Open access e Resources for Library and Institution

Open Access e resources

1. Open Access e-Resources Santosh Kumar Kori Librarian Govt. College Makroniya , Sagar M.P.

2. What is Open Access Open Access (OA) refers to all electronic resources that are made widely available on the internet without licensing and copyright restrictions. Open Access resources can include articles, journals, books, conference proceedings, theses, videos, music, etc. According to UNESCO Open access (OA) means free access to information and unrestricted use of electronic resources for everyone

3. Advantage of Open Access e-Resources Free for all : Open Access works are publicly available enabling research to be disseminated more rapidly and widely. Visibility: The potential for more people to see and download your research. New readers could be researchers outside the established research environment or researchers from developing countries. 

4. Transparency: Your research integrity is strengthened by the free availability of your research. Especially if you give access to your data and thereby make your research more transparent. This makes your research more credible and allows you to reuse your data for new research projects. Potential for more citations: There is no clear answer as to whether you will get more citations by publishing Open Access. But via Open Access publishing, your research becomes more visible, and thus there is a real potential for more citations.

5. What are the e-Resources Electronic Resource is a source which need computer or smartphone access or any electronic item for consumption with the help of internet. The electronic resources are also known as online information resources covering Books, Journals, databases, Newspapers, Reports etc.

6. Example of e-Resources E- Books E- Periodicals E- Databases E- Newspapers E- Reports E- Newsletters Audio-Video-Images etc.

7. Open Access e- Resources E- Books (English Language) DOAB: The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB, 33878 Books, 408 publishers. https://www.doabooks.org/ NDLI: To make available to the learners community learning resources through a single-window, National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) has sponsored the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project and arranged funding through Ministry of Education. https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

8. Open Access books on JSTOR: More than 6,500 Open Access ebooks from 90 publishers , including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are now available at no cost to libraries or users. https://about.jstor.org/librarians/books/open-access-books-jstor/ 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. https://www.gutenberg.org/ PDF Drive: is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 75,903,416 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don't forget to bookmark and share the love! https://www.pdfdrive.com/

9.     E-Books (Hindi)                                                                             https://epustakalay.com/ https://archive.org/details/booksbylanguage_hindi https://www.44books.com/free-hindi-books https://pdfbooks.ourhindi.com/list-of-all-books/ https://www.hindibookspdf.com/free-hindi-books/ https://www.ebookspdf.in/

10. Government of india e-books/Reports/Acts/Case Laws The Gazette of India:  is a public journal and an authorised legal document of the Government of India, published weekly by the Department of Publication, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. As a public journal, the Gazette prints official notices.    http://egazette.nic.in/(S(wpxw0cdg53aytufaqtog4i5c))/default.aspx India Code:  the India Code Information System contains all  Central Acts of Parliament right from 1836 onwards. Each Act includes: Short Title, Enactment Date, Sections, Schedule and also Foot notes. India Code also provides complete alphabetical and chronological list of central act and the text of Constitutional   Amendments and Constitution of India.    https://www.indiacode.nic.in/ Free Government E books and Reports are available in pdf format read anddownload. https ://www.india.gov.in/hi/my-government/documents/e-books

11. PRS Legislative Research (PRS) :  seeks to strengthen the legislative process. Bill Track and Parliament Watch over the business during process of making laws of Central Government f India are facilitated through this web portal. A team of law professionals provide access of parliamentary business information on regular basis through this web portal. ‘Laws of India’ is another initiative of PRS India provides access to State Laws.   https://www.prsindia.org/ Judgment Information System (JUDIS):  the Judgments Information system consists of the Judgments of the Supreme court of India and several High Courts. In the case of the Supreme Court all reported Judgments which are published in SCR Journal, since its inception i.e. 1950 till date are available. JUDIS also provides access of the judgments of all 21 State High Courts along with pronouncement delivered by select district courts too.   http://www.judis.nic.in/ Law Reports:  Law Commission of India Reports. Law Reform has been a continuing process particularly during the last 300 years or more in Indian history.   https://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/

12. Legal Information Institute of India ( LIIofIndia ):  Free, independent and non-profit access to 159 databases of Indian law.    http://liiofindia.org/ Lok Sabha Debates :  Three versions of the Lok Sabha Debates are prepared, viz., a Hindi Version, an English Version and an Original Version. Out of these, Hindi and English versions, are printed and distributed among the members and others. The Original Version is kept in the Parliament Library, suitably bound, for purposes of record and reference only.     http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Debates/Debatetextsearch16.aspx Rajya Sabha Debates:  "Official Reports" of the Rajya Sabha are published under Rule 260 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Council of States (Rajya Sabha). Debate contains the full verbatim report of proceeding of the House on any particular day. The official debates repository stores the digitized debates in pdf format (text and image files)   https://rsdebate.nic.in/

13. Rare e-Books The Rare Book Room: site has been constructed as an educational site intended to allow the visitor to examine and read some of the great books of the world. http://www.rarebookroom.org/ arXiv : is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,813,585 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, . https://arxiv.org/ CogPrints : Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive. Welcome to CogPrints , an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience. http://cogprints.org/view/subjects.html

14. E-Books For Kids NCERT Books: his online service offers easy access to the NCERT textbooks. The service covers textbooks of all subjects published by NCERT for classes I to XII in Hindi, English and Urdu. The Entire book or individual chapters can be downloaded provided the terms of use as mentioned in the Copyright Notice is adhered to. https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php Monkeypen : We believe that books should be the cornerstone of every childhood and we are committed to making this dream a reality with our "10 Thousand Free Children’s Book Project" https ://monkeypen.com/pages/free- childrens -books Free kids books: Children books for free download or read online, stories and textbooks and more, for entertainment, education, ESL, literacy, and author promotion. https://freekidsbooks.org/

15. E-JOURNALS DO AJ : is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. 15,661 Journals 54, 88, 674 article. https://doaj.org/ Google Scholar: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books. https://scholar.google.com/ ResearchGate: Access 130+ million publications and connect with 19+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research. https://www.researchgate.net/ Open Access Journals: accommodates a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary journals that focus on a wide range of fields within the clinical and medical sciences, apart including the scientific developments from Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences. https://www.openaccessjournals.com/

16. MDPI : A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. Our 297 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals are supported by more than 67,200 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License . https://www.mdpi.com/ E-LIS, e-print: Established in 2003, e-LIS is an international digital repository for Library and Information Science (LIS), including Communication. It has grown thanks to a team of volunteer editors that support 22 languages. The development of an international network has been stimulated by the extension of the Open Access concept to works and facilitated by the dissemination of material within the LIS community. These are some of the reasons for the success of e-LIS. http://eprints.rclis.org/cgi/search/advanced

17. E-Theses Sodhganga : a reservoir of Indian Theses. T he UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2016) dated 5th May 2016 mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. Online availability of electronic theses through centrally-maintained digital repositories, not only ensure easy access and archiving of Indian doctoral theses but will also help in raising the standard and quality of research. This would overcome serious problem of duplication of research and poor quality resulting from the "poor visibility" and the "unseen" factor in research output. As per the Regulation, the responsibility of hosting, maintaining and making the digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertation (called " Shodhganga "), accessible to all institutions and universities, is assigned to the INFLIBNET Centre. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

18. SodhGangotri : Shodhgangotri is a new initiative that compliments " ShodhGanga ". Shodhgangotri hosts synopsis of research topic submitted to the universities in India by research scholars for registering themselves for the Ph.D programme . The repository on one hand, would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand it would avoid duplication of research.Repository of Indian research in Progress with MRPs/PDFs/ Emeritus Fellowship. https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/ GyanKosh : a 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. Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU http://egyankosh.ac.in/

19. E- Manuscripts , Vedas and Samhita : Multidisciplinary https://www.namami.gov.in/digital-manuscripts-library http://indianmanuscripts.com/ https://indianculture.gov.in/manuscripts https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=1006790&p=7500027 https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sanskrit/1 https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/ https://www.indianculture.gov.in/rarebooks/catalogue-sanskrit-manuscripts- libraryindia-office-part-i-vedic-manuscripts-0 https://vedpuran.net/download-all-ved-and-puran-pdf-hindi-free/ https://myhindi.org/download-all-ved-and-puran/ https://www.hsslive.co.in/2021/06/all-veda-pdf-download.html

20. Govt. College Makroniya , Sagar Website: https://sites.google.com/view/librarygovtcolmakroniyasagar

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