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Open Access Resources

Open Access E-Journals

Resource Name Access URL Link
Bioline International http://www.bioline.org.br/
BioMed Central http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BMJ Open http://bmjopen.bmj.com/
CSIR-NISCAIR Journals: NOPR http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/2
Digital Library of the Commons http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/search
Directory of Open Access Journals (14000+ Journal Titles) http://www.doaj.org/
Hindawi Publishing http://www.hindawi.com/
Indian Academy of Science ttp://www.ias.ac.in/
Indian Council of Medical Research Journals http://www.ijmr.org.in/
Indian Medlars Centre MedInd journals http://medind.nic.in/
Indian National Science Academy https://insa.nic.in/
Open Access Button https://openaccessbutton.org/
OUP/WellcomeBackfiles Digitisation Project: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtx017070.html
Paperity http://paperity.org/
Public Library of Science (PLOS) http://www.plos.org/
Sabinet http://journals.co.za/
Sankhya: the Indian Journal of Statistics http://www.springer.com/statistics/journal/13171
SSRN https://www.ssrn.com/en/

Open Access General Reference and Text Books

Resource Name Access URL Link
BC Open Textbook Collection https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/
Directory of Open Access Books (27000+ Journal Titles) https://www.doabooks.org
E-Books Directory http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
eCampus Ontario https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/find-opentextbooks/
HathiTrust Digital Library http://www.hathitrust.org/
Internet Archive https://archive.org/
Knowledge Unlatched http://collections.knowledgeunlatched.org/collectionavailability-1/
Manitoba Open Textbook Initiative https://openedmb.ca/find-open-textbooks/
Million Book Project https://archive.org/details/millionbooks
NCBI Bookshelf (life sciences and healthcare) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
Oapen http://oapen.org/content/
OER Commons Textbooks https://www.oercommons.org/
Open Access Textbooks https://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/
Open Book Publishers https://www.openbookpublishers.com/
Open Library ( Few for visually impaired readers) https://openlibrary.org/
Open SUNY Textbooks https://textbooks.opensuny.org/open-source-textbooks/
Open SUNY Textbooks http://textbooks.opensuny.org/browse/
Open Textbooks https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Openstax https://openstax.org/
Orange Grove https://florida.theorangegrove.org/
PDX Open http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
UCL Press http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books
Wikibooks https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Open Access Full Text Bibliographic Databases

Resource Name Access URL Link
AgeInfo http://www.cpa.org.uk/ageinfo/ageinfo2.html
ChEMBL https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/
ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/
ChemSynthesis http://www.chemsynthesis.com/
Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) http://cedb.asce.org/
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) http://eric.ed.gov/
Indian Science Abstracts http://isa.niscair.res.in/
IndMED http://medind.nic.in/imvw/
PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
Social Care Online http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/

Open Access Institutional Repositories

Resource Name Access URL Link
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) http://www.opendoar.org/
ADS SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System http://adswww.harvard.edu/
AgEcon Search http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/
ArXiv.org http://arxiv.org/
CERN Document Server http://cds.cern.ch/
CogPrints http://cogprints.org/
Cryptology ePrint Archive http://eprint.iacr.org/
CSIR Central http://www.csircentral.net/
E-prints Library and Information Science (E-LIS) http://eprints.rclis.org/
ECS EPrints Repository http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Institutional Repository at Department of Biotechnology
(DBT)		 http://dbt.sciencecentral.in/
Institutional Repository at Department of Science and
Technology (DST)		 http://dst.sciencecentral.in/
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive https://www.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/
Open Archive HAL https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/
Organic Eprints http://orgprints.org/
PhilSci-Archive http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) http://repec.org/
Science Central http://www.sciencecentral.in/
ViXra http://vixra.org/arch/

Open Education Resources

Resource Name Access URL Link
China Open Resources for Education http://www.core.org.cn/
Connexions http://cnx.org/
Flat World Knowledge (FWK) http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Jorum http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot
OER Africa http://www.oerafrica.org/
OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/
OER Handbook http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook
OER Research http://oer.issuelab.org/research
Open AGH – OER platform, Poland http://open.agh.edu.pl
Open Education News blog http://openeducationnews.org/
OpenLearn http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/
The African Virtual University (AVU) OER portal
OER[at]AVU		 http://oer.avu.org/
The Global Text Project http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/
The UCT OpenContent directory http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/

Open Access Directories

Resource Name Access URL Link
Directory of Open Access Books (27000+ Journal Titles) https://www.doabooks.org
Directory of Open Access Journals (14000+ Journal Titles) http://www.doaj.org/
OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) http://roar.eprints.org/
Repository 66 Map http://maps.repository66.org/
SCOAP3 Repository http://repo.scoap3.org/

Open Access Research Data Repositories

Resource Name Access URL Link
Data.gov.in https://data.gov.in/
EarthChem http://www.earthchem.org/
European Variation Archive (EVA) http://www.ebi.ac.uk/eva/?Home
NASA Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) http://gcmd.nasa.gov/
OpenAIRE https://www.openaire.eu/search/find?keyword=
Re3data.org http://www.re3data.org/
Recommended Data Repositories https://www.nature.com/sdata/policies/repositories
UN Resources http://research.un.org/en/un-resources/az
UNDP Projects http://open.undp.org/
UNESCO: Open Access Publications http://en.unesco.org/open-access/
World Bank: Open Knowledge Repository https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) http://www.wwpdb.org/

Open Access Theses and Dissertation

Resource Name Access URL Link
Australasia Digital Thesis Program http://adt.caul.edu.au/
Caltech THESIS: A Caltech Library Service http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/
DART-Europe E-theses Portal http://www.dart-europe.eu/
Digital Commons [at] McMaster http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/
Diva: an Academic Archive Online http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/search.jsf
DRUM : Digital Repository at the University of Maryland http://drum.lib.umd.edu/
EBSCO Open Dissertations https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/
NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations		 http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) http://oatd.org/
PQDT OPEN: ProQuest Digital Theses http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html
UGC-INFLIBNET ShodhGanga, India http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

Online Patent Search

Resource Name Access URL Link
Espacenet Patent Search http://worldwide.espacenet.com/
FreePatentsOnline (FPO) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Google Patents https://patents.google.com/
Indian Patent Search (IPAIRS) http://ipindiaservices.gov.in/publicsearch/
SureChEMBL https://www.surechembl.org/search/
US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) http://patft.uspto.gov/

Open Courseware

Resource Name Access URL Link
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI) http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-opencourses/
CEC Learning Object Repository http://cec.nic.in/lor/Pages/Search.aspx
ChemTube3D http://www.chemtube3d.com/
Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
e-PG Pathshala http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
eGyankosh http://egyankosh.ac.in/
Harvard Online Learning http://online-learning.harvard.edu/
Johns Hopkins Opencourseware http://ocw.jhsph.edu/
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
MIT Open Courseware (OCW) http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu
Open Course Library http://opencourselibrary.org/
Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/courses
Open.Michigan http://open.umich.edu/
SNU Open Courseware http://ocw.snu.ac.kr/
Supercourse http://www.bibalex.org/supercourse/
Udacity https://www.udacity.com/
UK Open University Learning Space http://www.open.edu/openlearn/
University of Saskatchewan: Open CourseWare http://ocw.usask.ca/

Open Audio-video/ Multimedia Educational Resources

Resource Name Access URL Link
Videolectures.net http://videolectures.net/
Academic Earth http://academicearth.org/
Engineering Tube http://engineeringtube.net/
Free Lecture Videos http://freevideolectures.com/
Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org/
MIT TV http://techtv.mit.edu/
NPTEL http://nptel.ac.in/
TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/
TEDx http://tedxtalks.ted.com/
Video Lecture. NET http://videolectures.net/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/
SWAYAM Online https://swayam.gov.in
Spoken Tutorial https://spoken-tutorial.org/
Virtual Lab[at] MHRD, India http://www.vlab.co.in/
TED: Talk from Inspiring Teachers https://www.ted.com/
eYanra[at] MHRD, India https://www.e-yantra.org/
ICT Initiative[at] MHRD, India https://sakshat.ac.in

National Libraries

Resource Name Access URL Link
British Library https://www.bl.uk/learning/online-resources
Libraries and Archives, USA https://www.usa.gov/libraries
Library and Archives Canada https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx
National Archives & National Library of Bangladesh http://www.nanl.gov.bd/
National Library of Russia http://nlr.ru/eng
National Digital Library of India https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

Scholarly Academic Search Engine

Resource Name Access URL Link
BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine http://www.base-search.net/about/en/
CiteSeerX http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
Core: Connecting Repositories http://core.ac.uk/
Google Patents https://patents.google.com/
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.in/
Mednar http://mednar.com/mednar/search.html
Microsoft Academic Search http://academic.research.microsoft.com/
Science.gov http://science.gov/
Semantic Scholar https://www.semanticscholar.org/
WorldWideScience https://worldwidescience.org