Timeline of the Open Access Movement

Open Access movement is free from all type of confinements ranging from cost, leagal, accessibility and copyright etc. This journey was started in 1966 by Educational Resource Information Centre (ERIC) of US Govt of Education and by launching of MEDLINE by National Library of Medicine and now propagted by Peter Suber and their team. Peter Suber has tried to summariesd the chronology of OA Movement in form of "Overview" and "Blog". This link can navigate to that choronological event of OA Movement........

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/timeline.htm

Open Access Directory

The Open Access Directory (OAD) is a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD makes it easier for everyone to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA. To see what they have just browse the table of contents below, browse the table of categories, or use the search box in the left sidebar. To help the cause, just register and start editing. If still user have any questions, their help section or drop us a line.
OAD is hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.
Table of Contents
Acronyms
Audio about OA
Author addenda
Bibliography of open access
Blogs about OA
Calls for papers
Calls for proposals
Data repositories
Declarations in support of OA
Disciplinary repositories
Discussion forums
Educational materials about OA
Early OA journals
Events
Events celebrating Open Access Day (October 14, 2008)
Events celebrating Open Access Week (October 19-23, 2009)
FAQs about OA
Free and open-source journal management software
Free and open-source repository software
Guides for OA journal publishers
Implementation resources for the NIH policy
Institutions that support open access
Jobs in open access
Journal declarations of independence
Journals that converted from TA to OA
Lists maintained by others
OA by the numbers
OA journal business models
OA journal funds
OA speakers bureau
OA tracking project
Proposed lists. Add your suggestions here. These proposals may soon blossom into active lists.
Periodicals that frequently publish articles about open access
Publisher policies on NIH-funded authors
Research in progress
Research questions
Services to support repository managers
Statements by learned societies and professional associations
Timeline
Video about OA
Volunteer opportunities
Wikis about OA
Lists under development. These lists have been accepted by the editors for inclusion and are now undergoing final refinements before moving to the table of contents.
Advocacy organizations for OA
Courses about OA
Journals that converted from OA to TA
Open educational resources
University actions
For further clarification one can visit at following link----http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page

General Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia
http://www.bartleby.com/65/

Information Please: On-Line Dictionary and Internet encyclopedia
http://www.infoplease.com/

Wikipedia:The free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page


Subject Encyclopedias
Art Cyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Encyclopedia of British History, 1500-1950
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Britain.html

Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org/

Encyclopedia of the Orient
http://looklex.com/e.o/

Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/

Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://encyclopedia.langenberg.com/

Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm

Internet Encyclopedia of philosophy
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/

Symbols.com:encyclopedia of
http://www.symbols.com/

Western Signs and Ideograms
WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/404?aspxerrorpath=//

Webopedia
http://www.webopedia.com/


Dictionaries & Thesauri
Acronym Server
AskOxford
http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

Cambridge Dictionary of American English
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=A

Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=I

Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/default.asp?dict=P

Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Dictionary of Acronym
Encarta Dictionary
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx

English to Punjabi Dictionary
http://www.srigranth.org/servlet/gurbani.gurbani?Action=Dictionary

Longman Dictionaries
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/dictionaries/

Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
http://www.merriam-webster.com/

One Look Dictionary Search
http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://www.oup.com/elt/select?url=%2Feltnew%2Fcatalogue%2Fteachersites%2Foald7%2F%
3Foup_jspFileName%3DteacherSite.jsp

Virtual Library:general reference dictionaries
http://home.istar.ca/~obyrne/dict.html

Yours Dictionary of English Language
http://www.yoursdictionary.com/



Subject Dictionaries
CABI Thesaurus
Dictionary of cell & Molecular Biology
http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/~julian/Dict.html

Dictionary of the social sciences
http://socialsciencedictionary.nelson.com/

Library Automation/Technology Glossary
M-W Thesaurus
http://www.merriam-webster.com/mw/thesaurus.htm

MedBioWorld:Online scientific and medical dictionaries
http://www.sciencekomm.at/advice/dict.html

Medical dictionary
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

Online Dictionary of Library & Information Science
http://www.wcsu.edu/library/odlis.html

Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
http://bitbucket.icaap.org/

Roget�s II: The New Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Roget�s Int.Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
http://www.bartleby.com/110/

Roget's Thesaurus
http://thesaurus.reference.com/

Sports Glossaries
Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/110/

Virtual Librarian: Glossary & Index
http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/glossind.htm#v1

Visual Thesaurus
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/



Sources of Educational Information
All India Council For Technical Education(AICTE)
http://www.aicte.ernet.in/aicte/home.htm

Association of Indian Universities(AIU)
http://www.aiuweb.org/

Association of Commonwealth Universities(AICU)
http://www.acu.ac.uk/

Colleges & Universities Worldwide
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/Colleges_and_Universities/

Education and Research Network (ERNET)
http://www.ernet.in/

Educational Resources Information Centre (ERIC)
http://www.eric.ed.gov/

GOI directory for Education
http://goidirectory.nic.in/education.htm

Google Directory for Indian Education
http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Asia/India/Education/

International Associationsof Universities(IAU)
http://www.unesco.org/iau/index.html

National Council For Teacher Education (NCTE)
http://www.ncte-in.org/

Study Abroad
http://www.studyabroad.com/default-ielts.html

UNESCO
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29008&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

University Grants Commission (UGC)
http://www.ugc.ac.in/

Sources of Current Information
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/

CountryReports.org
http://www.countryreports.org/

Doordarshan India
http://www.ddindia.gov.in/

Google World News
http://news.google.com/

Online Indian Magazines
http://www.thokalath.com/news/magazines.php

Online Newspapers of the World
http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

World Newspapers
http://www.world-newspapers.com/

Indexing and Abstracting Sources

Basic Medical Sources: Print and Internet ResourcesGuide
http://www.uwec.edu/library/guides/medsorc.html#medical

ChemWeb.com Abstracts Search
http://www.chemweb.com/abstracts

CiteSeer: Scientific Literature Digital Library
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

Dissertation Abstracts International
http://www.proquest.com/en-US/site/pqdd_unavailable.shtml

Find Articles
http://findarticles.com/

HighBeam Library Research
http://www.highbeam.com/

ISIHighlycited.com
http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/home.cgi

Index Translationum
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7810&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC
&URL_SECTION=201.html

Indian Medlars Centre
http://www.indmed.nic.in/

INGENTA
http://www.ingenta.com/

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html

PUBMED
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

PubMed Central (PMC)
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/


Standards and Patents


Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS)
http://www.bis.org.in/

Current Awareness Services: Patents and Standards
http://www.library.bham.ac.uk/

European Patent Office(EPO)
http://ep.espacenet.com/

Google Directory of Patents
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Law/Legal_Information/Intellectual_Property/Patents/

Google Directory of Standards
Indian Patents Database
http://pk2id.delhi.nic.in/

Patents & Standards
http://www.lib.polyu.edu.hk/internet/patents.html

PhysicsWeb-Resources- Patents and Standards
http://physicsworld.com/cws/home

United States Patents(USPTO)
http://www.uspto.gov/

Finding Patents & Standards
http://www.library.yale.edu/science/help/patent.html


Indian Reference Sources

Air India
http://home.airindia.in/SBCMS/AIHome.aspx

Asia Trade Hub
http://www.asiatradehub.com/

Ayurveda Portal
http://www.allayurveda.com/

Behind the name: sources of first name
http://www.behindthename.com/

Bureau of Indian Standards
http://www.bis.org.in/

Census India
http://www.censusindia.net/

Cookery
http://food.sify.com/

Department of Ayurveda, Yoga ...
http://indianmedicine.nic.in/

Digital Library of India
http://www.dli.ernet.in/

Five Year Plans
http://planningcommission.nic.in/plans/planrel/fiveyr/welcome.html

GISTNIC (GISTNIC)
http://disha.ap.nic.in/

Gateway to Government of India Info over the web
http://www.indiaimage.nic.in/

IASLIC
http://www.iaslic.org/documentation.htm

Income Tax India
http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/

Incredible India
http://www.tourismofindia.com/index.html

Indian Exporters Manufacturers Suppliers Directory
http://www.indiamart.com/

Indian Academy of Science (IAS)
http://www.ias.ac.in/

Indian National Science Academy
http://www.insa.ac.in/html/home.asp

Indian Railway Reservation Enquiry
http://www.indianrail.gov.in/

Indian Railways
http://irfca.org/faq/faq-source.html

India Tax Laws
http://www.laws4india.com/taxlaws.asp

India Yellow Pages,Directory & Guide
http://www.laws4india.com/taxlaws.asp

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA)
http://ignca.nic.in/

Internet Indian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html

Kranti 1857: The First struggle of India's Independence (1857)
http://www.kranti1857.org/home.php

Life Insurence Corporation of India
http://www.licindia.com/

National Archives of India
http://nationalarchives.nic.in/

National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR)

Online Railways Reservation
http://www.irctc.co.in/

Press Information Bureau (PIB)
http://pib.nic.in/others/sisters_link.asp

Recipes
http://www.dabur.com/EN/Group/Foods/Hommade/hommade.asp

Right to Information Act 2005
http://www.persmin.nic.in/RTI/WelcomeRTI.htm

Timeline of India
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/timeline/timeline.htm


India-Specific Search Engines

123 INDIA
http://www.123india.com/

123 Khoj
http://www.123khoj.com/

Altavista India
http://in.altavista.com/

GOI web Search
http://search.nic.in/advanced.html

Google India
http://www.google.co.in/

Khoj
http://library.puchd.ac.in/ise.html


Important Reference Sites

AllRefer.com
http://www.allrefer.com/

Asian Resources for Librarians
http://www.aardvarknet.info/user/aardvarkwelcome/

BUBL Information Service
http://bubl.ac.uk/

Chandigarh City Guide
http://www.chandigarhcity.com/index.htm

E-Sampark: Chandigarh
http://sampark.chd.nic.in/pls/esampark_web/home

Google Directory for Reference
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/

How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/

LibDex: The Library Index
http://www.libdex.com/

LibrarySpot

Refdesk
http://www.refdesk.com/
Refdesk
http://www.refdesk.com/

South Asia Resource Access on the Internet
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/southasia/cuvl/

WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/


Some Useful Softwares

1. Adobe Reader (for reading pdf documents)
http://get.adobe.com/reader/

2. Apple iTunes(Jukebox)

3. AVG Antivirus (Antivirus Software)
http://free.avg.com/download-avg-anti-virus-free-edition

4. Google Software Downloads
http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html

5. Internet Exporer 6.0 (Web Browser)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/ie/getitnow.mspx

6. MSN Encarta Right-Click Dictionary
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/quick_Dictionary_Download.aspx

7. Mozilla Products Download (Web Browser)
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/

8. Nvu (N-view) (Web Designing Software)
http://www.nvu.com/

9. OpenBiblio (Library Software)
http://obiblio.sourceforge.net/

10. OpenOffice (Office Productivity Software)
http://www.openoffice.org/

11. Picasa (Digital Photo Organizing & Sharing Software)
http://picasa.google.com/picasa/

12. Windows Media Player 10.0
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/10/default.aspx

13. WordWeb (Free thesaurus and dictionary for Windows )
http://wordweb.info/free/

Acrobat eBook Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

Book Reader
http://www.rudenko.com/ebook.html

Microsoft Reader
http://www.microsoft.com/library/errorpages/smarterror.aspx?404;http://www.microsoft.com/reader/default.mspx


�Book p:/www.gowerpoint.com/

1. Ready Reference & Quick Facts



The most up-to-date encyclopedia available contains over 50,000 articles, 40,000 bibliographic citations and 80,000 cross-references.
Columbia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/
6th ed. 2001


Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns’s comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millenia from prehistoric times to the year 2000.
The Encyclopedia of World History

6th ed. 2001.

http://www.bartleby.com/67/


The 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy,

3rd ed. 2002.

http://www.bartleby.com/59/

With 50,000 entries, this most comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features will prove invaluable to anyone for whom places hold fascination and who require accurate data about them.


The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.

http://www.bartleby.com/69/

Containing 35,000 synonyms in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions.
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed. 1995.

http://www.bartleby.com/62/

Mawson’s modernization of Roget’s classic structure with over 85,000 hyperlinked cross-references and 2,900 quotations.
Roget’s International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. 1922

http://www.bartleby.com/110/



The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debat
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

http://www.bartleby.com/73/

The 65,000 essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided into 6,500 subjects.
The Columbia World of Quotations.

1996

http://www.bartleby.com/66/




The most notable quotations since 1950 contains over 9,000 quotations from 4,000 sources and is organized into 25 categories and 60 sections.
Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.

1988

http://www.bartleby.com/63/


Including over 11,000 quotations, the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905 keeps most of his original work intact.
Bartlett, John. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

http://www.bartleby.com/100/

Indian Search Engine

India Search Engines:

123India.com - [New Window] - Search engine for India.

BestIndianSites.com - [New Window] - Provides reviews of Indian web sites in various categories.

Dialindia.com - [New Window] - Guide to India featuring business, news, travel, employment, classifieds, penpals, etc.

Humlog - [New Window] - Portal site for Asian Indians with Indian (Hindi) music and movies, matrimonial services, events, white and yellow pages, career and job search, chat, events, and much more.

Indian Index - [New Window] - Search engine and guide to the best Indian Web sites. Also features chat, jobs, Indian matrimonials, news, Indian links and discussions.

Indian Visit - [New Window] - Directory of travel, business, and information resources in India.

Indian Yellow Pages - [New Window] - Online Indian yellow pages. Search by keyword or

category.

Jadoo - [New Window] - Indian search engine.

Kegma India - [New Window] - Web directory for India with Internet resources for news,

movies, songs etc. Also has sections for Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati languages in the regional categories.

khoj - [New Window] - Indian search engine.

Kriya.com - [New Window] - Directory of sites related to India and Indian culture, art, history and spirituality.

My-India - [New Window] - Search engine for India.

Nagpurvision - [New Window] - Nagpur directory.

Orissainfo.com - [New Window] - Search, free ma

trimonial, classified ads, food, tourism, temples, dance and everything else that you were looking for about the Indian state of Orissa.

Punjabilok - [New Window] - An encyclopaedic portal on Punjab, Punjabis and Punjabiat which connects Punjabi-speaking people the world over.

Rediff On The NeT - [New Window] - Search engine for India. Provides news and entertainment service.

Sholay - [New Window] - Search engine for information related to India.
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