E-BOOKS: There are good number of electronic books, popularly known as e-books are available on the internet for free of cost. They are available in most of the subject areas. Some are available for browsing and many titles are for download. Please go through the following links for more information.
- Bartleby.com provides free full text online access to reference, literature and verse books.
- Books-On-Line.com provides access to full text of books. Includes both free and priced books in its collection.
- Classic Bookshelf is a very good site, makes reading online enjoyable with its customization features. Contains old clssics.
- Computer Books is a free collection of computers from all over the world.
- Ebrary holds collection of e-books on various subjects. Only viewing is free.
- Electronic Literature Foundation: Great Books contains around 109 online books on literature.
- English Server Fiction Collection
- Freebooks4doctors There are good number of titles avaialble on different aspects of medical sciences.
- Free online Books provides links to online full text of educational and technical books. Also provides links to online course, workshops, etc.
- Free Programming and Computer Science Books here you may download programming and computer science books for FREE!.
- Free Tech Books lists free online computer science and engineering books +lecture notes.
- Internet Public Library [IPL] e-books provides links to around 20000 e-books on various subjects.
- Library of Economics and Liberty provides access to full text of classic economics books, essays and articles.
- Manybooks provides access to 10,158 eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, e-book reader etc.
- National Academies Press e-books provides FREE online access to its e-books collection. Right now it holds around 1500 titles.
- Oapen Library Open Access publication model for academic books in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
- Online Books Page Books are available in all subject areas.
- Online Library of Literature contains excellent collection of literature books.
- Open Book Project provides access to good number of computer books.
- Page by Page Books Online contains lot of classic books, which can read online for free.
- Project Gutenberg gives online access to full text of classic books on different subjects.
- Read Print is a free online library. It offers thousands of free books.
- University of California Press e-books here excerpts of ebooks are available for free browsing covering different subject areas.
- University of Toronto English Library provides full text access to collection of classic works in English literature.
- World e-book Library is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works.
- Economic History Encyclopedia Index here search can be made for high quality full articles related the area of Economic and Business History.
- Scientific Electronic Library Online [SCIELO] is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet.
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive [SORA] is an open access electronic journal archive. The content can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files.
- Bartleby.com provides free full text online access to reference, literature and verse books.
- E-JOURNALS
- Following are some of the open access and free journals archive and journal titles, which are made available for use to enhance research and development.
- African Journals Online provides free online access to most of the journals published from Africa.
- Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries including India.
- BioMed Central provides free access to peer-reviewed research articles and subscription-based access to reviews, commentaries and other information services in all the areas of biology and medicine.
- Directory of Open Access journals
- Education: Electronic journals covers scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost e-jls in the field of Education.
- Electronic Journals Library provides comprehensive list of e-journals accessible with cost and without cost in all fields.
- Freemedicaljournals.com lists all such medical journals, which provide online full text access to articles at no extra cost.
- Health Journals: Free for Developing Economies provides list of journals offer free online access to developing economies.
- Highwire Press as they claim it is one among the second largest Science archives of full text articles on earth.
- Internet Library of Early Journals is a digital library providing access to 18th and 19th century journals.
- NASA Astrophysics Data System here online access to full text of articles from selected journals in astronomy and related areas.
- NewJour is an archive of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet.
- Open J-Gate is a directory of open access journals available on the Internet.
- PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature, which can be downloaded free of cost.
Indian E-Journals:
- Bombay Hospital Journal online access to full text of articles is available from 1996.
- Indian Journal of Community Medicine free online access to full text of articles is available from 2000.
- Indian Journal of Pharmocology free online access to full text of articles is available with effect from Volume 1, 1969.
- Indian Paediatrics provides online access to full text of articles from 2000.
- Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal online access to full text of papers is available with effect from October-December, 2001.
- Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging provides access to full text of articles with effect from 1999.
- Journal of Postgraduate Medicine provides online access to full text of articles from 1990.
- Journal of the Academy of Hospital Administration online access to full text of articles is available from July 1999.
- MedIND: Database of fulltext of Indian Medical Jls
- MedKnow provides free access to 134 electronic editions of journals
Sciences:
- Current Science provides online access to full text of articles in .pdf format from 1998.
- Data Quest online access to full text of articles is available from 1998.
- Indian Academy of Sciences Journals provides free online full text access to its journals. Back issues are available from 1999 onwards.
- PC-Quest online access to full text of articles is available from 1999.
- Sankhya: Series A and B online access to full text of papers is available from 2000 for both the series.
- Economic and Political Weekly provides free online access to full text of articles published in current and few preceding years volumes.
- Labour File gives online access to full text of articles of few issues.
- Little Magazine provides online access to full text of articles from May 2000.
- Reserve Bank of India Bulletin provides online access to full text of articles and statistics published in its bulletin from 1997.
- Reserve Bank of India Occasional Papers provides online access full text of articles in both .pdf and MS-Word .doc format from 1998.
- Seminar provides online access to full text of articles with effect from 2000.
- Social Scientist provides online access to full text of articles with effect from 1972. Articles are in the form of images.
- African Journals Online provides free online access to most of the journals published from Africa.
- E-DATABASES
- Electronic databases come very handy for searching vast data within a shortest possible time. There are good number of such databases are available on the internet today, which can be accessed free of cost. Please follow the links to get further information.
Statistical Databases
- International Statistical Data Sources
- Selected Internet Resources for Statistics in the Social Sciences
- Social Science Data Lab
- Social Science Data Archives on the net
- Social Science Data Directories and Data Archives
- Sociosite: Social Science Data Archives
- Statistical Data Sources on the web: Economics
- Statistics for the Social Sciences
- Yale Social Science Data Archive: STATCAT
- International Statistical Data Sources
Full text Databases
- Economic History Encyclopedia Index here search can be made for high quality full articles related the area of Economic and Business History.
- Scientific Electronic Library Online [SCIELO] is a model for cooperative electronic publishing of scientific journals on the Internet.
- Searchable Ornithological Research Archive [SORA] is an open access electronic journal archive.
- Economic History Encyclopedia Index here search can be made for high quality full articles related the area of Economic and Business History.
- Census Information provides statistics of All India population totals as per the Census 1991 and Census 2001, India and State maps, etc.
- Database on Indian Economy covers data on financial sector, real sector, financial market, external sector, public finance and corporate finance related to Indian economy.
- Department of Statistics, Govt of India, Broad statistical information like national accounts statistics, energy statistics, consumer expenditure, annual survey of industries, live stock statistics, etc.
- Economywatch.com is a commercial site provides information and data on Indian economy.
- Reserve Bank of India provides free of cost online access and download to vast amount of data related to banks and banking in India.
- Asian Development Bank gives access to social and economic data of its developing member countries.
- Demographic and Health Surveys [DHS] datasets are available for most countries.
- Eurostat provides latest and the most complete statistical information on the EU and the zero-zone.
- FAOstat Containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in the areas of production, trade, food balance sheets, fertilizer and pesticides, land use and irrigation, forest products, fishery products etc.
- Global Statistics The main kind of data you can find here is on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities.
- Indian District Database provides district-level data from census and agricultural sources between 1961 and 1991.
- Infonation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations.
- International Database (IDB) is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
- Census Information provides statistics of All India population totals as per the Census 1991 and Census 2001, India and State maps, etc.
- Patents & Standards
Patents and Standards form a major collection of any scientific and technical libraries. On internet good number of Patents and Standards are available. Some of these are available for free of cost and some are priced. Please follow the links to get more information.
- Intellectual Property Resource Reference Center provides access to various intellectual property data collections.
- Think Standards is a place where you can learn about the standardization discipline and the value that standards hold in today’s global marketplace.
- Ag Biotechnology Patents and New Technologies provides full text biotech patents for 1994-96. Also includes bibliography of articles, books and reports related to biotechnology.
- Canadian Patent Database lets you access over 75 years (since 1920) of patent descriptions and images.
- Epatent database of Singapore here Upon registration, you could gain free access to basic bibliographic details on all patent applications filed with IPOS.
- Europe's Network of Patent Databases [esp@cenet] is a free service provided by the European Patent Organisation.
- Free Patents Online is a search engine, which helps in searching patents.
- Freshpatents.com helps you to track/search new published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to grant/deny.
- Fullerene Patent Database covers patents related to buckyballs, nanotubes, and other fullerenes.
- Indian Patent Database provides free online access to Ekaswa A & Ekaswa B databases.
- Indian Patent Information provides information regarding Indian Patenting system, acts, list of latest patents applied for, etc.
- Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand provides access to the New Zealand Trade Mark, Patent and Design database.
- Japan Patent Office provides access to patent documents of Japan.
- pat2pdf is a search tool, which helps you to download US patents in pdf format.
- Patent Lens aims to assist both professionals and non-professionals to understand and navigate the intellectual property landscape within the life sciences.
- SurfIP is one-stop portal for all your comprehensive information needs on Intellectual Property, especially patents. e.
- United States Patent and Trademark Office [USPTO] provides full text access to patents granted w.e.f. 1976 and full-page images since 1790.
Standards:
- American National Standards Institute provides online full text access to ANSI standards for price.
- British Standards Online covers British, European or International standards.
- DSCC: Index of the Defence Supply Center's Spcifications provides full text access to copies of documents managed at DSCC.
- National Information Standards Organization [NISO] gives free access and download to its standards and technical reports.
- National Resource for Global Standards [NSSN] is a World Wide Web-based system designed to provide users with a wide range of standards information from major standards developers, including developers accredited by the American National Standards Institute.
- Intellectual Property Resource Reference Center provides access to various intellectual property data collections.