Google
Scholar:
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can
search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from
academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google
Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Rashtriya e- Pustakalaya (ReP):
The Ministry of Education has launched Rashtriya e- Pustakalaya (ReP) as a pioneering FREE digital library
initiative to serve as a national repository of knowledge and stories, especially curated for children,
youth and learners across age 3-18 age groups. National Book Trust (NBT)-India has been entrusted as the
implementing agency for this initiative. The application is available on Android, iOS, and web platforms,
and currently offers access to more than 3,000 titles in multiple Indian languages across diverse genres.
Project
Gutenberg:
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. It was the first provider of free eBooks. Michael
Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation
of eBooks and related content today. The Mission of Project Gutenberg is to encourage the creation and
distribution of eBooks.
Shodhganga
Shodhganga is a reservoir of Indian Theses, which 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
Vidwan
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at
leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It
provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly
publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc.
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.
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