Free & Open Access Resources
Free and Open Access Resources
The information portals/resources listed below are freely available on the web. Therefore, you can access them from anywhere anytime at your own convenience. All the resources are academic in nature and can be very helpful in your academic pursuits. Feel free to make most of these resources.
| Name of the Portal | Uniform Resource Locator |
| Project Gutenberg | https://www.gutenberg.org/ |
| Directory of open access journals | http://doaj.org/ |
| Directory ofOpen Access Books | https://www.doabooks.org/ |
| National Digital Library of India | https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ |
| International Children’s Digital Library | http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ |
| EPG Pathshala | https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| VidyaMitra (integrated E-content Portal) | https://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| Hathi trust Digital Library | https://www.hathitrust.org/ |
| Open Text Books Library | https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ |
| Shodhganga- a reservoir of Indian theses | https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| Open Access Theses and Dissertations | https://oatd.org/ |
| Springer Open Journals | https://www.springeropen.com/journals |
| LibriVox – Audio Books | https://librivox.org/ |
| Book Boon | https://bookboon.com/ |
| ROAR: Registry of Open Access Repository | https://roar.eprints.org/ |
| vidyamitra | https://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | http://www.base-search.net/about/en/ |
| Digital Public Library of America | http://dp.la/ |
| International Institute of Social Studies – Free Scholarly Resources | https://www.iss.nl/en/library/information-resources/free-scholarly-resources |
| Open Humanities Press | http://openhumanitiespress.org/index.html |
| Open Library (Internet Archive) | https://openlibrary.org/ |
| Sage Open | http://sgo.sagepub.com/ |
| Springer Open | https://www.springeropen.com/journals |
| Taylor & Francis Open Journals | http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals |
| OpenDOAR | http://www.opendoar.org/ |
| Open Educational Resources Commons | http://www.oercommons.org/ |
| Open Textbook Library | https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ |