E-Resources
Courseware & Remote Access E-Resources
Remote Access E-Resource (INFLIBNET Consortium)
N-LIST (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content): Provides authorized college students, researchers, and faculty members with remote access to 6,000+ e-journals and 1,99,500+ e-books.
Indian National Initiatives
- SWAYAM: Online credit and self-learning courses
- VIDYA-MITRA: Integrated e-content portal (INFLIBNET / MHRD)
- e-ShodhSindhu (e-SS): Consortia for higher education electronic resources
- e-Yantra: Engineering and embedded robotics (IIT Bombay)
- FOSSEE: Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education
- Shodhganga: National digital reservoir of Indian theses
- National Digital Library of India (NDLI): Virtual academic repository
Premier Global Open Courseware (OCW)
- Harvard Open Courseware: Free online learning modules
- MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW): Full curriculum materials and lecture notes
- Open Yale Courses: Introductory video lectures and syllabi
- Oxford Mathematics OCW: Mathematical institute open lecture notes
Open Access e-Books
Free-to-read electronic editions, digital manuscripts, and rare public-domain academic treatises:
e-Journals Portals
Full-text peer-reviewed scholarly journals across sciences and humanities:
- DOAJ (1,500+ OA Journals)
- Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
- NISCAIR (NIScPR) Full Text Journals
- Bentham Open Access Journals
- HighWire Press Science Archives
- Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals
- Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
- Down to Earth (Environment)
- INSA (Indian National Science Academy)
- Indian Journals Portal
- IETE Journals Portal
- Open J-Gate (Informatics)
- OA Journals Search Engine (OAJSE)
e-Journal Databases
Specialized bibliographic and indexed scientific databases:
- NISCAIR Online Periodicals (NOPR)
- Indian Society for Education & Environment
- Khagol (IUCAA Astrophysics Archive)
- ChemSpider (Royal Society of Chemistry)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- HighWire Stanford Academic Database
- Hindawi Publishing Open Access
- Impact Journals Repository
- PLOS (Public Library of Science)
- PubMed Central (PMC Biomedical)
- Science Alert Academic Database
- Springer Open Access Database
Pre-Prints & Repositories
Open institutional archives, doctoral theses, and e-prints:
- ArXiv.org (Cornell Pre-Print Archive)
- CERN Document Server
- Chemical Sciences Repository (ChemRxiv)
- HAL Open Archive (Scholarly Documents)
- HAL-SHS Archive (Social & Human Sciences)
- Institut Jean Nicod Eprints Archive
- Organic Eprints Repository
- Solar Physics E-Print Archive (SPEPA)
- NDLI (IIT Kharagpur)
- IITs Council Resource Portal
- Shodhganga (INFLIBNET Theses)
- ShodhGangotri (INFLIBNET Synopses)
- Vidwan Expert Database
- Vidyanidhi Project Archive
- National Research Project Database
Academic Search Engines
Discovery tools for scholarly literature, citations, and indexed theses:
- BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- CiteSeerX: Computer & Information Science Portal
- CORE: Global Network of Open Access Repositories
- Google Scholar: Cross-Disciplinary Citation Search
- JURN: Academic Search Engine for Arts & Humanities
- Microsoft Academic Search: Scholarly Graph Index
- OAIster (WorldCat): Union Catalogue of Digital Resources
Virtual Libraries & Subject Gateways
Curated subject pathways and inter-university academic portals:
"Open-access initiatives and INFLIBNET remote portals democratize research for rural learners. Faculty and students needing N-LIST credential activation or assistance with scholarly searching may contact the Central Library Helpdesk."
— Central Library & E-Resource Advisory Cell, Ramananda College