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N-List |
N-List (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content) is a government-funded initiative launched by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. It provides access to a wide range of e-resources to students, researchers, and faculty members from participating institutions. |
https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in |
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E-PG Pathshala |
E-PG Pathshala is an online learning platform developed by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India. It is a repository of high-quality educational content for postgraduate students in various disciplines. |
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in |
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Egyankosh |
Egyankosh is a digital repository of educational resources developed by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in India. It is an online platform that provides access to a vast collection of learning resources, including course materials, e-books, and audio and video lectures. |
https://egyankosh.ac.in |
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CEC-UGC |
CEC-UGC YouTube channel provides access to educational curriculum based lectures video in various disciplines absolutely free. |
https://www.youtube.com/cecedusat |
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National Digital Library of India (NDLI) |
The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a digital repository that provides free access to millions of books, manuscripts, photographs, and other cultural and historical resources from all over India. |
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in |
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World Digital Library (WDL) |
The World Digital Library (WDL) is an online project that provides free access to digital cultural and historical documents from countries around the world. |
https://www.wdl.org/en/ |
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Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) |
SSOAR is a digital library that provides open access to research papers, articles, and books in the social sciences. The repository covers various social science fields such as sociology, economics, and political science. SSOAR is an excellent resource for social science researchers and students who want to access high-quality research materials. |
https://www.gesis.org/en/ssoar/home |
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Open Access Digital Library |
The Open Access Digital Library is a digital library that offers free access to academic journals, books, and primary sources in the social sciences.It has a vast collection of materials in various social science fields such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science. The library also offers access to scientific publications in the natural sciences, including physics, mathematics, and biology. |
https://www.oalib.com/ |
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JSTOR |
JSTOR is a digital library that offers free access to academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. You can search and browse through thousands of articles and books in various social science fields. |
https://www.jstor.org/ |
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Internet Archive |
Internet Archive is one of the most well-known and extensive internet archives. It contains over 20 years of digital content, including books, movies, music, and archived websites. The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that aims to provide universal access to knowledge |
https://archive.org/ |
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Project Gutenberg |
Project Gutenberg is a collection of over 60,000 free ebooks. The books are mostly in the public domain, meaning they can be freely downloaded, shared, and used. |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ |
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
Directory of Open Access Journals is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals in all areas of social science. |
https://doaj.org/ |
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Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) |
Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) - ICSSR is a national body that funds, promotes, and conducts research in social science. It offers various publications, reports, and research papers on its website for free download. |
https://icssr.org/ |
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) |
Social Science Research Network is a repository of scholarly research papers in social sciences, including economics, law, management, political science, and more. It provides access to over 800,000 research papers, with new papers added daily. |
https://www.ssrn.com/en/ |
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OpenStax |
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative that provides free, peer-reviewed textbooks in various social science subjects, including psychology, sociology, political science, and more. |
https://openstax.org/subjects/social-sciences |
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Project MUSE |
Project MUSE is a digital platform that provides access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. It features a wide range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, history, political science, and more. |
https://muse.jhu.edu/ |
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Open Library of Humanities |
The Open Library of Humanities is a nonprofit, open-access platform for scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences. |
https://www.openlibhums.org/ |
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Google Scholar |
Google Scholar is a free search engine that provides access to scholarly literature, including articles, theses, books, and conference papers, in all fields of social science. |
https://scholar.google.com/ |
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PubMed |
PubMed is a free search engine that provides access to biomedical and life sciences literature, including social science research on health-related topics. It includes articles from a range of academic journals and other sources. |
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ |
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arXiv |
arXiv an electronic repository of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and more. |
https://arxiv.org/ |
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ScienceDirect |
A web-based platform that provides access to scientific, technical, and medical research publications from Elsevier. It offers free access to more than 15 million research articles. |
https://www.sciencedirect.com/ |
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SpringerLink |
A digital library of scientific journals, books, and reference works published by Springer Science + Business Media. It provides free access to over 2,500 journals and more than 40,000 books. |
https://link.springer.com/ |
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Nature Communications |
A multidisciplinary, open access journal published by the Nature Publishing Group. Covers all areas of the natural sciences. |
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/ |
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Virtual Labs |
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has set up Virtual Labs, which provide students with access to virtual experiments in various science subjects, including physics, chemistry, and biology. |
https://www.vlab.co.in/ |
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NCERT textbooks |
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) provides free e-textbooks for science education from Class 1 to Class 12. These textbooks are available in English, Hindi, and other regional languages. |
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php |
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Shodhganga |
The Shodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the researchers. |
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
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Shodhgangotri |
Open Access Repository of Research in Progress/Synopses MRPs/PDFs/Emeritus Fellowship |
http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
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Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) |
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) - OATD is a comprehensive resource that provides access to over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. The database is searchable by author, title, institution, and keyword, and includes both free and fee-based resources. |
https://oatd.org/ |
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) |
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - NDLTD is an international organization that promotes the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. |
https://ndltd.org/ |
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global - ProQuest is a subscription-based database that provides access to over 4 million electronic theses and dissertations, with coverage from 1861 to the present day. The database includes works from North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions. |
https://www.proquest.com/products-services/dissertations/ |
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EThOS - EThOS is a service provided by the British Library that allows researchers to search and access over 500,000 electronic theses and dissertations from universities across the United Kingdom. The database is free to use, and users can download full-text theses and dissertations. |
https://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do |
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DART-Europe E-theses Portal - DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia that provides access to over 1 million electronic theses and dissertations from universities across Europe. The database is free to use, and users can download full-text theses and dissertations. |
https://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php |
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PQDT Open - PQDT Open is a free database provided by ProQuest that provides access to over 1.5 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. The database is searchable by author, title, institution, and keyword, and includes works from North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions. |
https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html |
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The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) - OpenDOAR is a global directory of academic open access repositories that provides access to millions of electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. The database is free to use, and users can search by keyword or browse by country, institution, or subject area. |
https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/ |
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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) - BASE is a search engine that provides access to over 150 million documents from more than 7,000 repositories, including electronic theses and dissertations. The database is free to use, and users can search by keyword or browse by subject area. |
https://www.base-search.net/ |
