How about reading journals of American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Oxford University Press and books by McGraw Hill online, that too free of cost?
The ministry of human resources development (MHRD) has subscribed to the world’s top e-journals and e-books for students. Humanities, life sciences, law, maths, medicine, social sciences, management, you name it.
The login and passwords have been provided to over 1,000 colleges while many more are in the queue to avail the facility under the national library and information services infrastructure for scholarly content programme. Students can access the journals on nlist.inflibnet.ac.in by using the username and passwords provided to their colleges.
The best part is, over 3,500 e-journals and e-books will be available to students free of cost in over 7,000 higher education institutions in the country. However, the institutions have to pay a one-time fee of Rs5,000.
So far, the journals were accessed only by topmost institutions or students through personal subscriptions costing between $31 and $45 (Rs1,452-Rs2,108) and in some cases, up to $120 (Rs5,647).
“It is being given free of cost to students. If money is charged from students, the facility will be taken away from the college,” a senior MHRD official said.
“The government is also making a concentrated effort for content creation by encouraging writing of good articles,” the official said. IITs have been asked to put up their content on sakshat.ac.in.
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