E-resources Available at NASSDOC

ICSSR is committed to advancing social science research across India through its extensive collection of e-resources. These resources are available to scholars upon enrolment in the e-library portal and library membership. In today’s digital age, e-resources are vital for research, offering access to a wide range of data, journals, articles, and books. They provide researchers with the tools needed for in-depth studies and access to the latest scholarly content.

Explore these valuable resources to enhance and support your research endeavors.

1. Brill Journals: Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law, and selected areas in the Sciences. It includes several major imprints with a distinguished history of publishing high-quality and successful titles. Brill is an important publisher of journals, with over 300 titles in various subject areas. Nearly all titles are available in both print and online formats. Many of Brill’s journals are indexed by major abstracting and indexing services such as Web of Science and Scopus. All back volumes are digitized and included in the Brill Journal Archives Online, and the current subscription providing access to 283 journals.

2. CPDx (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, CMIE): Consumer Pyramids Dx (CPDx) is a database that provides detailed information on household consumption and behaviour patterns in India. Based on the Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) conducted by CMIE, it contains data on expenditures, income, savings, debt, assets, and consumer preferences. This makes it a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and businesses to understand the economic landscape of India. The database is regularly updated and covers over 240,000 households, providing detailed insights into the changing patterns of household consumption and behaviour in the country. (IP based access with in the library)

3. EBSCO eBooks Database: This database provides a collection of 2, 46,725 e-books from top publishers and university presses. It includes the latest e-books from renowned publishers like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Bloomsbury Academic, Indiana University Press, Syracuse University Press, Nova Science Publishers, and others. The EBSCO eBooks database covers a wide range of themes such as fiction, science, education, religion, technology, travel, humor, business, philosophy, and much more.

4. Economic & Political Weekly: The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is an Indian institution with a global reputation for excellence in independent scholarship and critical inquiry. Published by the Sameeksha Trust, a registered charitable trust, EPW is unique in publishing both analysis of contemporary affairs and academic papers in the social sciences. Each week, EPW publishes a minimum of 70,000 to 80,000 words on a variety of issues. Articles are contributed by leading academics, public commentators, young social scientists, and political activists. The focus of EPW is on economic issues, but it is truly multidisciplinary, covering sociology, political science, history, gender studies, and environmental studies. EPW is India's one global publication in its readership and the background of its contributors.

5. EconLit with Full Text (EBSCOhost): This database contains full text for nearly 3,118 journals and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts for economic research dating back to 1886. Volume and issue browsing is available for all full-text journals, providing links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and more. The database includes over 1.2 million records.

6. Education Source (EBSCOhost): This is the world's largest full-text research database designed for education students, professionals, and policymakers. It provides access to nearly 2,000 full-text journals, indexing and abstracts for more than 3,500 education journals, and over 2,500 books and education-related conference papers. Coverage spans all levels of education and includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

7. Emerald Journals: Emerald Publishing is one of the world's leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating, and showcasing research in various subject areas such as accounting, finance & economics, business, management & strategy, education, engineering, equality, diversity & inclusion, health & social care, HR, learning & organization studies, information & knowledge management, library & information sciences, marketing, operations, logistics & quality, property management & built environment, public policy & environmental management, sociology & criminology, and tourism & hospitality management. It provides 138 journals that can be searched by journal name or ISSN number and filtered by subject area.

8. Ex Libris Pivot-RP: Ex Libris Pivot-RP provides research administrators, research development professionals, and individual faculty members with quick and easy access to research opportunities. It offers global and local connections that strengthen research by exploring new avenues for funding and collaboration for faculty, staff researchers, and graduate students. Its important feature is connecting researchers with available funding opportunities, including sponsor details, funding categories, amounts, application requirements and deadlines, and further information. It also provides the option to mark opportunities to track them, enabling researchers to receive updates when the opportunity changes and get personal reminders about deadlines. Pivot-RP includes intelligent mapping features that expedite funding discovery, dissemination, and collaboration, making connecting the right opportunities with the right people routine.

9. IndiaStat (Datanet India): IndiaStat offers an extensive collection of statistical data essential for informed decision-making on policy issues, the development of social policy, and the evaluation of the impact of social and economic policies. It includes socio-economic statistics across a wide range of subjects, such as Administrative Units, Agriculture, Banks and Financial Institutions, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Companies, Cooperatives, Crime and Law, Environment and Forests, Industries, Infrastructure, Demographics, Economy, Education, Environment and Pollution, Foreign Trade, Forest and Wildlife, Geographical Data, Health, Housing, and more. (IP based access with in the library)

10. J-Gate (Informatics): J-Gate, launched in 2001 by Informatics India Limited, is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. It provides access to millions of journal articles available online from over 12,210 publishers. NASSDOC acquires journal literature indexed from 19,500 journals in the Social Sciences and Humanities, with links to full texts at publisher sites. The database covers over 5.7 million articles, with backfiles for many dating from 2001 onwards, and some from the first issue of certain publishers.

11. JSTOR (ITHAKA): JSTOR is an online archival database offering access to full-text journal articles from more than 2,800 academic journals and scholarly content. It includes contributions from over 1,200 publishers across 75 disciplines in more than 57 countries. Due to JSTOR’s archival mission, there is typically a 1-5 year gap between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available. Subjects covered include Economics, Political Science, Social Work, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Geography, Education, Psychology, Asian Studies, Public Policy, Library Science, Population Studies, Management, Business, Marketing, Finance, Public Affairs, History, and more.

12. Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA, EBSCOhost): LISTA indexes more than 680 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals, as well as books, research reports, and proceedings. Subjects include librarianship, classification, cataloguing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and more. The database extends coverage back to the mid-1960s and includes more than 330 full-text journals and nearly 30 full-text monographs.

13. Oxford University Press Journals: Oxford University Press Journals aim to meet the diverse and evolving research needs of students, researchers, professors, and practitioners, continually seeking feedback from these communities. The collection provides access to 262 journals in the social sciences and humanities.

14. Political Science Complete (EBSCOhost): Political Science Complete offers extensive coverage of political topics with a global focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. Designed for students, researchers, and government institutions, it includes over 520 full-text journals, nearly 340 full-text reference books and monographs, over 36,000 full-text conference papers, and a subject-specific thesaurus with nearly 17,500 terms.

15. Project MUSE: Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community worldwide. For nearly 30 years, it has been a trusted source for essential humanities and social science research. Currently, Project MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and over 100,000 books from around 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers. It also offers more than 6,000 open access books and several open access journals on the platform.

16. Prowess IQ (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, CMIE): Prowess IQ is a database of large and medium Indian firms, providing data on financial performance since 1989. It includes detailed information on 55,194 firms, covering all companies traded on India's major stock exchanges, as well as central public sector enterprises. The database encompasses organized industrial activities, banking, and other financial and service sectors in India. It provides quantitative information on production, sales, and the consumption of raw materials and energy. (IP based access with in the library)

17. Sage Journals: Sage is an American academic publisher providing access to 33 peer-reviewed journals in social sciences and humanities, offering original research and review articles to support researchers and institutions.

18. Sage Research Methods: Sage Research Methods supports research at all levels with over 1000 resources, including books, articles, and videos. It offers tools like the Methods Map for technique selection, over 1100 real research case studies, datasets for data analysis practice, and 125+ hours of instructional videos to aid researchers throughout their projects.

19. ScienceDirect (Elsevier): ScienceDirect is a leading database of peer-reviewed literature, featuring 218 journals in social sciences and humanities. It covers historical context, current developments, theories, applications, and trends, helping users discover and utilize high-quality literature efficiently for research and academic purposes.

20. Scopus (Elsevier): Scopus is a vast bibliographic database by Elsevier, launched in 2004, indexing scholarly literature from over 25,000 journals, 5.5 million conference papers, and 22,000 books across various fields. It provides tools for tracking research impact, analyzing citation patterns, and identifying collaboration opportunities, making it a comprehensive platform for discovering and evaluating scholarly literature.

21. Soc-Index with Full Text (EBSCOhost): Soc-Index offers extensive coverage of sociology and related fields, with abstracts dating back to 1895. It includes nearly 900 full-text journals and magazines, 850 books and monographs, dozens of working papers and dissertations, 16,800 conference proceedings, and over 2.5 million records. The database utilizes a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus for subject headings.

22. Springer Journals: A global publisher providing access to 405 journals in social sciences and humanities. It covers areas such as economics, education, cultural and media studies, criminology, criminal justice, and religious studies, offering comprehensive service to the research community.

23. Statcraft: It is a web-server-based statistics and analytics platform that runs on the R statistical language on a browser-based GUI. Using this, one can easily bring in and organize the data, access some of the most popular data analysis techniques in R, and view the results in elegantly formatted output tables and graphs. It makes the process of data analysis more simple and easy without the need to focus on programming. The current version, STATCRAFT 3.0, provides a wide range of statistical techniques such as correlation, regression, various non-parametric tests, etc.

24. Statista: Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources across 170 industries and 150 countries. It supports data analysis, management, mining, machine learning, text analytics, and data visualization.

25. Taylor & Francis Journals: Taylor & Francis provides access to 1086 peer-reviewed journals in social sciences and humanities. It offers a platform for high-quality, validated research from leading minds worldwide, allowing users to search and explore millions of journal articles.

26. Wiley Journals: Wiley is an American multinational publishing company focusing on academic publishing. It provides access to 15 journals in social sciences and humanities, making it one of the largest and most authoritative platforms for online journal collections.