Free Online Information Resources for Academicians. It covers all type of resources which may be helpful to research scholars and faculty members.

1. Free Online Information
Resources for
Academicians
Dr. Vivekanand Jain
Deputy Librarian
Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi – 221005

2. • Higher Education in 21st century is
depend on ICT based information
resources and e-contents.
• Libraries are playing important role
in higher education and life-long
learning.
• Open courseware and other Free e-
resources are very useful in higher
education.

3. Free Online Information
Resources and Database
It includes :
Electronic Journals,
e-Books,
e-Theses,
Digital Libraries,
Open Courseware
Institutional Repositories, etc.

4. Features of E-Resources
• Round the clock access (24x7x365)
• Multiple access with search facilities.
• Never gets out of print /misplaced
• No time leg in publication
• Linking with citing sources.
• Easy to use and disseminate.
• Saves storage space
• Research productivity increased.

5. Why Virtual Education
• Life Long Learning
• Information for All
• Higher Education and Degrees from
anywhere.
• Open Courseware
• To fulfill the digital divide among
information users.

6. Open Access
• As per Government of India policy the
findings of public funded research should
be on public domain.
• It increases the citations for publications.
• It shows positive effects on society.
• Net Generation mostly depends on Online
resources available on Internet.

7. • Open Access was defined in the Finch
Report (2012) stating that ‘research
outputs arising from publicly funded
research should be freely accessible at
the point of use with minimal if any
limitations on how they can be used’. In
fact, Open Access is all about reaching
wider audience and increasing the impact
of your research.

8. Open Access Advantages for
• Authors: OA gives them a worldwide
audience and increases the visibility of
their work.
• Readers: OA gives them barrier-free
access to the literature they need for their
research.
• Teachers and students: OA allows
teachers to bring current research into the
classroom.

9. • Libraries: OA addresses the problem of
the rising cost of journal subscriptions and
fulfill the information needs of users.
• Universities: OA increases visibility of
their research, reduces their expenditure
on journals, and advances their mission to
share knowledge.
• Public: OA provides taxpayers with free
access to the results of research, which
may improve the quality of life in society.

10. Types of Open Resources
• Gold Open Access is where an author
publishes their article in an online open
access journal.
• Green Open Access is where an author
publishes their article in any journal and
then self-archives a copy in a freely
accessible institutional repository, or on a
website.

11. Impact on Higher Education
• Use of Internet based Free resources
revolutionize the higher education in India.
• Open Courseware, Online Journals,
E-Books and Electronic theses,
Institutional Repositories, Digital Libraries
and other open access resources are
useful in Higher Education in India.

12. Digital Libraries
&
Free E-Resources

13. http://www.dli.gov.in/
537350 Books
187 Million pages
As on 27 Feb. 2016
http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/

14. Free Online Books on Malaviya Ji
at Digital Library of India
• Bhartiya Punarjagaran Aur Madan Mohan Malviya. Krishna
Dutta. 1960. Hindi. Politics. 242 pgs.
• Madanmohan., Chattopadhayay,Amarnath. 1941. bengali.
130 pgs.
• Mahaamanaa Madanamohan Maalaviiy.1950. Hindi.109p.
• mahamana madan mohan malviya jivan aur netritva.mukut
bihari lal. 1975. hindi. jivan parichay, netritva. 734 p.
• Mahamana madan mohan malviya ke samajik aur rajnitik
vichar., N N Pandey. 2004. hindi. Political Science. 342 p.
• Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya.Hindi. Literature.
48 pgs.

15. National Digital Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
• NDLI is a digital library that makes quality
learning resources available to all learners
and has 1.7 Crore content from more than
160 sources, in over 200 languages,
everywhere and 30 lakh users are
registered on NDL as on date and our
target is to increase the users 10 times in
a year.

16. NDLI

18. Project Gutenberg
• Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer
effort to digitize and archive cultural works,
to "encourage the creation and distribution
of eBooks".
• Founded in 1971
• It contains 60,000+ items in its collection.
www.gutenberg.org

20. World Digital Library
www.wdl.org

21. Akbarnama : 133 Exp.

22. http://www.sanskritebooks.org/

23. VED - PURAN
http://vedpuran.net

25. https://jainelibrary.org/

26. https://archive.org

27. • American Libraries 867,030
• European Libraries 395,582
• Universal Library 30,875
• Community Audio 25,709
• Community Texts 15,981
• Early European Books 14,547
• Education Resources Information Center
(ERIC) Archive 10,169
• Canadian Libraries 8,486
• University of Michigan Books 8,084
• JSTOR Early Journal Content 4,790

29. DOAB : Directory of Open
Access Books
33,378 Academic peer-
reviewed books
from 406 publishers

31. www.namami.org

32. For
JOURNALS

33. www.doaj.org

37. http://www.opendoar.org/

40. World of Hindi
ह िंदी का रचना सिंसार

41. World of Hindi ह िंदी का रचना सिंसार

42. www.kavitakosh.org

43. Sanskrit Thesis
www.sanskrit.nic.in

44. http://spokensanskrit.de/

45. Urdu E-Books : 23,060

46. https://rekhta.org/ghazals

47. Urdu E-Books

48. Open
Courseware

49. Open Courseware
o Open Courseware क
े माध्यम से हम नये नये
विषयों क
े ऊपर video Lectures सुनकर अपने
ज्ञान में िृद्धि कर सकते हैं।
o यदि कोई नया ऑनलाइन कोसस ज्िाइन करते हैं तो
ज्ञान क
े साथ साथ एक नयी डिग्री भी प्राप्त कर
सकते हैं।

50. Moocs on Swayam
• Massive Open Online Course for all.
• SWAYAM is a program initiated by Govt.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.
• SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide
for students.

51. SWAYAM.gov.in

52. ARPIT
Annual Refresher Program in Teaching
• It is a online Refresher Course in
online mode via Moocs / swayam
portal.
• It is valid for CAS, promotion etc as
per UGC guidelines. (40 hours course
= One Refresher Course)

56. https://oyc.yale.edu

57. http://www.egyankosh.ac.in
• eGyanKosh- a National Digital
Repository to store, index, preserve,
distribute and share the digital learning
resources developed by the Open and
Distance Learning Institutions in the
country.
• tems in eGyanKosh are protected by
copyright, with all rights reserved by
IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated.

58. For
Doctoral Dissertations &
Theses

63. For free full-text
International thesis
open Proquest
http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html

64. Services by INFLIBNET

65. INDCAT : Union Catalogue for
Books, Theses, and Serials

66. • Announcement Registration of new
colleges and renewal of existing colleges
is now opened for the colleges under
section 12B of UGC Act. Annual
Membership Fee (Rs 5,900.00(Rs. 5000/-
Membership Fee + Rs. 900/- (18%) GST)
NOTE: Non-Aided Colleges (except
Agriculture, Engineering, Management,
Medical, Pharmacy, Dentistry and
Nursing)may join NLIST on payment of
Annual Membership Fee of (Rs.
35,400.00 (Rs. 30,000/- Membership Fee
+ Rs. 5400/- (18%) GST).

67. Conclusion
• Now a days various free
Information Resources are
available for Virtual Education.
• There is a need to use free
resources by academicians for
teaching, research and Innovation
for the benefit of the society.

68. जिन खोिा ततन पाइयाां, गहरे पानी पैठ,
मैं बपुरा बूिन िरा, रहा ककनारे बैठ।
• इस दो े क
े माध्यम से य बात क ी गयी ै कक प्रयास
करने से ी सफलता ममलती ै। आज छात्रगण
इण्टरनेट का प्रयोग अपनी मिक्षा, तकनीकक प्रमिक्षण
क
े साथ नयी जानकाररयों की प्राप्तत क
े मलये कर र े
ैं। इण्टरनेट से जानकारी ननकालने में सचच इिंप्जन
म त्वपूणच भूममका ननभाते ैं। इण्टरनेट पर खोजते
समय कई बार नयी उपयोगी जानकाररयािं भी ममल
जाती ैं क्योंकक इण्टरनेट पर सूचना का वविाल
भण्डार ै अत: जब भी कोई नयी जानकारी या
उपयोगी वेवसाइट ममले उसे अवश्य नोट कर लें तथा
अन्य साथथयों को भी बतायें क्योंकक ववचार/ सूचना/
ज्ञान (Idea/ Information/ knowledge) बािंटने से
वढ़ता ै।

69. • हेरत हेरत हे सखी, रहया कबीरा दहराई।
बून्ि समाना समन्ि में, सो कत हेयास िाई।
• सूचना का भण्डार अथा एविं ववप्रत्रत ै और उसमें से
खोजना एक कला ै। सूचना प्राप्तत क
े मलये अनेक
तर से प्रयास करना पड़ते ैं। कई बार स ी कीवडच
न ीिं ोने से घण्टों का समय बबाचद चला जाता ै और
उपयोगी सूचना न ीिं ममल पाती। अत: उथचत
कीवडच, स ी सचच ईंप्जन, स ी सचच तकनीकक क
े प्रयोग
से ी सफलता ममलती ै। अत: सूचना ववज्ञान क
े
वविेषज्ञों क
े स योग से स ी जानकारी लेना चाह ये।

70. • "All of us do not have equal
talent. But, all of us have an
equal opportunity to develop
our talents.”
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

71. Thanks to All
• From :
Dr. Vivekanand Jain
Mob. 9450538093
Email : vivekanandofdigora@gmail.com