The document provides information about open access educational e-resources. It discusses what open access is and defines electronic resources as sources that require computer or smartphone access. It then outlines several key open access e-resources available in India, including the National Digital Library of India (NDLI), e-PG Pathshala, Vidya-Mitra, and e-Pustakdwar. It provides details on how to access the content on each of these platforms and search for resources. The document also lists several sources for open access e-books in Hindi, Punjabi, and other languages.
2. What is Open Access ?
• Open access seeks to grant free and open online access to
academic & other information, such as publications
and data etc.
• A publication is defined 'open access' when there are no
financial, legal or technical barriers to accessing it -that is
to say when anyone can read, download, copy, distribute,
print, search for and search within the information, or use it
in education or in any other way within the legal
agreements.
https://www.openaccess.nl/en/what-is-open-access
3. What are the E-Resources?
Electronic Resource is a source which need computer or
Smartphone access or any electronic item for consumption with
the help of internet.
Electronic Resources or E-Resources are documents in Digital
Format which can be accessed electronically.
Examples of E-Resources:
• E-Books
• E-Journals
• Online Databases
• E- Newspapers
• E-Text
• Audio/Video/Images etc.
4. What we will learn about ?
NDLI – National Digital Library of India
e-PG Pathshala
Vidya-Mitra
e-Pustakdwar
Open Access E-Books
Open Access E-Books in Punjabi Language
Open Access E-Books in Hindi Language
6. NDLI – National Digital Library of India
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National
Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology
(NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) project to
develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-
window search facility. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur.
8. ● Metadata is primarily textual information
relating to content
● It includes information that enables
users to identify, discover, search,
browse,interpret, or managecontent
● Includes hyperlinks that direct users
to content on thesource
● May include an expressivedescriptionof
the content
NOTE: NDLI does not store contents, itonly
ingests metadata forSearch &Browse. The
content (Full-text)is delivered from Source.
METADATA:THEHEART OF NDLI
9. CONTENT AT NDLI
● Born-digitalobject
● Digital surrogate of a physical object
● Digital metadata ofphysical object
METADATA AT NDLI
● NDLIdoes not storecontents
● NDLI only ingests metadata forSearch &
Browse
● Content (Full-text) is deliveredfrom
Source
Acontent is included (metadata ingested) in NDLI if
its expected to have educational value
11. ContentAvailable
Computer Science, Information &
General Works
99,95,750
Philosophy and Psychology 6,13,391
Religion 2,08,188
Social Sciences 45,69,018
Language 1,08,283
Natural Sciences & Mathematics 83,98,729
Technology 1,04,34,908
The Arts; Fine & Decorative Arts 4,50,714
Literature & Rhetoric 7,88,787
History & Geography 6,13,391
12. Top20 Content Contributors
World eBookLibrary 7,764,088
CiteSeerX 5,275,934
PubMedCentral 3,879,626
IEEE Xplore DigitalLibrary 3,314,809
WHO-Global IndexMedicus 2,628,502
Directory of Open Access
Journals(DOAJ)
2,620,170
Semantic Scholar 2,400,414
UnitedStates Department
of Energy Office of
Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI.GOV)
2,190,831
SpringerLink 2,139,729
Paperity 1,635,663
arXiv.org 1,460,277
High Courtof Karnataka 1,106,361
ERIC 1,071,925
State Library of
Massachusetts
707,378
Zenodo 664,416
J-STAGE 544,256
CERN Document Server 488,358
University of North Texas 453,620
JAMANetwork 447,825
ACM DigitalLibrary 432,387
14. ACCESS OPTIONS
Open
Full-text available to all (Example:NCERT)
NDLUsers
Full-text available through NDL,not directly from Source (Example: SouthAsia Archive)
LimitedAccess
Part of text available but full-text requires authorization by Sourceauthority (Example:
ISER, Bhopal)
Subscribed
Full-text available from institutions that have subscribed to the Source(Example:
Springer)
Restricted
Full-text access requires authorization by Source authority and separate login to the
Source (Example: IITJodhpur)
19. This Screen of NDLI will appear
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in or https://ndl.gov.in
20. Click to the Upper Right Hand corner to Log In After Registering
Or
If you are not a Registered user you have to Register Yourself first by clicking on
Register
39. GOOGLE VS.NDLI
GOOGLE NDLI Additional Advatnges with NDLI
● Instead of throwing up thousandsof random
results, NDLI presents specific data from
premium content sources in multiple indian
languages
1 Curated Educational
Content
● Not only can learnersmodify their search based
on educational degree and languages, they can
also put in filters based on content type
2 Narrow down results
using filteroptions
● The NDLI platforms learns from the users
searches and presentsmore and more relevant
data with regular use
3 Modify search based on
content type viz. Audio
book/ video etc.
● Paid content can be accessed free-of-charge
due to National Licenses so that learners from
the remotest partsof India can learn, share and
grow
4 National Licensing
41. e-PG Pathshala
e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National
Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the
UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of
education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-
content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts,
fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.
51. Vidya-Mitra
Vidya-mitra 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 all hosted content wherein a
learner can easily access the desired material including audio/video
learning material, textual material, multimedia-enriched materials etc.
through a single interface.
