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FREE AND OPEN ACCESS E-RESOURCES FOR

ACADEMIC LEARNING AND RESEARCH

Dr.K.Ramasamy

College Librarian

M V Muthiah Govt Arts College for Women, Dindigul

19-08-2020 K.RAMASAMY MVM GACW DGL 1

Digital World

Google era academic

community

Everything – on a mouse click

Information requirements of PG Students

Need materials for class

preparation, updating

knowledge in the given field

Need materials for writing assignment

and taking class seminar

Need materials for research work

• To carry out the PG second year project – Introduction, review of literature, methodology, flow chart…..

• To prepare journal articles, conference papers etc.,

Why do we need research resources?

To identify the research problem

To do review of literature – what was

done previously – aims, methodologies, data

collection instruments, findings, suggestions, directions for further

studies….

To get background information – definition,

history, evolution, models ………

Electronic Resources (E-resources)

Electronic resources (or e-resources) are materials in digital format accessible electronically.

Examples of e-resources are electronic journals (e-journal), electronic books (e-book) online databases in varied digital formats, Adobe Acrobat documents (.pdf), Web Pages (.htm, .html, .asp etc), and more.

Online Resources

The electronic information resources which are available online in the World Wide Web

Any one with an electronic device and

necessary softwares will be able to access the data, within the given

restrictions.

They are against offline electronic

resources that reside either your system or CD ROM or Hard Disk

or Pen Drive

Where to get access to these online e-resources?

Free and Open Access Resources

Commercial / Paid / Subscribed Resources

Open Educational Resources

Online open access E-resources

Search Engines Aggregators Directories of Open access

journals

Open access ETDs

Free e-books

Directories of Open access institutional repositories

Free videos and video lectures

and study materials

Search Engines

Google.com

Coordiante geometry = 12.50 crore results (0.48 seconds)

“Coordiante Geometry” = 26 lakh results

File type: PDF = 1.32 lakh results

Advanced search

Google scholar

Search results

Digital libraries since 2013 2013

Click cite option = double inverted quote

academic.microsoft.com ( a semantic search engine) 23.5 crores documents

Base search engine – 16.4 crore documents from 7987 sources

https://gettheresearch.org/

All items

Open Access Only

http://www.kkhsou.in/library/oajse/

56 OA journals in LIS

https://mjl.clarivate.com/home

https://www.scopus.com/home.uri

Aggregators

http://mathforum.org/library/

http://www.mathguide.de/

pdfdrive.com ( 8.2 crores pdf documents)

Paperity 58.2 lakhs papers + 13000 journals

18.8 crores open access papers (7115 data providers)

Internet Archive

arXiv.org 17 lakhs scholarly articles

https://www.preprints.org/

https://openaccessbutton.org/

https://www.oalib.com/

https://www.emis.de/ELibM.html

https://www.emis.de/MATH/JFM/JFM.html

topology

https://www.merlot.org/merlot/Mathematics.htm

https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~rehmann/DML/dml_links.html

https://www.ams.org/open-math-notes

https://www.scienceopen.com/

63 million publications

Altmetrics – 736 results

https://eric.ed.gov/

https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Only PDF

https://www.biomedcentral.com/

http://www.freefullpdf.com

Journals

http://journalseek.net/

http://l-lists.com/en/lists/4l40dz.html

https://scielo.org/

Algebra – 426 results

http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Browse by subjects

Browse by titles

Results – system biology

https://www.hindawi.com/

http://www.openaccessjournals.com/journals.html

https://www.openacessjournal.com/journal-subject

http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/ view/journals.html

Choose search areas

Elsevier – Open Access (https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-

science/open-access/open-access-journals

Click search

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/jrnlallbooks/all/open-access

Filter by subject

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/page/openaccess

Search : Constitution

14571 journals + 48 lakhs articles

Search for journals or articles

Mathematics

https://www.ias.ac.in/

https://www.niscair.res.in/resources/nopr

NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository

We can access full text articles from research journals

published by CSIR-NISCAIR!

Full text facility is provided for all nineteen research journals

viz. ALIS, BVAAP, IJBB, IJBT, IJCA, IJCB, IJCT, IJEB, IJEMS, IJFTR,

IJMS, IJNPR, IJPAP, IJRSP, IJTK, JIPR, JSIR & JST. NOPR also hosts

three Popular Science Magazines viz. Science Reporter

(SR), Vigyan Pragati (VP) & Science Ki Duniya (SKD) and a Natural Products Repository

(NPARR).

http://www.journals4free.com/

https://www.scilit.net/ Out of 12.5 crore scientific articles, 2.8

crores are free

Digital library – 537 articles

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sgo

https://www.academia.edu/

https://www.researchgate.net/

Institutional repositories

OpenDOAR - Home page

Country-wise IRs

Listing

Search or browse for repositories

http://roar.eprints.org/

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4725 repositories

India 123 repositories

IR @ IIM Kozhikode

CUSAT, Kochi

http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/

Open Access Theses & dissertations

https://oatd.org/ 1

639 theses and dissertations on marketing in English

https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html

http://www.ndltd.org/ 1

Country-wise listings 1

http://www.netd.ac.za/? South African National ETD portal

Browse by title 1

http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do;jsessionid=0AC7EAA7BD348911F6D005DA0A599AEE

475000 theses to search

160000 theses can be availed full text 1

https://sg.inflibnet.ac.in/ 1

As on 15th May 2020 1

http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk 1

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

E-books

https://www.doabooks.org/ 1

Browse by titles starting with lib 1

Browse by subject 1

http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Publishers_of_OA_books

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/index

https://www.oapen.org/home e-books

Study materials

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

https://alagappauniversity.ac.in/modules/DDE/book_materials.php

http://content.inflibnet.ac.in/

https://www.msuniv.ac.in/

www.tamiluniversitydde.in

Course notes

Open Educational Resources (OER)

https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ 4.8 crores of resources

https://www.oercommons.org/

https://oasis.geneseo.edu/

https://cnx.org/

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ 717 textbooks

https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/

https://lyryx.com/subjects/how-it-works/open-textbooks/

ET CETERA …

Oh! Let me Conclude

Let’s know about these kind of free and open access research

resources and OER

Let’s use these resources

Let’s share these resources with our

friends and students Thank U

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