e-Resources

A) e-Book

1) Internet Archive Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more https://archive.org/ 

2) PubMed Biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

3) Bookshelf Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books 

4) National Digital Library of India (NDL) NDL is a virtual repository of learning resources https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ 

5) Shodhganga Reservoir of Indian Electronics Theses and Dissertations https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ 

6) Free Videos Free Videos https://freelecturevideos.com/ 

7) Directory of Open Access Book (DOAB) DOAB provide the free services to access the open access book and facilities to search the trusted open access book publisher https://doabooks.org/ 

8) Online library and publication platform (OAPEN) OAPEN provide open infrasructure services to stakeholders to promote open access academic books. https://www.oapen.org/home 

9) Rare Books Rare Book Room web site is an educational site for reding world's great books. http://www.rarebookroom.org/ 

10) Project Gutenberg It is library of free eBooks and literature over 60,000, that may be download https://www.gutenberg.org/ 

B) Educational Portal

11) SWAYAM portal 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. https://swayam.gov.in/ 

12) SWAYAMPRABHA Group of free 22 DTH channels for Education https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/ 

13) eGyanKosh National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country https://www.egyankosh.ac.in/ 

14) e-PG-Pathshala e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ 

15) VIDYA-MITRA Integrated e-Content Portal" for all e-content projects, developed / funded under the National Mission of Education through ICT https://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/ 

16) FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project promotes the use of FLOSS tools in academia and research. The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India. Below is the list of projects which are promoted by FOSSEE. https://fossee.in/ 

17) Virtual Labs Virtual Labs project is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). This project is a consortium activity of twelve participating institutes and IIT Delhi is coordinating institute. It is a paradigm shift in ICT-based education. https://www.vlab.co.in/ 

18) SpokenTutorial Here one can learn various Free and Open Source Software all by oneself.  Our self-paced, multi-lingual courses ensure that anybody with a computer and a desire for learning, can learn from any place, at any time and in a language of their choice. https://spoken-tutorial.org/ 

C) Patent

19) Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks (CGPDTM) is located at Kolkata and branch offices are at Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi. https://ipindia.gov.in/ 

20) United States Patent and Trademark Office (uspto) https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/static/pages/landing.html 

D) e-Journal

21) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) DOAJ is extensive index of diverse open access journals around the world. https://www.doaj.org/ 

22) NIScPR Online Periodicals Reporting It provide Full text articles from 19 research journals published by CSIR-NIScPR as, ALIS, AIR, BVAAP,IJMS, IJNPR, IJPAP, IJCB, IJCT, IJEB, IJEMS, IJFTR, IJRSP, IJTK, JIPR, JSIR, IJBB, IJBT, IJCA & JST. Three Magazines are hosted by NOPR as, Science Reporter (SR), Vigyan Pragsti (VP) and Science Ki Duniya (SKD) https://nopr.niscpr.res.in/ 

23) PubMed Central Its full text free literature from biomedical and life science journals at National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Institute of Health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ 

24) Springer Open Full text research literature freely avaialble https://www.springeropen.com/journals 

25) Natureportfolio Open access psychology Free-to-read Free access journals for faculty and researchers in the field clinical and cognitive psychology, to social and behavioral psychology. https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/open-access/psychology 

26) Natureportfolio Open access engineering Free-to-read Free access journals for  for engineers and researchers in the engineering field of electrical, mechanical, civil, chemical, biomedical and material. https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/open-access/engineering 

27) Hindawi open access journal Free open access journal https://www.hindawi.com/about/

28) PLOS Free Open access journals from the streams of science and medicine https://plos.org/ 

29) eShodhSindhu e-ShodhSindhu provide current as well as archival access to more than 10,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/ 

E) National and International Repository

30) VIDWAN Database of profiles of scientists/researchers and faculty members from teh academic institutes and R & D organization. https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ 

31) Shodhgangotri Database of research in progress, Synopses, MRPs, PDFs, Emeritus Fellowship Reports. http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/ 

32) Research Project Database Database of research projects that are accomplished and ongoing in various institute and carreid out by various researchers and faculty members; funded by UGC, ICAR, ICMR, DST and DBT https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/researchproject/ 

33) Indian University Directory Statewise list of university provided by INFLIBNET Center https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/universitydirectory/ 

34) IPL Academic Essays and Research Papers Writing guideline https://www.ipl.org/ 

35) fidmath Mathematics Information Services https://fidmath.de/?L=1 

36) The Global Science Gateway (WorldWideWsience) Global Science Gateway enable searching of national and international scientific database and portals https://worldwidescience.org/ 

37) The WWW Virtual Library Oldest catalogue of Web http://vlib.org/ 

F) Search Engines

38) Entrez Search engine at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/ 

39) Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) Search Engines for searching Academic web resources https://www.base-search.net/ 

40) Google Scholar Google Scholar provide a simple way to search scholarly literature https://scholar.google.co.in/