[CONTENTS : Encyclopedias | Dictionaries, Thesauri Language Dictionaries | Subject Dictionaries | Portals for Open Access e-Journals | e-Thesis : Indian Theses Database | e-Books | e-Conference Alerts | Yearbooks, Almanacs, Handbooks | Sources of Biographical Information | Sources of Geographical Information | Sources of Statistical Information | Sources of Educational Information | Standards and Patents | Indian Reference Sources | Various Digital Library ]
Encyclopedias
- Columbia Encyclopaedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/
- Encyclopaedia of Psychology http://www.psychology.org/
- Medical Encyclopaedia http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
- Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/
- WebMD http://www.webmd.com/
Dictionaries, Thesauri Language Dictionaries
- Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp
- Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary http://www.merriam-webster.com/
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary http://www.oup.com/
Subject Dictionaries
- Dictionary of Cell & Molecular Biology http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html
- Dictionary of the Social Sciences http://socialsciencedictionary.nelson.com
- Library Automation/Technology Glossary http://www.libraryhq.com/glossary.html
- Medical Dictionary http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html
- Roget’s Int. Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases http://www.bartleby.com
- Roget’s Thesaurus http://thesaurus.reference.com
- CABI Thesaurus http://www.cabi.org/cabthesaurus/
- FOLDOC- Free Online Dictionary of Computing : http://foldoc.org/
Portals for Open Access e-Journals
- Directory of Open Access Journals : http://www.doaj.org/
- Open J-gate : http://www.openj-gate.com/Search/QuickSearch.aspx
- Open Access Journal Search Engine : http://www.oajse.com/
- OMICS Group Open Access Journals : http://www.omicsgroup.org/
- HINARI – Enabling the developing world to access health research https://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/journals.php
- Free Medical Journals http://www.freemedicaljournals.com
- The Global Journals http://theglobaljournals.com/
e-Thesis
- Theses Repositories in India :
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
http://etheses.saurashtrauniversity.edu/
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in
e-Books
- E-Books Directory http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
- Bartleby: Geart Books Online http://www.bartleby.com
- Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm
- Free Tech Books http://www.freetechbooks.com/
- Google Book Search http://books.google.com/
- IEEE Computer Society’s Dgital Library : http://www2.computer.org
- IET(Institution of Engineering and Technology) Digital Library http://www.ietdl.org/
- Springer open access books : http://www.springeropen.com/books http://link.springer.com/book/
- Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/
- Medical Books (http://www.freebooks4doctors.com
- FreePDFeBooksArchive : http://www.planetpdf.com
- Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/
- Read Print http://www.readprint.com/
- WikiBooks :http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Agricultural free e-books : http://nsdl.niscair.res.in/
- ACM Digital Library : http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
- Digital Library at the University of Pennsylvania : http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
- Digital Library of India(1) : http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
- Digital Library of India(2) : http://dli.iiit.ac.in/
- International Children’s Digital Library : http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
- Kalasampada: Digital Library Resource of Indian Cultural Heritage : http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm
- New York Digital Library Collections : http://www.nypl.org/digital/
- National Science Digital Library : http://ndsl.org/
- Oxford Digital Library : http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/eresources/
- Traditional Knowledge Digital Library http://www.tkdl.res.in/
- Universal Digital Library : http://www.ulib.org/
- Free e-Books project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/
- DOAB http://www.doabooks.org/
- Book Boon http://bookboon.com/
- Free Ebooks Library http://ebooksgo.org
- Science Direct http://www.sciencedirect.com/
- Free Full PDF http://www.freefullpdf.com/
- National Library of Medicine (NLM) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
- The Scientific Electronic Library Online – SciELO http://www.scielo.br/
- Health Network http://healthinternetwork.org/
- Free Medical Books http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/
- Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books and Lecture Notes, etc. http://freecomputerbooks.com/
- Free Online Books http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html
- Open Textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.org/
- Open College Consortium http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
- IPL2: Information you can Trust http://www.ipl.org/
- The National Academies Press (NAP) http://www.nap.edu/
- Online Books Library http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
- Ebook3000 http://www.ebook3000.com/
- Book Chums http://www.bookchums.com/ebooks.php
- Book Yards http://www.bookyards.com
- Rapid Search http://rapidsearch.infobind.com/
- Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm
- E-Books Directory http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
- Web Books Viewer http://www.web-books.com/
- Free Fiction Books http://www.freefictionbooks.org/
- Munseys http://www.munseys.com/
- Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts http://infomotions.com/alex/
- Free Electronic Resources http://library.emu.edu.tr/englibrary/FreeResources.htm
e-Conference Alerts
- Conference Alerts (http://www.conferencealerts.com/ )
- Conferences and Events (http://www.chemsoc.org/events/conhome.htm )
- Google Directoryof Conferences http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Conferences/
Yearbooks, Almanacs, Handbooks
- Union Budget & Economic Survey http://indiabudget.nic.in/
- Global Corruption Report 2005 http://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/
- Guinness Book of World Records http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/
- Human Development Reports http://hdr.undp.org/reports/
- Sipri Yearbook http://editors.sipri.se/pubs/yearb.html
- World Development Indicators 2005 http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi2005/wditext/index2.htm
- World Fact book 2004 http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Sources of Biographical Information
- Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/
- Bi graphics of Great Indians http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/
Sources of Geographical Information
- City Population http://www.citypopulation.de/
- Geography http://www.citypopulation.de/
- Global Gazetteer http://www.calle.com/world/
- Imperial Gazetteer of India http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/
- Imperial Gazetteer of India (Maps) http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/
- Indian Historical Maps http://www.geocities.com/narenp/history/maps.htm
- Internet Resources : Geographical Data http://bubl.ac.uk/link/g/geographicaldata.htm
- Maps and GIS sources on the World http://www.albany.edu/~ls973/maps.html
- Maps of India http://www.mapsofindia.com/
- Population Reference Bureau http://www.prb.org/
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/
- World Atlas http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
- World Flag Database http://www.flags.net/index.php
- World Gazetteer http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm
Sources of Statistical Information
- Census of India http://www.censusindia.net/
- Asian Development Bank http://www.adb.org/
- Demographic and Health Surveys http://www.measuredhs.com/
- Human Development Resource Centre http://hdrc.undp.org.in/
- Indian Health Statistical Database http://www.indiahealthstat.com/indian/health/National_Family_Health…
- International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/
- International Statistical yearbooks http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/yearbook/yearmain.htm
- National Family Health Survey (NFHS), India http://nfhsindia.org/index.html
- Reserve Bank of India http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/Statistics.aspx
- UNICEF Statistical Data http://www.unicef.org/statis/
- WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS) http://www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm
- World Bank Data & Statistics http://www.worldbank.org/data/
- World Trade Organization (WTO) http://www.wto.org/
Sources of Educational Information
- All India Council For Technical Education(AICTE) http://www.aicte.ernet.in/aicte/home.htm
- Association of Indian Universities(AIU) http://www.aiuweb.org/
- Association of Commonwealth Universities(AICU) http://www.acu.ac.uk/
- Colleges & Universities Worldwide http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Un…
- Educational Profile of Indian States & UTs http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/stateeduprofile.htm
- Educational Scholarships http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/scho.htm
- Educational Statistics http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/edusta.htm
- Google Directory for Indian Education http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Education/
- Higher Education in India http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/higedu.htm
- International Association of Universities(IAU) http://www.unesco.org/iau/index.html
- National Policy on Education(NPE) http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/natpol.htm
- Sources of Funding for International Students – Education http://www.britishcouncil.org/education/funding/
- Study Abroad http://www.studyabroad.com/
- Technical Education in India http://education.nic.in/htmlweb/tecedu.htm
- UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/
- University Grants Commission (UGC) http://www.ugc.ac.in/
- National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning: http://nptel.ac.in/
- Open Educational Resources https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/
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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) https://www.mooc-list.com/
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Udacity : Online Courses and Nano degree Programs to ..https://www.udacity.com/
- Free online courses from the world’s best universities https://www.edx.org/
- MIT Open Course Ware : Free Online Course Materials http://ocw.mit.edu/
- http://www.bentham.org/index.htm
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/
- http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcvetres
- http://www.saudijgastro.com/
- http://www.hindawi.com/journals/grp/
- http://www.biogeosciences.net/
- http://www.turkjbiochem.com/eng/index.html
Standards and Patents
- Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) http://www.bis.org.in/
- Current Awareness Services: Patents and Standards http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/current/patents.htm
- European Patent Office(EPO) http://ep.espacenet.com/
- Google Directory of Patents http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Intel…
- Google Directory of Standards http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Reference/Standards/
- Indian Patents Database http://pk2id.delhi.nic.in/
- Patents & Standards http://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/internet/patents.html
- United States Patents(USPTO) http://www.uspto.gov/
Indian Reference Sources
- Digital Library of India http://www.dli.ernet.in/
- Five Year Plans http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/welcome.html
- GISTNIC (GISTNIC) http://gist.ap.nic.in/
- Gateway to Government of India Info over the web http://www.indiaimage.nic.in/
- Govt. of India: Directory of Educational Institutions http://goidirectory.nic.in/education.html
- Indian Presidents, Prime Ministers http://www.webindia123.com/history/MODERN/preside.htm
- Internet Indian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
- Online Encyclopedia of Indian politicians http://www.newsnetindia.org/
Various Digital Library
- National Digital Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ - E – Shodh Sindhu : Consortium for higher education electronics http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ess/
- Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog : http://eresources.loc.gov/
- Digital Library of India : http://www.dli.gov.in
- Universal Digital Library : www.ulib.org
- World digital Library : www.wdl.org
- Project Gutenberg : http://www.gutenberg.org
- Full-text Archive : www.fulltextarchive.com
- Digital South Asia Library : http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
ELECTRONIC LIBRARY 