INTEGRATED SEARCH PORTAL FOR STUDENTS OF IMAM BUKHARI UNIVERSITY


Sl. No.		Type of Material	Webpage	Description
1.	E- Books(Accessible)		Librivox	On Librivox, you can download audio-versions of public domain books for free. All titles are orated by volunteers, and you can pay it forward by volunteering to read a chapter – or an entire novel – for the site.
2.	E-books		Baen eBooks	Baen eBooks is a company offering cross-platform ebooks in exchange for a membership fee. They have also made a number of titles available to read online or download in just about any format completely free through their online library.
3.	E-books		Bookboon	Bookboon offers over 800 free e-books in seven languages. All books are downloadable in PDF format, and each book has a nifty embed code that can direct users to download the book.
4.	E-books		Bookyards	Bookyards’ motto is “Library to the World” and in keeping with that they work to provide as many free eBooks to as many people as possible. The site is entirely free, but you can make a donation via PayPal to help sustain their efforts.
5.	E-books		DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books	A collection of open, peer-reviewed academic books on a variety of subjects.
6.	E-books		Ebooklobby	Look here for a collection of eBooks that you can read on the site for free. There are several categories to choose from including children’s books, self-help, cooking, and more.
7.	E-books		E-Books Directory	E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of links to freely accessible ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit your own ebooks, or add other resources you come across. Look below for the main directory of categories.This website is now completely redesigned to be accessible to mobile devices with small screen sizes. The look is somewhat different now, but the content is the same. They have exactly 10849 free e-books in 709 categories.
8.	E-books		Feedbooks	FeedbooksContain thousands of Public Domain books
9.	E-books		Folger Shakespeare	The Folger Shakespeare brings you the complete works of the world’s greatest playwright, edited for modern readers. Whether you’re a Shakespeare lover, student, teacher, or scholar, the Folger Shakespeare is a trusted resource for Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and for information about his life and world.
10.	E-books		Free eBooks: The Ultimate Guide	Reading books in digital format is widely practiced. The world seems smaller and more connected when we can access literary texts instantly on the web. eBooks and digital publications can be expensive, though. As the library is to ink-and-paper books, these sites are to eBooks. Every site and page listed in this guide offers quality eBooks for absolutely no charge. Some can only be read directly on the site they are posted on, while many others are available to download on your reading device or computer. Enjoy browsing through the many, many selections that have been made available for public enjoyment.
11.	E-books		Freecomputerbooks	This site focuses solely on eBooks in computer and tech-related categories. You can find guides and books about programming, mathematics, networking, design, and more – all for free.
12.	E-books		Free-ebooks	On this site, you can download thousands of free titles in every genre from biography to erotica. Newer and independent authors are featured which is a win-win for everyone: readers get free books, and budding authors gain exposure. You can even submit your own works for publication on the site.
13.	E-books		Get Free eBooks	The site’s name is pretty self-explanatory and, aside from the free eBooks, you can also find interesting articles and links to other eBook resources. Visit often, as the site is always publishing new lists of places to find free eBooks.
14.	E-books		HathiTrust	Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.
15.	E-books		Libretexts	This is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning.
16.	E-books		Manybooks	Find classics, contemporary fare, reference books, and more here. All are free to download on any e-reader device. The site is run as a courtesy service by people who want to make literary works available to everyone. They don’t charge, but you can make a small donation to help support their efforts
17.	E-books		National Academies Press	Most books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded for free in PDF format. Just find the book you want, bypass the print price, and click the “Download Free PDF” button. This site requires that you provide a name and e-mail address.
18.	E-books		Onlinebooks	The University of Pennsylvania provides this extensive collection of digital books that anyone can access for free.
19.	E-books		Onlineprogrammingbooks	For something a little more specific, look here for all kinds of books about nothing but programming. Software, website building, guides to programming languages – you’ll find texts about all aspects of computer programming here.
20.	E-books		Openlibrary	To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way
21.	E-books		Planet Publish	Planet Publish On Planet Publish, you can download classic tales in PDF format. There are literary masterpieces like Canterbury Tales, Around the World in 80 Days, and Wuthering Heights – to name a few.Free PDF eBooks Archive by Planet PDF
22.	E-books		Poemhunter	Find thousands of classic and contemporary poems on this page. All are available in PDF format and are free to use.
23.	E-books		Project Gutenberg	Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
24.	E-books		Read Print	On Read Print, you can search through thousands of classic titles that you can read online for free.
25.	E-books (Accessible)		Sugamya Pustakalaya	Sugamya Pustakalaya , India 's first and largest collection of accessible books.
26.	E-textbooks		Digital Public Library of America	The Digital Public Library of America empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.
27.	E-textbooks		FreeTechBooks	FreeTechBooksThis site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout this site, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.
28.	E-textbooks		MIT Online Textbooks	Some of these online textbooks are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes which are so thorough that they serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook. Subject areas include: Arts, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Sciences, World Languages.
29.	E-textbooks		Open SUNY Textbooks	Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This pilot initiative published high-quality, cost-effective course resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.
30.	E-Textbooks		Open Textbook Library	Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 781 textbooks, with more being added all the time. Accounting & Finance, Business Human Resources, Computer Science & Information Systems, etc.
31.	E-textbooks		OpenStax	OpenStax is part of Rice University, which is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable corporation. As an educational initiative, it's our mission to give every student the tools they need to be successful in the classroom. Through our partnerships with philanthropic foundations and our alliance with other educational resource companies, we're breaking down the most common barriers to learning. Because we believe that a well-educated society profits us all. We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
32.	E-Textbooks		OpenStax CNX	Frustrated by the limitations of traditional textbooks and courses, Dr. Richard Baraniuk founded OpenStax (then Connexions) in 1999 at Rice University to provide authors and learners with an open space where they can share and freely adapt educational materials such as courses, books, and reports.Today, OpenStax CNX is a dynamic non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of educational content to improve learning outcomes.There are tens of thousands of learning objects, called pages, that are organized into thousands of textbook-style books in a host of disciplines, all easily accessible online and downloadable to almost any device, anywhere, anytime.
33.	Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education		FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education)	FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project promotes the use of FLOSS tools in academia and research. The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India. Below is the list of projects which are promoted by FOSSEE.
34.	Open Access Journals		Sage Open	Open access journal with original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities.
35.	Open Courses		NPTEL	The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) was initiated by seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Guwahati and Roorkee) along with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2003. Five core disciplines were identified, namely, civil engineering, computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering and mechanical engineering and 235 courses in web/video format were developed in this phase.The main goal of NPTEL Phase II (2009-14) was to build on the engineering and core science courses launched previously in NPTEL Phase I. An additional 600 web and video courses were created in all major branches of engineering, physical sciences at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and management courses at the postgraduate level. Several improvements such as indexing of all video and web courses and keyword search were implemented.
36.	Open Courses		Opencourselibrary	The 42 courses that are currently available are designed to be used primarily by faculty, who can than integrate any or all elements of the syllabus, lessons, discussion topics, readings, and assignments they feel are appropriate. Some courses offer links to free outside readings and textbooks, others recommend textbooks that cost no more than $30. Open Course Library offers downloadable files in Common Cartridge and ANGEL, which are compatible with other course management systems.
37.	Open Courses		Swayam	Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
38.	Open Courses		Utah State Open Course Ware	Utah State Open Course Ware
39.	Open Education Resources		Annamalai University OAR	E- Content of Annamalai University
40.	Open Education Resources		Annamalai University OAR(Presentations)	Learning Resources (Presentations) of Annamalai University Study
41.	Open Education Resources		Applied Math and Science Education Repository	AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.
42.	Open Education Resources		Arvindguptatoys	"A Million Books for a Billion People" Resource for books and science experiments
43.	Open Education Resources		Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar UniversityOAR	Video Lecture Content of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU)
44.	Open Education Resources		Bartleby	bartleby learn is your guide to better learning, providing access to millions of step-by-step textbook solutions, a vast, searchable Q&A library, and subject matter experts on standby 24/7 to provide thorough answers to homework questions. bartleby learn helps ensure that users not only get the correct answer but that they’ll understand how to solve the problem on their own come exam time.bartleby write is your 24/7 stress-free virtual writing center. Designed to spot mistakes, build better writing habits and transform okay papers into stellar ones with its spelling and grammar check, plagiarism detection, and citation assistance. You’ll also receive a preliminary score so you’ll know how your paper stacks up. With bartleby write you can submit your papers with confidence.bartleby research sparks the write idea, helping students to jump-start their writing assignments. It offers access to thousands of student-penned essays that can act as thought starters for students struggling to draft their own paper.
45.	Open Education Resources		Bharathidasan University OAR	E-Content Portal (for Colleges) of Bharathidasan University
46.	Open Education Resources		Brihaspati	A platform independent, highly scalable content-delivery tool for web based e-learning system developed by IIT, Kanpur
47.	Open Education Resources		Consortium for Educational Communication	The Consortium for Educational Communication, popularly known as CEC, is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of Higher Education through the powerful medium of Television along with appropriate use of emerging Information Communication Technology (ICT).
48.	Open Education Resources		Diksha	Diksha An initiative by National Council Of Educational Research And Training (MHRD, Government of India)
49.	Open Education Resources		eGyanKosh	Welcome to eGyanKosh- a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated.
50.	Open Education Resources		e-PG Pathshala	e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of educationsystem, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences,
51.	Open Education Resources		Infosecawareness	The global scenario has undergone a sea change in terms of enhanced threat perceptions and ever increasing vulnerabilities. With the proliferation of internet, wide spread use of IECT solutions for various social and economic activities and with emergence of newer technologies, the Information Security challenges have increased multifold in the past few years in terms of technical complexities, magnitude and its spread. Information Security domain has been constantly evolving to meet the ever increasing threats and challenges. Cyber security Awareness is the best way to safely participate online as the dependency on Internet is increasing. One of the categories under ISEA project is Academic Users: School level - Children, Parents & Teachers, College level - Students & Faculty who are engaged in the use of Internet on Regular basis. As the number of users increase the threats are also increasing alarmingly. The Guidelines provides a complete understanding of the cyber world with latest tips to safeguard yourself Online.
52.	Open Education Resources		Khanacademy	This resource 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.
53.	Open Education Resources		Laireek	E-content Manipur Government Education Department
54.	Open Education Resources		Magadh University OAR	E- Content of Magadh University
55.	Open Education Resources		MERLOT	This massive resource offers access to learning objects, full course curricula, open access journals, assessment tools, open textbooks, discipline-specific pedagogical resources, and more. Material is peer reviewed, and reviewer and user comments are accessible to all.
56.	Open Education Resources		Netaji Subhas Open University OAR	E- Content of Netaji Subhas Open University
57.	Open Education Resources		NIOS	NIOS is "Open School" to cater to the needs of a heterogeneous group of learners up to pre-degree level. It was started as a project with in-built flexibilities by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in 1979. In 1986, the National Policy on Education suggested strengthening of Open School System for extending open learning facilities in a phased manner at secondary level all over the country as an independent system with its own curriculum and examination leading to certification.
58.	Open Education Resources		NROER	NROER is a collaborative platform, which brings together everyone interested in school and teacher education. Initiated by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and managed by the Central Institute of Educational Technology, National Council of Educational Research and Training, the Repository runs on the MetaStudio platform, an initiative of the Gnowledge Labs, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.
59.	Open Education Resources		OAsis, COL’s Open Access Repository	OAsis, COL’s Open Access RepositoryOAsis is the Commonwealth of Learning’s online institutional repository for learning resources and publications. The publications found here are licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 and can be freely downloaded for reuse and adaptation with attribution to COL (exceptions are noted).COL is an intergovernmental organisation that promotes the development and sharing of open learning and helps Commonwealth Member States and institutions harness the potential of distance learning and technologies for expanding access to education and training.
60.	Open Education Resources		Odisha State Open UniversityOAR	E-Content Portal (Self-Learning Materials, Audio lessons, Video lessons) of Odisha State Open University
61.	Open Education Resources		OERCOMMONS	The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the human right to access high-quality education. This shift in educational practice is not just about cost savings and easy access to openly licensed content; it’s about participation and co-creation. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.
62.	Open Education Resources		Open Philosophy Archive	Open access archive in philosophy.
63.	Open Education Resources		Pitara	Pitara literally means ‘a chest full of surprises’. For over 20 years (this website was started in 1998) we have been publishing original multi-cultural, multi-lingual and inclusive content to help kids explore, discover, learn, play, enjoy... All our content is copyright protected. If you wish to use our content ask us — some of the world's leading publishers regularly license our content.
64.	Open Education Resources		Pondicherry University OAR	Materials for various MBA Programs of Pondicherry University
65.	Open Education Resources		State of Florida's Digital Repository	The State of Florida's Digital Repository for instructional resourcesContains three collections: The Orange Grove (contains various resources), Open Textbooks, and Harvested Resources (other open educational resources from outside Florida)
66.	Open Education Resources		TESS-India: All India Resources (in English)	TESS-India (Teacher Education through School-based Support in India) is a multi-award-winning initiative that aims to strengthen and transform professional development and classroom practice in India. The programme provides an innovative, practical and scalable approach to pre- and in-service teacher education, with an emphasis on inclusive, participatory child-centred pedagogy. At the centre of TESS-India is a toolkit of almost 200 freely available Open Education Resources (OER) in multiple languages. These TESS-India OER comprise of teacher development and school leadership units, professionally filmed videos of classroom teaching, and principles of practice. They are the product of a collaboration between more than 200 Indian and UK educational experts, led by The Open University UK, in partnership with the Government of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development and with support of the British Council and Save the Children India.
67.	Open Education Resources		Thewalters	This site holds 900 illuminated manuscripts, 1,250 of the first printed books (ca. 1455 - 1500), and an important collection of post-1500 deluxe editions, this extraordinary collection chronicles the art of the book over more than 1,000 years. The collection is from all over the world, and from ancient to modern times. It features deluxe Gospel books from Armenia, Ethiopia, Byzantium, and Ottonian Germany, French and Flemish books of hours, as well as masterpieces of Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman manuscript illumination.
68.	Open Education Resources		Uttarakhand Open University OAR	E-Content Portal (Self-Learning Materials, Audio lessons, Video lessons) of Uttarakhand Open University
69.	Open Education Resources		Vikaspedia	This portal has been developed as part of the national level initiative - India Development Gateway (InDG), dedicated for providing information / knowledge and ICT based knowledge products and services in the domain of social development. InDG is a Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) Government of India initiative and is executed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Hyderabad
70.	Open Theses and Dissertations		DART-Europe E-theses Portal	DART-Europe E-theses Portal
71.	Open Theses and Dissertations		Digital Commons Network	Full-text access to 125,000 theses and dissertations.
72.	Open Theses and Dissertations		Etd.ohiolink	Full-text electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from several universities and colleges across Ohio have been deposited in the Center, which makes the ETDs freely available to all. You can search by subject (e.g. occupational therapy) or granting university.
73.	Open Theses and Dissertations		National Chemical Laboratory	National Chemical Laboratory Pune (Theses full text free).
74.	Open Theses and Dissertations		NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations	An international collaborative effort, the NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations, and promotes open access publishing of these documents.
75.	Open Theses and Dissertations		Open Access Electronic Theses and Dissertations	An index of 1.5 ETDs. OATD stores the first 30 pages of the documents, not the full text.
76.	Open Theses and Dissertations		Open thesis:	A free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents from around the world.
77.	Open Theses and Dissertations		Shodhganga	Shodhganga - ETD Repository of Indian Universities- INFLIBNET initiative
78.	Open Videos		Archive.org	A large collection of movies, films and videos that are all free to use.
79.	Open Videos		OpenVideo	A repository of open access digitized videos for education and learning purposes.
80.	Royalty Free Images		Flickr	A collection of images published on Flickr using a Creative Commons license.
81.	Royalty Free Images		Getty’s Open Content Program	A wonderful collection of more than 4,500 images released under an open license in August 2013.

SOME MORE WEBPORTALS FOR REFERENCE

Digital Libraries

Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov

National Digital Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
http://nsdl.org/

NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/

Parliament Digital Library

https://eparlib.nic.in/

UNESCO Library
http://www.unesco.org/library/

Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org

World Digital Library
http://www.wdl.org

E-Journals

Access to Global online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
http://www.aginternetwork.org/en

Bioline international - Open Source Journals and Online Resources Directories News and guide to scientific information on the Web
http://www.bioline.org.br/journals

Brill Open E-Journals Collection
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals

Cambridge University Press: Open Access - Open Access journals from Cambridge University Press.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/openAccessContent

CIMMYT : an international Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
http://www.cimmyt.org

cogent oa
https://www.cogentoa.com/

Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org

EPW (Economic and Political Weekly)
http://www.epw.in/

European Scientific Co-operative on Phytotherapy - European Phytojournal - free online
http://www.escop.com

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/

Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Free On-line Chemistry journals
http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm

Free scholarly electronic journals: an annotated webliography
http://www.istl.org/00-fall/internet.html

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
http://www.who.int/hinari/en

HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text peer-reviewed content
http://intl.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl

Hindawi - Open Access Journals
http://www.hindawi.com/oa/

Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
http://www.ias.ac.in/

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
http://www.inasp.info/

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
http://www.jpgmonline.com/

MedInd-medical journals - fulltext of 33 Journals
http://www.medind.nic.in

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
http://www.mdpi.org/

National Preservation Office - NPO ejournals
http://www.bl.uk/blpac/journaltemp.html

Nature Precedings - Preprint server for the Life Science community.
http://precedings.nature.com/

Nature Publishing Group - Open Acess Journals
http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/nature.php

Nutrition Bytes - Free fulltext
http://escholarship.org/uc/uclabiolchem_nutritionbytes

OMICS Publishing Group - Open Access Journals
http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php

Open Access Library (OALIB) - Free Access to 263,388 Academic Articles
http://www.oalib.com/

Open Science Directory - Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library
http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Palgrave Macmillan - Open Access Journals
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/index.html

Parivartan Quarterly E-Patrika (Hindi online Magazine)
http://www.parivartanpatrika.in/

Physics related free access journals
http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/journals.html

Public Library of Science - premier open-access journals in Biology and Medicine
http://www.plos.org

Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed Open Access Journals
http://www.biomedcentral.com/

 SAGE Open Subject Collections
http://sgo.sagepub.com/

Science and Education Publishing (SciEP) is a multidisciplinary open access publisher of 85 Journals
http://www.sciepub.com/portal/journals

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Worldwide dissemination of social science research.
http://www.ssrn.com/

SPIE Journals (Open Access)
http://journals.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals.aspx

Springer Open gives you free access in Science, Technology and Medicine.
http://www.springeropen.com/

Taylor & Francis Online :: Open Journals
http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals

The African Journal Archive
http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive

University of Tennessee - Research Guides - Citation Formats and Style Manuals, Databases and other e-resources collection.
http://libguides.utk.edu/style

Wiley Open Access Journal
http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/index.html

E-Books

4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks.
http://4ebooks.org/

Arts & Photography
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=108

Audio books
http://www.audible.com/t1/PBRP0329WS022409?source_code=PBRP0310WS012709

Blue Portal provides ebooks in various subjects
http://www.zillr.org/

Brill Open E-Book Collection
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books

Darwin Online
http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Free Book Spot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 Titles in various subjects
http://www.freebookspot.es/

Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads
http://www.globusz.com/

Gutenberg- more than 20,000 public domain books that are out of copyright and also world’s greatest fiction available.
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Historical Mathematics Collection
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/umhistmath/

Know Free is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice
http://knowfree.net/

Online Books for children
http://www.biguniverse.com/

Online Free EBooks provides various subject ebooks
http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/

Open Book Publishers - Publishing open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences.
http://www.openbookpublishers.com

Snip Files offers you free ebooks and software
http://www.snipfiles.com/

SpringerOpen books
http://www.springeropen.com/books

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

The Public Library and Digital Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/

UNESCO : Open Access Publications
http://en.unesco.org/open-access/

E-Newspapers

about 10,000 newspapers worldwide
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

E-Patents

Ekaswaa - Search of all Indian patent documents.
http://www.indianpatents.org.in/db/testmaina.asp

European
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/

FreePatentsOnline.com - A simple patent search database, freepatentsonline.com offers to chemical researchers a unique way of searching for patent documents.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

French Patent Office
http://www.inpi.fr/

German Patent Office
http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/english/index.html

Govt. of India's Patents Website
http://patinfo.nic.in/

Greek Industrial Property Organisation
http://www.obi.gr/obi/Default.aspx?tabid=71&

Hong Kong Patent Office
http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/home.htm

Indian Patent design and trademark office
http://www.ipindia.nic.in/

Indian Patent Information Retrieval System (IPIRS)
http://www.ipindia.nic.in/resources.htm#Manuals

Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO)
http://english.sipo.gov.cn/

Internet sites for patent search
http://www.pfc.org.in/info/site.htm

Irish Patent Office
http://www.patentsoffice.ie/

Korean Intellectual Property Office
http://www.kipo.go.kr/kpo/user.tdf?a=user.english.main.BoardApp&c=1001

Malaysian Intellectual Property Division
http://www.myipo.gov.my/

New Zealand Patent Office
http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms

Patent Facilitating Centre
http://www.pfc.org.in/

Patent information centres (PATLIB)
http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib.html

Patent Lens - A worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.
http://www.patentlens.net/

Russian Patent Office
http://www.rupto.ru/rupto/portal/start?lang=en

Singaporean Patent Office
http://www.ipos.gov.sg/

Swedish Patent Office
http://www.prv.se/

Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property
https://www.ige.ch/en.html

Thai
http://www.patentarea.com/thai_patent_requirements.html

UK Intellectual Property Office
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/

United States
http://patft.uspto.gov/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

E-Reference

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/

Foreign Language Dictionary-French
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/frenchdictionaries.htm

Foreign Language Dictionary-Spanish
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/spanishdictionaries.htm

Librarian's Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

Merriam-Webster
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

One Look Dictionaries
http://www.onelook.com/

Sahapedia - An open Encyclopedia on Indian Culture and Heritage
http://www.sahapedia.org

Scholarpedia
http://www.scholarpedia.org

Subject Dictionary-Business/Finance
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/businessdictionaries.htm

Subject Dictionary-Library and Information Science
http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_d.aspx

Subject Dictionary-Medical Science
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

Subject Dictionary-Science
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/sciencedictionaries.htm

Subject Dictionary-Technology
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/computerdictionaries.htm

Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org

E-Zines

Competitive E-magazine (Pratyogitha Darpan & Success Mirror)
http://www.emagazine.pdgroup.in/

digitalLEARNING: Learning Through ICTs
https://digitallearning.eletsonline.com

eGov
https://egov.eletsonline.com/

eHEALTH
https://ehealth.eletsonline.com/

Free ezines: offers 22 free magazines in different subject categories
http://www.buzzle.com

 Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter
http://www.iotn.org

Entertainment

10,000 free online games
http://www.dailygames.com/

more than 5000 free games
http://www.games.co.in

Movies
http://www.imdb.com/

puzzles, adventure games, sports, fun games and multiplayer games
https://www.miniclip.com/games/genre-1/puzzle/en/

Thousands of free online flash games including puzzles, action and arcade games
http://www.freeonlinegames.com

Videos
http://www.youtube.com

General & Search Engines

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
http://www.base-search.net/

India Place Finder (A state of the art digital tool for India studies)
http://india.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Intute - Free online service with access to the best resources available on the internet
http://www.intute.ac.uk/

List of academic databases and search engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

List of top companies in Indian and abroad
http://www.vcsdata.com/

Nobel Prize Internet Archive
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/

PDF Genie is a new search service which is tailored towards PDF documents
http://www.pdfgenie.com/

Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific search engine for scholarly literature
http://www.scirus.com/

Government Sites

Election Commission of India http://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main1/index.aspx
Govt. of India http://www.india.gov.in
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) https://mhrd.gov.in/
Parliament of India https://parliamentofindia.nic.in/
Planning Commission http://www.planningcommission.nic.in/
Supreme Court of India http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/
University Grants Commission (UGC) http://www.ugc.ac.in/
World Bank Data (Data, Reports etc.) http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,pagePK:50004410~piPK:36602~theSitePK:29708,00.html

Major Fellowships and Scholarships

Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
https://www.britishcouncil.in/study-uk/scholarships/commonwealth-scholarships

Fellowships and Scholarships
https://fellowships.missouri.edu/

National Scholarships
https://mhrd.gov.in/scholarships-education-loan-0

Scholarship Positions
http://scholarship-positions.com/

United States - India Educational Foundation
http://www.usief.org.in/index.aspx

Useful Websites

JournalTOCs - Largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs)
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/

The Civil Service India is a website dedicated to the Civil Services Exam.
https://www.civilserviceindia.com

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals.
https://worldwidescience.org/

This Webpage has been specially curated by Dr.Partha Sarathi Das, Assistant Library & Information Officer, National Library of India, Belvedere, Kolkata