This guide will give you an introduction to finding information on Sanskrit. You can use it to:
- locate books, eBooks and journal articles
- search relevant online databases
- connect to useful websites
- reference properly and avoid plagiarism
Databases
DELNET - Developing Library Network
Electronic Books
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Open Courseware
Open Text Books
Research Funding Agencies
Research Support Tools
Data Management & Repositories
The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) is a global registry, with more than 2,400 detailed data repository records, and is widely acknowledged as a tool for the identification of suitable repositories for research data.
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)
- All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
- Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)
- Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoepathy (AYUSH)
- Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
- Ministry of Coal (MOC)
- Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR)
- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
- India Meteorological Department (IMD)
- Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
- Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY)
- Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Ministry of Power
- Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment (MOSJE)
- Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation
- Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
- University Grants Commission (UGC)
Remote Login Access provides off campus access to all the subscribed e-resources of Ananda Rangapillai Library
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
Indian
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Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship Scheme For Single Girl Child
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Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Sciences, Medical Sciences & Engineering Sciences. (Hindi Version)
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Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Research Associateship (RA) for Foreign Nationals
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Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive.
Table of Contents Services (TOC)
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.
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.
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content.
Quickly find relevant and trusted research, identify experts and access reliable data, metrics and analytical tools for confident research strategy decisions — all from one database and one subscription.
Scopus is a comprehensive, source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts. It places powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of researchers, librarians, institutional research managers and funders. Scopus powers better decision-making with curated, complete and connected data.
note: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus
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
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
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.
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Free open textbooks for courses in arts, sciences, humanities and business.
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Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER)Search by subject areas for open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses.
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OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)Open content available, including textbooks, from 52 different sources and contains 155,375 records.
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OER CommonsSearch by subject areas for open and free textbooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses.
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OpenStaxOffers over 20 high quality textbooks for college and AP courses; also, includes test banks, assignments, PowerPoint slides to go along with the textbooks.
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Open SUNY TextbooksOpen textbooks from the State University of New York System.
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Open Textbook LibraryA searchable catalog of open textbooks "licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed."
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Saylor Academy Open Textbooks"100+ free textbooks for students, educators, and families"
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Watch free lecture videos covering many disciplines from the world’s top universities.
Teacher resources including a collection of video programs in subjects such as art, foreign language, literature/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies/history.
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.
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's educational technology offers a one-stop shop for user-generated educational free videos from around the world.
University Librarian
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