Open Educational Resources

NLIST
https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/
NLIST stands for “National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content” under Shodh Sindhu. It is a program funded by MHRD under NME-ICT. It extends access facility of e-resources to colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) of UGC Act as well as non aided colleges from 2010-2013. The programme has subscribed under UGC-INFONET- Digital Library Consortium as college component from year 2014 being funded by UGC. It covers a rich collection of e-resources covering the disciplines viz. Pure Sciences, Social Science and Humanities including Linguistic and Languages to access 6150 e-journals and 31,64,309 electronic books. These e-resources can be accessed by the members of the institutions after taking institutional membership.

Shoodhganga
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
On the basis of the UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for the Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2016) dated 5th May 2016, it is mandatory to submit the electronic version of thesis and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open access of Indian thesis and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. On the basis of this regulation, Shoodhganga is working as a reservoir of Indian thesis and dissertations submitted by the researcher of Indian universities to facilitate open access of the resources worldwide.

Shoodhgangotri
https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
The INFLIBNET Centre is also maintaining another repository of the synopses and research proposals of the PhD programmes in Indian universities required for registering themselves for the Ph.D programme. Now it also covers MRPs/ PDFs/ Emeritus Fellowship etc. Synopsis in “ShodhGangotri” would later hyperlinked to full-text theses in "ShodhGanga" when the full-text thesis is submitted.

E-gyankosh
https://www.egyankosh.ac.in/
This national repository is mainly work to store, index, preserve and disseminate the learning materials in digital form developed by open and distance learning institutions of our country. It gives access facility of IGNOU FB Live recorded videos, IGNOU self learning materials, IGNOU SWAYAM Course Content, IGNOU YouTube videos, Indian Journal of Open Learning (IJOL), University Publications and Swayam Prabha Channels. Moreover, it also provides electronic version of their course materials.

JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org/
It is a digital library to give access facility of journals, academic e-books and primary resources at free of cost through a powerful research and teaching platform. It contains full text of more than 12 million academic journals with digitized back issues of more than 2600 academic journals on 75 disciplines from 1200 publishers contributed from more than 57 countries. It gives access facility of 90000+ e-books from 250+ publishers and millions of valuable primary resources both subscribed and freely available e-resources.

National Digital Library (NDL)
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
It is a pilot project of human Resource Development under Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education to provide its service for the support of all academic levels including researchers, lifelong learners, differently abled learners etc. Its contents are prepared for giving entrance and competitive examinations and to enable people for lifelong learning.

ROAR
http://roar.eprints.org/
A searchable international Registry of Open Access Repositories indexes the creation, location and growth of open access repositories all over the world. The advantage of this registry is that readers can access the valuable peer reviewed literature, even grey literature deposited and archived by these institutions globally for its future use to make a learned society.

OpenDOAR
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/
It is an authoritative directory which works for the control over the quality of open access repositories of academic institution. It enables its service by giving identification and browsing facility which is user friendly to access. To include in the OpenDOAR, the institutional repositories of the institutions must have some full text items with free access facility without having a user name and password.

Open Access E-resources @UGC- Infonet Digital Library Consortium
http://crl.du.ac.in/Infonetresources.htm
Under this consortium users can freely access, download and distribute the full texts of the articles and other resources. Under UGC-infonet Digital library Consortium the INFLIBNET centre gives open access through its institutional repositories to its member institutions.

E-Archarya
http://theindianlibrarian.blogspot.com/2019/06/e-acharya-gateway-to-all-learners.html#:~:text=e%2DAcharya%20is%20an%20integrated,through%20a%20single%20interface.
It is also an integrated portal developed by NME-ICT to provide access facility of e learning materials including audio video, textual materials etc. through a single interface. The portal covers qualitative learning materials as it comprise eight subject categories such as agricultural science, biological science, chemical science, physical science, Medical and Health Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities.

Vidya-mitra
https://content.inflibnet.ac.in/
It is an online learning portal for all the e-content projects developed under the NME-ICT (National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology), MHRD. The portal provides facility to search and browse facility of audio/video learning material, textual material, multimedia-enriched materials etc. through a single interface.

E-PG Pathsala
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
It is an initiative undertaken by Ministry of Human Resource Development under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) which is executed by UGC. The content quality of it covers 70 subjects including all the disciplines on social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistic and languages which are key aspects of education system maintaining high quality, curriculum based and its materials are very interactive e-contents. Its content quality is mainly for post graduate students which are developed by different subject experts of universities and R & D institutes across the country. It is a gateway of E-Adhyayan, UGC MOOCs, E-Pathya (Offline Access) for accessing its study materials.

Project Gutenbarg
https://www.gutenberg.org/
It is an online library for the access and download of e-books which is very helpful for the learners. The use of this repository helps the readers to access the e-book.

Some Useful Platforms for teaching Learning-
SWAYAM
https://swayam.gov.in/
The academicians can continue their learning through SWAYAM platform which is a program initiated by Government of India. The initiative of this program is mainly to give an effort to take the best teaching-learning materials to all, mainly for the most disadvantage people. SWAYAM is mainly developed to make a bridge for helping those students who are untouched by the digital revolution and still are not able to join the knowledge economy by providing its different courses. As this platform provides online courses so learners can continue their study through its different courses.

MOOCS
https://www.mooc.org/
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a platform to enroll anyone for different free online courses. It is a very convenient way which is affordable as well as flexible to explore new skills, helpful in career advancement and provide quality education through its courses. Huge numbers of persons all over the world uses MOOCs to learn new things which will help them in career advancement, broaden their career options or helping them in changing their careers, helpful for lifelong learning, supplementary learning, e-learning in corporate sector and many more reasons.

Swayam prabha
https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/
The SWAYAM PRABHA is a program telecasted high-quality educational programmes covering group of 22 DTH channels available for 24X7 hours of service by using the GSAT-15 satellite. Under this program new contents will be telecasted every day with at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a day. It allows the students to watch the program according to their convenient time. The channels are uplinked from BISAG-N, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by different reputed organizations such as NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU.

Some other Useful Links-
1. NISCAIR open Periodicals-http://nopr.niscair.res.in/
2. DOAJ- https://doaj.org/
3. OATD-https://oatd.org/oatd-publishers.html
4. Springer- Open Books- https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/books
5. Springer- Open Journals-https://www.springeropen.com/journals
6. NEHU Digital Library-http://dspace.nehu.ac.in/jspui/
7. PDF DRIVE - https://www.pdfdrive.com/
8. WikiBooks - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
9. Rare Book Room - http://www.rarebookroom.org/
10. Researchgate - https://www.researchgate.net/