Library OA Resources

Open Access Resources

E-JOURNALS

  • Bentham Science Publishers (250 titles) 
  • Bioline International
  • BioMed Central (STM)
  • HighWire Press
  • Hindawi Publishing Corporation  (>200 titles)
  • Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
  • Indian Journals
  • Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)
  • Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
  • MedIND
  • Medknow Publications 
  • Molecular Diversity Preservation 
  • International (MDPI)
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  • PubMed Central
  • Trials

E-BOOKS

  • Directory of Open Access Books,
  • American Libraries (>1,651,000 Books),
  • Google Books ,
  • Canadian Libraries (>318,000 Books),
  • Project Gutenberg (>33000 Books),
  • Universal Digital Lib. (Million Books Project),
  • Community Books (>94,000 Books), 
  • Open Access Publishing in European Networks – OAPEN (About 1000 titles),
  • Biodiversity Heritage Library (>46,000 Items), 
  • UC Press E-Books, 1982-2004 (>500 Public Access),
  • UN University Full-Text Publications,
  • Children’s Library (>2800)

OPEN ACCESS E-THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

  • Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations 
  • Vidyanidhi
  • MGU PhD Theses Archive
  • CalTech Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  • Shodhganga-Indian ETDs (INFLIBNET)
  • etd@IISc: IISc Repository of Theses and Dissertations

OPEN COURSE WARE

  • Academia.edu
  • Academic Earth
  • JHSPH Open Courseware
  • MIT Open Courseware
  • Open CourseWare Consortium
  • Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon
  • OpenLearn (OU)
  • Students for Free Culture
  • The Internet Archive
  • Tufts Open Courseware
  • University of Michigan Open Courseware
  • Utah State University OpenCourseWare  

OTHER DATABASES

  • Geography: ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews  
  • Journal of Economic Abstracts
  • Higher Education Abstracts
  • Political Science: ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews
  • Indian Citation Index (Needs First Time Free Registration)
  • ISID (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development)
  • Molecular Biology Database Collection (2005 update)
  • World Banking Abstracts
  • Education Resources Inf. Center(ERIC)

OPEN ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES (INDIAN UNIVERSITIES)

  • Analytical Sciences Digital Library (NISCAIR)
  • Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment 
  • Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT)
  • Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT)
  • Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
  • Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB)
  • Indian Institute of Astrophysics
  • Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (ICAR)
  • Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK)
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)
  • IIT Kanpur (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD)
  • Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre (ISI)
  • Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research 
  • Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
  • Indira Gandhi Institute of Development 
    Research (IGIDR)  
  • Information and Library Network Center 
    (INFLIBNET)
  • Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU)
  • Mahatma Gandhi University
  • Management Development Institute (MDI)
  • National Centre for Catalysis 
  • Research (NCCR)
  • NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository
  • Pandit Deendayal 
  • Petroleum Univeristy (PDPU)
  • Thapar University (TU)
  • University of Delhi
  • University of Hyderabad  

DIRECTORIES OF OPEN ACCESS E-JOURNALS

01. OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Free Medical Journals
  • Open J-Gate
  • Selected Open Access Journals (ICAST)
  • JURN Directory

02. OPEN  ACCESS  INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

  • Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
  • Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)

03.HARVESTERS

  • BASE – BIefeld Academic Search Engine
  • Cross Archive Search Service for Indian 
    Institutional
  • Repositories (CASSIR)
  • RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
  • Social Science Research Network

04. OPEN ACCESS DATA/STATISTICS/BLOGS etc…

  • Social Science Data Services  (Data for Research)
  • ChemSpider: 25M Compound Data on Web
  • PLoS BLOGS: Science and Medicine
  • The Language of Bad Physics
  • Personal Genome Project
  • Speakeasy Science
  • Science 3.0: Advancement of Science
  • MIT Subject/Research Guides