THICOLIB: Ananda Rangapillai Library Pondicherry University

Know Free is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice

http://knowfree.net/

Law

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=268

Literature & Fiction

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=74

Many Books provides more than 20,000 ebooks in various subjects

http://www.manybooks.net/

Mathematics

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=3

Medical Science

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=77

Memo Ware has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.)

http://www.memoware.com/

Nonfiction

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=19

Online Books for children

http://www.biguniverse.com/

Online Computer Books contains details about free computer books

http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/

Online Free EBooks provides various subject ebooks

http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/

Open Book Publishers - Publishing open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences.

http://www.openbookpublishers.com

Outdoors & Nature

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=136

Pure Science

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=1

Religion & Spirituality

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=65

Scribd , the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats.

http://www.scribd.com/

Snip Files offers you free ebooks and software

http://www.snipfiles.com/

SpringerOpen books

http://www.springeropen.com/books

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

The Public Library and Digital Archive

http://www.ibiblio.org/

Topics like biography, fiction, games, history or tutorials etc.

http://www.free-ebooks.net/

Tourism & Travel

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=174

UNESCO : Open Access Publications

http://en.unesco.org/open-access/

E-Newspapers

about 10,000 newspapers worldwide

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

E-Patents

Australian Patent Office

http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/

Canadian

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html

Ekaswaa - Search of all Indian patent documents.

http://www.indianpatents.org.in/db/testmaina.asp

European

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/

FreePatentsOnline.com - A simple patent search database, freepatentsonline.com offers to chemical researchers a unique way of searching for patent documents.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

French Patent Office

http://www.inpi.fr/

German Patent Office

http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/english/index.html

Govt. of India's Patents Website

http://patinfo.nic.in/

Greek Industrial Property Organisation

http://www.obi.gr/obi/Default.aspx?tabid=71&

Hong Kong Patent Office

http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/home.htm

Indian Patent design and trademark office

http://www.ipindia.nic.in/

Indian Patent Information Retrieval System (IPIRS)

http://ipindiaservices.gov.in/patentsearch/

Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO)

http://english.sipo.gov.cn/

Internet sites for patent search

http://www.pfc.org.in/info/site.htm

Irish Patent Office

http://www.patentsoffice.ie/

Korean Intellectual Property Office

http://www.kipo.go.kr/kpo/user.tdf?a=user.english.main.BoardApp&c=1001

Malaysian Intellectual Property Division

http://www.myipo.gov.my/

New Zealand Patent Office

http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms

Patent Facilitating Centre

http://www.pfc.org.in/

Patent information centres (PATLIB)

http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib.html

Patent Lens - A worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.

http://www.patentlens.net/

Russian Patent Office

http://www.rupto.ru/rupto/portal/start?lang=en

Singaporean Patent Office

http://www.ipos.gov.sg/

Swedish Patent Office

http://www.prv.se/

Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property

https://www.ige.ch/en.html

Thai

http://www.patentarea.com/thai_patent_requirements.html

UK Intellectual Property Office

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/

United States

http://patft.uspto.gov/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

E-Reference

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/

Foreign Language Dictionary-French

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/frenchdictionaries.htm

Foreign Language Dictionary-Spanish

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/spanishdictionaries.htm

Glossary

http://www.glossarist.com/

Librarian's Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

Merriam-Webster

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

One Look Dictionaries

http://www.onelook.com/

Sahapedia - An open Encyclopedia on Indian Culture and Heritage

http://www.sahapedia.org

Scholarpedia

http://www.scholarpedia.org

Subject Dictionary-Business/Finance

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/businessdictionaries.htm

Subject Dictionary-Library and Information Science

http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_d.aspx

Subject Dictionary-Medical Science

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

Subject Dictionary-Science

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/sciencedictionaries.htm

Subject Dictionary-Technology

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/computerdictionaries.htm

Wikipedia

http://www.wikipedia.org

E-Theses

DART-Europe E-theses Portal

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

National Chemical Laboratory Pune (Theses full text free).

http://docs.ndltd.org

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

http://www.ndltd.org/find

Open Access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT Open)

http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/

Shodhganga -ETD Repository of Indian Universities- INFLIBNET initiative

http://www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works

http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/

E-Zines

Competitive E-magazine (Pratyogitha Darpan & Success Mirror)

http://www.emagazine.pdgroup.in/

digitalLEARNING: Learning Through ICTs

http://www.digitallearning.eletsonline.com/about-us/

eGov

http://www.egov.eletsonline.com/

eHEALTH

http://www.ehealth.eletsonline.com/

Free ezines: offers 22 free magazines in different subject categories

http://www.buzzle.com

Indian Ocean Turtle Newsletter

http://www.iotn.org

Entertainment

10,000 free online games

http://www.dailygames.com/

more than 5000 free games

http://www.games.co.in

Movies

http://www.imdb.com/

puzzles, adventure games, sports, fun games and multiplayer games

http://http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/puzzle.php

Thousands of free online flash games including puzzles, action and arcade games

http://www.freeonlinegames.com

Videos

http://www.youtube.com

General & Search Engines

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

http://www.base-search.net/

India Place Finder (A state of the art digital tool for India studies)

http://india.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Intute - Free online service with access to the best resources available on the internet

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

List of academic databases and search engines

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines

List of top companies in Indian and abroad

http://www.vcsdata.com/

Nobel Prize Internet Archive

http://www.almaz.com/nobel/

PDF Genie is a new search service which is tailored towards PDF documents

http://www.pdfgenie.com/

Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific search engine for scholarly literature

http://www.scirus.com/

Selected internet resources in all subjects

http://bubl.ac.uk/

Social Science Information gateway

http://www.sosig.org

Government Sites

Election Commission of India

http://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main1/index.aspx

Govt. of India

http://www.india.gov.in

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre

http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

http://www.education.nic.in/

Parliament of India

http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in

Planning Commission

http://www.planningcommission.nic.in/

Rajbhavan (Tamil Nadu)

http://www.tnrajbhavan.gov.in

Supreme Court of India

http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in

University Grants Commission (UGC)

http://www.ugc.ac.in/

World Bank Data (Data, Reports etc.)

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/0,,pagePK:50004410~piPK:36602~theSitePK:29708,00.html

Libraries, Library Associations and Information Centers

American Library (Chennai)

http://chennai.usconsulate.gov/resources.html

American Library Association

http://www.ala.org

Asian open source centre - promoting open source and free software in Asia

http://www.asiaosc.org/topic9.html

Austrian National Library

http://www.onb.ac.at/

Biblioteca Nacional - Brazil

http://www.bn.br

Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico

http://bnm.unam.mx/

Bibliothque Nationale

http://www.etat.lu/

British Council Library - India

http://www.britishcouncil.org.in/library

British Library

http://portico.bl.uk

Central Reference Library (Kolkata)

http://crlindia.gov.in/

Digital Information in the Information Research field

http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html

E-Prints in Library and Information Science

http://eprints.rclis.org/

European Library

http://www.europeanlibrary.org

German National Library

http://www.d-nb.de/eng/index.htm

Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres

http://www.iaslic.org

International Federation of Library Association

http://www.ifla.org

Libdex is a worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links.

http://www.libdex.com/

Librarians Internet Index

http://www.lii.org

Library and Archives Canada

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/default.aspx

Library and Information Science, Digital Library, Online Journals

http://www.academicinfo.net/infoscilibraryj.html

National and University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski"

http://www.nubsk.edu.mk/index.php?lang=en

National and University Library in Zagreb

http://www.nsk.hr/DigitalLibEN.aspx?id=716

National and University Library of Iceland

http://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/english

National and University Library Slovenia

http://www.nuk.uni-lj.si/nukeng.asp

National Central Library (Florence)

http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/

National Diet Library - Japan

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html

National Library of Australia

http://www.nla.gov.au/

National Library of Belarus

http://natlib.org.by/

National Library of China

http://www.nlc.gov.cn/old/old/english.htm

National Library of Colombia

http://www.presidencia.gov.co/En/

National Library of Estonia

http://www.nlib.ee/en

National Library of France

http://www.bnf.fr/en/tools/lsp.site_map.html

National Library of India

http://www.nlindia.org

National Library of Ireland

http://www.nli.ie/

National Library of Jamaica

http://www.nlj.gov.jm/

National Library of Latvia

http://www.lnb.lv/

National Library of Malaysia

http://www.pnm.gov.my/index.php?id=76

National Library of Namibia

http://www.nln.gov.na/

National Library of New Zealand

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

National Library of Nigeria

http://www.nlnig.org/

National Library of Peru

http://www.bnp.gob.pe/

National Library of Poland

http://bn.org.pl/en/

National Library of Portugal

http://www.bnportugal.pt/index.php?lang=en

National Library of Scotland

http://www.nls.uk/

National Library of Singapore

http://www.nl.sg/

National Library of Spain

http://www.bne.es/en/Inicio/index.html

National Library of Sweden

http://www.kb.se/hjalp/english/

National Library of the Argentine Republic

http://www.bibnal.edu.ar/

National Library of the Netherlands

http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html

National Library of Turkey

http://www.mkutup.gov.tr/index.php?yenidil=ing

National Library of Uzbekistan

http://www.natlib.uz

National Library of Wales

http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=2

National Research Centre for free/Open Source Software

http://www.nrcfoss.org.in

National Sz?ch?nyi Library

http://regi.oszk.hu/index_en.htm

National Taiwan Library

http://www.ntl.edu.tw/mp.asp?mp=2

Royal Library Albert I

http://www.kbr.be/

Royal Library of Belgium

http://www.kbr.be/accueil_fr.html

Russian State Library

http://www.rsl.ru/en

Slovak National Library

http://www.snk.sk/

Swiss National Library

http://www.nb.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en

The British Library - ejournals

http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml#

The Helsinki University Library - The National Library of Finland

http://www.nationallibrary.fi/

The National Library of Korea

http://www.nl.go.kr/nlmulti/index.php?lang_mode=e

The National Library of Norway

http://www.nb.no/english

The National Library of the Czech Republic

http://www.nkp.cz/_en/

The National Library of the Faroe Islands

http://www.flb.fo/english/

The Royal Library

http://www.kb.dk/en/

Major FellowshipsDigital Libraries

Consortium for Educational Communication

http://www.cec-ugc.org/

Digital Library of India

http://www.dli.gov.in/

Directory of Open Access Repositories

http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

eGyanKosh (IGNOU)

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)

http://nsdl.org/

NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/

NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams

http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/

The British Library

http://www.bl.uk

UNESCO Library

http://www.unesco.org/library/

Virtual Library

http://www.vlib.org

World Digital Library

http://www.wdl.org

E-Journals

Access to Global online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)

http://www.aginternetwork.org/en

Bioline international - Open Source Journals and Online Resources Directories News and guide to scientific information on the Web

http://www.bioline.org.br/journals

Brill Open E-Journals Collection

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals

Cambridge University Press: Open Access - Open Access journals from Cambridge University Press.

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/openAccessContent

CIMMYT : an international Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre

http://www.cimmyt.org

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

EPW (Economic and Political Weekly)

http://www.epw.in/epw/user/userindex.jsp

European Scientific Co-operative on Phytotherapy - European Phytojournal - free online

http://www.escop.com

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/

Free Medical Journals

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

Free On-line Chemistry journals

http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm

Free scholarly electronic journals: an annotated webliography

http://www.istl.org/00-fall/internet.html

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

http://www.who.int/hinari/en

HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text peer-reviewed content

http://intl.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl

Hindawi - Open Access Journals

http://www.hindawi.com/oa/

Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)

http://www.ias.ac.in/

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)

http://www.inasp.info/

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

http://www.jpgmonline.com/

MedInd-medical journals - fulltext of 33 Journals

http://www.medind.nic.in

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)

http://www.mdpi.org/

National Preservation Office - NPO ejournals

http://www.bl.uk/blpac/journaltemp.html

Nature Precedings - Preprint server for the Life Science community.

http://precedings.nature.com/

Nature Publishing Group - Open Acess Journals

http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/nature.php

Nutrition Bytes - Free fulltext

http://escholarship.org/uc/uclabiolchem_nutritionbytes

OMICS Publishing Group - Open Access Journals

http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php

Open Access Library (OALIB) - Free Access to 263,388 Academic Articles

http://www.oalib.com/

Open Science Directory - Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library

http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

Palgrave Macmillan - Open Access Journals

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/index.html

Physics related free access journals

http://www.eps.org/physNet/journals.html

PSIgate provides access to evaluated network based information services and resources in the physical sciences.

http://www.psigate.org

Public Library of Science - premier open-access journals in Biology and Medicine

http://www.plos.org

Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed Open Access Journals

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

SAGE Open Subject Collections

http://sgo.sagepub.com/

Science and Education Publishing (SciEP) is a multidisciplinary open access publisher of 85 Journals

http://www.sciepub.com/portal/Home

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Worldwide dissemination of social science research.

http://www.ssrn.com/

SPIE Journals (Open Access)

http://journals.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals.aspx

Springer Open gives you free

access in Science, Technology and Medicine.

http://www.springeropen.com/

Taylor & Francis Online :: Open Journals

http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals

The African Journal Archive

http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

http://www.pubmedcentral.com

University of Tennessee - Research Guides - Citation Formats and Style Manuals, Databases and other e-resources collection.

http://libguides.utk.edu/style

Wiley Open Access Journal

http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/index.html

E-Books

4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks.

http://4ebooks.org/

Arts & Photography

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=108

Ask Sam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts.

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/

Audio books

http://www.audible.com/t1/PBRP0329WS022409?source_code=PBRP0310WS012709

Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels.

http://www.baen.com/library/

Biographies & Memoirs

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=146

Blue Portal provides ebooks in various subjects

http://www.zillr.org/

Book Yards is a web portal which contains books, education materials, information etc.

http://www.bookyards.com/

Brill Open E-Book Collection

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books

Business & Investing

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=118

Computers Science & Internet

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=9

Darwin Online

http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Directory of Open access Books

http://www.doabooks.org/

eBookLobby containing collection of various subjects.

http://www.ebooklobby.com/

Engineering & Technology

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=73

Entertainment & Games

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=21

ENVIS Bulletin "Telemetry in Wildlife Science"

http://www2.wii.gov.in/envis/telemetry/index.html

Free Book Spot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 Titles in various subjects

http://www.freebookspot.es/

Free Computer Books consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books

http://freecomputerbooks.com/

Free Tech Books lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes

http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Get Free EBooks

http://www.getfreeebooks.com/

Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads

http://www.globusz.com/

Gutenberg- more than 20,000 public domain books that are out of copyright and also world’s greatest fiction available.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Health, Mind & Body

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=83

Historical Mathematics Collection

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/umhistmath/

History

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=110

Humanities

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=282