This presentations have Online educational resources for Research purpose. These are include Databases, Thesis & Dissertations, E-Journals, Social networks etc.

1. Online Educational Resources
(OER) for RESEARCH
Presented By
Dr. Bhupendra Bansod
PVDT College Of Education For Women,
SNDT Women's University, Mumbai.

2. Outline
Introduction
Relationship Between Internet and Research
Why E- resources ?
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• Different E-resources
– Database
– Theses & Dissertation web resources
– Journals
– Books
– Social Networking Sites
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Construction of Google Form for research
Conclusion

3. Introduction
Our society is undergoing a process of rapid change,
moving toward what is called the information society, the
knowledge society, the network society or the
informational mode of development
Changes in higher education, the new student-centred
paradigm and new learning and teaching approaches
have also created a need for a reconceptualisation of the
roles and responsibilities of Researcher

5. What is Research?
Systematic
Investigation Study
Of Materials
sources, etc
in order to
establish facts
and reach new
conclusions

6. Relationship of Research
and Internet

13. Why E- resources ?
Fast/ quick access to the material
Always available (24/7)
It saves time, money and energy.
It saves space.
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Available in multi media format (Text, Audio and
Video)
Information transfer is easy.
Easy to edit ( Size/colour /highlighting of text,
spellcheck )
Quick help for translation and pronunciation.
Up-to-date material

14. Different E-resources
•Any information resource that can be accessed electronically, e.g.
– Databases
– Theses and Dissertations
– E- journals
– E- books
– E- Social networking platforms

15. USEFULDATABASEs

16. (ProQuest) https://search.proquest.com/141537
ProQuest is committed to empowering researchers and librarians around the
world.Its innovative information content and technologies increase the
productivity of students, scholars, professionals and the libraries that serve
them.

17. EBSCO https://www.ebsco.com
EBSCO provides free research databases covering a variety of
subjects for students, researchers and librarians. EBSCO is the leading
provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-
books and discovery service to libraries of all kinds. For over 70 years,
we’ve partnered with libraries to improve research with quality content
and technology

18. Scopus
https://www.scopus.com/freelookup/form/author.uri
• Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of
peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and
conference proceedings.

19. J-Gate
https://jgateplus.com/
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J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal
literature. Launched in 2001 by Informatics India Limited
J-Gate provides availability of online offered by 13,243
Publishers.
indexed from 50,164 e-journals with links to full text at
publisher sites.
A comprehensive searchable database with 56,870,816
articles, with 10,000+ articles added every day.
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20. http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/information.html
India's first and fastest growing institutional repository
• ePrints@IISc repository collects, preserves and disseminates in
digital format the research output created by the IISc research
community.

21. http://repository.ias.ac.in/
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This is an Open Access Repository of publications of
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences. It attempts
to collect, preserve and disseminate the intellectual output
of the Academy available as publications by its Fellows in
peer-reviewed journals. Thanks for using the repository!

22. http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in
• ePrints@UoM is an initiative of Mysore University Library, which
collects, preserves and distributes scholarly output of Research and
Innovation activities at University of Mysore by its faculty, research scholars
and students. UoM is one of the oldest university in the country and has
many distinctions. This Open Access Institutional Repository, set up in April
2013, aims to cover scholarly publications covering journal articles,
conference papers, books, book reviews, presentations.
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23. ERIC
https://eric.ed.gov/
ERIC (Educational
Resources Information
Center) is the world's most
widely used index to
educational-related
literature. Established in
1966,
ERIC is the largest
education database in the
world-containing over 1.5
million records of journal
articles, research reports,
curriculum and teaching
guides, conference papers,
dissertations and theses,
and books.

24. Dissertations & Theses
(Global)

25. Shodhganga
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
• 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.

26. UnivivesrsitiytyLisistt
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TThheessees

29. http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
• “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars / research supervisors in
universities are requested to deposit electronic version of approved
synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for
registering themselves for the Ph.D programme.

30. Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations, NDLTD http://www.ndltd.org/

31. 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. Items in
eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by
IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated.

32. Duke University Libraries
https://library.duke.edu/find/theses-dissertations

33. Ethos
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do;jsessionid=8A68D7C4703A387746B78AD015
• Search over 450,000 doctoral theses. Download instantly for your
research, or order a scanned copy quickly and easily.

34. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
https://www.bibalex.org/Libraries/Presentation/Stati
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) is a depository library for theses and
dissertations from all Egyptian universities, in cooperation with the
Ain Shams University Library.
The library holds approximately 41,400 theses

35. Saurasthra University
http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/
• Etheses, the online archive of PhD theses of Saurasthra
University. It contains completed and examined PhD
theses from doctoral candidates who have studied at
Saurasthra University.

37. Devi Ahilya Vishvidyalaya
http://www.dauniv.ac.in
• All The India research abstract are provide on this site. Devi Ahilya
Vishvidyalaya has collected this treasure of information for the use
of researcher .

38. http://aishe.nic.in/aishe/home

39. DELNET
http://delnet.nic.in/index.htm
• DELNET was started at the India International Centre
Library in January 1988 and was registered as a
society in 1992.
• DELNET has been established with the prime
objective of promoting resource sharing among the
libraries through the development of a network of
libraries.

40. https://www.worldcat.org
• WorldCat connects you to the collections and
services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide

41. SONIC – Sound Online Inventory and
catalogues
http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/Sonicintro.html
• The Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collection
contains some 2.5 million audio recordings including
multiple copies.

42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
• Wikipedia is a free Internet encyclopedia that allows its users to edit almost
any article accessible. Wikipedia is the largest and most popular general
reference work on the Internet and is ranked among the ten most popular
websites.[

43. http://www.unsco.org/Default.asp
• There is special database information of south eastern
countries is provided on this site . Literacy, poverty,
Population,health,crime,women Education etc.

44. University of Florida
https://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/etd/Index.aspx
• George A. Smathers Libraries starts online theses and
dissertations

45. https://www.ohiolink.edu/
• OhioLINK has officially launched its significantly upgraded
Electronic Journal Center (EJC), giving OhioLINK students, faculty
and researchers enhanced access to a vast, rich array of high-
quality research journals.

46. REFSEEK
https://www.refseek.com/directory/

47. Easybib
http://www.easybib.com/guides/students/writing-guide/ii-research/a-fin

48. http://graphwords.com
Blue- Nouns
Red – Adjectives
Green- Verbs

49. aresearchguide.com
Step 1. CHOOSE A TOPIC
Step 2. FIND INFORMATION
Step 3. STATE YOUR THESIS
Step 4. MAKE A TENTATIVE
OUTLINE
Step 5. ORGANISE YOUR NOTES
Step 6. WRITE YOUR FIRST DRAFT
Step 7. REVISE YOUR OUTLINE
AND
DRAFT.
1. Checklist one
2. Checklist two
Step 8. TYPE THE FINAL PAPER

50. Journals Database

51. Directory of Open Access Journals
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) gives
researchers access to high-quality, peer-reviewed
journals. It has archived more than two million articles
from 9,519 journals

52. EconBiz
https://www.econbiz.de/
• EconBiz is a great resource for economic and business
studies.
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53. JSTOR - www.jstor.org
Database with over a thousand academic articles, and over one million images,
letters, and other primary sources.

54. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org
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This siteExplore 725,735 items digitized from The New York Public Library
's collections.
is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints,
photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

55. Olson Library

56. Search engines
• Google Scholar – Provides a way to broadly search for
scholarly literature across disciplines and sources.

57. LazyScholar
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Chrome extension to help your literature search
Finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation
and sharing links automatically. And much more…

58. Digital Library Software

59. Digital Library Software
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Dspace is available at http://www.dspace.org: DSpace is a digital library system to capture,
store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university’s research
faculty in digital formats . DSpace is available to research institutions world-wide as an
open source system that can be customized and extended.
Green Stone Digital Library Software: It is Open Source Software available from
http://greenstone.org under the term of the GNU General Public License.
GNU E-Prints Archiving Software (Version 2.2.2): The software is available from
http://www.eprints.org
Ganesha Digital Library Software: GDL can be downloaded free of cost at
http://gdl.itb.ac.id/download/
Libraonix Digital Library System: The Libronix DLS is available from the site
http://www.logos.com/products.

60. E-Journals

61. https://www.ugc.ac.in/journallist/
UGC Journals Lists

62. http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/
IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian
Universities is unified Online Library
Catalogues of books, theses and journals
available in major university libraries in
India. The union database contains
bibliographic description, location and
holdings information for books, journals
and theses in all subject areas available
in more than 181 university libraries
across thecountry.

63. http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/gujcat/
GujCat: Online Union Catalogue of
Gujarat is unified Online Library
Catalogues of books available in
major
Colleges/Institutes/Universities
libraries in Gujarat. GujCat
database contains bibliographic
description, location and holdings
information for books in all subject
areas available.

64. Social Network Related
Important Website

65. Academia : https://www.academia.edu/
1. Academia is the easiest way to share papers with millions of people
across the world for free. A study recently published in PLOS ONE
found that papers uploaded to Academia receive a 69% boost in
citations over 5 years.

66. Researchgate:
https://www.researchgate.net/

67. Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/

68. Google Forum :
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!homeredir
Google Groups allows you to create and participate in online
forums and email-based groups with a rich experience for
community conversations.

69. InnoCentive :
https://www.innocentive.com/

70. Mendeley : https://www.mendeley.co

71. https://www.facebook.com/

72. https://www.oercommons.org/
• OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore
open education resources and join our network of educators
dedicated to curriculum improvement.

73. E-Book Websites

74. Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or
embed it in your blog or web page.
SCRIBD
https://www.scribd.com/

75. FreeBookSpot :
is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485
FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB.
http://www.freebookspot.es/

76. E-SnipFiles offers you free ebooks and software legally by
brought or attained PLR, resale or master rights to all the
products on their page.
• http://www.esnipfiles.com/

77. ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook
Reader. You can randomly browse for a ebook through the most
popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There
are 21,282 eBooks available here and they’re all free!
• http://manybooks.net/

78. https://www.free-ebooks.net/category/sociology

79. https://india.gov.in/my-government/documents/e-books

80. www.bookchums.com

81. The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free
books on the Web.
• http://digital.library.upenn.edu/boo ks/

82. E-Book Websites
Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet.
It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-
books. The collection consists of more than 20,000 e-books.
Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction): http://www.authorama.com/
Featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors,
collected here for you to read online or offline. This site is regularly
updated with new freeware stories.
Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com
Provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors;
general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri,
quotations, verses etc
The Online Book Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about
25000 e-books on different subjects.
MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
It is a site for 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free
download

83. ReadPrint
• can find literallyReadPrint is a free online library where you
thousands of free books to read for free online

84. https://archive.org/details/americana

85. marathibhasha.org
Translation Tool

86. http://netshika.com

87. aarogyavidya.net

88. Create Website

89. Free of cost Prepare your website For
Research.
► Google Sites : https://sites.google.com
► WIX : http://www.wix.com
► Weebly : https://www.weebly.com/in
► WebsiteBuilder :https://www.websitebuilder.com
► SiteBuilder : https://www.sitebuilder.com
► Webnode : https://us.webnode.com
► Ezweb123 : http://www.ezweb123.com
► WEBS :http://www.webs.com

90. Create Innovative Blog

91. Blogging sites (FREE)
Blogger: www.blogger.com
WordPress: http://wordpress.com/
TypePad: http://www.typepad.com/
FreeBlogIt: http://freeblogit.com/
Medium: https://medium.com/
Penzu: https://penzu.com/
Sybtle: https://svbtle.com/
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/
Squarespace :https://www.squarespace.com/
ProBlogger: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/11/15/how-i-make-money-blogging/
Steve Pavlina: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/
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92. Prepare Questionnaire For
Research

93. Online Questionnaire For Research
 E-Survey Creator : https://www.esurveycreator.com/
 Free Online Survey :
https://freeonlinesurveys.com/#/
 Google Forms :
https://www.google.co.in/forms/about/
 Kwik Survey : https://kwiksurveys.com/
 esurv : http://esurv.org/
 Surveynuts : https://surveynuts.com/en
 Qualatrics : https://www.qualtrics.com/
 Example : https://www.quia.com/sv/359509.html

94. Google Forms
• Google is an online tools wich is basically used for
survey. As a researcher, we can plan events, make a
survey or poll, give students a quiz, or collect other
information in an streamlined
with Google Forms.Google
easy,
Form is easiest
way
survey
tools, because we will use in desktop computers,
laptops, smart phones on Windows and Android.

95. Uses of Google Form
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Easy to reach larger Sample size in very few time.
Not possible to reach every sample because of
geographical circumstances. Google form is best way to
reach every sample.
Technology may support here to overcome few of the
difficulties. Google form is the best tool prepared by
Google for send and analyzes the questionnaire.
Researcher make instant analysis of the data

96. Stages of Google Forms
• Create Questionnaire
• Editing Google Forms
• Edit Questions
• Add Questions
• Publishing your Questionnaire
• Analyzing the responses

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103. Some Examples of Forms
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EEvE7sRWRDtqtHhc3fQxuE7BLTJubVCjwd1yxOEkHXA/edit