Information Sources for Research

V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, K.N. Raj LibraryChief Librarian, K.N. Raj Library
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram, India
Workshop on Research Methodology
College Development Council,
MG University, Kottayam
11-December-2018

Journal Databases
Books
Statistical Databases
Theses and Dissertations
CoursewareCourseware
Archives
Information Portals
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

ACM Digital Library
https://dl.acm.org/
Published by the Association of Computing Machinery
A collection of 1143 high quality journals.

ASPP
https://innovate.ieee.org/ieee-all-
society-periodicals-package-aspp/
Published by the IEEE
A collection 187 of high quality journals.

ACS Journals
https://pubs.acs.org
American Chemical Society is the leading publisher of peer-
reviewed research journals in the chemical and related
sciences.

APS Journals
https://www.aps.org/
American Physical Society is the leading publisher of peer-
reviewed research journals in the physics and related
sciences.

Annual Reviews
https://www.annualreviews.org/
Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to
synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of
science and the benefit of society.
A collection of 43 review journals.

ASCE Journals Online
https://ascelibrary.org/
Published by American Society of Civil Engineers.
A collection of 38 journals.

ASME Journals Online
https://journaltool.asme.org
Published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
A collection of 29 journals.

Cambridge Journals
http://journals.cambridge.org/
The Cambridge Journals Online provided by the Cambridge
University Press are a collection of high quality journals.

Directory of Open
Access Journals
(DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that
indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed
journals.
Provides more than 12300 journals in all subjects.
Free to access and download

EconLit
https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/
As the most reliable full-text source for economic research, this
database contains all of the indexing available in EconLit in addition to
full text for hundreds of journals including the American Economic
Association journals with no embargo (American Economic Review,
Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives).
This database also contains many non-English full-text journals in
economics & finance and volume and issue browsing is available for all
full-text journals.

Emerald Journals
http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/
products/collections/index.htm
Emerald Publishing, UK
Collection of 300 journals.

i-Scholar
http://www.i-scholar.in/
i-Scholar is the "Collection of Journals" provided by Informatics.
The i-Scholar gateway opens the delivery platform for both academic as
well as corporate research segments.
Collection of 1020 journals .

JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org
A trusted archive of important scholarly journals from many disciplines.
At present hosts full text contents of around 2000 journals with
applicable embargo.

Medknow
http://www.medknow.com/
Medknow Publications is one of the largest open access publishers in the
world, publishing peer reviewed, online, and print-plus-online journals in
medicine on behalf of learned societies and associations.
466 journals.

Oxford online
Journals
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/
Working with prestigious scholars, societies, and
associations, the OUP Journals Collection encompasses some
of the highest quality journals.

PLOS
https://www.plos.org/publications
PLOS is a non-profit publisher.
7 top quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Free to access and download.

Project MUSE
• http://muse.jhu.edu/
Project MUSE was founded in 1995 as collaboration between
the John Hopkins University Press and the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library
Today it is a leading provider of digital humanities and social
science content for the scholarly community.
Provides access to 674 journals.

PubMed
PubMed is a free search engine for searching biomedical, life
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
pubmed/
PubMed is a free search engine for searching biomedical, life
science journals.

Science Direct
The Science Direct is a leading journal database of Elsevier
https://www.sciencedirect.com
The Science Direct is a leading journal database of Elsevier.
The SD Journals collection consist of high quality journals
that are highly popular.

SpringerLink
The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The
http://link.springer.com/
The Springer is a leading global scholarly publisher. The
collection of Springer consist of more than 2500 journals.

T&F Journals
The Taylor and Francis is a leading global scholarly publisher.
https://www.tandfonline.com/
The Taylor and Francis is a leading global scholarly publisher.
The collection of T&F consist of more than 1000 journals.

Wiley Online Library
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
An excellent collection good quality journals from
Wiley Blackwell Publishers

Directory of Open Access
Books
https://www.doabooks.org
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access
books.
11798 Academic peer-reviewed books and book chapters from 268
publishers.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose among free
epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You
will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which
copyright has expired.

Census of India
http://www.censusindia.gov.in/
The Indian Census is the most credible source of information on
Demography (Population characteristics), Economic Activity, Literacy
and Education, Housing & Household Amenities, Urbanisation, Fertility
and Mortality, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Language,
Religion, Migration, Disability and many other socio-cultural and
demographic data since 1872.
Free access for 2001 and 2011

Economic Review, Kerala
The Economic Review includes, as it does every year, the most recent data
http://spb.kerala.gov.in
The Economic Review includes, as it does every year, the most recent data
on Kerala Government policies , Plan priorities, and on-going
programmes of Government departments. It provides a snapshot of
economy’s performance over the Five-Year Plan period. The Review is in
two volumes. Volume I covers the policies, programmes and achievements
of Government departments over the preceding year and Volume II
provides the corresponding datasets.

Economic Survey, India
A flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of
India, Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy
http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp
India, Economic Survey reviews the developments in the Indian economy
over the previous 12 months, summarizes the performance on major
development programmes, and highlights the policy initiatives of the
government and the prospects of the economy in the short to medium
term. This document is presented to both houses of Parliament during the
Budget Session.
With detailed statistical data covering all aspects of the economy—macro
as well as sectoral—the report provides an overview on Indian Economy

Economics and Statistics
Department - Kerala
http://www.ecostat.kerala.gov.in/
The Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government of Kerala is the
nodal agency for collection, compilation, analysis of statistics relating to
various sectors of Kerala Economy. Major Divisions relate to Agriculture,
Economic Census, ASI, IIP, Labour, Housing, NSS, VS, Sample
Registration, Prices, State Income, Computer Division.
No payment, free resource.
Login Required

ICSSR Data Service
The ICSSR Data Service includes social science and statistical datasets of
http:/www.icssrdataservice.in/
The ICSSR Data Service includes social science and statistical datasets of
various national-level surveys on debt & investment, domestic tourism,
enterprise survey, employment and unemployment, housing condition,
household consumer expenditure, health care, etc.
ICSSR Data Service aims to facilitate data sharing, preservation,
accessibility and reuse of social science research data collected from entire
social science community in India & abroad. As of now, the repository
hosts 131 Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), and National Sample Survey
(NSS) datasets.

EPW RF India Time Series
http://www.epwrfits.in/index.aspx
In ITS, datasets have been structured under various modules. Such as
Financial Markets, State Domestic Product and Banking Statistics and so
on.
This initiative has the broad objective of aiding and promoting research
on Indian economy and financial markets and targeted to benefit
particularly students, research scholars and the academic community both
in India and abroad.

IMF Data
http://www.elibrary.imf.org/
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) eLibrary simplifies analysis and
research with direct access to the IMF’s periodicals, books, working papers
and studies, and data and statistical tools. You will find information and
perspective on macroeconomics, globalization, development, trade and
aid, technical assistance, demographics, emerging markets, policy advice,
poverty reduction, and so much more.

IndiaStat
India’s most comprehensive e-resource of socio-economic data. It is
http://indiastat.com/default.aspx
India’s most comprehensive e
authentic and comprehensive compilation of secondary level socio-
economic statistical information about India and its states on various
socio-economic parameters.

MOSPI
http://mospi.nic.in
MOSPI provides access to a large number of data and reports including
National Sample Survey report, National Accounts Statistics, and several
other statistical publications.
All the reports and publications are in portable data format

Open Govt. Data
Platform, India
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is a
platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The
https://data.gov.in
platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The
portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/
Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services,
tools and applications collected by them for public use.

RBI Database on Indian Economy
Through this website (DBIE), data are mainly presented through time-
http://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.
rbi?site=home
Through this website (DBIE), data are mainly presented through time-
series formatted reports. These reports have been organized under sectors
and sub-sectors according to their periodicities. Reports can be saved as
excel sheets for further analysis.

UN Comtrade
http://comtrade.un.org/db/
UN Comtrade provides access to global trade data.
There is a download limit of 50000 per data query for free access.
For larger queries paid subscription is required.
Access through U/n and P/w

World Bank Open Data
http://data.worldbank.org
The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users
with access to a wide range of data brought under 20 broad topics. This
includes almost all aspects of socio-economic development.

EBSCO Open
Dissertations
https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/
This ETD database is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs . It accepts
e-theses from participating institutions.
Free Access – Most items are downloadable

EThOS
http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do
Electronic Thesis Online Service
This is a single point access to all theses produced by UK Higher Education
provided by The British Library. It harvests e-theses from the institutional
repositories and digitizes paper theses from participating institutions.
Login required
Restricted Access – Some items are downloadable

Open Access Thesis
and Dissertations
http://www.oatd.org/
Open Access Thesis and Dissertations is a free repository of graduate
theses, and dissertations published worldwide.
OATD currently indexes 4,711,930 theses and dissertations.

Open Thesis
http://www.openthesis.org/
Open Thesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other
academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and
collaboration tools.

Shodhganga – A reservoir of Indian
theses
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
TheShodhganga@INFLIBNET Centre provides a platform for research
students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire
scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to
capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs submitted by the
researchers.
Presently hosts around 210084 theses from different universities in India

edX
EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs
https://www.edx.org
from the world’s best universities, colleges and
organizations. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX,
BerkeleyX, and many other universities. EdX is a non-profit
online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and
MIT.
Currently lot of courses are offered by various
institutions in different subjects.

MIT Open Courses – Economics
http://ocw.mit.edu
Open courseware of Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. In each course syllabus, readings, assignments, and study
materials are available for download.
All courses are free to access and learn.

Swayam
http://swayam.gov.in
The objective of Swayam is to take the best teaching learning resources to
all, including the most disadvantaged. Offers courses from 9th std to PG.
All courses are free to access and learn.

National Digital
Library of India
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
The National Digital Library of India (NDL India) is a pilot project of
MHRD to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources
with a single-window search facility.
Currently 16,392,492 items hosted in NDL India
NDL Mobile App for Android and iOS is available.

arXiv
http://arxiv.org
arXiv is a repository of electronic preprints approved for publication after
moderation, that consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics,
physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer science, quantitative
biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online.
14,74,860 articles are currently available for download.

MPRA
http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
This repository is intended to disseminate research papers of
economists who want to make their work freely available through the
RePEc network but are not affiliated with any institution that provides
that furtherance. The work will be made available through EconPapers,
Ideas, Economists Online and other services.

New Economic Papers
http://nep.repec.org/
NEP is an announcement service which filters information on new
additions to RePEc into edited reports.
Scholars can register using their e-mail address and subscribe to the
weekly email alert service of various NEP subject categories (97 subjects).

DELNET
http://delnet.nic.in/
DELNET has been established with the prime objective of
promoting resource sharing among the libraries through the development
of a network of libraries. It aims to collect, store, and disseminate
information besides offering computerised services to users, to coordinate
efforts for suitable collection development and also to reduce unnecessary
duplication wherever possible.

ISID Database
http://isid.org.in
ISID Online provides access to; free online bibliographic
information resources on Journals and newspapers; several GOI reports
and so on

Managing Literature
Systematic gathering of sources:
Using proper tools to gather literature – Google Scholar, Journal
Databases, Bibliographies …
Creating bibliographic records, summary, notes, comments, and
making it error free
Organizing by topic, subject, research area…
Linking the soft copy full text for easy retrieval
Assigning a unique primary-key for print items.
While writing:
Insert the citation and bibliography in the desired citation style

Free – Open Source
Platform independent
Works Offline and Online
Over 9100 referencing styles
www.zotero.org
Data Sharing
26 fields
34 Types of Sources
Linking full text / pdf
Integration with MS-Office / Open
Office

Contributing to mother tongue
Malayalam Wikipedia has 57279 articles (Source
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/)
Malayalam is used by less than 0.1% of all the
websites as content language (Source
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cl-ml-
/all/all )
/all/all )
Publish at least one item per year in your mother
tongue.
Publications in any language will grow and get
enriched only with systematic efforts.

Visibility
 Research Gate http://www.researchgate.net/
 Website / Blog - Wordpress, Blogger
 Multimedia Storage – You Tube
 Presentations, Notes – Slide Share
Social networking Facebook, Twitter,
 Social networking – Facebook, Twitter,
LinkedIn, …
 Kerala Scholars
http://messenger.keralascholars.org/

Kerala Scholars Messenger
Kerala Scholars Messenger is a free news service for mobile
phone users. It circulates news of fresh journal articles, books,
events, and resources in Kerala studies.
It is broadcast as a public channel on the Telegram app
To join:
To join:
1. Install the Telegram app suitable for your phone.
2. In the browser, visit t.me/keralascholars
3. Click “Join” (lower half of your screen).

Ala : A Kerala Studies Blog
Ala aims to provide a space for the free and fluid expression of
thought while simultaneously exploring the vast and diverse
contours of Kerala society.
Articles are published online in http://ala.keralascholars.org/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/alablog/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/alablog/
Publish with Ala:
Submissions are to be sent via email to ala@keralascholars.org,
with the title of the submission in the subject line. Please also send
a brief author-bio.

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