Sahapedia : An open online encyclopedic resource

Sahapedia is an open online multimedia encyclopedic resource on the Indian culture, arts and history. It is based on New Delhi and registered in 2011 as a not-for-profit organisation under the societies Act of 1860. The portal provides articles , books , videos , interviews and having an image database. It  is available in Bengali , Chattisgarhi , English , Hindi , Malayalam , Marati , Tamil , and Urdu. Users can explore historic sites and natural spaces through virtual walks, timelines and interactive maps. Sahapedia is both a resource and a platform in that registered users may log into a personal work space from where they can submit material for curation and form communities of interest. It is also an online archive that hosts a library, cultural events calendar and news. 

Sahapedia Introduction Video

Access Sahapedia at http://www.sahapedia.org/

e-Acharya: A gateway to all learners

e-Acharya is an integrated e-content portal developed under National Mission for Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The portal provides facility to search and browse the learners all learning materials includes audio, video, textual materials, etc. through a single interface. The portal cover quality learning resources from top institutions in the country in eight subject categories viz Agriculture Science, Biological Science, Chemical Science, Physical Science, Medical and Health Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

You can start your search from the home page using free text search and exact search options. For example search using the keyword 'Nano Science' a total of 1118 records will be displayed, 100 on each page. Each record will contain the title, project name, course,  subject, contributor, institution, key word and the language in which the record is available. On the right side of the record there is option to refine your search. You can  narrow your search by content type, target users, by subjects, by institute and by project name. Each refine term shows how many item included in the term. Take the example of the 'Nano Science' refine by institute - IISc Bangalore, eighteen items contributed by IISc on the topic will get. To select the item click on the title and open it. You can browse by other access points from the record window.

Anyone can register to the portal for free by adding  name, email id and category in which belong. It will help to create a profile and manage the portal in the personalised way. You can select the subject, search on the subject, you can store e-text and videos; You can manage number of collections in your profile, number of visits on the websites, last login time, and login count. You can contribute open access content and any project with special collection. 

Link to portal:  http://eacharya.inflibnet.ac.in 

e-Adhyayan: Depository of books for UG and PG courses in India

e-Adhyayan is a repository of e-Books for the Under-Graduate & Post-Graduate Courses. The e-Books are being derived from the e-text of e-PG Pathshala. The project is initiated by the University Grants Commission and Ministry of Human resource Development, Government of India. The author / course coordinator of books are Indian experts. Currently, e-Adhyayan has 50 e-Books in Sociology, Library & information Science, Computer Science & IT. It is available in open access under Creative Common platform. The platform of e-Books is pressbook which is open source. It has been deployed and customized by the INFLIBNET Center. It also facilitates e-book publishing off-line, where author can write and publish his/her own book.

Access the resource at http://epgpbooks.inflibnet.ac.in

Science and Plants for Schools

 Science and Plants for Schools (SAPS) creates opportunities for teachers and students to find out more plants and to become more interested in plant science.
see the website: http://www.saps.org.uk/

e-Prints @ IISc: Open Access Repository of Indian Institute of Science Research Publications

ePrints@IISc repository collects, preserves and disseminates in digital format the research output created by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,  research community. It enables the Institute community to deposit their preprints, postprints and other scholarly publications using a web interface, and organizes these publications for easy retrieval. While eprints@IISc can be accessed by anybody, submission of documents to this repository is limited to the IISc research community only. ePrints@IISc repository is running on EPrints open archive software, a freely distributable archive system available from eprints.org. ePrints@IISc complies with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) framework allowing publications to be easily indexed by web search engines and other indexing services.

You  can access the depository at http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/ . You can browse documents by subject wise / department wise, by Author, by year of publishing by type of document such as books, conference proceedings, technical report, journal articles, short communication, patent, preprints, teaching resources, etc.

ePG Pathshala : A portal for open educational resources for all post graduate courses

e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the University Grands Commission. It is a part of Digital India initiative. It disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals, and a variety of other print and non-print materials for students, teachers, parents, researchers and educators.The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other research & development institutes across the country. Every subject had a team of principal investigator, paper coordinators, content writers, content reviewers, Language editors and multimedia team.

You can access ePG Pathshala at https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in . The content of the portal has divided in to seven Categories;

▪ Arts & Humanities

▪ Languages

▪ Engineering and Technology

▪ Life Science

▪ Medical and Health Sciences

▪ Physical and Basic Sciences

▪ Social Sciences

Under each category individual subjects are given;

▪ Arts & Humanities : Architecture, Buddhist Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Study of Religions, Planning, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Visual Arts. 

▪ Languages: Chinese, English, Hindi, Japanese, Russian Studies, Sanskrit ( Acharya and Vyakarana ), Sanskrit (MA) , Spanish, Urdu.

▪ Engineering and Technology : Analytical Chemistry / Instrumentation, Computational Science, Computer Science, Electronic Sciences, Human Resource Management, Information Technology, Management, Material Science, Risk / Disaster Management .

▪ Life Science : Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Botany, Food and Nutrition, Food Technology.

▪ Medical and Health Sciences : Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Museology and Conservation, Pharmaceutical Science, Physical Education Sports and Health Education, Social Medicine and Community Health, Zoology

▪ Physical and Basic Sciences : Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geology, Jyotish-ganit, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics

▪ Social Sciences : Adult Educated, Anthropology, Business Economics, Commerce, Criminology, Economics, Education, Forensic Science, Geography, Hotel and Tourism Management, Human Rights and Duties, Indian Culture, Law, Library and Information Science, Linguistics, Media and Communication Studies, Political Science, Population Studies, Psychology, Public Administration, Social Work Education, Sociology, Women Studies / Gender Studies.

epg Pathshala can be access through mobile app. ePathshala mobile app is available through especially developed mobile app interface on Android, iOS and windows platforms for wider access and contains textbooks and other e-books as E-Pub 3.0 and Flipbooks in English, Hindi and Urdu.

To download, Android app, 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.gov.epathshala

To download, Windows app,  

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/e-pathshala/9nblggh5x1xw