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

http://www.openthesis.org/

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

https://oatd.org/

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

Census of India (Digital Library)

Data.gov

e-research

Economic and social data service

Forschungszentrum Julich (Technologies for Research and society)

Free Economic Data

Global Development Finance

Global Economic Monitor

IMF Data

Legal Information Institute of India - Free, independent and non-profit access to Indian law

NSS Data (ICSSR data service)

OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Open Knowledge Repository

RBI Database

U.S. Energy Information Administration

UN Data

WHO - Data and statistics

WHO - Global Database on Body Mass Index

World Bank Data

World Data (Predictability Models Powered by WorldData.AI)

World Development Indicators


 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

EBSCO: COVID-19 Pandemic

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

EconPapers

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) - (Partially Open Access)

Espacenet - patent database

HathiTrust (Digital Library)

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:

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.