This document provides information on various open educational resources available in India. It describes repositories that contain open textbooks, journals, courses, theses and other educational materials that are freely accessible online. Some of the repositories mentioned include the National Digital Library of India, NPTEL, SWAYAM, Shodhganga and Vidya Lakshmi portal for education loans. The resources can be accessed anytime, anywhere by anyone at no cost and are available in a variety of formats including text, audio, video and multimedia.

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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR
ACADEMIC WRITRES

3. ABOUT OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
There is no standard definition of open
educational resources but it may be said that
any resources related to education available
either in digital or non-digital format may be
termed as OER.
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4. FEATURES
 ANY ONE
 ANY TIME
 ANY WHERE
 ONLINE
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5. EGyankosh
http://egyankosh.ac.in
• National Digital Repository
• To store, index, preserve,
distribute and share the digital
learning resources
• Developed by and protected by
copyright, with all rights reserved
by IGNOU, unless otherwise
indicated.
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DOAJ
https://doaj.org/
It is a directory of open access
journals. In this directory journals
of all disciplines are available free
of cost.

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DOAB
https://doaj.org/
It is a directory of
open access electronic
books. Electronic
books of all
disciplines are
available in this
directory free of cost.

8. epg-pathshala
http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in
An MHRD initiative, under
National Mission on
Education through ICT
(NME-ICT), has assigned
work to the UGC for
development of e-content in
77 subjects at PG level.
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9. Digital Library of India
http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in
Digital Library with a free-to-read,
searchable collection of one
million books, predominantly in
Indian languages, available to
everyone over the Internet.
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10. NISCAIR-Digital Science Library
http://www.niscair.res.in/
 NISCAIR has digital science library.
Communication among the scientific
community in the form of research
journals in different areas of S&T.
 S&T information to general public,
particularly school students to
inculcate interest in science among
them.
 To collect, collate and disseminate
information on plant, animal and
mineral wealth of the country.
 To develop human resources in
science communication, library,
documentation and information
science and S&T information
management systems and services.
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11. • Coordinated by IIT,
Kharagpur
• Sponsored by MHRD, Govt.
of India
• Hosts contents from multiple
subject domains like
Technology, Science,
Humanities, Agriculture , Arts
and others
• More than 60 types of
learning resources are
available
• 15,00,000+ Items have been
authored by 1.5 lakh authorsNational Digital Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
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12. NPTEL
http://nptel.ac.in/
• NATIONAL PROGRAMME ON
TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED
LEARNING
• To build on the engineering and
core science courses launched
previously in NPTEL Phase I by the
Ministry for Human Resource
Development, Government of
India.
• 600 web and video courses in all
major branches of engineering,
physical sciences at the
undergraduate and postgraduate
levels and management courses
at the postgraduate level.
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13. • Study Webs of
Active-Learning for
Young Aspiring
Minds
• Online Interactive
Courses of all
branches of
knowledge
• No Age Bar
• Faculties can
provide course
idea or design new
courses
SWAYAM
https://swayam.gov.in/
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14. Shodhganga
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
• Digital repository of Indian
Electronic Theses and
Dissertations set-up by the
INFLIBNET Centre
• Set-up Shodhganga Repository
reflecting organizational structure
of all universities so as to facilitate
a) students to submit their theses
into respective department, centre
and college; and
b) supervisors/designated
University Coordinator to
authenticate the theses submitted
into Shodhganga by their
researcher.
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15. http://infoport.inflibnet.ac.in/index.aspx
• Electronic books,
electronic journals and
reference sources
including dictionaries,
directories, maps etc.;
• Institutional repositories,
resource gateway, etc.
• Wikis, blogs, etc.;
• Teaching and learning
website;
• Lecture Notes, Magazines,
• Audio, video and other
multimedia learning
resources;
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16.  Knowledge through
Indian languages
 Dictionary, Text Books,
Bhasakosh, etc available
MHRD initiated it
 Reading materials
available in Odia,
Bengali, Hindi, Gujrati,
Konkini, etc.
BHARATVANI
http://bharatavani.in/
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17. • Integrated e-content
portal
• audio/video learning
material, textual
material,
multimedia-enriched
materials etc.
through a single
interface.
• VIDYA_MITRA
(http://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/)
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18. • A group of 32 DTH channels
for telecasting of high-
quality educational
programmes on 24X7 basis
using the GSAT-15 satellite.
• Every day, there will be new
content for at least (4) hours
which would be repeated 5
more times in a day,
allowing the students to
choose the time of their
convenience.
• Contents Provided by NPTEL,
IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU,
NCERT and NIOS. The
INFLIBNET Centre maintains
the web portal.
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19. • VidyaLakshmi is a first of
its kind portal for
students seeking
Education Loan. This
portal has been
developed under the
guidance of Department
of Financial Services
(Ministry of Finance),
Department of Higher
Education (Ministry of
Human Resource
Development) and
Indian Banks
Association (IBA).
VIDYA LAKSHMI--https://www.vidyalakshmi.co.in/
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20.  OAOB is a non-profit
project, started by National
Institute of Technology,
Rourkela with the help of
Srujanika, Bhubaneswar
and Pragati Utkal Sangh,
Rourkela.
• OAOB as started on
21.08.2010 and
inaugurated by Naveen
Patnaik, Honourable Chief
Minister of Odisha .
• Open access for Odia
Books and this repository is
the preservation unit of
cultural heritage of Odia.
ODIA BOOKS--http://oaob.nitrkl.ac.in/
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It is a portal for PDF in all
disciplines of knowledge. In
every moment one PDF is used
to add in this portal for easy
access free of cost.
PDF DRIVE—
www.pdfdrive.net

22. Thank you !
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