Free Open Access Resources
Open Access Journals -
I) DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - https://doaj.org/ DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
2) Open Access Repositories -
i) OpenDoar- http://www.opendoar.org/– OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories. It enables the identification, browsing, and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held. Tools and support enable both repository administrators and service providers to share best practice and improve the quality of the repository infrastructure.
II) Shodhganga- https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ "Shodhganga" is digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set up by the INFLIBNET Centre.
3) E Books -
I) Project Gutenberg- https://www.gutenberg.org/ – Free E Books
II) Open Access Books – http://www.doabooks.org/–
III) http://worldwidescience.org/- global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals.
IV) http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl– archive of free full-text science on Earth
Other Free OER Information Platforms -
I) MERLOT – https://www.merlot.org free and open online teaching, learning
II) Google Scholar – Google Scholar is an online, freely accessible search engine for research work
III) http://www.researchgate.net/ – Research gate For sharing and discovering research
IV) http://www.slideshare.net – Slide-share upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations
V)http://www.weebly.com/ – Make your work accessible to world with free website making tool weebly.com
VI) https://www.grammarly.com/ Helpful for correct English Writing
VII) https://prezi.com/kolvhwxykr7q/free-prezi-templates/ For presentations
VIII) Open Access Button -. https://openaccessbutton.org/ Free, legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors
Online Learning Platform -
1 www.coursera.org - Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take.
2 www.khanacademy.org- Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with the aim of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos.
3 ocw.mit.edu/index.htm- MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Open Course Ware
(OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
4 oli.cmu.edu/learn-witholi/see-our-free-opencourses/- The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach.
5 www.udemy.com- Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for online learning. It provides a platform for experts of any kind to create courses which can be offered to the public, either at no charge or for a tuition fee. Udemy provides tools which enable users to create a course, promote it and earn money from student tuition charges.
6 www.codecademy.com- Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 9 different programming languages including Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), and Ruby, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The platform also provides courses for learning command line and Git.
7 www.udacity.com - Learn for free with Udacity. Advance your career with courses built by industry leaders like Google, MongoDB, and Facebook.
8 www.codechef.com- CodeChef is a platform to help programmers make it big in the world of algorithms, computer programming and programming contests.
9 www.geeksforgeeks.org- Geeksforgeeks provides a variety of services for you to learn, thrive and also have fun. Free Tutorials, Millions of Articles, Live, Online and Classroom Courses ,Frequent Coding Competitions ,Webinars by Industry Experts, Internship opportunities and Job Opportunities.
10 www.interviewbit.com- InterviewBit is a platform to learn skills that you need for technology jobs. We help you polish your skills and get ready for the job, whether you are a fresh college graduate or a working professional.
11 www.spoj.com- The SPOJ platform is centred around an online judge system, which serves for the automatic assessment of user-submitted programs.
12 www.hackerrank.com- Hacker Rank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 2,000+ companies around the world.
13 www.scaler.com -Scaler Academy is an online accelerator program that effectively enhances the coding skills of software professionals.
14 www.upskillcourses.com -Upskill is a free online boot camp that’ll take you from beginner to advanced developer. The main focus of the course is teaching you web development, and it’s a great place to start, even if you have no experience.
15 www.codeforces.com- Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming contests. It is maintained by a group of competitive programmers from ITMO University led by Mikhail Mirzayanov.
16 www.onlinejudge.org- An online judge is an online system to test programs in programming contests. They are also used to practice for such contests. Many of these systems organize their own contests.
17 www.edx.org- edX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide student body, including some courses at no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform.
18- www.w3schools.com- W3Schools is a web developers site, with tutorials and references on web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and JQuery, covering most aspects of web programming. The site derives its name from the World Wide Web (W3), but is not affiliated with the W3C. W3Schools was originally created in 1998, by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian software development and consulting company.
19 www.spoken-tutorial.com- The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.
20 www.vlab.co.in- To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars.
To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web- resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.
21 Google Code University- Google has created a number of resources to help computer science students, including courses on programming, web security, algorithms, and much more.
22 https://ocw.mit.edu/- MIT OpenCourseWare- MIT has one of the largest collections of open courseware out there, including numerous offerings in computer science from some of the leading minds in the field.
23 Swayam - NPTEL- The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, provides eLearning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Sciences, Technology
24 https://learn.saylor.org/ - Since 2008, the focus of the foundation has been its Free Education Initiative which has led to the creation of 241 courses representing 10 of the highest enrolment majors[clarification needed] in the US
25 https://www.simplilearn.com - Simplilearn offers a wide range of online courses and certification programs in disciplines such as Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Digital Marketing, and Data Science, among others.
Open Access Journals -
I) DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - https://doaj.org/ DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.
2) Open Access Repositories -
i) OpenDoar- http://www.opendoar.org/– OpenDOAR is the quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories. It enables the identification, browsing, and search for repositories, based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held. Tools and support enable both repository administrators and service providers to share best practice and improve the quality of the repository infrastructure.
II) Shodhganga- https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ "Shodhganga" is digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set up by the INFLIBNET Centre.
3) E Books -
I) Project Gutenberg- https://www.gutenberg.org/ – Free E Books
II) Open Access Books – http://www.doabooks.org/–
III) http://worldwidescience.org/- global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals.
IV) http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl– archive of free full-text science on Earth
Other Free OER Information Platforms -
I) MERLOT – https://www.merlot.org free and open online teaching, learning
II) Google Scholar – Google Scholar is an online, freely accessible search engine for research work
III) http://www.researchgate.net/ – Research gate For sharing and discovering research
IV) http://www.slideshare.net – Slide-share upload and share publicly or privately PowerPoint presentations
V)http://www.weebly.com/ – Make your work accessible to world with free website making tool weebly.com
VI) https://www.grammarly.com/ Helpful for correct English Writing
VII) https://prezi.com/kolvhwxykr7q/free-prezi-templates/ For presentations
VIII) Open Access Button -. https://openaccessbutton.org/ Free, legal research articles delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors
Online Learning Platform -
1 www.coursera.org - Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take.
2 www.khanacademy.org- Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with the aim of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The organization produces short lectures in the form of YouTube videos.
3 ocw.mit.edu/index.htm- MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Open Course Ware
(OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
4 oli.cmu.edu/learn-witholi/see-our-free-opencourses/- The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach.
5 www.udemy.com- Udemy.com is a platform or marketplace for online learning. It provides a platform for experts of any kind to create courses which can be offered to the public, either at no charge or for a tuition fee. Udemy provides tools which enable users to create a course, promote it and earn money from student tuition charges.
6 www.codecademy.com- Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 9 different programming languages including Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), and Ruby, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The platform also provides courses for learning command line and Git.
7 www.udacity.com - Learn for free with Udacity. Advance your career with courses built by industry leaders like Google, MongoDB, and Facebook.
8 www.codechef.com- CodeChef is a platform to help programmers make it big in the world of algorithms, computer programming and programming contests.
9 www.geeksforgeeks.org- Geeksforgeeks provides a variety of services for you to learn, thrive and also have fun. Free Tutorials, Millions of Articles, Live, Online and Classroom Courses ,Frequent Coding Competitions ,Webinars by Industry Experts, Internship opportunities and Job Opportunities.
10 www.interviewbit.com- InterviewBit is a platform to learn skills that you need for technology jobs. We help you polish your skills and get ready for the job, whether you are a fresh college graduate or a working professional.
11 www.spoj.com- The SPOJ platform is centred around an online judge system, which serves for the automatic assessment of user-submitted programs.
12 www.hackerrank.com- Hacker Rank is a technology hiring platform that is the standard for assessing developer skills for over 2,000+ companies around the world.
13 www.scaler.com -Scaler Academy is an online accelerator program that effectively enhances the coding skills of software professionals.
14 www.upskillcourses.com -Upskill is a free online boot camp that’ll take you from beginner to advanced developer. The main focus of the course is teaching you web development, and it’s a great place to start, even if you have no experience.
15 www.codeforces.com- Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming contests. It is maintained by a group of competitive programmers from ITMO University led by Mikhail Mirzayanov.
16 www.onlinejudge.org- An online judge is an online system to test programs in programming contests. They are also used to practice for such contests. Many of these systems organize their own contests.
17 www.edx.org- edX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide student body, including some courses at no charge. It also conducts research into learning based on how people use its platform.
18- www.w3schools.com- W3Schools is a web developers site, with tutorials and references on web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, and JQuery, covering most aspects of web programming. The site derives its name from the World Wide Web (W3), but is not affiliated with the W3C. W3Schools was originally created in 1998, by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian software development and consulting company.
19 www.spoken-tutorial.com- The Spoken Tutorial project is the initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher’ activity of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India.
20 www.vlab.co.in- To provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars.
To provide a complete Learning Management System around the Virtual Labs where the students can avail the various tools for learning, including additional web- resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.
21 Google Code University- Google has created a number of resources to help computer science students, including courses on programming, web security, algorithms, and much more.
22 https://ocw.mit.edu/- MIT OpenCourseWare- MIT has one of the largest collections of open courseware out there, including numerous offerings in computer science from some of the leading minds in the field.
23 Swayam - NPTEL- The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning, a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, provides eLearning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Sciences, Technology
24 https://learn.saylor.org/ - Since 2008, the focus of the foundation has been its Free Education Initiative which has led to the creation of 241 courses representing 10 of the highest enrolment majors[clarification needed] in the US
25 https://www.simplilearn.com - Simplilearn offers a wide range of online courses and certification programs in disciplines such as Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Digital Marketing, and Data Science, among others.
