Open Access E-Resources
Open Access E-Resources
Open and free access to scholarly information (content as well as data) has been gaining ground among the academic circles throughout the world. The library is happy to provide a set of hand picked open access e-resources which include books, journals and databases. We also solicit recommendations of e-resources (URL/Location of open access e-resources) from the user community, for inclusion in this growing list.
Open Access E-Books
| Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) | A discovery service for peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license |
| InTech open Books | Largest open access collection of books has published 2,582 books, 5 journals and collaborated with 91,375 international scientists |
| OAPEN | The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences |
Open Access Databases
| ALFRED | Provides vintage Federal Reserve economic data on specific dates in history. |
| ArXiv.org | 1,106,143 e-prints in Computer Science, Quantitative Finance and Statistics |
| Asian Development Bank (ADB) | Most recently published ADB documents are available freely |
| Espacenet | Free access to more than 80 million patent documents worldwide, containing information about inventions and technical developments from 1836 to today |
| FedStats | Provide statistics published by the federal government |
| FRED | Database of approximately 3000 economic time series |
| Freelunch.com | Free Economic, Demographic & Financial Data |
| IDEAS | Database of more than 300,000 economics books, articles and working papers, many with downloadable full text. |
| Public Finance India: Report & Budget Library | This library is a repository of budgets and reports of state and municipalgovernments. Each document is classified state wise, year wise, underthe categories of Budgets, Economic Survey reports, Audit reports,Annual Accounts, Bond information reports. The library also housesMacromoney research reports. The library is free to use. There is nocharge for downloads. However, registration is required to access the library; |
| Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Database | Data on various aspects of the Indian Economy |
| The World Bank Open Data | Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. |
| World Bank Group Documents and Reports | Gives access to more than 14,000 free World Bank documents |
| World Factbook | Lists country profiles for each nation, including history, people, government, economy, military, industry, flags, and maps |
Open Access Journals
| Academic journal | Provides access to full-text articles in the Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Arts & Education and Legal Studies |
| Directory of Access Journals | An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals |
| EconBiz | To support research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts. |
| EconPapers | The world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software |
| Open Knowledge.Repository (OKR) World Bank | 15,629 publications in 9 collections, 238 sub-collections |
| RePEc:Research Papers in Economics | Over 1,800 archives from 86 countries have contributed about 2 million research pieces from 2,300 journals and 4,300 working paper series |
