Hindi
Welcome to the Subject  Guide on Hindi

This guide will give you an introduction to finding information on Hindi. You can use it to:

  • locate books, eBooks and journal articles
  • search relevant online databases
  • connect to useful websites
  • reference properly and avoid plagiarism
All Items by Source

DELNET - Developing Library Network

DELNET - Developing Library Network

Pondicherry University Library has subscribed to the Institutional Membership of DELNET (Developing Library Network), New Delhi. DELNET is a major resource-sharing library Network in India connecting more than 7300 institutions in 33 states in India and few other countries comprising of universities, colleges, R&D organizations, specialized institutions, etc.
DELNET also provides access to more than 3.6 crore catalogue records of books journals articles, etc. with the facility to borrow books on Inter Library Loan (ILL) and get copies of journal articles. For: more details on accessing DELNET resources please logon to https://delnet.in/ and click on "New Discovery Portal".
 

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

Research Funding Agencies

Research Support Tools

Remote Login
Remote Login Access provides off campus access to all the subscribed e-resources of Ananda Rangapillai Library
Turnitin: Plagiarism Checker
Turnitin is an online software program that can detect similarities between an existing work and your submitted work.  When you submit a work to Turnitin, the proprietary software compares that work to Turnitin's database.
Similarities are instances when your words match words found in other works found in the Turnitin database

Scholarships and Fellowships

Search Engines

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive.

Table of Contents Services (TOC)

JournalToCs
This is a free Table of Contents service that provides access in one place to the most recent tables of contents for over 32,000 journals.

Webcasts

Library of Congress Webcasts
This resource from the Library of Congress includes webcasts on a multitude of topics: history, current events, education, literature, and more. The site allows you to browse collections by subject including the National Book Festival collection, see newly added webcasts and the most popular webcasts, and download both web- and podcasts.

Databases

Web of Science
Indexes the world's leading peer reviewed journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and provides searching of cited references, from 2002-present.
note: LibGuide

Open Courseware

Carnegie Mellon Online Learning Initiative

Offers 27 free and open courses from Carnegie Mellon University. 
  • John Hopkins University Open Courseware
  • Ninety plus open courses offered from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  • Khan Academy
    Offers access to tutorials, practice exercises, instructional videos and a personalized dashboard in many different disciplines such as math; science and engineering; computing; arts and humanities; and economics and finance.
  • Lumen Learning
    Search by subject areas for OER course materials.
  • METU OpenCourseWare (Middle East Technical University)
    Offers free and open educational resources for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
  • MIT Open Courseware
    Course material for over 2000 courses is available for free in various different disciplines such as Engineering, Science, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Science and more!
  • OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)
    A search tool to search for OER content, including courseware, from 78 different sources and contains 155,375 records.
  • Open Course Library
    "A collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.  Some of the materials (also called open educational resources, or OER) are paired with low-cost textbooks ($30 or less). The course material can be used, adapted and shared for free as well as low-cost publisher materials."  This site includes courses developed specifically for community and technical colleges.
  • Open Education Consortium
    Offers free online courses along with access to course materials and expert opinions on topical issues from members of the Open Education Consortium.
  • OpenLearn
    Offers free online courses from the UK's Open University with free access to course materials and expert opinions.
  • Saylor Academy (Saylor.org)
    "Free, open online courses for people everywhere."  Includes topics such as General Education, Art History, Computer Science, English Literature, and more.

Open Text Books

BC Open Campus Textbook Project

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Video Sources

Academic Earth
Watch free lecture videos covering many disciplines from the world’s top universities.
Annenberg Learner
Teacher resources including a collection of video programs in subjects such as art, foreign language, literature/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies/history.
EduTube
Educational video search platform that organizes the best free online educational videos, and make them easy for you to find, watch and download. Browse by category, type, educational level, length, top 100, or most popular.
Open Video Project
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
TeacherTube
TeacherTube's educational technology offers a one-stop shop for user-generated educational free videos from around the world.

Journals/Magazines

Web Sites

A Door into Hindi
"A Door Into Hindi" is a free, interactive, multimedia Elementary Hindi learning website.

Dictionaries

हिन्दी शब्दकोश LEXILOGOS - Hindi Dictionary
This dictionary provides online translation from English to Hindi and Hindi to English.
Contact
Dr. M. Vijayakumar
University Librarian
Ananda Rangapillai Library
Pondicherry University,
Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Administrative Building,
R.V.Nagar, Kalapet,
Puducherry – 605014.
Email: librarian@pondiuni.edu.in
Phone: 0413 - 2654205
Remote Login Access
Remote Login Access provides off campus access to all the subscribed e-resources of Ananda Rangapillai Library. This facility is being provided to faculty, research scholars and students of Pondicherry University to facilitate and promote the use of e-resources at the point of need and use.
https://elibpondiuni.remotexs.in/
Style Manuals
  • MLA style (Modern Language Association) is typically used by the Humanities
  • APA style (American Psychological Association)  often is used by Education, Psychology, and Business
  • Chicago/Turabian (Professor Turabian, University of Chicago) is generally used by History and some of the Fine Arts
Reference & Citation Management Tools