Repositories are institutional or subject-based collections of research outputs. They archive articles, theses, conference papers, and datasets, ensuring long-term preservation and free accessibility of scholarly materials for the research community.
| DATABASE | INTRODUCTION | TYPE OF DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE |
|---|---|---|
| SSRN (Social Science Research Network) | Hosts working papers and preprints in economics, law, education, psychology, and social sciences. | Subject-based |
| SocArXiv | Open archive for preprints in sociology, political science, education, and related disciplines. | Subject-based (Sociology & Social Sciences) |
| ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) | The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets. | Data repository |
| EconStor | The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets. | Subject-based (Economics & Business) |
| Harvard Dataverse | The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. Each individual Dataverse collection is a customizable collection of datasets (or a virtual repository) for organizing, managing, and showcasing datasets. | Data repository |
| Zenodo | Created by CERN & OpenAIRE; hosts datasets, articles, and software from all disciplines. | Multidisciplinary |
| Figshare | Repository for research outputs including figures, datasets, and papers. | Multidisciplinary |
| CORE | CORE (COnnecting REpositories) provides a comprehensive bibliographic database of the world’s scholarly literature, collecting and indexing research from repositories and journals. It is, to our knowledge, also the world’s largest collection of full text open access research papers. CORE is a not-for-profit community-governed service dedicated to the open access mission and one of the signatories of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructures POSI. | Multidisciplinary |
| OpenICPSR | A service of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), openICPSR is a self-publishing repository for social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. openICPSR is particularly well-suited for the deposit of replication data sets for researchers who need to publish their raw data associated with a journal article so that other researchers can replicate their findings. | Social Science Data |
| Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) | The full-text server SSOAR, which is maintained at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, collects and archives literature of relevance to the social sciences and makes it available in open access on the Internet in accordance with the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. By archiving works in SSOAR, authors, publishers, and editors support free access to scientific information and enhance the visibility of social science research results. SSOAR archives more than 75 working paper series from renowned institutes and over 35 journals with comprehensive annual volumes. | |
| Digital Commons Network | The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. | Journal Articles, Book chapters, Working papers, Conference proceedings etc. |
| Shodhgangotri | Under the initiative called “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars/research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit an electronic version of the approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D. programme now it is expanded to MRPs/PDFs/Emeritus Fellowship, etc. The repository on one hand would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand, it would avoid duplication of research. | Synopsis |
| United Nations Digital Library System | The United Nations Digital Library is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. There are approximately 9000 titles included in the UN Digital Library. Every year around 500 new titles are added to the collection, approximately 70% of which are in English. UNDL includes: UN documents and open access publications (resolutions, reports, meeting records, etc.), Voting data (e.g. how UN bodies voted on resolutions), Speeches made in principal UN organs, Maps produced by UN agencies. Records go back to 1979 for bibliographic data for print documents, and later for digital files. | Reports, Meeting records etc. |
| Open DOAR (Directory of Open Access Repository) | OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories to search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material held like e-books, e-journals, articles etc. | |
| EBSCO Open Dissertations | EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. | Theses and dissertations |
| World Bank Open Knowledge Repository | The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. | Reports, Studies, Papers |
| Europeana | The Europeana website provides cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, teachers, and researchers with access to Europe's digital cultural heritage. We give you access to millions of items from providing institutions across Europe. Discover artworks, books, music, and videos on art, newspapers, archaeology, fashion, science, sport, and much more. | Image, Text, Video |
| MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) | MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open collection of material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum. | Course material |
| LSE Research Online (London School of Economics) | LSE Research Online contains research produced by LSE staff, including journal articles, book chapters, books, working papers, conference papers and more. Use the "Browse" functions above to look for items by year, Department, or Research Group. | Articles, Book chapters, Working papers etc. |
| World Economic Forum (WEF) Reports | Offers free reports and research on global economic and social issues. | |
| National Digital Library of India (NDLI) | National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community. It is sponsored and mentored by Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find the right resource with least effort and in minimum time. NDLI provides user group-specific services such as Examination Preparatory for School and College students and job aspirants. Services for Researchers and general learners are also provided. NDLI is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is built to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular forms of access devices and differently-abled learners. | |
| ShodhSagar | Shodh Sagar is an Organization dedicated for the promotion of Research Activities and develop Research Environment. Data Analysis, SPSS, AMOS, Structured Equation Modelling be (SEM), Thesis, Dissertation and Synopsis, Turnitin, Plagiarism checking, Books Publication with ISBN. | Journal Articles, |
| Shodhganga | "Shodhganga" is the name coined to denote digital repository of Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations set-up by the INFLIBNET Centre. Shodhganga stands for the reservoir of Indian intellectual output stored in a repository hosted and maintained by the INFLIBNET Centre. Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars 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 (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers. | Theses and Dissertations |
