Library & Information Resource Center

About the Library & Information Resource Center

G D Goenka University, Library is the soul of the institution and it has an extensive collection of
books, Engineering, Management, Architecture & Planning, Communication, Fashion & Design,
Hospitality, Humanities & Social Sciences, Medical and Allied Sciences, Law and Education and
has a rich reference collection for satisfying the academic and research needs of students and
faculty community. The Library and Information Centre consists a Reference Section, Circulation
Section, Audio-visual Section, Periodical Section, Book Bank and Digital Library. The University
library has automated all its library activitiesthrough Library Software to provide effective and
wide range of academic resources such as books, journals, online databases, DVDs and other
useful materials. GDGU Library & Information Resource Center with its modern collection of
knowledge resources and innovative information services fills an essential role for student,
faculty, and the surrounding community in their intellectual pursuits. It is a hybrid library with
the state-of-the-art technological applications. Users can access the online databases (EResources).The
Library offers widerange of information services to support the learning process
set to the highest professional standards.

Vision & Mission

• GDGU Library & Information Resource Center will be an excellent, modern knowledge resource center to disseminate latest information for teaching, learning and research of the University’s diverse community by providing modern library and information services
• Adopt effective online digital innovative policy, encourage lifelong learning and implement the best management practices

Library Timings

Library Collection: at a Glance

Library develops a rich collection with the objective to enrich the knowledge of the GDGU academic community through books,journals, audio-visual materials, CD-ROMs, e-journals, and online databases.

Library & Information Resource Center

The library has a huge collection of Reference and text books. Books are being arranged on open access shelves for easy search and retrieval purposes

Reference Collection: While most books are available for issue, some of the books kept exclusively for reference inside the library purpose. The reference books can be photocopied subject to copyright regulations.

Textbooks Collection: Library & Information Resource Center has a wide collection of national and International new and latest edition of textbooks.Books are organized and arranged according to Dewey decimal classification scheme.

General Book Collection: Library & Information Resource Center also has an impressive number of light reading collections that include literature, sports, fiction and selfdevelopment books for improving the reading habits among the students

News Paper Collection: Library & Information Resource Center is subscribing daily newspapers both in English and Hindi languages to satisfy the needs of all types of user community.

Print Journals: Library & Information Resource Center is subscribing 60 National & International Print Journals for the academic and research needs of the GDGU academic community.

Magazines: Library & Information Resource Center has been subscribing a good number of magazines both in English and Hindi languages and subject periodicals to satisfy the academic and reference needs of both student and faculty community.

Reports: The library has a separate collection of various reports, conference proceedings, dissertations and Project reports of various Institutes.

Audio & Visual collection: The Library has a rich Audio &Visual collection ofeducational and Recreational DVDs &CDs.

Online Catalogue: The online bibliography database of the University library can access through internet for checking particular titles by author’s name, keyword or title. Library catalogue has been computerized through automated library software package. Library catalogue can also be searched using a common web browser from any terminal located in the campus.

Reservation of the Documents: Users may reserve the desired book,can contact at Circulation Counter for reservation of the books.

Xerox Facility: Xeroxing facility is available for users of the University at nominal cost of Rs. 1.00 per page.

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Institutional Membership

DELNET

Library has also acquired Institutional Memberships of DELNET: Developing Library Network.The Library arranges books and journal articles from other libraries in Delhi on Inter Library Loan (ILL). Photocopies of research articles are also arranged from other IITs under a resource sharing agreement signed by all IITs. The Library also facilitates Demand based procurement of research publications, photocopies of research articles, etc. from other IITs and institutions in Delhi as well as from other parts of India on reciprocal basis.

Document procurement services can be made available from DELNET delivery services(www.delnet.nic.in) if the user is willing to bear the expenses (e.g. Postal charges, Photocopy charges, etc.) involved.

Shodhganga(INFLIBNET): A Reservoir Of Indian Theses:

Library is Institutional member of Shodhganga. Shodhgangais the name coined to denote digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre. The word “Shodh” originates from Sanskrit and stands for research and discovery. The “Ganga” is the holiest, largest and longest of all rivers in Indian subcontinent. The Ganga is the symbol of India’s age-long culture and civilization, ever-changing, ever-flowing, ever-loved and revered by its people, and has held India’s heart captive and drawn uncounted millions to her banks since the dawn of history. Shodhganga stands for the reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre.

Library Entry

Entry in Library admission shall be granted to the members of the library provided that

1. Each member shall sign the gate register in token of his acceptance to adhere to the
   rules of the library.
2. Each student shall be required to produce the Identity Card on demand.
3. The member should not under the influence of intoxicants.
4. The member shall be properly dressed.
5. The member shall not carry any belongings except money purse, note book and identity
   cards inside the Library.
6. Library Attendant at the check counter is empowered to examine everything that passes
   into/out of the library.
7. The member should keep silence within the library.
8. The member should not smoke nor spit in the library.
9. The member should not misbehave nor damage the documents or other properties of
   the library.
10. Library documents taken out for consultation from shelves should not be restored to the
    shelves; they should be left on the reading tables in the library.

General Rules & Regulations

1. While entering the library except laptops, readers are not allowed to carry their personal belongings (bags, brief-cases, parcels etc.) and eatable items (biscuits, cookies, fruits, chocolates, cold drinks, tea/coffee, etc.). Their belongings should be deposited at the security counter.
2. Always carry your library membership card when you visit the library, failing so will forbid your entry to library.
3. Use of cell phone and smoking inside the library is strictly prohibited.
4. Library’s photocopying services are fee based and the users must comply with relevant copyright legislation.
5. Readers should not deface, mark, cut, mutilate or damage library material in any way. If anyone is found doing so, he/she will be charged with the full replacement cost of damaged material and may lead to suspension of library account and be barred from entering the library.
6. Readers should maintain peace in the library and should not disturb other users in any way
7. Users of the library should note that all e-resources subscribed are licensed materials and cannot be shared with outside community as it may lead to copyright/license violation.
8. Readers are requested to handle the Library property carefully to avoid damage.
9. Readers leaving the library should allow the library/security staff to examine their personal belongings.
10. Readers are required to leave their belongings, like umbrellas, files, books etc. at the Property Counter. The library staff at the Circulation Counter is authorized to examine everything that passes into or out of the Library.
11. Users can bring only note-book or paper inside the Library.
12. The library rules and regulations shall be modified from time to time and shall be binding in all concerned.
13. In the event of any doubt or dispute arising in the interpretation of these rules, the decision of the Chairman of the Library Committee shall be final
14. The Library is not responsible for any loss of personal belongings. All files, books, and notebooks must be presented to the security guard at the checkpoint for inspection while leaving the Library. Library does not permit any exception in the observance of this rule.
15. Reference Documents like Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Year Books, Journals (Loose & Bound), Theses, Project Reports, Census, Handbooks will not be issued out.
16. Books and bound volumes should be handled with great care. Please avoid keeping the volumes open on the table or putting with their faces down, or inserting note books or pencils in between the pages and closing them. Pages must not be folded to serve as book marks.
17. Books loaned should be protected from RAIN, DUST, INSECTS, etc. Readers should not deface, mark, cut, mutilate or damage library material in any way. If anyone is found doing so, he/she will be charged with the full replacement cost of damaged material and may lead to suspension of library account and be barred from entering the library.
18. Theftis a serious offense and appropriate action will be taken against offenders.
19. Chairs and tables should not be disturbed from their position.
20. Digital Library is to be used for academic purposes only. Online Chatting in the Digital Library is not allowed.
21. Browsing of social networking sites is strictly prohibited. Strict disciplinary action will be taken against the defaulters. Playing games on computers is strictly prohibited in the entire Library premises.

Web OPAC

The online bibliography database of the University library can access through internet for checking particular titles by author’s name, keyword or title. Web Opac

Web OPAC

Circulation

Number of books entitlement

Reserved Books:

Faculty and Students: One book for overnight

Periodicals and Serials:

periodicals and serials can be issued to Faculty and Students for overnight.

Reference Books:

Not to be issued to Students.

Theses, dissertations, books of plates, rare books, books out of print, reprints, microfilms, reference books of general nature such as encyclopedia, almanacs, directories, hand books, reports, pamphlets, technical bulletins shall not be issued for home reading and can be consulted in the library.

Loan Conditions:

Books shall be loaned subject to the following conditions:

1. Borrower should get satisfied that the library document lent is in sound condition and the pages are neither missing nor torn. In case a library document is found to be damaged and the same has not been reported to the Library Attendant, the borrower shall be held responsible for such damage (s) and the borrower shall be required to replace it or pay the value there of as determined by the Librarian.
2. Library document should not be spoiled by underlining or writing with pen, pencil, ink, or by any other means.
3. Library document loaned for the normal period may be renewed for one more loan period on production of the same provided they are not already claimed by other readers.
4. Library document is non-transferable,norshall any member borrow library documents(s) on other member’s account.

Fines and Penalties:

1. The following charges shall be recovered for each library document retained more than the period of loan from the borrower as per the library rules.

Books lost: The member shall report immediately to the Librarian loss of any library document(s) borrowed from the library. Chargeswill be recovered for the loss of library document(s) as per the Library rule and regulation.

Damage or Mutilation: Replacement or repairs or the cost of the document plus fine up
to Rs.50/-

Print Journals & Magazines

University Publications

Journals, Conference Publications & Newsletters

• D Goenka Journal of Applied Psychology
• G D Goenka Business Review
• G D Goenka UNI-BUZZ
• G D Goenka G-FLASH
• G D Goenka National & International Conference Publications
• G D Goenka HOSPITALIER LE CORDON BLEU
• G D Goenka PERSPICAZ

Open Access E-Resources

This resource guide serves as gateway to various resources available under the Open Access Initiative. Millions of Open Access Resources are available in various forms and types such as ejournals, e-books, Electronic Theses & Dissertations, Directories, e-print archives, digital repositories, open education resources, search engines and blogs etc. All these resources are scholarly and useful to support our academic and research work and are available on the web. Most of these being free, can be accessed without any restrictions at the user end. Resources listed here are mainly on the web, except few, which are part of library collection. This resource guide, enable you to access at one point, a large number of national and international scholarly resources and by no means is a comprehensive list, but serves as a useful starting point. We strive to add newer resources and keep the entire range of resource lists updated from time to time. We request your active participation in making this resource guide as useful starting point for scholarly resources and request for your comments and suggestions.

E-Print Archives

 arXiv

Indian Open Access Repositories

Directory of Indian Institutional Repository

• CSIR Central
• Institutional Repository at Department of Biotechnology (DBT)
• Institutional Repository at Department of Science and Technology (DST)
• Science Central

Individual Institutions Repository

• CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology
• CSIR-NAL Institutional Repository
• Indian Institute of Astrophysics Digital Repository
• IIT Bombay Repository
• IIT Gandhinagar Repository
• Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela
• National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
• RRI Digital Repository

Open Research Data Repository

E-Books

Online Educational Videos

OPEN TEXTBOOKS 

Bibliographic Databases

Theses and Dissertatio

Online Patent Databa

Standard Sources

Subject Gateways

• Open Access Subject Gateways
• Chemdex: the Directory of Chemistry
• ChemWeb: a Chemistry Portal Central to Science
• IndiaBioscience.org
• Vifamath: the Virtual Library of Mathematics
• TechXtra
• Wester Water Digital Library
• World Library of Science
• WorldWideScience.org
• WWW Virtual Library

Open Courseware

National Institutes and Universities

• CEC Learning Object Repository
• eGyankosh
• e-PG Pathshala
• National Repository of Open Educational Resources
• NPTEL

International Institutes And Universities

• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
• ChemTube3D
• Harvard Online Learning
• Johns Hopkins Opencourseware
• MIT Open Courseware (OCW)
• Open Yale Courses
• Open.Michigan
• SNU Open Courseware
• UK Open University Learning Space
• University of Saskatchewan: Open CourseWare

Online Open CourseWare

• Coursera
• Khan Academy
• Open Course Library
• Supercourse

Open Access Encyclopedia

• DiracDelta.co.ul
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• Encyclopedia of Earth
• Encyclopedia of Mathematics
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• New World Encyclopedia
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®)
• Wikipedia
• To browse the more list of Internet Encyclopedias click here

Search Engines

• BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
• CiteSeerX
• Core: Connecting Repositories
• Google Patents
• Google Scholar
• JURN
• Microsoft Academic Search
• Open Access Library

Open Access Directories

Online Dictionaries

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Online Multilingual dictionary
• Acronym Finder
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Online Dictionary with Pronunciation Guide
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary
• Symbols
• Acronym Server
• BABEL: Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Weights and Measures
• Digital Dictionary of South Asia

Plagiarism Checking Service 

Library offers Plagiarism Checking Service research scholars can check originality and plagiarism prevention web tool which allows researchers to compare their contents against the massive databases to ensure the work is original before submission. Plagiarism Detection Tools which are free are listed below:

• https://www.plagiarismsoftware.net/
• http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
• http://www.plagium.com/
• http://www.checktext.org
• https://www.scanmyessay.com/ 

Guidelines for Fair Use of e-Resources

Electronic resources such as e-journals, e-databases, e-books made available by the Library for academic use. These resources can be searched, browsed and material may be downloaded and printed as single copies of articles as is done in the case of printed library material. Downloading or printing of a complete book or an entire issue or a volume of one or more journals (called systematic downloading) is strictly prohibited.

Library helpdesk:

For any query / suggestions, please contact us at : Email: library@gdgu.org ,Ph. 124 – 3315900, Extn. 4101,Ph. 124 – 3315900, Extn. 3137,

1. 25 Research Fellowships in the CeADAR Centre, Ireland (PG)
2. Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellowship (PG)
3. Acumen-India-Fellows-Application-2018 (UG/PG)
4. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) fellowships (UG/PG)
5. ASCO Numatics Industrial Automation engineering scholarships (PG)
6. DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (UG/PG)
7. Fulbright Kalam Climate Fellowship for Doctoral Research (PG)
8. Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships (PG)
9. Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowships (PG)
10. Gandhi Fellowship 2018 (PG)
11. Germany & Denmark Doctoral Fellowships for European Doctoral School of Demography 2018 (PG)
12. Hubert Humphrey Fellowships in USA for International Students (PG)
13. Hungary MTA Premium International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2018 (PG)
14. IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program (PG)
15. Indo-US fellowship for women in STEMM (PG)
16. James Madison Graduate Fellowships (PG)
17. J C Bose National Fellowship (UG/PG)
18. Khorana Program for scholars (UG/PG)
19. LMU Postdoctoral Fellowship at MCMP in Germany, 2018 (PG)
20. Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students (PG)
21. Mellon foundation fellowships (UG/PG)
22. Postdoctoral Fellowships at IBEC Best Programme in Spain, 2018 (PG)
23. Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (UG/PG)
24. Ravi Sankaran Fellowship Programme (UG/PG)
25. Sir Ratan Tata Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PG)
26. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR Graduate Fellowship Program (UG/PG)
27. The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP) (UG/PG)
28. The Philip and Marsha Dowd Engineering Seed Fund (UG/PG)
29. The Young India Fellowship (UG/PG)
30. VIF Fellowship 2018-21 (UG/PG)

Arachne

Arachne is the central Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne. Arachne is intended to provide archaeologists and Classicists with a free internet research tool for quickly searching hundreds of thousands of records on objects and their attributes

BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

ChemSpider

ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 30 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

ChemXSeer

ChemXSeer is an integrated digital library and database allowing for intelligent search of
documents in the chemistry domain and data obtained from chemical kinetics.

Citeseerx

Citeseerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. Citeseerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)

CEDB is a free bibliographic database offering over 200,000 records of all publications by American Society of Civil Engineers. It is updated at the end of each month. The update includes the journal content for the following month and all other content published in the previous month.

CORE

CORE (COnnectingREpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.

DBLP: The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

The DBLP server provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Initially the server was focused on DataBase systems and Logic Programming (DBLP), now it is gradually being expanded toward other fields of computer science.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.

DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB provides open access to over 854 Academic peer-reviewed books from 25 publishers.

ERIC- Educational Resource Information Centre

Provides a digital library of education-related resources.Contains over 1.1 million citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials in the field of education.Also includes more than 107,000 full text non-journal documents indexed by the ERIC database. Approximately one-half of the entries in the ERIC database are to ERIC documents.

Europe PubMedCentral

PubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Indian Science Abstracts

Indian Science Abstracts (ISA) is database which covers the abstracts of scientific work done in India since 1965. Original research articles short communications, review articles, and informative articles published in current Scientific and technical periodicals, as well as Indian standards and thesis are reported in ISA. It is a leading abstracting database in India covering entire spectrum of Science and Technology including Intellectual Property Rights, Management and Library & Information Science.

Ingentaconnect

Ingentaconnect lets you search and browse over 9,610 publications.

Microsoft Academic Search

Microsoft Academic Search is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research. It covers more than 48 million publications and over 20 million authors across a variety of domains with updates added each week.

OALib: Open Access Library

OALib consists of a Search Engine, based on a database with metadata of Open Access (OA) papers, a Journal with OALib Articles, Index with metadata entries of external OA journal articles, and the Repository with own OALib PrePrints as well as external preprints and postprints, all stored in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories

PubMed

PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

POPLINE

POPLINE provides access to 370,000 carefully selected publications and resources related to family planning and reproductive health

Refdoc: The Reference in Scientific Document Supply

As a digital scientific library, INIST-CNRS has been helping researchers, engineers and information professionals with their work for the past 20 years by providing access to, referencing, distributing and archiving information.Has53 million indexed records of articles, books, conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences. The articles come from 178,000 different journals. 400,000 monographs are listed.

ROAD: Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources

ROAD: Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. Launched as a beta version on 16th December 2013, ROAD will be developped during 2014 (extension of the coverage, additional features…).

Social Science Research Network

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

The OAIster database

OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.

Wolfram | Alpha

Wolfram | Alpha is an engine for computing answers and providing knowledge. It works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and generate reports.

WorldCat: the World’s Largest Library Catalog

WorldCat is the world’s largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.

American Chemical Society

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

American Physical Society

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (Alpha Epsilon)

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

American Welding Society

Asian Population Association

Association for computing machinery

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Cardiac Physiome Society

Chemical Research Society of India

Electro Chemical Society

European Drought Center (EDC)

Generalized convexity and monotonicity

Gerontological society of America

Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)

IEEE

Indian Academy of Neuroscience

Indian Crystallographic Association

Indian Geotechnical Society

Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers

Indian Institute of Metals

Indian Society for Radiation and Photochemical Sciences

Indian Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers

IndiGO Consortium

International Communication Association

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Materials Research Society

Materials Research Society of India

Modern Language Association

National Academy of Psychology

Population Association of America

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth

Society of Automotive Engineers

Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines

The American Ceramic Society

The Indian Institute of Welding

The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society

United States association of computational mechanics

Scholarships

ASME/Virginia Tech Memorial Scholarship (UG/PG)

Benavitch Scholarships 2018 (PG)

Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarships (UG/PG)

Charpak – Master’s Program (UG/PG)

Charpak – Research Internship Program (UG/PG)

Clarendon Fund Scholarships at University of Oxford (PG)

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships (PG)

HAN Prestige Scholarships (UG/PG)

K.C. Mahindra Scholarships for Post-Graduate Studies Abroad 2018 (UG/PG)

2018 Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP) for Graduate Degrees (UG/PG)

Narotam Sekhsaria Scholarship Programme (UG/PG)

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (UG/PG)

Natural science and Engg. Research Council of Canada (PG)

New Zealand Commonwealth Scholarships (UG/PG)

Ruhr University Bochum International Grants in Germany, 2018 (UG/PG)

Scuola Normale Superiore PhD Scholarships in Italy (PG)

S.N. Bose Scholars Program 2018

Singapore International Graduate Award(SINGA) (PG)

Tata Trust scholarship (UG/PG)

The Institution of Engg. and Technology “IET scholarships” (PG)

The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation doctoral scholarships (PG)

UEA International Development Scholarships for International Students (PG)

Visiting International Scholarships at MPIWG in Germany, 2018 (UG/PG)

Westminster Full International Scholarship (UG/PG)

AERADE: Reports Archive

AERADE is a Gateway for aerospace and defence devised and maintained by information
professionals at Cranfield University Library and the Royal Military College of Science
Library.

Chemdex: the directory of chemistry

Chemdex is a directory of Chemistry established on 1993. It is maintained by Sheffield
University. This directory covers topics on Chemistry: chemistry branches, like environmental chemistry, universities, institutes, agencies, companies, databases, institutions, software etc.

ChemWeb: a chemistry portal central to science

ChemWeb provides access to the information chemists need to enhance their research,
product development, self-development, education, and/or their businesses in Chemistry and related disciplines. Easy access to abstracts, papers, journals, books, conferences news, forums and the Alchemist newsletter makes ChemWeb.com powerful and useful to our members.

DMOZ: the Open Directory Project

DMOZ: The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited
directory of the Web.It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors. It was historically known as the Open Directory Project (ODP).

ELDIS

Eldis is an online information service providing free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on international development issues. Eldis includes over 30,000 summaries and links to free full-text research and policy documents from over 8,000 publishers. Each document is selected by the team of editors for maintaining relevance and quality.

INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collection

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and
research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as
databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

Internet Public Library (ipl2) – Information you can trust

ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment and it the first
public library of and for the Internet community. Started as an an experiment, now trying to discover and promote the most effective roles and contributions of librarians to the Internet and vice versa. A group of highly talented, creative, strong-willed people, working hard for collecting, organising and providing access to Internet based resources.

Intute

Intute is a free online service that helps you to find the best web resources for your studies and research. Intute is the internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, Computing, Agriculture, Law, Physical Science, Social Science, Mangagement, Biological Science, Geography, Medicine and many more.With millions of resources available on the Internet, it can be difficult to find useful material. We have reviewed and evaluated thousands of resources to help you choose key websites in your subject.

SciCentral: Gateway to the best science news sources

SciCentral provides aggregated breaking science research news from the most reputable and
reliable sources.SciCentral is a gateway to thousands of online resources, grouped by science area (Biological, Health, Engineering, Physical & Chemical, etc.) and then subdivided by resource type (directories, specialized resources, databases, special reports, articles).

Science Accelerator

Science Accelerator is a gateway to science, including R&D results, project descriptions,
accomplishments, and more, via resources from the Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy.

Scout Research Archives

Scout Research Group (Scout) has focused on developing better tools and services for
finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata. Scout has access to highly educated content specialists and a world-class array of computer science and library resources.

TechXtra

TechXtra is a free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text e-prints,
the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics, and computing.

Vifamath: the Virtual Library of Mathematics

Vifamath, the Virtual Library of Mathematics is the central access point for your search for
mathematical information. It allows to search both for conventional forms of media and for electronic resources.

WorldWideScience.org: One-stop searching of worldwide science sources

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international
scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world. Multilingual WorldWideScience.org provides real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed multilingual scientific literature.

WWW Virtual Library

The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web. It is individual indexes live
on hundreds of different servers around the world.