RESOURCES

DOAJ (DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS)
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent. All funding is via donations, 22% of which comes from sponsors and 78% from members and publisher members. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.

DOAJ operates an education and outreach program across the globe, focusing on improving the quality of applications submitted.

KALPA (CREATING DESIGN)
'Creating Digital-learning Environment for Design' also called 'e-kalpa' is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India as part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. The main intention is the creation of new learning environments that will provide access to acquisition of critical knowledge, skills, and abilities in the field of design.
URL : http://www.dsource.in/course

E-SHODHSINDHU
Based on the recommendation of an Expert Committee, the MHRD has formed e- ShodhSindhu merging three consortia initiatives, namely UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST and INDEST-AICTE Consortium. The e-ShodhSindhu will continue to provide current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.
URL: https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/

E-PGPATHSHALA
MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level. High quality, curriculum based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is the key highlight under this banner.
URL:http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION (CEC)
The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centers set up by the University Grants Commission of India. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of Higher Education through the use of the powerful medium of television along with the appropriate use of emerging Information Communication Technology (ICT).
URL: http://cec.nic.in/cec/

SWAYAM PRABHA
SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 22 DTH channels devoted for telecasting of high quality educational programmes on a 24X7 basis using the CSAT-15 satellite. A new topic is broadcasted on a daily basis for at least (4) hours and repeated 5 times a day which allow students to choose the time according to their convenience. The contents are provided by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal.
URL : https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/

SWAYAM PROGRAM
SWAYAM is a programme initiated by the Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The courses hosted on SWAYAM will be in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self -assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multimedia and state of the art pedagogy technology.
URL : https://swayam.gov.in/

NPTEL (National Program on Technological Enhanced Learning):
NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in different streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of education in the country by providing free online courseware.
URL: Online Access http://nptel.ac.in/

The National Digital library of India is a project under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text indexes from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. Library integrates contents from Institutional Digital Repositories of a large number of Indian Educational and Research institutions. St. Claret college is registered under NDL Institutional Registration.
URL: https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

ROBOTICS FOR EDUCATION E-YANTRA
E-Yantra is a robotics outreach program funded by the Ministry of Education and hosted at IIT Bombay. The goal is to harness the talent of young engineers to solve problems using technology across a variety of domains such as: agriculture, manufacturing, defense, home, smart-city maintenance and service industries.
URL : http://e-yantra.org/