Open Index Initiative is a website by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Library , Mumbai, to develop an online and searchable bibliographic database for most of the Indian Social Science literature and resources available in Indian libraries. OII indexes selected Indian social science Journals and working papers/discussion papers/occasional papers, and thesis/dissertations emanating from Indian social science and management institutes and various departments. It provides index to Economic and Political Weekly, Index to Indian Journals, Theses and Dissertations, Directory of Indian Social Science, Statistical and Management Institutes, Union Catalogue of Journals, Working Papers and Information on upcoming conference, workshops, seminar in Social Science in India, Directory of Indian Experts in Open Source Software, Book reviews, etc .
The union catalogue of journals provide data from the following national Institutes.
- Center for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
- Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi
- Indira Gandhi Inst of Development Res, Mumbai
- Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Management, Indore
- Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
- Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi
- Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore
- Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
- Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
- Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
- Madras School of Economics, Chennai
- National Council of Applied Economic Research, Delhi
- National Institute of Bank Management, Pune
- National Inst of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi
- National Insurance Academy, Pune
- National Social Science Documentation Center, New Delhi
- National Law School of India University, Bangalore
- T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal
- UTI Institute of Capital Markets, Navi Mumbai
The index to Economic and Political Weekly have coverage from 1970 to 2007.
Visit the site at http://oii.igidr.ac.in/
