2. Open Resources Online Applications
• "Open Resources Online Applications" refer to web-based applications that
utilize and interact with open resources, such as open data, open content, or
other open-source components. These applications may be designed to facilitate
collaboration, education, or other functions by leveraging openly available
resources.
• "Open Resources": This refer to resources, such as data, content, software, or
educational materials, that are made available with open licenses, allowing
others to access, use, modify, and distribute them freely. Open resources often
come with specific licenses like Creative Commons licenses that promote open
sharing and collaboration.
• "Online Applications": These are software applications or programs that operate
over the internet or a network and are accessed through a web browser. Online
applications are hosted on remote servers, and users interact with them using a
web browser, without the need for installation on their local devices.
3. UNESCO
• Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research
materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own,
share, and in most cases, modify.
• The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and resources for any
user to use, re-mix, improve, and redistribute under some licenses.
• These are designed to reduce accessibility barriers by implementing best
practices in teaching and to be adapted for local unique contexts.
• "teaching, learning and research materials that make use of appropriate tools,
such as open licensing, to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement and
repurposing by others for educational purposes.“
UNESCO’s General Conference at its 40th session on 25 November 2019
Miao, F, Mishra, S, Orr, D and Janssen, B. 2019.
Guidelines on the development of open educational resources policies. UNESCO Publishing
7. Platform Link Launched Importance
(SWAYAM) https://swayam.gov.in/ Eaarly
2017
300 free online courses
Study Webs of Active-learning for Young Aspiring Minds
e-PG Pathshala (NME-ICT) https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ Nov. 2015 22,000 e-text and videos, from more than 5000 experts,
with more than 30,000 quizzes in 70 subjects.
Consortium for
Educational
Communication
https://cec.nic.in/cec/ 1993 e-Education, EMRC (Media Center), VYAS and DTH
Higher Education Channels and e-Knowledge Resources.
ShodhGanga
Shodhgangotri
https://shodhganga.inflibne
t.ac.in/
https://shodhgangotri.inflib
net.ac.in/
2014
2011
for research scholars to assimilate their PhD theses and
provide it publicly via open access.
There are approx. 4 lakhs full-text theses available from
355 contributing universities.
VIDWAN https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ 1999 24,45,379+ Publications
National Digital Library of
India (NDL India)
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ 2006 It is being developed to help students to prepare for
entrance and competitive examination, to enable people
to learn and prepare from best practices from all over
the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-
linked exploration from multiple sources.
AICTE Online Courses https://free.aicte-india.org/ 15-5- 2020 During the lockdown, learning should not stop.
Fortunately, many companies came forward to give their
products FREE OF COST.
8. Platform Link Importance
Directory of Open Access Journals
(DOAJ)
https://doaj.org/ 80LANGUAGES
133COUNTRIES REPRESENTED
13,277 JOURNALS WITHOUT APCS
19,623 JOURNALS
9,022,270ARTICLE RECORDS
Directory of Open Access Books https://www.doabooks.org/ Over 69,000 academic peer-reviewed books
Open Access Thesis & Dissertations https://oatd.org/ Advanced research and scholarship. Theses and
dissertations, free to find, free to use.
PubMed Central (PMC) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
/pmc/?cmd=search
60,000 free eBooks
SpringerOpen Journals https://www.springeropen.com/j
ournals
5,026,000+ articles
Internet Archive https://archive.org/ The Internet Archive) non-profit, is building a digital library
of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.
36 million.
ePustakalay https://epustakalay.com/ Hindi-Sanskrit-Maarathi-Bengaali
Library Genesis https://libgen.is/ More than 2.4 million non-fiction books, 80 million science
magazine articles, 2 million comics files, 2.2 million fiction
books, and 0.4 million magazine issues.