Weblinks, Open Thesis and Free Library
Open Educational Resources
There are many freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media which are very useful for teaching, learning, assessment as well as for research purposes. Some of these are presented here for the ready reference. Click on the link to go the respective page.
Shodhganga
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
DART-Europe
http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php
LSE Theses Online
http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/view/sets/DEPTS.html
DSpace@Cambridge
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/
NDLTD
http://search.ndltd.org/index.php
Open Thesis
Dyuthi Digital Repository
http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/xmlui/
USU Institutional Repository
http://repository.usu.ac.id/handle/123456789/21
KrishiKosh (कृषिकोष)
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/
EThos: e-theses online service
http://ethos.bl.uk/ProcessSearch.do
ISIM Dissertations
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/4948
Open Access-Theses and Dissertations
Theses Repository of SPPU
http://lib.unipune.ac.in:8080/jspui/
Shodhgangotri
http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/business
http://www.free-management-ebooks.com/
Country & Economy (23)
ASI Unit Level Data (ICSSR data service)
Census of India (Digital Library)
Economic and social data service
Forschungszentrum Julich (Technologies for Research and society)
Legal Information Institute of India - Free, independent and non-profit access to Indian law
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
U.S. Energy Information Administration
WHO - Global Database on Body Mass Index
World Data (Predictability Models Powered by WorldData.AI)
COVID-19 Resources (19)
Cambridge University Press: Coronavirus Collection
CDC: Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Publications)
COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 preprints from medRxiv and bioRxiv
Elsevier: Novel Coronavirus Information Center
EMIS Professional: Novel Corona Virus (News)
EMIS Professional: Novel Corona Virus (Reports)
EMIS Professional: Novel Corona Virus (Statistics)
Euromonitor International: Understanding The Impact Of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
JAMA Network: COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment
Nature: News and opinion on the COVID-19
Oxford University Press: COVID-19 Free Resources Hub
Oxford University Press: Epigeum online training programs, Teaching Online and Blended Learning
Oxford University Press: The Oxford Handbook of Public Health Ethics
ProQuest: Coronavirus Research Database
Taylor & Francis: Novel Coronavirus Content
The BMJ: Latest news and resources
THE LANCET: COVID-19 Resource Centre
Wiley Online Library: Coronavirus Resources & News
Scholarly Articles (12)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Economics Education Resource Guide
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - (Partially Open Access)
Indian ETD Repository (Shodhganga)
ITU iLibrary (International Telecommunication Union)
National Academic Press - Free E books
NDLTD (Network Digital Library of Thesis & Dissertation)
OATD (Open Access Thesis & Dissertation)
Open Knowledge Repository - World Bank
Open Textbook Criteria
Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution.
The criteria for including new textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are:
All content must be openly licensed. We accept textbooks licensed with GNU and Creative Commons (CC) licenses, with the exception of the CC ND (No Derivatives) component. CC BY is recommended. Go to Creative Commons for more information about selecting a license for your work.
Must be a complete textbook available as a complete portable file (e.g. PDF, EPUB).
Must be in use at multiple higher education institutions, or affiliated with a higher education institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
Must be an original textbook (not a derivative of another textbook). Possible exceptions to this criteria are modifications that reflect the needs or context of an entirely new audience. For example, the textbook has been changed in such a significant way that it is now relevant to a new country, profession, or has been translated into a new language. Authors or publishers will be asked to demonstrate significant changes to the original text.
More about Open Licenses
Many in the open education community, including the Open Education Network, believe that the most appropriate license for open textbooks is the Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY) license. The CC BY license means anyone can retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute open textbooks. This is commonly referred to as the 5Rs.
As part of our commitment to the 5Rs, a textbook with a No Derivatives component to the license (CC BY SA ND or CC BY ND) is not considered an open textbook. This is because ND licenses do not allow for revising and remixing. Although you may find some textbooks in our library with ND licenses, as of November, 2016 we are no longer accepting textbooks with that license.