Open Access Digital Content for Academics Use of Open Access E-Content in Teaching, Learning & Research Brought to you By Delhi University Library System University of Delhi, Delhi, INDIA Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian

Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Summary Introduction Evaluating Internet Resources Authority Accuracy and Coverage Objectivity and Purpose Currency E-Resources in public domain at a glance Open Access Digital Content for Academics

Internet and its most used component WWW has turned into a biggest source of information with widest coverage and the fastest access. It is the most powerful tool for global communication and exchange of information. The amount of publicly available information on the web is increasing consistently at an unbelievable rate It has revolutionized the way that people access information, and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, information dissemination and retrieval, education, commerce, entertainment, government and health care. The World Wide Web can be a great place to accomplish research on many topics but finding quality web materials and using them to your advantage in your writing can be challenging. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Introduction Open Access Digital Content for Academics

It is because putting documents or pages on the web is easy, cheap or free, unregulated, and unmonitored. It is a self-publishing medium, that is, anyone can publish anything. This means that not everything one finds on the Web is equally valuable or reliable. There is a famous saying in this "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.“ Unlike most print sources, web sources do not have to be professionally accepted and edited to be published. 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 finds. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian IntroductionContd… Open Access Digital Content for Academics

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E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Books Electronic versions of printed books that can be viewed online via any PC connected to the Internet. It includes mostly the classics. Some public domain e-book resources are: Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free e-books on the Internet. It is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e-books. The collection consists of more than 40,000 e-books. Authorama Public Domain Books (Fiction) Featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline. This site is regularly updated with new freeware stories. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Books Bartleby.com Provides the best works of fiction from a wide range of classic authors; general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, verses etc The Online Book Page The Online Book Page by University of Pennsylvania Library has about e-books on different subjects. MIT OpenCourseWare It is a site for 500 course materials available on the Internet, for free download Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Books The Complete Works of William Shakespeare This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since Digital Library of India It is a massive digitization project supported by Govt. of India. As on date it consists of books in all subjects and various languages. Directory of Open Access Books It is a relatively new initiative and as on date provides access to 3091 Academic peer-reviewed books from 107 publishers. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance: E-Journals Journals published in electronic format, often available on the Internet.  Directory of Open Access Journals There are now 8,597 journals in the directory. Currently 4,297 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 9,64,794 articles are included in the DOAJ service.  Public Library of Science: PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Journals’ ListJournals’ List  Bioline International: It is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Journals’ ListJournals’ List Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals  BioMed Central: It is a Publisher of more than 160 peer-reviewed open access journals. ListList  HighWire Press: A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1739 journals and 4,074,364 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers have collectively made 1,566,498 articles free. With our partner publishers we produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals. Free Online Full-textFree Online Full-text  Indian Academy of Sciences : The Academy, founded in 1934, aims at promoting the progress and upholding the cause of science in pure and applied branches. The Academy's journals are 'open access' and full text is available as PDF files on each journal's website. See the Publications page for links to the journals and other Academy publications. JournalsJournals Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals  Free Medical Journals: Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The unrestricted access to scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice. The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet.  Strategian: The Strategic Guide to Quality Information in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Psychology Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals  Chemistry Central Chemistry Central publishes high-quality peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry. It is the open access chemistry platform from Springer Science.  The Free Library Compiles an enormous amount of published material - journals, magazines, blog postings, and classic literary texts. Organized by subject, author, or title.  Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi is a rapidly growing academic publisher with 437 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance E-Journals  Library Publishing Media Library Publishing Media - an open-access publisher based at Oxford (UK) - was established in support of the global open-access movement, and to promote excellence in biomedical sciences.  PubMed Central® PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).  Springer Open SpringerOpen is Springer's portfolio of fully open access journals and books, covering all areas of science. The entire content published with SpringerOpen is freely accessible online immediately upon publication. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance: Subject Gateways Gateways are portals to information that are usually limited to a specific domain or subject area. The resources accessible through these gateways are reviewed, selected, evaluated and catalogued by information professionals or subject experts. Some examples are:  Pinakes:A subject launchpad As the Internet grows in size it becomes increasingly difficult to locate relevant material. The Pinakes is a compilation of Internet resources,which links to the major subject gateways.  Cogprints CogPrints, an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vison, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy (e.g., mind, language, knowledge, science, logic), Biology (e.g., ethology, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, behaviour genetics, evolutionary theory), Medicine (e.g., Psychiatry, Neurology, human genetics, Imaging), Anthropology (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archeology, paleontology), as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.self-archivePsychology neuroscienceLinguisticsComputer SciencePhilosophyBiology Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance Subject Gateways E-Print network Provides access to electronic preprints available from diverse sites. It is a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines. intute A freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in Science & Technology, Arts and Humanities Social Sciences, Health and Life Sciences.  SocioSite Social Science Information System based at the University of Amsterdam Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance Subject Gateways  MathGuide The MathGuide is an Internet-based subject gateway to scholarly relevant information in mathematics  Social Science Research Network Top Down Loads : Social SciencesGo for itGo for it  DMOZ : Open Directory Project The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human- edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance ETD  The Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM) DRUM collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the University of Maryland.  Mahatma Gandhi University : Online Theses Library The Online Digital Theses library provides full text access to more than 1000 theses in Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hindi and English.  PQDT Open PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. One can quickly and easily locate dissertations and theses relevant to his discipline, and view the complete text in PDF format. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access.Provides basic and advanced searh options for searching different variables. Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance ETD Shodhganga Shodhganga is the name coined to denote digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre. The UGC Notification (Minimum Standards & Procedure for Award of M.Phil. / Ph.D Degree, Regulation, 2009) dated 1st June 2009 mandates submission of electronic version of theses and dissertations by the researchers in universities with an aim to facilitate open access to Indian theses and dissertations to the academic community world-wide. Thus it is a repository of Thesis and Dissertations produced by the Universities in India. The regularly updated repository presently holds a collection of more than 30,000 Theses and Dissertations DULS Website Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance Scholarly Societies Overview of Scholarly Societies Go for itGo for it Search Engine of Scholarly Societies ProjectGo for itGo for it Scholarly Societies by SubjectsGo for itGo for it Scholarly Societies by Country Go for itGo for it O A Go for it Go for it Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

E-Resources in public domain at a glance Multimedia Resources Ecosystem (Geography)ImagesVideosImagesVideos Tsunami (Geography)ImagesVideosImagesVideos How a Crater Lake is Created ? A presentationvideovideo Market MonopolyPPTPPT Globalizing Inequality by P. Sainath VideoVideo Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). Video Video Egypt: Gift of the Nile (History)VideoVideo Social ActionVideo Aristotle’s theory of the solar systemVideoVideo Rajesh Singh Deputy Librarian Open Access Digital Content for Academics

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