E-Books

Initiated under the Million Books Project, digitized and hosted all the significant works published in India. Supported by Govt. of India with active participation of 21 Centers.

Provides an access to over 3000 e-books from more than 100 well-known publishers covering almost all disciplines.

Provides over 9327 academic peer-reviewed e-books, and other documents with links to the full text of the publication at the publisher website.

A collaborative electronic book repository supported by 60 academic and research libraries. It provides free access to books, serials, standards, theses, etc.

Internet Archive is nonprofit digital library providing the free public access to collection of digitized materials, including websites, music moving images and public domain
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A digitization project of books initiated by Carnegie Mellon University. It provides access to over 1.5 million e-books to the readers

Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks, user can choose among free e-pub format books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

The World e-Book Library including 3 mllion primary sources spanning past 1,000 years of world history in more than 320 different languages. In addition, contemporary journal Collections of WeLinclude scholarly journals and academic articles from all academic fields.

MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level. The content and its quality is the key component of education system. High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being developed under this initiative named e-PG Pathshala.

The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all

1000+ ebooks are accessible in Open Access Platform World’s largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher. Publish, read & share novel researches

Wiki Books is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. It began on July 10, 2003; since then it has grown to include 2,831 books with 55,644 pages in a multitude of textbooks.

Google Archives or Internet archives.org is a revolutionary initiative of Google providing copyright expired and left books in verity of formats. Information in variety of formats i.e. text, videos, music and other formats can be accessed, used, download for reference.

The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academy of Sciences to publish the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. NAP offer more than 5,000 titles in PDF format. All of these PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of dissemination, quality assurance and digital preservation.

Search industrial design registrations from the Hague System plus participating national collections among more than 16,07,784 industrial designs.

the free content encyclopedia, 55,39,226 articles in English.

Search the technology contained in more than 58 million patent documents, including 3 million published international patent applications submitted under the PCT

dedicated to opening access to the refereed research literature online through author / institution self-archiving

from WolframMath World to search free resource built with Mathematica Technology

a world leading provider of freely accessible peerreviewed online Research information.

Gateway to the best scientific research news sources.

NDLTD is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. Collection = 15,20,858 records.

Joint Information Systems Committee supports further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications Technology to support teaching, learning, research and administration. JISC is funded by all the UK post-16 and higher education funding councils

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication.

SHERPA project is investigating issues surrounding the development and use of open access E-print repositories. RoMEO Project (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee for one year (01August 2002 – 31 July 2003 to investigate the rights issues surrounding the ‘self-archiving’ of research in the UK academic community under the Open Archive Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

is a discipline based International Archive. It accepts both published and unpublished documents having relevance to research in Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences. These could be preprints (pre-refereed journal paper), post prints (refereed journal paper), conference papers, conference posters, presentations, technical reports/departmental working papers and theses. Submitted documents will be placed into the submission buffer and would become part of Open MED archive on their acceptance.

a world leading provider of freely accessible peerreviewed online research information.

(PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. 3.8 Million Articles

Gateway to the best scientific research news sources.

News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world.