E- Resources

1. Open Access E-Resources: Free and Downloadable

• National Digital Library of India (NDLI) (MHRD-Govt. of India and IIT-Kharagpur Initiative) (5,89,89,683 items hosted as of 16-January-2021).
• National Science Digital Library (Developed by  CSIR-NISCAIR).
• Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. (20 million books, 4.5 million audio recordings, 4 million videos, and much more)
• LoyalBooks - Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads

2. Open Access E-Books

• DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books): 29,872Academic peer-reviewed books from 393 publishers  
• Digital Library of India(Project funded by the Govt. of India.) (38,280 books in PDF format) 
• ManyBooks: Ultimate guide to free e-books, offers more than 50,000 ebooks to be discovered!
• PDFDrive - PDF Drive is a search engine for PDF files. As of 03-09-2020, there are 84,552,812 eBooks for you to download for free.
• OpenStax - Free, flexible, peer-reviewed Textbooks available in convenient formats for students (Science, humanities, social sciences, commerce, etc.)
• Open Textbook Library- Textbooks every student can access and afford. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. 
• Free Book Notes - An aggregate literary resources of over 53,000 books
• Free-eBooks.net- Thousands of free books to read whenever and wherever you like!
• FreeTechBooks- Database of Free, Open Access Online Computer Science books, Textbooks, and Lecture Notes- 
• Commons Open Educational Resources - OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.- 
• Bookyards- Library to the world - Over 24,000 eBooks freely available.

3. Open Access Audio Books

• LibriVox: A library of around 14,000 audio books freely available on the internet in the public domain.
• Open Culture:1,000 free Audio Books Downloadable

4. Open Access E-Content (Videos, Tutorials, Interactive Content)

• e-PG Pathshala: A Gateway to all PG Courses - High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines.

• Vidya-Mitra: Integrated E-Content Portal - Project of MHRD-Govt. of India & INFLIBNET - e-Text, Videos, e-Tutorials for UG & PG Students.

• SWAYAM-PRABHA- Free DTH Channels for Education: Project of MHRD-Govt. of India & INFLIBNET -     32 DTH Channels telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis

•  CEC-UGC Edusat: Consortium for Education Communication  from UGC:  A YouTube Channel of The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India.

5. E-Learning Courses Platforms

• SWAYAM : (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India. Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates.

• UGC MOOCs: A Vertical of SWAYAM 

• NPTEL: (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) A Project funded by the MHRD, Govt. of India.

•  Coursera: Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies

• edX: Access 2500+ Online Courses from 140 Institutions - internationally reputed and recognised.

• FutureLearn: Get access to high quality learning wherever you are, with online courses, programs and degrees created by leading universities, business schools and specialist organisations.

• Udemy: The world’s largest selection of courses, choose from over 100,000 online video courses with new additions published every month.

• Unacademy: Enroll in courses and watch lessons from India's best educators, on India's largest learning platform- 

E-Resources by Department of Computer Science