USEFUL LINKS OPEN SOURCE  INFORMATION (E-BOOKS, E-JOURNALS, THESIS, COURSE WARES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES,  VIDEOS, TRANSLATIONS AND DATA BASE)
S.No. E-Books URL LINK
1 Project Gutenberg offers over 38,000 free e-books http://www.gutenberg.org/
2 Free – Books https://archive.org/details/texts
3 Free – Books http://www.digilibraries.com/
4 Free – Books http://www.free-books.org
5 Free – Technology Books http://www.freetechbooks.com
6 Directory of Open Access Books http://www.doabooks.org/
S.No. Open Access E-Journals URL LINK
1 Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/
2 Indian Academy of Sciences(IAS)–11 free Indian online journals      http://www.ias.ac.in
3 NISCAIR Full Text Journals http://op.niscair.res.in
4 High Wire Press-Earths largest free-full science archives(journals) 320 journals      http://highwire.stanford.edu/
5 The STEAM Journal                                                     http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/
6 Institute of Physics electronic journals(IOP)60                http://iopscience.iop.org/journals
7 Indian National Science Academy journals(INSA) http://www.insa.nic.in/
8 Open j-Gate 4000 Open Access Journals http://jgateplus.com
9 Open Access Journals Search Engine http://www.oajse.com/
10 Medknow Publications Journals http://www.medknow.com
11 Search Engine:OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/
12 National Digital Library of India https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
13 ERIC https://eric.ed.gov/
S.No. Online Thesis, Projects & Books Data Bases URL LINK
1 UGC – INFLIBNET : Ind Cat : Online Union Catalogue of  Indian Universities http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
2 Vidwan : Expert Database http://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/
3 National Library of Australian http://trove.nla.gov.au/
4 Google Scholars https://scholar.google.co.in/
5 OAsis, COL’s Publications Repository http://oasis.col.org/
S.No. Open Course Wares URL LINK
1 National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning(NPTEL) http://nptel.ac.in
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)                   http://ocw.mit.edu/
3 IGNOU RESOURCES      http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/
4 Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations(NDLTD) http://www.ndltd.org/
5 Swayam https://swayam.gov.in
6 Mooc.org http://mooc.org/
7 e-PGpathshala http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
S.No. ENCYCLOPEDIAS URL LINK
1 Encyclopedia of the Orient http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm
2 Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/
3 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
4 Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
5 Encarta Encyclopedia, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encarta
6 AllWords Dictionary http://allwords.com/
7 Encyclopedia http://www.encyclopedia.com/
8 Discovery online http://www.discovery.com/
9 World of Mathematics http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
S.NO. DICTIONARIES URL LINKS
1 Roget’s Internet Thesaurus http://www.thesaurus.com/
2 Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/
VIDEOS  URL LINKS
1 UCI OpenCourseWar http://ocw.uci.edu
2 Harvard Online Learning http://online-learning.harvard.edu
3 The Open Education Consortium http://www.oeconsortium.org
4 Khan Academy https://www.khanacademy.org
S.No. TRANSLATION URL LINKS
1 Free Translation http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html
2 English German http://www.dict.cc/
3 English Spanish http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html
S.No. FREE REFERENCE SOURCES URL LINK
1 WDI (World Development Indicators) http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
2 GDF (Global Development Finance) http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
3 ADI (Africa development Indicators) http://databank.worldbank.org/data/home.aspx
4 E-Library (World Bank e-Library) http://elibrary.worldbank.org/
5 Free Economic Data https://www.economy.com/freelunch/default.asp
6 Legal Information Institute of India – Free, independent and non-profit access to Indian law http://liiofindia.org/
7 OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) http://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/
8 UN Data http://data.un.org/
9 WHO – Data and statistics http://www.who.int/healthinfo/statistics/en/
10 WHO – Global Database on Body Mass Index http://apps.who.int/bmi/index.jsp
11 Agricultural Economic Search http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/
12 EconPapers http://econpapers.repec.org/
13 Espacenet – patent database http://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/technical/espacenet.html
14 Espacenet – patent database https://www.hathitrust.org/
15 Indian ETD Repository (Shodhganga) http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
16 Open Knowledge Repository – World Bank https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
17 Materials Research http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=1516-1439&lng=en&nrm=isoa>
18 Academic Leadership http://www.academicleadership.org/
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