooks (https://openaccessebooks.com/)
3 . Google Books (https://books.google.com/)
4 . Many Books (https://manybooks.net/)
5 . Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/)
6 . E-Books Directory (https://www.e-booksdirectory.com/)
7 . AMS (American Mathematical Society) Books (https://bookstore.ams.org/)
8 . Bibliomania (http://www.bibliomania.com/)
9 . Bookyards (https://www.bookyards.com/mobile/authors.php)
10 . Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/)
11 . Digital Library of India (DLI) (http://www.dli.ernet.in/)
12 . MIT Online Textbooks (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/online-textbooks/)
13 . Free eBooks for Life (https://www.free-ebooks.net/)
14 . LibriVox (https://librivox.org/)
15 . Get Free eBooks (https://www.getfreeebooks.com/)
16 . JSTOR (https://about.jstor.org/whats-in-jstor/books/open-access-books-jstor/)
17 . eBook Lobby (https://ebooklobby.com/)
18 . Social Science Cyber Library (https://www.socsccybraryamu.ac.in/)
19 . Knowledge Unlatched (https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/)
20 . DE GRUYTER (https://www.degruyter.com/page/open-access-books)
21 . CABI (https://www.cabi.org/products-and-services/cabi-open-access/open-access-books/)
22 . Palgrave Macmillan (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/rights-permissions/open)
23 . Open Textbook Library (https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks)
24 . Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (https://www.doabooks.org/)
25 . EGayanKosh (http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/)
26 . Free Engineering Books (http://www.freeengineeringbooks.com/)
27 . Librarian Resources (https://librarianresources.taylorandfrancis.com/books/taylor-francis-open-access-books/)
28 . World Library Foundation Branches and Portals (http://worldlibraryfoundation.com/)
29 . Authorama Public Domain Books (http://www.authorama.com/)
30 . Public Books Database (https://www.publicbooks.org/public-books-database/)
31 . Bookboon (https://bookboon.com/)
32 . Science Direct (https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books)
33 . Alex Catalogue of electronics Texts (http://infomotions.com/alex/)
34 . com (http://freecomputerbooks.com/)
35 . Intech (https://www.intechopen.com/books)
36 . Internet Archive (https://archive.org/)
37 . American Verse Project (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
38 . National Digital Library-NDL (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
39 . Springer Open Books (https://link.springer.com/)
40 . ReadPrint (http://www.readprint.com/)
41 . Free Book Spot (http://www.freebookspot.es/)
42 . PDF Drive (https://www.pdfdrive.com/)
43 . Rare Book Room (http://www.rarebookroom.org/)
44 . O’REILLY (https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/)
45 . Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/)
46 . ERUDIT (https://www.erudit.org/en)
47 . Northcentral University Library (https://ncu.libguides.com/ebooks/openaccess)
48 . net (http://freebookcentre.net/)
49 . South Asian Archive (http://www.southasiaarchive.com/unauthenticated)
50 . OAPEN (https://oapen.org/)
51 . Notre Dame De Namur University (https://www.ndnu.edu/academics/open-and-free-journals-books-theses-and-dissertations/)

OPEN ACCESS E-JOURNALS PLATFORM 

1 . Web of Science OAJ (https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/open-access/)
2 . Open Knowledge Repository (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/)
3 . JSTOR (https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/)
4 . NISCAIR Online periodicals Repository (http://nopr.niscair.res.in/)
5 . Taylor & Francis (https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess)
6 . Open Access Library (https://www.oalib.com/)
7 . com (https://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx)
8 . Open Access Journals from Scopus (https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri)
9 . WILEY (https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/index.html)
10 . National Digital Library-NDL (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
11 . Public Library of Science-PLOS (https://plos.org/)
12 . PubMed Central (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/)
13 . THIEME OPEN (https://open.thieme.com/web/19/home)
14 . COGENT OA (https://www.cogentoa.com/)
15 . DOAJ (https://doaj.org/)
16 . ERUDIT (https://www.erudit.org/en)
17 . HIGHWIRE (https://www.highwirepress.com/)
18 . IEEE Open Access Journal (https://open.ieee.org/)
19 . Indian Academy of Sciences (https://www.ias.ac.in/Journals/Overview/)
20 . Indian Society for Education and Environment (https://www.iseeadyar.org/)
21 . KARGER (https://www.karger.com/OpenAccess)
22 . Knowledge Unlatched (https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/)
23 . MDPI (https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/wos)
24 . OMNICS OPEN ACCESS (https://www.omicsonline.org/)
25 . ElSEVIER (https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-access-journals)
26 . Science Direct OAJ (https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books)
27 . BioMed Central-BMC (https://www.biomedcentral.com/)
28 . OXFORD ACADEMIC (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access)
29 . Springer OAJ (https://www.springeropen.com/)
30 . Notre Dame De Namur University (https://www.ndnu.edu/academics/open-and-free-journals-books-theses-and-dissertations/)
31 . AIRCC (http://airccse.org/journal.html)
32 . LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES (https://www.lub.lu.se/en/services-support/publishing-registering/open-access)

OPEN ACCESS ETD’s PLATFORM 

1 . EBSCO Open Dissertations (https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/ebsco-open-dissertations)
2 . Open Access Theses (https://oatd.org/)
3 . Shodhganga-INFLIBNET (https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/)
4 . National Digital Library-NDL (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
5 . M Library (https://search.lib.umich.edu/databases/record/40013)
6 . CSULB (https://csulb.libguides.com/freedatabases/dissertations)
7 . ZSR Library (https://zsr.wfu.edu/2013/open-access-theses-and-dissertations/)
8 . Net (https://worldconferences.net/home/free-thesis-repository)
9 . REGIS (https://libguides.regiscollege.edu/open_access_dissertations)
10 . Australian Nation University-Open Research Library (https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/3)
11 . MIT Theses (https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582)
12 . NDLTD (http://www.ndltd.org/)
13 . Office of Scholarly Communication University of California (https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/for-authors/dissertations-theses/)
14 . PQDT OPEN (https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html)
15 . Open Thesis (http://www.openthesis.org/)
16 . E-Thesis of NIT Rourkela (http://ethesis.nitrkl.ac.in/)
17 . The Open University (https://www.open.ac.uk/library/library-resources/theses-dissertations)
18 . Notre Dame De Namur University (https://www.ndnu.edu/academics/open-and-free-journals-books-theses-and-dissertations/)

OPEN ACCESS DATEBASES 

1 . Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/)
2 . gov (https://www.science.gov/index.html)

DIGITAL LIBRARY 

1 . National Digital Library-ND (https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/)
2 . Traditional knowledge digital library (http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault/common/Home.asp?GL=Eng)
3 . Tamil Virtual Library (http://tamildigitallibrary.in/)
4 . UPenn Digital Library (https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/)

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES WORLD 

1 . Social Science Research Network-SSRN (https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/)
2 . Research Paper in Economics (http://repec.org/)
3 . CiteSeerX (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index)
4 . CERN Document Server (http://cds.cern.ch/)
5 . org e-print Archive (https://arxiv.org/)
6 . Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/)
7 . University of California eScholarship Repository (https://escholarship.org/)

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES INDIA 

1 . INFLIBNET IR (https://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/)
2 . IISc Bangalore (http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/index.html)
3 . CMFRI (http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/)
4 . Indian Academy of Sciences (http://repository.ias.ac.in/index.html)
5 . National Aerospace Laboratories Institutional Repository (http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/)
6 . Digital Repository of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (http://prints.iiap.res.in/)

OPEN COUESEWARE INITIATIVES INDIA 

1 . SWAYAM (https://swayam.gov.in/)
2 . Vidwan (https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/)
3 . e-PG Pathshala (https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/)\ 4 . UGC MOOCs (http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php)
5 . Swayam Prabha (https://swayamprabha.gov.in/)
6 . NPTEL Online Courses (https://nptel.ac.in/)
7 . eGayanKosh (http://egyankosh.ac.in/)

OPEN COUESEWARE INITIATIVES WORLD 

1 . Edx (https://www.edx.org/)
2 . Consortium for Educational Communication (http://cec.nic.in/cec/)
3 . Duolingo (https://www.duolingo.com/)
4 . MOOC List (https://www.mooc-list.com/)
5 . MIT Open Courseware-OCW (https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm)
6 . Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/)
7 . Codecademy (https://www.codecademy.com/)
8 . Johns Hopkings Opencourseware (https://ocw.jhsph.edu/)
9 . Coursera (https://www.coursera.org/)
10 . Carnegie Mellon University (https://oli.cmu.edu/)

OPEN SOURCE PLAGIARISM CHECKING SOFTWARE 

1 . Plagiarism Checker (http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/)
2 . Dupli Checker (https://www.duplichecker.com/)
3 . PlagScan (https://www.plagscan.com/en/)
4 . Plagium (http://www.plagium.com/en/plagiarismchecker)
5 . Viper (http://scanmyessay.com/)
6 . Quetext (https://www.quetext.com/)
7 . Plag Tracker (https://www.plagtracker.com/)
8 . Copyleaks (https://copyleaks.com/)
9 . Plagiarisma (http://plagiarisma.net/)
10 . PaperRater (https://www.paperrater.com/)

OPEN ACCESS VIDEO LECTURES 

1 . Academic earth (https://academicearth.org/)
2 . NPTEL Online Courses (https://nptel.ac.in/)
3 . Video Lecture (http://videolectures.net/)
4 . Engineering tube (https://engineeringtube.net/)

PATENT DATABASES 

1 . Indian Patent Advanced Search System (https://ipindiaservices.gov.in/publicsearch)
2 . LENS (https://www.lens.org/lens/search)
3 . Espacenet : European Patent (https://worldwide.espacenet.com/)
4 . AUSPAT: Australian Patent (http://pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/)

SEARCH ENGINES 

1 . BASE (https://www.base-search.net/)
2 . CiteSeerX (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index)
3 . FreeFullPDF (http://www.freefullpdf.com/)
4 . Core: Connecting Repositories (https://core.ac.uk/about/#mission)
5 . OAIster (WorldCat) (https://oaister.worldcat.org/)
6 . Planet Publish (http://www.planetpublish.com/)
7 . OAJSE (http://www.kkhsou.in/library/oajse/)
8 . Microsoft Academic Search (https://academic.microsoft.com/)

SUBJECT GATEWAYS 

1 . Infoport (https://infoport.inflibnet.ac.in/index.aspx)

UNION CATALOGUE

1 . IndCat (https://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/)

OPEN ONLINE LEARNING TOOLS 

1 . Queensland University of Technology (https://www.qut.edu.au/study/open-online-learning)