OPEN EDUCATIONAL COURSES & RESOURCES
SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.
edX is the trusted platform for education and learning. Founded by Harvard and MIT, edX is home to more than 20 million learners, the majority of top-ranked universities in the world and industry-leading companies. As a global non-profit edX is transforming traditional education, removing the barriers of cost, location and access. Fulfilling the demand for people to learn on their own terms, edX is reimagining the possibilities of education, providing the highest-quality, stackable learning experiences including the ground breaking MicroMasters programs.
Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from world-class universities and companies, so you can learn something new anytime, anywhere. Hundreds of free courses give you access to on-demand video lectures, homework exercises, and community discussion forums. Paid courses provide additional quizzes and projects as well as a shareable Course Certificate upon completion.
OLI provides dozens of college-level courses, and a platform that enables research and experimentation with any aspect of the learning experience. OLI is a leader in higher education's innovation of online learning. Now OLI aims to improve education at every level, everywhere.
By connecting students all over the world to the best instructors, Udemy is helping individuals reach their goals and pursue their dreams. Udemy is the leading global marketplace for teaching and learning, connecting millions of student to the skills they need to succeed.
E-books
DOAB is a digital directory of peer-reviewed Open Access books and Open Access book publishers. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The directory is open to all publishers of academic, peer-reviewed books that are published Open Access and that meet academic standards. 30,006 Academic peer-reviewed books from 393 publishers
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Open Textbook
Library Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded,
published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These
books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities
to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed
at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions;
or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional
organization. Currently it is having 792 textbooks, with more being added all
the time.
Free textbooks written by professors from the
world’s top universities, all on one easy-to-use online ebook platform. You can
1000+ free textbooks.
Discover the rising stars of the writing world, you can find best books such as Fiction, Non Fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Self Help, Business.
We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
Open Textbook Library Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Currently it is having 792 textbooks, with more being added all the time.
Bookfi is one of the most popular Multi-lingual online libraries in the world. It has more than 22,30,000 books. We aim to increase the number of books and quality of service. Bookfi is a non-profit project and exists due your support. Thereby this project is completely free with uninterrupted access to literature.
Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection.
Here you can always find the relevant information on the available domains for your region. We strongly recommend creating an account in our library so the system can automatically match the available domain for you. 5,324,279 books, 77,518,212 artilces.
KNOWLEDGE PORTAL TO OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
‘One Stop Education Portal’- “SAKSHAT’. This portal take care of all the needs of the entire learning community including the students enrolled in various educational institutions and lifelong learners by extensively utilizing e-learning concepts and the ICT based methodology. “SAKSHAT” is fully equipped with intelligent navigation techniques for easy and smooth browsing. In order to achieve its objective, the Mission shall encourage development of high quality e-content, for loading on to ‘SAKSHAT’ in all disciplines and subjects, at various levels using the best available authoring tools and making fullest use of animation and multimedia technologies in order to make learning interesting and facilitate clarity of concepts to the learners.
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
The UNESCO Digital Library is the repository of UNESCO's institutional memory and a source of high-quality information on UNESCO activities (in education, natural sciences, social and human sciences, culture, and communication and information), with more than 350,000 documents dating back to 1945. It includes the collections of the UNESCO Library and several documentation centers in UNESCO's Field Offices and Institutes, as well as the UNESCO Archives. The essential purpose of the UNESCO Digital Library is to share knowledge and to transmit it to future generations.
Journal TOCs is Current Awareness Service (CAS) where you can discover the newest papers coming directly from the publishers as soon as they have been published online. It is the largest, free collection of Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 25,121 journals including 8,257 selected Open Access Journals and 10,250 Hybrid journals from 2409 publishers.
One web page for every book ever published is the aim of this site. They have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way. You can search across the full text of one million scanned books.
A large number of Government agencies, research institutions and academic institutions across the world create databases in various fields of science and technology. The objective of Listing of Open Access DataBases (LOADB) is to create a web-enabled, linked, classified and categorized collection of Open Access Databases which one can access from a single portal. Although initial focus is on science and technology subjects, the ultimate aim is to include all subject areas. LOADB is a service of CSIR’s Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP) located at Pune in India and is being developed for the Open Science and Open Innovation Infrastructure Project supported by CSIR at URDIP. CSIR-URDIP does not guarantee the content of any database. Publishers are responsible for the information about their organization and their products.
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.
Public Library is a nonprofit organization that publishes many peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals, among them are Biology, Medicine, Genetics and others. It is committed to providing scholarly research articles that demonstrate excellence, scientific integrity, and breadth.
The find articles database is an updated replacement of its original free, searchable article Web Archive, with the current service now search ten million plus articles from “leading academic industry and general interest publications”. You can also find magazines by topic and explore all publications by title.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. We can use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
FreeFullPDF
The aim of FreeFullPDF.com is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific journals, theses, posters and patents. All scientific subjects are covered and all content are freely available in PDF format. FreeFullPDF.com was developped by KnowMade SARL. KnowMade is a Technology Intelligence company specialized in the research and analysis of scientific & technical information. We provide customized watching services and on demand studies with high added value to businesses and research laboratories.
Institute for Social and Economic Change
This site provides you information about various Socio-Economic Databases of India, Census of India, Statistical databases such as Databank of Indian Economy, Economic Survey, Rural Development and Agriculture, Industry, Banking, Trade, Health, Education, Energy, Environmental databases and others.
The LIST ALL view shows all the (free) Open Access journals that are part of AJOL.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text educational literature and resources. Essential for education researchers of all kinds, it features journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
JURN
JURN is a unique search tool which helps you find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. Established in 2009 to comprehensively cover the arts and humanities, in 2014 JURN expanded in scope. JURN now also covers selected university fulltext repositories and many additional electronic journals in science, biomedical, business and law. In 2015/6 JURN expanded again, adding over 600 electronic journals on aspects of the natural world.
Virtual Learning Resources
The Virtual Learning Resources Center indexes thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide, in order to provide to students and teachers current, valid information for school and university academic projects
INTUTE is a free online service that helps you to find web resources for your studies and research. With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. INTUTE have reviewed and evaluated thousands of resources to help you choose key websites in your subject. INTUTE is created by a consortium of seven universities.
InTech is a pioneer and world's largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with 87570 authors and published 2442 books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online access to research. Our overall mission is to help academics make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the world.
Here you will find Science full text articles from National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources publications. The Academy's journals are "Open Access" and full text is available as pdf file on each journals website.
A major STM journal publisher of 116 online and print journals, 150 plus open access journals, and related print/online book series, Bentham Science answers the information needs of scientists in the fields of pharmaceutical, biomedical, medical, engineering, technology, computer and social sciences.
Promoting free access to Medical Books, many textbooks will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice.
Course Materials
Virtual Courseware for Inquire-based Science Education VIRTUAL LABS (Click here)
The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms.
The Massachussetts Institute of Technology is a very reputed institute in the field of engineering education. MIT OpenCourseWare(OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content, both undergraduate and graduate subject taught at MIT. It is open and available to the world free of cost. There are 34 departments listed in the site. Under each department, further courses are listed. Under each course, the level of course(Undergraduate or graduate), course features, lecture notes, assignments, exams (with solutions), highlights of the course and full course description is given.