Objectives

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• To enrich College Library academically and help it to become a world class institution in teaching and research in Sciences, Business Management and other areas of general intellectual interest.
• To provide access to various learning resources of all formats-books, periodicals, e–resources and other media needed for the scholarly community to remain updated in their area of specialization.
• To further utilize digital technology and networked resources for the benefit of the users.
• To ensure optimum satisfaction for all the users of the centre–students, staff, faculty and general public.

Academic activities and programs

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Best Library User Award: The College management  has Instituted the “Best Library User Award” for Two students and Two faculty members , to promote reading habit among students and research culture among the faculty.

User orientation programs - For better use of facilities.

User awareness programs – On resources to increase the usage and bring awareness among the users about resources.

National Library week-  We Celebrate NLW to inculcate book reading habits.

Book exhibitions- Organized to bring awareness among faculty and students regarding The Various types of Documents available in our libraries.

Scholar Card Award: To encourage the students in Studies, Library has initiated a scheme to give an Extra Borrower card with extra facilities like overnight issue of reference books etc. to the students who excels in their Annual Exams in their class.

Children’s Day Celebrations: In Part of Institutional Social Responsibility, our library  Celebrates Children’s Day with Government School students by Conducting Various Competitions among them and distributes prizes to the winners and stationary to all the children.

Animal Adoption: Department of Library & Information Science initiated to adoption of animals, Adopted one pair of peacock and one  Indian  gharial at Nehru zoological park through MOU between Curator, and St. Pious College .

Neighborhood  Library: As part of  Social Responsibility the college library is open for the neighborhood  Senior Citizens  and  Home Makers.

Library advisory committee

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The Library Committee plays a vital role in enhancing and developing the library services, making suitable policies that will help the library to render its best. The committee holds three meetings every year. If required more meetings are also held.

Sl. No.	Name	Last Name	Role
1	Dr.Sr.U.Nirmala	Principal	Chairperson
2	Ms.S.Suneetha	Librarian	Co-Ordinator
3	Ms. T. Vasantha	Asst. Librarian	Member
4	Ms.Satya Prabha	Asst. Librarian	Member
5	Mrs. Naga Lakshmi	Lecturer	Member
6	Mrs. Aarthi	Lecturer	Member
7	Mrs. Vanisri	Lecturer	Member
8	Dr.Sangeetha	Lecturer	Member
9	Mrs. Mary Cecilia	Lecturer	Member
10	Mrs. Suhasini	Associate prof. MBA	Member

Membership Rules

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• The Library is primarily for the use of faculty, students, almuni and non-teaching employees of the College .Students and Faculty are required to write name and other details & put their signature in the Gate Register while entering the library. All the books issued by the Circulation section are checked while leaving the library.
• Users are required to bring their identity card to borrow the books.
• The textbooks can be renewed once only for two weeks, i.e., a student can keep the textbook for a maximum period of four weeks and after that it cannot be renewed further. However it can be renewed, if there is no demand as on date.
• Before entering the Library, users should deposit their own textbooks, books borrowed from the library and any other printed material in the property counter. They will be permitted to carry into the centre notebooks, white papers and valuable belongings only.
• Borrower Slips and Photo identity cards are not transferable.
• Books are to be borrowed in person.
• Production of ‘No Dues Certificate’ from the library is essential for obtaining hall ticket to appear for year/ semester end examinations.
• Loss of Borrower cards should be reported immediately to the librarian and duplicate card will be issued on payment.
• Fine will be levied for late submission of books as per the decision of the management.
• Sub-lending is not permitted.

General Rules

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• The users are advised not to carry bags, jerkins and raincoats etc, into the Library.
• In case a book is lost, the borrower should replace the book.
• Before borrowing and accepting the books, the borrower has to make sure that the books are in good condition.
• Absence and illness are not acceptable excuses for exemption from paying overdue charges.
• Sleeping/ using cell phones/ indulging in discussions/ any other activity detrimental to academics is strictly prohibited in Silence Zone.
The library provides place for Group Discussion in times of requirement.
• Pursuits (misbehave) is strictly prohibited and those involved in such activities will be asked to vacate the Library immediately by the library personnel.
• Users are cautioned not to throw any litter in the premises of library.
• Users are advised not to misplace books on the racks from their original position.
• Loose issues and bound volumes of periodicals are not for issue.
• 10. The Library may accept donation of manuscripts, books, periodicals etc. from the donors. Such donations once accepted will become the absolute property of the College.
• 11.Overnight issue is available for selected reference books.

Borrowing Procedure (Books)

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Sl.No.	User Category	No. of books	Return time
1	UG Students	3	15
2	PG Students	4	15
3	MBA Students	4	7
4	Faculty	8	One Semester

Textbook Section

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Textbooks prescribed in the syllabus are kept here for the benefit of the users. Depending on demand, number of copies is increased. Previous year question papers are also kept here and users can take photocopies of the same or they can take CD of the previous question papers.

Reference Section

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The reference collection comprises of reference books prescribed in the syllabus, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, maps, atlases, costly and rare books. A separate reference section is provided for UG, PG & MBA with seating capacity of 40, 24 & 60 respectively.

Current Periodicals Section

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The library subscribes to 71 Journals & Magazines both national and international, which are displayed on separate racks. The latest issue is displayed on the racks and back volumes are kept beneath the desk of the rack, College is also buying Eight Daily News papers.

Classification Scheme

Classification is a scheme for grouping like books and separating unlike books. We adopted Dewey decimal classification scheme 22nd edition, which has been widely recognized by the international community.

Cataloguing

The books are catalogued as per Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules-II, revised edition, in order to bring uniformity in cataloguing practices. Subject headings are assigned based on Sears list of subject headings and Library of Congress subject headings which are recognized as standard codes by international professional community.

Locating the documents

Books are arranged according to call numbers followed by book number on the shelves. OPAC facility has been provided to assist the users in locating the material. The users can access the database through author, title, classified order, subject, key words in title and combinational search. Well trained library staff members are always available in identifying and locating the required documents.

Arrangement of books

The Library has adopted open access system which facilitates the readers to go to the bookshelves directly and select books of their choice freely, which is seen as the greatest advantage to the users. The books are arranged in classes. These are:

• General collection
• Reference collection
• Textbook collection
• Back volumes of periodicals
• The books acquired are accessioned, classified and catalogued. After processing, the books are sent to the shelves concerned.

Circulation Section

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For issue of books the borrower presents the books along with Bar-Coded Identity card to the staff at the circulation counter. After necessary checking, the library staff issue books using the check out option in the NewZenLib Version Helium 3.1.2 software and stamps the due date on the borrowers due date slip. The book should be presented physically for return or renewal. Users can reserve books and get such information as to who the book was issued to, when it is due and list of books that are issued to a particular borrower etc.

Facilities

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• OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue):The different types of searches available to users are simple search, advanced search, additional search, browse, ISBN, accession number, latest arrivals, journals, periodicals and bulletins. In browse search the user can access the database through author, title, subject, classified, keywords and combinational search.
• Book Bank: It is a collection of books purchased and donated by Alumni. This facility is provided for economically backward students. This service is provided free of cost and is over and above the regular issue of Books on ID cards. Students can keep the Books for One Semester.
• Internet access:Free internet access is available for staff and students with15 systems  in UG , PG & MBA  libraries to carry out academic activities.
•  CC Cameras:CC Cameras are arranged in the library for security purpose
• Inter Library Loan: The College Library provides inter library loan facility to its readers to cater to the extra reading needs of its readers.

Services

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• Textbook: Students and staff can borrow the books prescribed in the syllabus as text books are kept here for Issue.  
• Lending: All the books and user ID cards are bar coded which helps to save the time of library personnel as well as borrowers.
• Reference: The College Libraries have a large collection of reference books on advanced disciplines that are aimed at developing students beyond their curriculum. The library has many motivational books for general reading. for quick reference like encyclopedias, directories, handbooks, dictionaries, yearbooks, almanacs and competitive examination books like JRF, CSIR, NET, SLET etc. are available.  Back volumes of the Journals since 2006 are also available.
• Current awareness service: We provide this service to draw attention to recent additions ,List of content pages of the Periodicals/Magazines is given to the readers frequently, through  email to teaching staff members .
• News paper clippings: a Display Board devoted to an archival of editorial clippings and important articles compiled on various interesting subjects.
• Content page service for hard copies of
• Question papers: The Library provides the soft copies as well as Printed form of question papers for the benefit of the user community.
• Subject Bibliographies: We update Subject catalogues continually for the benefit of users.
• Syllabus Copies: We Preserve Syllabus copies of Current and Previous for consultation.
• Photocopying: The library possesses a rich collection of reference and rare books that cannot be loaned out for home reading. Readers can get a part of those documents photocopied at a nominal charge.

Grievance Redressal of the Readers:

1. Consultation with the Librarian : Students can consult the librarian for problems related to the library and its services. The librarian will try to settle them in her capacity or forward them to the Principal of the college.
2. Suggestion Box : A suggestion box is kept at the entrance of the library seeking valuable suggestions and recommendations from the readers. The suggestions made by them are taken up and discussed in the library committee meeting and healthy suggestions are implemented.

Depatmental Libraries

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All the Subjects departments have departmental libraries for immediate consultation by the faculty/students.

Library working hours

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Monday to Friday: 9.00 AM to 5.00 PM

Saturday: 9.00 AM to 4.00 PM

• Educational CDs 569
• Journal Back Volumes 751
• E-resources Sage 13 +N-LIST+DELNET
• Manuscripts 2

E-resources

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• American Institute of Physics ( 18 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
  
  Annual Reviews (33 titles and 10 years rolling backfiles access)
  
  Cambridge University Press (224 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
  
  Cambridge Core (224 tiles with 10 yrs backfiles)
  
  Institute of Physics (46 titles and access from Vol 1)
  
  Oxford University Press (206 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
  
  Royal Society of Chemistry (29 titles and 10 years backfiles access)
  
  Economic and Political Weekly (1 title and acces form 1966)
  
  Indian Journals (250+ titles and access from 2007)
  
  JSTOR (2500+ titles)
  
  EBSCOHOST(H W Wilson and NetLibrary)(2800+and 936 titles )
  
  Ebook Central SSO
  
  Cambridge Books Online (1800 titles)
  
  Oxford Scholarship-ebooks (1400+ titles)
  
  MyiLibrary-McGraw Hill-ebooks (1124 titles)
  
  Hiindustan Books Agency -ebooks (65 titles)
  
  Institute of South East Asian Studies(ISEAS) Books (382+ titles)
  
  Springer eBooks (2005-2011) (2300 titles)
  
  Sage Knowledge ebooks (1000 titles)
  
  Taylor and Francis -ebooks (1800 titles)-new platform
  
  World ebooks Library (33 lakhs titles)
  
  South Asia Archive
  
  Ebrary-ebooks ( 125000+ titles)
  
  World -ebooks Library 30000000+ titles)

Inter-library Loan

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• Inter-library loan: In addition to the resources available in their respective libraries, Students can borrow the books from other two college libraries.

New Arrivals

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To be updated shortly

Computerisation

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The Library is fully automated by using NewZenLib Version Helium 3.1.2  library software system by NGL.On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) is provided to search for information through Author, Subject, Title, ISBN, Call No, Keywords etc to know the status or availability of the book. Users are given the facility to reserve a book or give their requirement to the Librarian online with the help of a unique identity number and a common password. Charging and discharging is done through Bar-Code by using a scanner.

N-List:

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The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium, IIT Delhi provides for i) cross-subscription to e-resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical institutions; and ii) access to selected e-resources to colleges. The N-LIST project provides access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges and other beneficiary institutions through server(s) installed at the INFLIBNET Centre. The authorized users from colleges can now access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.

Through the N-List Project, the Library provides access to e-resource to students, researchers and faculty members. The authorised users of the library can access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website. The college library has access to selected electronic resources including electronic journals, electronic books and bibliographic databases. These resources include more than6,237e-journals, 1,35,809e-books . Details of e-resources accessible through the INFLIBNET's proxy server http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in.

World e-books Library (30,00,000 titles)	http://community.ebooklibrary.org/?AffiliateKey=WEL-NDL
South Asia Archive (though NDL)	http://www.southasiaarchive.com

Websites for Learning Languages

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www.myenglishteacher.eu

www.phrasemix.com

esl.about.com

learningenglish.voanews.com

www.englishcentral.com

www.newsinlevels.com

howdoyou.do

www.hindilearner.com

www.hindistudents.com

www.thesanskritlanguage.com

www.learnsanskritonline.com

Websites for Competetive Exams

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1 www.indiabix.com -Mathematics and reasoning.

2 www.gktoday.in -Current affairs and Gk.

3 www.mrunal.org - Current events.

4 www.tcyonline.com - Mock tests.

5 www.wolframalpha.com -Problems & Queries.

6 www.biologyexams4u.com - Biology.

7 www.ibpsexamguru.in

8 www.talentsprint.com

9 www.jagranjosh.com

10 www.gkduniya.com

11 www.freeonlinetest.in

12 www.cybermocktest.com

13 www.youtube.com

14 www.indgovtjobs.in

15 careeradda.co.in

16 www.sarkarinaukricareer.in

Open Courseware

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OCWC
http://www.oeconsortium.org/
OCW usually includes items such as lecture notes, reading lists, course assignments, syllabi, study materials, tests, samples and simulations. Much work in this regard has been done by the Open Course Ware Consortium (www.ocwconsortium.org).There are currently over 2,500 open courses available from over 200 Universities. Users can find course materials by browsing individual university Open Course Ware websites or by searching across all courses in the OCW Consortium’s website. Similarly, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Teaching Online (MERLOT) provides free and open resources designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education (www.merlot.org). MERLOT allows users to find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, and share advice and expertise.

CECLOR
http://cec.nic.in/Pages/Home.aspx
The Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) is an inter-university centre on electronic media, established by the University Grants Commission (UGC). CEC’s Learning Object Repository (LOR) houses educational resources in different subjects such as Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Commerce, Computer Science, Economics, Education, English and Fine Arts.

Saylor Foundation Interface.
http://www.saylor.org/
Founded by a corporate CEO, the Saylor Foundation offers complete, freely accessible packages for college-level courses in business, science, math, engineering, the humanities, and the social sciences. Courses are designed to be easily used by students who are working entirely on their own, outside of any formal educational system.

Open Course Library Interface (Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges 
http://opencourselibrary.org/
It is a collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that can be download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download. Open Course Library offers downloadable files in Common Cartridge and ANGEL, which are compatible with other course management systems. 

Academic Earth
http://academicearth.org/
This independent non profit collects videos from the lecture-halls of universities around the country. Watch a semester’s worth of video lectures from a given university course, or find accurate collection of lectures from the archive on a particular theme. No other course materials are offered. While the Web site lists 30 partner institutions, several only provide informational videos or links to their online degree programs. But overall, hundreds of instructors’ lectures are provided.

Khan Academy
http://www.khanacademy.org/)
Khan Academy offers open educational resources primarily in mathematics and science but has expanded to include other subject areas. These 3,000 plus online videos are self paced and allow students to focus on the specific lessons they need help with. 

OER Commans Open Educational Resources 
(http://www.oercommons.org/OER Commons 
was spearheaded in 2007 by ISKME, is a non profit education research institute dedicated to innovation in open education content and practices.

ISKME
http://iskme.org/
ISKME is an independent, education nonprofit whose mission is to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector. Established in 2002, ISKME conducts social science research, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates innovation that improves knowledge sharing in education. .

MIT Open Course ware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
MIT’s OCW began to provide users with open access to class syllabi, lecture notes, course calendars, problem sets and solutions, examinations, reading lists, and even a selection of video lectures in 2003. MIT Open Coursewarehttp://ocw.mit.edu
currently makes available 1,900 courses on the Internet at no cost for non-commercial purposes.

MITx
https://www.edx.org/school/mitx
Building on the success of MIT OpenCourseWare, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology joined the Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) movement with the announcement of MITx. This initiative will make courses available to students attending MIT, and is open to anyone interested in taking a course. These courses will include recorded lectures, course material, and assessments, which can be organized in a student portfolio. After completing a determined sequence of courses, a student will be awarded a certificate indicating completion.

OpenLearn Interface
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk
Another well-known institutional source of HE OER is Open Learn. The Open University is one of the world’s most successful distance education universities. Users can find hundreds of free study units across twelve topic areas, each with a discussion forum.

EKALVYA Interface 
http://ekalavya.it.iitb.ac.in/
The other open educational resource project is the Ekalavya project launched by IIT, Bombay. In this project, the content is developed in various Indian languages and is distributed through the internet. These are part of the curriculum at IIT Bombay and are recorded to be disseminated in the Open Source for wider outreach. The courses offered are intended to cover a variety of subjects useful to the student community.

Fulbright Economics Teaching Program Interface

http://www.fetp.edu.vn/en/opencourseware/fetp-opencourseware/ 
FETP Open CourseWare is not a long distance learning project, rather it is a resource for people working or studying in policy – related fields to increase their knowledge and explore new approaches to learning and curriculam development.

AgEcon Interface
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/
AgEcon (http://ageconsearch.umn.edu) is a free, open access repository of fulltext scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers and journal articles. There are 68 subject headings, which run the full gamut of agricultural economics and agribusiness.

Content Creation Initiatives
Besides OCW initiatives, there are other initiatives focused on creating learning resources that can be used to form courses or stimulate discussion and share advice around using OER.

Connexions Interface Access:
 http://cnx.org/
Launched in 1999 by Rice University, offers users the ability not only to create content but to repurpose others’ content to include in a course. Currently it includes more than 17,000 learning objects in a range of disciplines. The benefit of Connexions is the ability of an instructor to pull from a range of learning objects and organize the material to create his or her own course. Connexions offer textbooks, journal articles, learning objects, and assignments. Once organized, the material can be viewed as either a PDF or EPUBS document for distribution to students. .

WikiEducator Interface 
http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page
Similarly, WikiEducator and Curriki have made huge impact in the OER Movement. Launched in 2003 by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), WikiEducator (http://wikieducator.org) is an evolving community focussed on collaboration.
• planning of education projects linked with the development of free content
• development of free content on WikiEducator for eLearning
• building of open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs
• networking on funding proposals developed as free content

Curriki Interface
http://www.curriki.org/
Curriki (www.curriki.org) is a website where the community shares and collaborates on free and open source curricula. Curriki is a community of educators, students and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. It is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them.

OER Africa Interface
http://www.oerafrica.org/
It is involved in promoting the use of OER in Africa and supporting individuals and organizations in creating OER: OER Africa is also involved in numerous projects supporting the adoption of OER in a number of HEI across Africa. The site not only allows access to African developed resources, but also allows users to follow a documented process of how the materials were created. The website provides a space for various OER projects in Africa.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

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A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions between students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education which was first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012.

 

MOOC-LIST 

SWAYAM
https://swayam.gov.in/
SWAYAM is a program initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

https://www.mooc-list.com/
This site provides information about online courses provided by different universities

EdX: 
https://www.edx.org/
EdX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider and online learning platform. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide audience, some at no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform. It is an organization established by MIT and Harvard University that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through tools that enrich classroom and laboratory experiences.

Coursera
https://www.coursera.org
Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses for anyone to take, for free.

FutureLearn 
https://www.futurelearn.com/
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012 as a company wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England.

Udemy
https://www.udemy.com/
Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for online learning. Unlike academic MOOC programs driven by traditional collegiate coursework, Udemy provides a platform for experts of any kind to create courses which can be offered to the public, either at no charge or for a tuition fee.

Moodle
www.moodle.org
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. Moodle, is a highly flexible, free software, open source learning platform. With comprehensive, customisable and secure learning management features, it can be used to create a private website for dynamic online courses.

Saylor Foundation
http://www.saylor.org
Saylor Foundation offers complete, freely accessible packages for college-level courses in business, science, math, engineering, the humanities, and the social sciences. Courses are designed to be easily used by students who are working entirely on their own, outside of any formal educational system. Each course is made up of a syllabus, links to free online readings, multimedia resources and tutorials, assignments, and exams. Quantitative assessment is available for those who have set up an account.

Canvas 
www.canvas.net
Canvas offers many courses in many subjects. Students have to register and login to do the courses.

Directories and Subject gateways

A directory is a book or website listing individuals or organizations alphabetically or thematically with details such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
Subject gateways are those value-added services which select, evaluate, catalogue and classify Internet resources with the aim to help users in the information retrieval, being a very useful resource for the respective user communities.

Digital Commons Network
http://network.bepress.com/
The Digital Commons network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges wordwide.The network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, work papers, conference proceedings and other original scholarly work.

http://www.icast.org.in/ejournal/ejournal.php 
700 Free E-journals covering Subjects like Business & Managment, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, General Works, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Library Science, Life Sciences, Material Science, Mathematics, Media and Communication, Physics & Social Sciences.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Cambridge journals
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/openAccessContent?sessionId=
0A1D632AE37ED813CEFFB02501DFA88D.journals 
This site contain both open access journals, hybrid journals and all open access articles published by cambridge. One can browse journals according to subject wise in alphabetical order

Bentham Open Access
http://www.benthamopen.com/index.php
BENTHAM OPEN publish over 230 plus peer-reviewed open access journals. These free-to-view online journals cover all major disciplines of science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Computer science journals
http://www.cscjournals.org/ 
It is an International publisher focusing on open access publications of its high quality peer reviewed journals ranging from all science related topics.

ABC-Chemistry: FREE CHEMICAL INFORMATION: Researcher's guide to journals 
http://abc-chemistry.org/ 
It is a directory of Free Full – Text Journals in Chemistry

 

BioMed Central publishes 

264 peer-reviewed open access journals.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/

IOSR Journals (International Organization of Scientific Research)
http://iosrjournals.org/ 
IOSR Journals a broad-based open access, this site covers different research journals in science and technology 

 

Infofacility
http://www.infofacility.com/ 
Infofacility publishes peer reviewed open access online journals in various fields. 

 

Science & Education
http://www.sciepub.com/portal/journals 
It provides access to different subject journals

DMOZ: Open directory project 
http://www.dmoz.org/
DMOZ is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It was historically known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It covers arts, business, computers, games health, home, kids, and teens, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, shopimg, sports etc. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteers editors.

 

E-print network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
It is a vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, all full-text searchable. E-print Network is intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels. It is a gateway to over 35,300 websites and databases worldwide, containing over 5.5 million e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies, and other disciplines.

MathGuide 
http://mathguide.de/
The MathGuide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in mathematics, located at the Lower Saxony State- and University Library, Göttingen (Germany). Resources are described and evaluated with a set of Dublin Core metadata.

 

Sociosite
http://sociosite.net/
It is a project based at the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. The resources are relevant for sociologists and other social scientists. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociological resources on the internet. It is a useful instrument for all social scientist in different fields of sociological study.

 

www virtual library

http://vlib.org/ 
It is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. It indexes covers broad area of subjects such as agriculture, law, education etc. Each entry within the subject area links to the appropriate internet resource and is accompanied by brief description and a relevancy ranking.

iPl2
http://www.ipl.org/
ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. Topics include current events and issues, helpful tools for information users, human interest, and more.

Cessda
http://www.cessda.net/ 
The CESSDA Catalogue enables users to locate datasets, as well as questions or variables within datasets, stored at CESSDA archives throughout Europe. It provides common interface for many of the social science data archives in Europe. The major objective for CESSDA is to provide seamless access to data across repositories, nations, languages and research purposes. CESSDA will encourage standardisation of data and metadata, data sharing and knowledge mobility across Europe. 

Academic Journals
http://www.academicjournalsinc.com/subject.php
This site provides subject wise open access journals in various subjects.

World Scientific
http://www.worldscientific.com/action/showPublications?pubType=journal
This site provides access to various subject journals

Open DOAR
http://www.opendoar.org/
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. It includes repositories of many universities and institutions. It covers many subjects including social sciences.

http://www.digital-librarian.com/socialsciences.html 
This site provides various resources for social sciences

http://www.questia.com/ 
It is full-text online library of over 2 million articles on subjects like Psychology, Education, Law, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, and Economics and so on. It also includes 70,000 full text books in various subjects.

http://indiclibrarian.blogspot.in/2009/12/hindi-language-major-journals-and.html 
This is a Reference Portal for Information on Hindi Language and Literature (हिंदी भाषा और साहित्य की वेब निर्देशिका).This website lists description and links to resources for Hindi language and literature. It is an attempt to bring together at one place all the useful and important references and links on Hindi language and literature from where users can go to desired information.

Directories and Subject gateways

http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/11/11/100-excellent-open-access-journals-for-educators/ 
All these journals provide scholarly information at no cost for educators.

http://www.ajol.info/ 
African Journals Online (AJOL) is the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.

http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php#E 
OMICS International hosts over 700 leading-edge peer reviewed Open Access Journals and organizes over 1000 International Conferences annually all over the world.

http://blds.ids.ac.uk/resources-for-research 
BLDS E-library contains a wide range of different kinds of online information resources relevant to development issues and the majority of these are open access.

https://ideas.repec.org/ 
It is a largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 1,800,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 1,700,000 can be downloaded in full text.

http://eifl.net/programmes/open-access-programme 
EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) is a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America. It works with libraries to enable access to knowledge for education, learning, research and sustainable community development.

http://home.highwire.org/ 
High Wire Press partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of more than 3000 journals, books, reference works, and proceedings.

http://www.inasp.info/en/about/ 
INASP is an international development charity working with a global network of partners to improve access, production and use of research information and knowledge, so that countries are equipped to solve their development challenges.

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/ 
World Bank provides free and open access to a number of reports.

http://www.oajse.com 
This is an Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE). This site provides open access to all subject journals in the world (excluding India) and can search articles I open acess journals directly.

 

ROAD
http://road.issn.org/en
It is a directory of open access scholarly resources

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