Research References

  • Coursware: Following are some notable open courseware projects, which students, faculty members and researchers can make use for their studies and research.

    ·   eGyanKosh: It is a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resource. The video lecture's are available on Youtube at: Youtube IGNOU eGyanKosh
    ·         NCERT Text Books: National Council Educational Research and Training [NCERT] has provided full text access to all of its text books required for K12 students.
    ·         BBC Learning English: This website from the BBC aids people learning English, by offering help in the form of 'Words in the News', 'Quizzes', videos via YouTube etc.
    ·         Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative:  Course tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback to help you learn.
    ·         Engineering Pathway: Here you can Learn, Connect, and Create high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering. 
    ·         The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Open Courseware: OCW project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses in the field of health sciences.
    ·         MIT Open Courseware: (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. 
    ·         OEDB Free Online Open Courses: It is an index to free online open courses offered by different universities.
    ·         OpenLearn: The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. 
    ·         Tufts OpenCourseware: Tufts University has joined MIT in offering the world free access to certain course content online in the field of life sciences. 
    ·         University of California Irvine: It is a free and open digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials, often including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams.
    ·         University of Notre Dame Open Courseware: Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

    ·         National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning [NAPTEL]: NAPTEL's main aim is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses.

    ·         Utah State Open Courseware: It is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.


    Education: Following are continuing education opportunities available for studies and research. You may please click on the links to explore more information.

    ·         Edx offers free online courses from world's top participating universities.

    ·         Coursera that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.

    ·         Udacity that parterns with world's top universities provides affordable/free courses online for anyone to take.

    ·         UNU-WIDER Visiting Scholars and PhD Internships [Development Economics]
    Last date: Closes every year by 30 Sept

     

     Fellowships: Following are few fellowships/scholarships available for studies and research. You may please click on the links to explore more information.

    ·         Commonwealth Academic Fellowships [Developing Commonwealth Countries]
    ·         Commonwealth Professional Fellowships [Developing Commonwealth Countries]
    Last date: Please check on the website
    Last date: Oct 1, 2012 ; March 1, 2013
    · The Jay Jordan IFLA/OCLC Early Career Development Fellowship Program [Developing Countries Library and Information Science Professionals]

     

    Web Tools: Following are some of the tools, which will be useful in your day today research and teaching work:

    ·         Easy Chair is a free conference management system that is flexible, easy to use, and has many features to make it suitable for various conference models. You may use it for a conference to be organized at your institute.
    ·         Eigenfactor helps in finding ranking of journals and their cost effectiveness. It uses Thomson Reuters Citations databases to provide results.
    ·         Google Docs is a free online office tool from Google, which can be used to create and share documents, worksheets, presentations, images and forms.
    ·         How to Write Citations helps you to generate citations in APA, MLA, Chicago and APA, MLA, works cited, and Turabian styles.
    ·         Media Converter helps you to convert all types of video file formats up to 1 GB.
    ·         OCR Terminal is an online OCR service that allows you to convert PDF to Word, JPEG to Word and scanned images into editable documents.
    ·         Online-Convert is a Free online file converter. You can convert media files online from one format into another.
    ·         PDF to Word allows quickly and easily create editable DOC/RTF files, making it a cinch to re-use PDF content in applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, Open Office etc. 
    ·         Plagiarisma is a free online plagiarism checker and duplicate content finder, which teachers and students can use to detect possible cases of plagiarism. 

    ·         Photoshop is a FREE online tool helps in editing photos and allows to share photos with others in the group. Similar to this tool, free editing of the photos is possible using Picknik.
    ·         Portable Apps is a complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. 
    ·         Prezi is a free online presentation tool, which helps to Create astonishing presentations live and on the web.
    ·         Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents various metrics.
    ·         SciMago Journal and Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators (rankings) developed from the information contained in the Scopus database.
    ·         Skydrive offers 25 GB of free online storage for sharing Microsoft Office docs, other files and photos.
    ·         Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself.

     

    Tutorials: Following are few tutorials, which could be very useful for you. You may please click on the links to explore.

     

    ·         AuthorAid is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.

     

    ·         OpenDepot is an assured service to make research Open Access - now available for researchers worldwide.

     

    ·         Para Publishing is a website of Dan Poynter, who advocates parallel publishing of books by authors and provides guidelines in the form of tutorials.

     

    Research methods

    ·         Digital Research Tools [DiRT] Wiki This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

     

    ·         Social Research Methods is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods.

     

    Special Search Engines

    ·         PDF Geni enables one to search for PDF documents available on the Internet.

    ·         PDFse: Ebooks search enables one to search for ebooks available on the Internet.

  • ·         Author guild advocate for writers' interests in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression since it was founded as the Authors League of America in 1912. It provides legal assistance and a broad range of web services to its members.




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