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Permalink Reply by Munesh Kumar on January 20, 2016 at 19:21

Dear Ma'am

There are some useful, free sources; globally accepted and promoted in open access community. Some of the source I have given here, which could be useful for you. 

1. The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR at http://www.opendoar.org/
2. Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more at https://archive.org/index.php
3. Shodhganga: a reservoir of Indian Theses at http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
4.  Project MUSE: Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers at https://muse.jhu.edu/
5. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals at https://doaj.org/
6. Free ebooks by Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/
7. Google Scholar at  https://scholar.google.co.in/

Apart from these there open access portals provided and supported by publishers, Elsevier, Springer, IEEE, etc. They also might be refer for getting full text articles available in open domain. For audio visuals you can visit MIT Open Courseware, Coursera.org, edX, NPTEL, etc. to get the knowledge freely.

Thank you. 

 

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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on January 20, 2016 at 21:49

Dear Ms. Kalita,
Thanks for your post. However, I beg to differ with your opening sentence; I mean to say not just TODAY'S USERS, but users over the ages require pertinent information.Any way, as I saw Sri Munesh has suggested several sources, I just like to add that for Materials on Social Sciences, you can approach NASSDOC, New Delhi, for Science, it is NISCAIR and for Medical Sciences, you can write to National Medical Library. For Agricultural Sciences at IARI at Pusa, New Delhi.
They are official organs to provide these services upon payment. But the best way is to explore locally. It will be less costly and more importantly less time consuming.
Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray

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Permalink Reply by Nuri Kalita on January 21, 2016 at 0:07

Thanks to all

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