Important Links for Students

Resources: Freely Available

Help students and faculty help themselves by making resources easily accessible.

• e-Resources 

1. IIT Bhubaneswer [Link]

2. IIM CalCatta [Link]

3. NASSDOC [Link]

4. IIT Gandhinagar [Link

e-pg pathshala - https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other R & D institutes across the country.

NDL - https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. It is sponsored and mentored by Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). It is developed, operated and maintained from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Shodhganga - https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

Shodhganga: a reservoir of Indian Theses

Full text PDF of Thesis the National Level.

The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET is set-up using an open source digital repository software called DSpace developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in partnership between Hewlett- Packard (HP). The DSpace uses internationally recognized protocols and interoperability standards. Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers.

Shodhgangotri - http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/

Shodhgangotri :  Repository of Indian Research in Progress details (Synopses/Research Proposals for PhD programme with MRPs/PDFs/ Emeritus Fellowship)

The word “Shodh” originates from Sanskrit and stands for “research and discovery”. “Gangotri” is one of the largest glaciers in the Himalayas and the source of origination of the Ganges, the holiest, longest, and largest of rivers in India. The Ganges is the symbol of age-long culture, civilization, ever-aging, ever-flowing, ever-loving, and loved by its people.

Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

DOAJ - https://doaj.org/

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent.

Coverage:

• 14,812Journals

• 11,844searchable at Article level

• 133Countries

• 5,003,924Articles

SWAYAM - https://swayam.gov.in/

SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

Vidyamitra - https://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/

Vidya-mitra 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. 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. Moreover, features of faceted search, usage statistics, project-wise access, My-Space are incorporated in this portal.

open e - https://www.open-e.com/support/library/

Open-E storage management products are known throughout the storage industry for their robust architecture, ease-of-use and affordability. The products are also highly flexible, and have the ability to support a variety of protocols, such as iSCSI, Fibre Channel or Infiniband, in either file or block data transmission. Open-E works with technology industry leaders to deliver our software on a variety of industry-standard hardware platforms.

oapen - https://www.oapen.org/home

OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication. We work with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books and provide services for publishers, libraries, and research funders in the areas of hosting, deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

 A) Open source Databases:

Journal of Economic Abstracts

Political Science: ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews

ISID (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development)

World Banking Abstracts

https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx

B)  Competitive Exam Useful websites

1. A 2 Z Interviews (Upcoming entrance exams)

2. General Knowledge Today

3. A 2 Z Interviews (Upcoming entrance exams)

4. Online General Knowledge Guide 

5. General Knowledge Today

6. Sarkari Naukri

7. Economic Survey

8. RBI Bulletin

C)   Dictionaries

1. Oxford Dictionary

2. Oxford Learner’s Dictionary

3. Free online Dictionaries

4. Cambridge Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus

5. Collins Dictionaries

6. Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus

7. Dictionary.com

8. FOLDOC – Computing Dictionary

9. Reference.com

10. https://www.onelook.com/

D)  Encyclopedias

1. Marathi Vishwakosh

2. Encyclopedia Britannica

3. Free online Encyclopedia

4. Infoplease

5. Encyclopedia.com

E)  BIBLIOGRAPHIES / AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

1. Biographies of great men and women from India (Bharat)

2. The personalities holding the highest offices and important positions in Executive, Judiciary and Legislature in the country.

3. Biographies of such Indian heroes include people from all walks of life such as freedom fighters, leaders, scientists, litterateurs, writers, painters, musicians, social reformers and entrepreneurs.

F)   NEWS PAPERS

English Newspaper

1. The Times of India

2. Indian Express

3. The Hindu

4. Deccan Herald

5. The Asian Age

6. The Hindustan Times

7. The Business Standard - https://www.business-standard.com/todays-paper

8. The Financial Express -  http://www.financialexpress.com/

Hindi Newspaper

1. Dainik Bhaskar

2. Dainik Jagran

3. Samachar BBC Hindi

4. Navbharat Times

5. Rashtriya Sahara

6. Economictimes

Marathi Newspaper

1. Loksatta

2. Lokmat

3. Maharashtra Times

4. Sakal

5. Divya Marathi

6. Tarun Bharat

7. Pudhari

8. Samna

9. Kesari

10. Deshdoot

G)    Top 15 Educational Search engine:-

1. iSEEK

2. Google Book Search

3. Google Custom Search Engine

4. Google Scholar

5. Educational Resource Information Center

6. Federal Resources for Academic Excellence

7. Scirus

8. Intute

9. Virtual Learning Resources Center

10. American Memory

11. Noodle Tools

12. Clusty

13. WorldCat

14. Librarians Internet Index

15. Infomine

    1. https://www.theresearchtl.net/resources