Information Sources on the Open Internet for Physics (Teaching, Learning and Research) Information Services University Informatics Centre (UIC) Bharathidasan University

About UIC Informatics Centre caters to the information and technology needs of Bharathidasan University Network and Server management, Data center administration, web and portals, information dissemination, etc. are the key responsibilities of Informatics Centre

Objective Exploring and highlighting the available e- resources in the open internet Facilitating access to those resources

WWW: Growing Pains! The web is a massive collection of interconnected documents Due to its complex structure, the information retrieval has become a clumsy process Search engines are far from being ‘perfect’ when it comes to finding the right data Poor local access to global research Poor global access to Indian research Drowning in data and starving for knowledge

Centre for Knowledge Repository (CKR) An institutional portal/repository to provide open access to scholarly digital content (launched in 2010 Nov.) Journals, e-books, articles, Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), video & audio resources (NPTEL) Web based access to global information sources Within the campus (via Intranet) as well as outside the campus (Public Domain)

Teaching and Learning Resources Project Gutenberg: First and largest single collection of free ebooks. (> than 32000). The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library, e-books on different subjects. MIT’s OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare

Open Yale Courses

Open Michigan Courses

More.. Academic Videos: project.org/?navId=1 Academic Earth: (video portal) The Open University’s open learn portal

More….. Resource NameURL Saylor.org is a free and open collection of college level courses. Khan Academy of open educational resources Global Textbook Projecthttp://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/bookl ist?cat=Science The National Academies Presshttp:// Africa’s open content object repository Resource Searchhttp://

E-Journals (Open Access) Directory of Open Access Journals There are now 2514 journals in the directory. Currently 747 journals are searchable at article level. As of today articles are included in the DOAJ service. California University’s Open Access Resources Portal: University of Virginia Science and Engineering Libraries, Preprint Servers for Physics DMOZ directory of open Access journals nline_Journals/

E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. Public Library of Science: Scientific and medical literature INSPIRE – Stanford Univ.’s High Energy Physics Literature Database CERN – The European organization for nuclear research - Web library - Bioline International: Open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Physics Documents Worldwide

E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. The Electronic Journals Library regensburg.de/ezeit/fl.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang =en Offers an effective use of both scientific and academic journals publishing full text articles in the internet. HighWire Press: Largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1010 journals and 4,074,364 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. ePrints of IISc, Banglore Scholarly publications from our scientists and Researchers

E-Journals (Open Access) – Contd. Indian Academy of Sciences : The Academy's journals are 'open access' and full text is available as PDF files on each journal's website. Journal of Digital Information: Indian Journal of Science and Technology OAIster Database: Strategian: The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology

Other Open Access Journals – Physics

Gateways – Contd. Google Scholar: search and find academic papers, abstracts and other scholarly sources E-Print network Provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites. Digital library of India WWW Virtual Library Catalog of Internet resources. Infomine Organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet.

Gateways – Contd. ERIC – Education Resources Information Centre Cogprints intute Bubl Information Services BUBL is a UK-based interactive information service which provides links to over 12,000 internet resources

Physics Resources Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Australian Institute of Physics – Teaching Resources Physics Resources Online educational materials for physics teachers Freely available digital resources iBerry portal – Physics Resource Page Physics and astronomy education communities

E-Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Shodhganga Project – INFLIBNET A repository of Indian theses (global access to local theses) More than (still counting..) Theses Search by University/Department All Indian Universities are Contributing MoU for uploading and plagiarism detection ShodhGangotri : Repository of Indian Research in Progress (Abstracts) ShodhGangotri : Repository of Indian Research in Progress (Abstracts)

Shodhganga Project

Shodhganga Project and BDU

Other Indian Repositories Mahatma Gandhi University Indian Institute of Science Etheses - A Saurashtra University Library Service Dyuthi, Digital Repository of Cochin University of Science and Technology Vidyanidhi Digital Library (University of Mysore)

Global Repositories Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) An international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Almost every University in Europe and US are contributing to NDLD. To know more, visit: Almost every University in Europe and US are contributing to NDLD. To know more, visit:

NDLTD is powered with SCIRUS Search.

Global Repositories – Contd. Scholars’ Bank (University of Oregon) - Emory University's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository - EThOS (The British Library) - Pakistan Research Repository -

Other Global Repositories – Contd. DissOnline (GERMAN NATIONAL LIBRARY) - SUDOC (SUDOC Catalogue) - France Universities - DART - Europe (DART-Europe E-theses Portal) - DATAD (Association of African Universities) -

Resources with Institutional Access UGC INFONET Journals (Managed by the University’s Central Library) Visit: for more details. (IP Address based access)

E-books in our local repository (CKR) Huge collection of e-books Subject Collections with search facility e-books in Physics NPTEL lecture notes (web courses) NPTEL video tutorials (Material Science, Classical Physics, Quantum Physics, Engineering Physics & Oscillation and Waves) Lets go live:

Disclaimer Putting documents or pages on the web is easy, cheap or free, unregulated, and unmonitored. A self-publishing medium, that is, anyone can publish anything and not everything one finds on the Web is equally valuable or reliable. Especially public websites such as weebly/webnode and few blogs have lot of unauthenticated information Therein lies the rationale for evaluating carefully whatever one finds on the Web. The burden is on the reader to establish the validity, authorship, timeliness, and integrity of what he/she finds.

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