OpenCourseWare Consortium

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing OpenCourseWare and its impact on global education. OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials. http://ocwconsortium.org

Websites for Open E-Learning

1. MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm 

2. The Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/

3. Open Learning Initiative http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/

4. TUFTS OpenCourseWare http://ocw.tufts.edu/

5. Stanford University http://itunes.stanford.edu/

6. UC Berkeley http://webcast.berkeley.edu/

7. Utah State University http://ocw.usu.edu/

8. Kutztown University http://www.kutztownsbdc.org/default.asp

9. University of Southern Queensland http://ocw.usq.edu.au/ 

10. University of California http://ocw.uci.edu/

National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST)

National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST), an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the Mission on Education through ICT which was launched in May 2010 with multi-fold objectives is receiving a good response as seen from the number of subscribers it has got in a year. http://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/

The project facilitates access to e-resources to students, researchers and faculty from colleges through proxy servers. It provides scholarly information in the e-format at discounted rates.

Executed by the University Grants Commission – InfoNet Digital Library Consortium (UGC-InfoNet), Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET), Ahmedabad, and Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology (INDEST)-AICTE Consortium, there are as many as 1960 universities, technical institutions, and colleges registered as subscribers to the project.

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One Day Training Programme on Digital Content Copyright: Challenges to Libraries at CUSAT, Cochi. 06/08/2011

Inter University Centre for IPR Studies, in association with HRD Chair on IPR, Cochin University of Science and Technology & Kerala Library Association, Ernakulam region is conducting One Day Training Programme on "Digital Content Copyright: Challenges to Libraries"

Date: September 17, 2011

Venue: Cochin University of Science and Technology

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