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Open Access resources

  • Versitaopen : Versita is a scholarly (academic) publisher. Versita Open is the hosting and distribution platform of open access journals and books published by Versita. This platform hosts full texts of many scholarly journals. 
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) : This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 5190 journals in the directory. Currently 2150 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 417315 articles are included in the DOAJ service. 
  • Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) : OAPEN is an initiative in Open Access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs.It provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. 
  • Open J-Gate : e-Journal portal which provides free article level access. 
  • Free e-Journals : Access >700 free e-journals covering Subjects like Business & management, 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. 
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS) : PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. 
  • NISCAIR Online Periodical Repository : Access to full text articles from research journals published by NISCAIR. 
  • Internet Archive : It is a non-profit digital library which offers free online access to millions of documents, Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. 
  • ABC Chemistry : Directory of free full text journals in chemistry 
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research : This is a WHO Collaborating Centre in Education and Research in Human Reproduction. GFMER provides online access to many free medical journals. 
  • Free Medical Journals : This is Free Medical Journals Site which was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. 
  • Bioline International : Bioline International is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security and biodiversity that would not otherwise be readily available to researchers in the developed world, or even within the country of publication. Bioline is not a publisher, but an aggregator that provides a free platform for journals who wish to participate in the global open access movement. 
  • Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) : It is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet. Provides free access to scientific journal articles from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and Spain. 
  • Digital Library and Archives : DLA provides access to scholarly electronic serials that are peer-reviewed, full text, and accessible without charge. Their topics range from education, engineering, and literature to technology, philosophy and libraries. 

Open Access Theses and Dissertations

Search engines 

  • Google Scholar : Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources like articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. 
  • CORE Discovery : Core is the collection of Open Access(OA) papers. CORE harvests research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journal publishers. 

Online OPAC's of other relevant libraries

Online bookstores 

National Digital Library of India

National Digital Library of India (NDLI) initiated by Ministry of Education and managed by IIT Kharagpur is catering to the requirement of learning content for students of various categories and educational levels from primary to postgraduate, teachers, researchers and lifelong learners. NDLI can be accessed here

Union Catalogue of eResources

Union catalogue of eresources subscribed by IISERs and IITs can be accessed here