Useful Links

List of Useful Links

UGC-University Grant Commission

NAAC- National Assessment and Accreditation Council

INFLIBNET- Information and Library Network Centre

UGC-API Guidelines

CSIR-Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

ICAR-Indian Council of Agriculture Research

ICMR-Indian Council for Medical Research

DBT-Department of Biotechnology

MHRD-Ministry of Human Resource Development

ISRO-Indian Space Research Organization

NKRC-National Knowledge Resource Consortium.

INDEST-AICTE Consortium


OPEN ACCESS  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-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
Bentham Science Publishers (250 titles)
Bioline International
BioMed Central (STM)
HighWire Press
Hindawi Publishing Corporation (>200 titles)
Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
Indian Journals
OPEN ACCESS  E-THESES AND DISSERTATIONS 

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
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

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)Free Medical Journals
Open J-Gate
Selected Open Access Journals (ICAST)
JURN Directory
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
BASE - BIefeld Academic Search Engine
Cross Archive Search Service for Indian Institutional Repositories (CASSIR)
OAIster (25 Million Articles, Books, etc)
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
 Social Science Research Network 
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