Digital Services

As per official notification released by University Grants Commission (UGC), "There are several ICT initiatives of the MHRD, UGC and its Inter University Centres (IUCs) - Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), in the form of digital platforms which can be accessed by the teachers, students and researchers in Universities and Colleges for broadening their horizon of learning." UGC has shared the most reliable online resources and their access links for Online Learning by students / learners to study from home.  Following is the list of some of the online resources:

· SWAYAMOn-line Courses: Initiated by Government of India, this resource provides best teaching learning resources. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy. It provides access to best teaching learning resources which were earlier delivered on the SWAYAM Platform may be now viewed by any learner free of cost without any registration. Students/learners who registered on SWAYAM (swayam.gov.in) in the January 2020 semester can continue their learning as usual.

· UG/PG MOOCS: hosts learning material of the SWAYAM UG and PG (Non-Technology) archived courses.

·e-PGPathshala: hosts high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content containing 23,000 modules (e-text and video) in 70 Post Graduate disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.

· e-Content courseware in UG subjects: e-content in 87 Undergraduate courses with about 24,110 e-content modules is available on the CEC website at http://cec.nic.in/

· SWAYAMPRABHA: is a group of 32 DTH channels providing high quality educational curriculum based course contents covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc to all teachers, students and citizens across the country interested in lifelong learning. These channels are free to air and can also be accessed through your cable operator. The telecasted videos/lectures are also as archived videos on the Swayamprabha portal.

· CEC-UGC YouTube channel: The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC provides access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures absolutely free. It is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India to address the needs of Higher Education through the use of powerful medium of Television alongwith Information Communication Tehnology (ICT).

· National Digital Library: is a digital repository of a vast amount of academic content in different formats and provides interface support for leading Indian languages for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners.

·  Shodhganga : is a digital repository platform of 2,60,000 Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access.

·  e-Shodh Sindhu: provides current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.

·   Vidwan: is a database of experts which provides information about experts to peers, prospective collaborators, funding agencies policy makers and research scholar in the country.

  Following is the list of some of the digital libraries and open and free resources:

DIGITAL LIBRARIES

1	Internet Public Library	https://www.ipl.org/
2	ACM Digital Library	https://dl.acm.org/
3	Digital Library at the University ofPennsylvania	http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
4	Digital Library of India	https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
5	IET Digital Library	http://digital-library.theiet.org/
6	Kalasampada: Digital Library Resource of Indian Cultural Heritage	http://ignca.nic.in/dgt_0001.htm

List of Open Access Journals 

1. Directory of Open Access Journals  (https://doaj.org/

2. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  (http://www.mdpi.com)

3. Directory of Open Access Repositories  (http://www.opendoar.org/)

4. Open access directory  (http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

5. Road : directory of open access scholarly publishing  (http://road.issn.org)

6. Hinari Access to Research for Health Programme  (http://www.who.int)

7. Directory of Open Access books  (http://www.doabooks.org/

8. Institutional repository of INFLIBNET Centre  (http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/

9. Springer Open access books  (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/

10. Accessibility and OA Resources – Annotated  (http://www.wou.edu/wp/bakersc/

11. Highwire Free Online Full-text Articles  (http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

12. Online book page  (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

13. Ugc infonet digital library consortium  (https://www.inflibnet.ac.in/econ/search.php)

E-LEARNING PORTALS

SR. NO.	NAME/DETAILS OF THE SITE	WEB LINK
01.	MIT	http://ocw.mit.edu
02.	NPTEL	https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
03.	Aggregated Video: Academic Earth	http://www.academicearth.org
04.	Berkeley University	http://ocw.uci.edu
05.	Carnegie Mellon University	http://www.cmu.edu/oli
06.	John Hopkins University	http://ocw.jhsph.edu
07.	Lecture Fox	http://www.lecturefox.com
08.	MIT	http://techtv.mit.edu http://ocw.mit.edu http://video.mit.edu/
09.	Mixed Media: Wikimedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_media
10.	National Repository of Open Education Resources	http://nroer.gov.in/home/
11.	New Zealand OER Project	http://www.repository.ac.nz
12.	NPTEL	www.youtube.com/nptelhrd http://nptel.iitk.ac.in/
13.	OER Commons	www.oercommons.org
14.	Online College Courses	www.OnlineCourses.com
15.	Online College Courses (Subject wise)	http://www.onlinecourses.com/accounting/ http://www.onlinecourses.com/math/ http://www.onlinecourses.com/science/ http://www.onlinecourses.com/information-technology/ http://www.onlinecourses.com/physics/ http://www.onlinecourses.com/writing/
16.	Open Access Research : (DOAJ)	www.doaj.org
17.	Open Courseware Consortium	http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
18.	Open Courseware Mexico	http://ocw.itesm.mx
19.	Open Culture	http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
20.	Open Learn	http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/home.php
21.	Open Learning Object Repository : (Merlot)	http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm? materialType=Learning%20Object%20Repository&category=372822& sort.property=overallRating
22.	Open Michigan	https://open.umich.edu/
23.	Open Textbooks For K12: (Siyavula)	http://www.siyavula.com/
24.	Open Textbooks: (Connexions)	http://cnx.org
25.	Open University of Nederland	http://ocw.tudelft.nl
26.	Paris Tech Graduate School	http://graduateschool.paristech.org
27.	Princeton University	www.princeton.edu/webmedia
28.	Rai Open Courseware	http://www.rocw.railfoundation.org
29.	Rice University	http://cnx.org
30.	Sakshat Portal	www.sakshat.ac.in/
31.	Spoken Tutorial	www.spoken-tutorial.org
32.	Teacher Portal ( Class Room Resources)	http://www.teachersofindia.org/en
33.	Tufts Open Courseware	http://ocw.tufts.edu
34.	United Nations University	http://www.ocw.unu.edu
35.	University of Minnesota: (Open Academics Textbook Catalogue)	https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
36.	University of Notre Dame	http://ocw.nd.edu
37.	University of Southern Queensland	http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
38.	Utah Open Courseware Alliance	http://uocwa.org
39.	Utah State University	http://ocw.usw.edu
40.	Vietnam	http://ocw.vn/index.ocw http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/home.cfm
41.	Webcast.Berkley	http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
42.	World Lecture Project	http://www.world-lecture-project.org/?navId=1
43.	Yale University	http://oyc.yale.edu
44.	DOAJ	www.doaj.org/
45.	NISCAIR	http://www.niscair.res.in
46.	Current Science	www.currentscience.ac.in