Digital Libraries
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The Library do not endorse, own or receive any promotional benefits from the list of Open Access Sites (OAS) included in this directory.
Feel free to suggest @ <asst.librarian@nagalanduniversity.ac.in> any relevant sites which you believed are useful for the students and staffs of Nagaland University.
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"Open Access Resources are research and reference materials which are made available by the site owners/publishers/aggregators, etc., to the general readers, to use freely for teaching-learning, and research purposes with proper acknowledgements."
| Origin/Region | URL | Description |
| Cambridge Digital Library | https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/ | A home for the discovery of digitised material and research outputs from the University of Cambridge and beyond. |
| Trove/Australia | https://trove.nla.gov.au/ | Search for digital copies from Australian Libraries, universities, museums, etc., on newspapers, Government Gazettes, maps, magazines and newsletters. Or books, pictures, photographs, archived websites, music and interviews. Even information about famous Australians, including copies of letters, diaries and personal archives. |
| OER for K-12 Educators | https://www.oercommons.org/ | OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum. |
| The Center for Governmental Studies/USA | https://www.policyarchive.org/ | PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research. It offers a subject index, an internal search engine, useful abstracts, email notifications of newly added research, and will soon expand to offer information on researchers and funders, and even user-generated publication reviews. |
| Digital Common Network/International | http://network.bepress.com/ | The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. |
| Pennsylvania State University/USA | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index | CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science |
| dLOC/International | https://dloc.com/ | The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. The dLOC partner institutions are the core of dLOC. dLOC partners retain all rights to their materials and provide access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections |
| NARCIS/Netherland | https://www.narcis.nl/ | NARCIS provides access to scientific information, including (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, datasets from some data archives as well as descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes. |
| National Digital Library/India | https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ | Millions of resources (Open and closed access) available via the National Digital Library of India under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. |
| CEC/India | http://cec.nic.in/cec/ | The Consortium for Educational Communication, popularly known as CEC, is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of Higher Education through the powerful medium of Television along with appropriate use of emerging Information Communication Technology (ICT). |
| Meta-Repository/International | https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/ | OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. We host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within OpenDOAR has been carefully reviewed and processed by a member of our editorial team which enables us to offer a trusted service for the community. |
| eGyankosh/India | http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/ | eGyanKosh- a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated. |
| Library of Congress/USA | https://www.loc.gov/ | Access the Library of Congress with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its digital collections. |
| NSDL/USA | https://nsdl.oercommons.org/ | The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. |
| Parliament Digital Library/India | https://eparlib.nic.in/ | Parliament Digital Library provides information about various parliamentary documents of Lok Sabha, the House of People. The debates of Lok Sabha, from the First Lok Sabha to the Seventeenth Lok Sabha are placed in this portal. The Reports of several Parliamentary Committees, Presidential Addresses to Parliament, Budget Speeches, and several publications of the Lok Sabha Secretariat are also part of its collections. |
| British Library/UK | https://www.bl.uk/catalogues-and-collections/digital-collections | The National library of the United Kingdom give access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. It provide information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities. |
| UNESCO/International | https://unesdoc.unesco.org/library | It provides access to publications, documents and other materials either produced by UNESCO or pertaining to UNESCO’s fields of competence. |
| Virtual Library/International | http://www.vlib.org/ | The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web. |
| World Digital Library/International | https://www.wdl.org/en/ | Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO. The materials collected by the WDL make it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures and significant historical documents including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints and photographs, sound recordings, and films. |
| UN iLibrary | https://www.un-ilibrary.org/ | UN iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations |
| Digital Public Library of America | https://dp.la/ | Highlights of collections from libraries, archives and museums across the United States, organized into easy-to-navigate topics. |
| Evans Early American Imprint Collection | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/ | These texts are freely available though full access to the images of the texts held by Readex is restricted to authorized users. |
| Making of America | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ | Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. |
| HaitiTrust | https://www.hathitrust.org/digital_library | HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. HathiTrust provides long-term preservation and access services to digitized content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house member institution initiatives. Items in the public domain are in full-view for everyone and items held in copyright are searchable. |
| alta Digital Library | https://dl.atla.com/ | Explore Religion & Theology Collections |
| Artstor | https://www.artstor.org/public-collections/ | Artstor’s ever-growing Public Collections offer approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from partner museums. |
| eLibrary | https://www.elibrary.imf.org/configurable/home | The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice, poverty reduction, and so much more. |
| Internet Archive | https://archive.org/ | Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. |
| NYPC Collections | https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ | Explore 911,344 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. |
| Alexander Street | https://search.alexanderstreet.com/ | Search albums, music tracks, videos, pages and books from Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company. |
| PEN America Archive | https://archive.pen.org/ | Filter by Video/Audio from the PEN America Digital Archive who captures more than 50 years of cultural programming like Interview, Lecture, Conferences, awards, conversations, etc. at the intersection of literature and freedom of expression advocacy. |
| Perseus Digital Library | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ | Designed to aid in the study and analysis of Greek and Roman literature, it includes full texts (in English and original language), a word study tool, links from text to maps, footnotes and definitions. Hosted by Tufts University. |