15/04/2020
PATNA UNIVERSITY
Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
Sub: Online Learning Resources
As we are collectively fighting against COVID 19 by taking preventive and precautionary
measures, maintaining social distancing and staying in the confines of our homes/hostels, we can
utilize this time to enrich ourselves through On-line learning. The University Grants Commission
(UGC), has released a list of initiatives of the MHRD, UGC and its Inter University Centers
(IUCs) - Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) and Consortium for Educational
Communication (CEC), using which the academic community can utilize their time productively
during this lockdown period.
Following is a consolidated list of resources/ digital platforms. Most of these are open resources/
digital platforms and can be accessed by the teachers, students and researchers free of cost.
The faculty members of Patna University have developed contents for Master Degree
Programmes in various subjects, which are available in the Patna University e-content
Depository and Patna University YouTube Channel.
1. Patna University e-content Depository:
https://www.patnauniversity.ac.in/05042020_e-content.php
2. Patna University YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2RP_x180w
3. SWAYAM online courses:
http://storage.googleapis.com/uniquecourses/online.html
Free or cost and without registration, students & learners can access quality resources
with this link. According to UGC, students or learners who registered on SWAYAM
(swayam.gov.in) in the January 2020 semester can continue their studies as usual.
4. UG/PG MOOCs:
http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php
Students and learners can access 86 PG courses & 222 UG courses through this link.
These are learning material of the SWAYAM UG and PG (Non-Technology) archived
courses.
5. e-PG Pathshala:
https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
It provides great quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content containing 23,000
modules (e-text and video) in 70 Post Graduate disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine
arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.
6. e-Content courseware in UG subjects:
http://cec.nic.in/
It provides e-content in 87 UG courses with about 24,110 e-content modules.
7. SWAYAMPRABHA:
https://swayamprabha.gov.in/
It is a group of 32 DTH channels delivering high quality educational curriculum based
courses covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts,
social sciences & humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine,
agriculture etc to all teachers, students and citizens across the country interested in
lifelong learning. These channels are free to air and can also be accessed through your
cable operator. The telecasted videos/lectures are also archived videos on the
Swayamprabha portal.
8. CEC-UGC YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/cecedusat
It provides free access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures.
9. National Digital Library:
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
It is a digital repository of a vast amount of academic content in different formats and
provides interface support for leading Indian languages for all academic levels including
researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and
differently-abled learners.
10. Shodhganga
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
It is a digital repository platform of 2,60,000 Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations
for research students to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire
scholarly community in open access.
11. e-Shodh Sindhu
https://shodhganga.intlibnet.ac.in/
It provides current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and peer-
reviewed journals and several 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(8) and 2(f) Sections of the UGC Act.
12. Vidwan
https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/
It provides a database of experts which provides information about experts to peers,
prospective collaborators, funding agencies, policymakers and research scholars in the
country. UGC also requested Faculty members to register on the Vidwan portal to help
expand the database of experts.
13. World eBook Library Access via National Digital Library (NDL)- Patna University,
Patna
Link: http://Community.WorldLibrary.In/?AffiliateKey=NDL-LR1867
It is expected that our students and teachers will find these resources highly beneficial be
enriched immensely.
Director Chairman
IQAC IQAC
Patna University
