World Book and Copyright Day,  April 23

World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day or International Day of the Book, is an annual event organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to promote reading, publishing, and copyright. The first World Book Day was celebrated on 23 April in 1995, and continues to be recognized on that day.

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldbookday

    On World Book and Copyright Day, especially in uncertain times, we must cherish and defend books as symbols of hope and dialogue.

    Books have long embodied the human capacity to conjure up worlds, both real and imagined, giving voice to the diversity of human experience. They help us share ideas, obtain information, and inspire admiration for different cultures, enabling far-reaching forms of dialogue between people across space and time.

    Storytelling is an incredibly effective tool when it comes to educating younger generations. Indeed, books are vital vehicles to access, transmit and promote education, science, culture, and information worldwide. For this reason, every year, on 23 April – a date that marks the departure of three great authors of universal literature, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega – we celebrate their captivating power to spark innovation, generate knowledge and change minds.

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldbookday

 Indiastat

SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATISTICAL INFORMATION ABOUT INDIA

A fine collection of Socio-economic statistical data is necessary for informed decision-making on policy issues, the effective development of social policy, and the evaluation of the impact of social and economic policies. Indiastat.com provides the Socio-economic stats, which include a vast array of data on Administrative Units, Agriculture, Banks and Financial Institutions, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Companies, Cooperatives, Crime and Law, Environment and Forest, Industries, Infrastructure, Companies, Crime and Law, Demographics, Economy, Education, Environment and Pollution, Foreign Trade, Forest and Wildlife, Geographical Data, Health, Housing, Industries, Insurance, Labour and Workforce, Media, Meteorological Data, Tourism, Mines and Minerals, Per Capita Availability, Petroleum, Power, Rural and Urban Areas, Social and Welfare Schemes, Sports, Telecommunication, Tourism and Transport categories.

https://www.indiastat.com/

American Economic Association

The American Economic Association(AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. Its aim is to stimulate high-quality economic research and debate via its own specialist journals, acknowledged in industry, business and academia.

The purposes of the Association are:

1) The encouragement of economic research, especially the historical and statistical study of the actual conditions of industrial life;

2) The issue of publications on economic subjects;

3) The encouragement of perfect freedom of economic discussion.

The Association as such will take no partisan attitude, nor will it commit its members to any position on practical economic questions. The Association publishes one of the most prestigious academic journals in economics: the American Economic Review. 

Zotero is a free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials

Zotero helps you collect, organize, and analyze research and share it in a variety of ways. Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references — and the best aspects of modern software and web applications, such as the ability to organize, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero interacts seamlessly with online resources: when it senses you are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, it can automatically extract and save complete bibliographic references. Zotero effortlessly transmits information to and from other web services and applications, and it runs both as a web service and offline on your personal devices.

 Zotero is a project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of software and services for researchers and cultural heritage institutions.

https://www.zotero.org/

Google Books

        GoogleBooks is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database.

PLANET EBOOK

Planet eBook, the home of free classic literature! The latest version of the site, with its mobile-friendly design and multi-format eBooks, attempts to make collection of eBooks available on all devices.

Journal of Digital Information

The Journal of Digital Information published its final issue in 2012 and has ceased publication. This site is maintained by the Texas Digital Library as an archive and contains issues published between 1998 and 2012.

 JoDI published peer-reviewed papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments.

 First publishing papers in 1997, the Journal of Digital Information was an electronic-only, peer-reviewed journal covering the broad topics related to digital libraries, hypertext and hypermedia systems and digital repositories, and the issues of digital information. JoDI was supported by the University of Texas Libraries and Texas A&M University Libraries and hosted by the Texas Digital Library.

https://journals.tdl.org/jodi/index.php/jodi

Wikibooks

Wikibooks is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include additional languages was started in July 2004.

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project for collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone, including you, can edit right now by clicking on the edit link that appears near the top of each Wikibooks page. Wikibooks has two sub-projects; Wikijunior which is aimed at children and the Cookbook which is our collection of recipes and culinary topics. Contributors maintain the property rights to their contributions, while the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GNU Free Documentation License makes sure that the submitted version and its derivative works will always remain freely distributable and reproducible. Wikibooks went online on 10 July 2003.

DOAB

DOAB is a discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books. The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of open access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their open access books to DOAB. DOAB is an open infrastructure committed to open science. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in open access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in open access and meet academic standards.

    The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) was established by OAPEN Foundation in 2012, in close cooperation with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) & SemperTool.

      The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of DOAB Foundation. DOAB Foundation is a non-profit legal entity under Dutch law (‘stichting’), established by OAPEN Foundation and OpenEdition. The Foundation is based at the National Library in The Hague.

M G University Online Theses Library

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam , Kerala.

N-LIST

N-LIST stands for "National Library and Information services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content". The Project entitled "National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)", being jointly executed by the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The authorized users from colleges can access e-resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher's website once they are duly authenticated as authorized users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.

Access e resources through nlist, using username and password provided by your college library.

https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/

British Council Library Online

Get access to thousands of trusted academic journals, books and research papers anytime. Read Anywhere, Anytime. Carry the Online Digital Library with You. Online newspaper. Download e-books. Online magazines.

Enjoy wide range of online collection, from newspapers and magazines like New Scientist, The Economist, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, to bestselling graphic novels, academic journals, research publications, novels and books by award-winning authors. 

https://www.britishcouncil.in/library

 

DELNET 

To facilitate efficient and effective searching of information through the various online database and union catalogue, Library  has taken one year membership of Developing Library Network (DELNET), J.N.U Campus, Nelson Mandela Road, Vasant Kunj,New Delhi.

DELNET has launched a new discovery portal for member libraries. Through this portal users can access Research Articles,e-books,e-journals, Thesis, Books and millions of bibliographic records.

DELNET provides the delivery of individual books as and when required by member libraries and photocopies of articles published in India and abroad through the Inter Library Loan/Document Delivery Services.

delnet

 

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