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Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER is a comparatively a new phenomenon which is the results of Open Source Software (OSS) and Open Access (OA) movements. OER should be freely available over the Internet and as few restrictions as possible on the use of the resource. There should be no technical barriers, no price barriers and as few legal permission barriers as possible for the end-user (The Open Knowledge Foundation). The prime target of these kinds of resources is to the students of open and distant learning. But the any students form formal institution can take the advantage of these kinds of resources. In the following section some of the major open educational resources have been along with their example have been illustrated.
E-BOOKS
| Name of E-BOOKS | Descriptions | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Authorama | Authorama.com, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline. The books may have been published before, but not in this form. | Click here |
| Bartleby.com | The Preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge. | Click here |
| Bookboon | This platform everyone access to helpful and practical personal development content on an easy-to-use platform, a “boon” is exactly what we hope to deliver. | Click here |
| DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books | DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available. | Click here |
| 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. | Click here |
| Google Books | A site that brings both authors and readers into the world of free legal e-books. Authors with their e-books will benefit greatly from the large community of readers and the readers will in return, of course, will have lots of materials to read to their hearts’ content. | Click here |
| Free ebooks – Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg is grateful to all volunteers who helped to reach this milestone anniversary. Project Gutenberg offers a vibrant and growing collection of the world’s great literature. Read, enjoy, and share. | Click here |
| Free eBooks: The Ultimate Guide | This platform offer to reader, a library of close to 50,000 free eBooks. | Click here |
| PDF Drive | PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 75,124,785 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits, enjoy it and don't forget to bookmark and share the love! | Click here |
| HathiTrust | HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. | Click here |
| Internet Archives | The Internet Archive and Open Library offers over 6,000,000 fully accessible public domain eBooks. This includes a special modern collection of over 500,000 eBooks for users with print disabilities, and a very interesting curated, modern collection for the world at large. | Click here |
| MIT OpenCourseWare | MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. | Click here |
| Project Gutenberg | Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks | Click here |
| Read Print | This site contains mainly the classics and it is very useful for historians and for the individuals who loves literature. | Click here |
| The National Academies Press | It offers more than 5,000 titles in PDF format. All of these PDFs can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book. | Click here |
| The Online Books Page – University of Pennsylvania | Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has over 1 million free e-books on different subjects. | Click here |
| The Universal Digital Library | The Universal Digital Library – Million Scanned Book Collection. | Click here |
| UC Press E-Books Collection | UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004, includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. | Click here |
| West Bengal Public Library Network | This one of the oldest and largest library under Government of West Bengal. It has a traditional and historical significance. The library has a rich collection of books dating back from the British era till date. Some of them are very rare. | Click here |
| World Public Library | Publicly-accessible eBooks, texts, and images available for all. | Click here |
E-Textbooks
| Name of E-Textbooks | Descriptions | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Open Textbook Library | Now offering 1467 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.. | Click here |
| OpenStax | 25 years of making education accessible for all. | Click here |
University Websites
| Name of University Websites | URL |
|---|---|
| Calcutta University | Click here |
| Digital Library & Web Based Materials under Jadavpur University | Click here |
National Library
| Name of National Library | URL |
|---|---|
| National Library, Kolkata | Click here |
Study Materials
| Name of Study Materials | URL |
|---|---|
| WBCoLOR | Click here |
| INFLIBNET | Click here |
| ePGPathshala | Click here |
| IGNOU | Click here |
E-Journals Links
| Name of E-Journals Links | URL |
|---|---|
| E journal link of ICmai | Click here |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Click here |
| Muse India | Click here |
| E journal link of ICAI | Click here |
| Link of RBI Bulletin | Click here |
| LII INDIA | Click here |
| Project Euclid | Click here |
| Springer Open | Click here |
| Wiley Open Access | Click here |
| Open ROAR – (Registry of Open Access Repositories) | Click here |
| Springer Open Access e-Journals | Click here |
| Benthan Open Access E-journals) | Click here |
Open Theses and Dissertation
| Name of E-Journals Links | URL |
|---|---|
| Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations | Click here |
| Shodhganga | Click here |
Open Courses
| Name of E-Journals Links | URL |
|---|---|
| Swayam | Click here |
| SWAYAMPRABHA | Click here |
| National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) | Click here |
| Rai Open Courseware | Click here |
| NPTEL | Click here |