Respected Dr. (Prof.) Rajendra Kumbhar Sir Session on Free Resource for Researcher, organized by MUCTA (Mumbai University and College Teacher’s Associations)

Shri Dattopant Thengdi Lecture Series

Today’s Speaker | Prof. Rajendra Kumbhar Sir

Session Title | Free Resources for Researcher

General Secretary | Shri Subhash Athavale

Sir had discussed the free resources which can be useful for the research during research time, some of the resource’s sir discussed is as follows.

·         Google Scholar

·         DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journal

·         ERIC Education Resource Information Centre

·         Shodhganga

·         NISCAIR

·         PUBMED

·         Google Books

1. Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

Sir explained most of the features of Google Scholar, which can be used by the researcher for their research purpose.

For more information on the Google Scholar feature, you can check on the below link. 

https://scholar.google.co.in/intl/en/scholar/help.html

2. DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journal

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, focussing on improving the quality of applications submitted.

For any more information you can check with FAQ’s of DOAJ

https://doaj.org/faq

3. ERIC - Education Resources Information Center

www.eric.ed.gov

ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

For more information please check below link

https://www.eric.ed.gov/?faq

Other free resources which sir had explained in short they are Shodganga, Google Books & Pubmed.

Thanks to Dr. Kumbhar Sir for excellent session, definitely it will be a big booster for the Researcher.

Thanks to MUCTA team for the organizing the session and special thanks to Prof. Subhash Athavale Sir and Dr Sandeep Bhavsar for taking the efforts.

Video Link | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8QfuSOQjI8

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