Information Resources are aplenty in the world wide web. The proliferation of such resources made it difficult to select the best one's among them. The notion of “best resources” can only be said in a relative manner. Some resources might be good and some other worst. This paper attempts to list out some of the best online sources which will help the web searcher to retrieve relevant information

1. A survey on best Online Resources
for Journals,
Books, and Doctoral Dissertations
Prajeesh Bhaskaran, and Jasimudeen. S
Library Assistants Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala

2. Online Resources
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Plenty of resources
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Select Best Resources – need & demand
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Resource Gateways

3. Journal Gateways
DOAJ- Free fulltext articles (www.doaj.org)

4. Journal Gateways
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Open Science Directory – open access, for
developing
countires (www.opensciencedirectory.net)
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Online Access to Research in the Environment-
UNEP,
Yale University, S&T Publishers (300
owned 1300 journal titles),
in 70 low income countries
(www.oaresciences.org/en)
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Worldwide Science- by Energy Dept & British
Library, with S&T org

5. BOOKS ALERTS
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Newbook Alerts- add favourite authors- e-mail
alert
(http://newbookalerts.com/)
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Track New Book – pick books as “seed” ,
selective
(www.tracknewbook.com)
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Book Buzzes – browser plug-in, create “buzzes”,
linked to Amazon (
www.book-buzzes.com)
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Any New Book - select genres to receive alerts,
categories for Kindle ebooks

6. Best seller books
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The New York Times Bestseller – weekly list,
e-books also available,ranking- retail sale
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Amazon.com Bestseller- updated hourly,
customer discussions, book previews
About.com Bestseller – subjective evaluation,
recommend list by genre, and topic, book
reviews
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Publishers Weekly – book reviews
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Book List Online - ALA book reviews, list of
award winning books

7. More on Book Selection
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YourNextRead – recommend similar
books, connected
to Amazone
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BookYap – more use more tune, free sign up
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Gnooks -presented with a visual map of similar
authors
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Goodreads - bookshelf social network, user
recommendations, user
can create list
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Allreaders - search on plot, setting or details
about the protagonists

8. More on Book Selection
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TasteKid – lists music, movies and TV shows
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WhichBook - mood-oriented book suggesting,
12 moods are available (happy, serious etc.)
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Book Lamp – forums, plot search, 500+ books
currently in the database
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WhatShouldReadNext - based on other user’s
loved books
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LibraryThing's book suggester - 40 million books
in database, search result list 200+ books

9. Theses and Dissertations
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NDLTD Union Catalogue - Networked Digital Library
of Theses and Dissertations, OCLC, Virginia Tech
Library Systems (VTLS), and Scirus 1 million
records, individual collection of NDLTD member
institutions
Consortia- digital library of ETDs (Electronic
Theses & Dissertations)
Search tools for NDLTD Union Catalogue
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Scirus ETD Search – Elsevier, provide access to
related resources

10. Other ETDs Search Tools
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
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ADT (Australian Digital Theses Program)- ETDs
produced in
Australia
http://www.caul.edu.au/caul-programs/australasian-digital-
theses
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Biblioteca Digital de Tesese Dissertacoes –
produced in Brazilian Universities
http://bdtd.ibict.br/
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Cybertesis – developed by Uty of Chile, Lyon,
Montreal, Alexandria, Geneva accessing ETDs
of many countries

11. Other ETDs Search Tools
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Deusche National Bibliothek – Germal Natioanl
Library, Dissertations since 1998
https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?
method=simpleSearch&query=Dissertations
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DiVA – Scandinavia, 26 institutions
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/search.jsf
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EThOS – Electronic Thesis Online Service- Free
Access to UK Theses
hhttp://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do;jsessionid=92E4E3B2A

12. Other ETDs Search Tools
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National ETD Portal (South Africa) – produced in
South Africa
http://www.netd.ac.za/
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses – password
access, provide North
American an selective coverage from world
hhttp://www.umi.com/en-
US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml
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RCAAP - Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de
Portugal –
open access from Portuguese Scientific Research,

13. THANK YOU