Digital audio edition of the Ramayana in the library

UW Libraries has just ordered digital audio edition of Ramayan.

This resource can be used as a teaching/study resource as

* Each set includes an annotated bibliography outlining the contents ofthe entire program.
* Each canto and kanda has its own track on the digital production,making it very easy to locate and refer to particular sections.
* The translation used is the excellent version by renowned Indianjournalist, N. Raghunathan, and the production is read by professionalactors.
* All three volumes of the original text, including all seven kandas ofthe Ramayana, are included in the production

"This audio edition of the Ramayana provides the English-speaking audience the opportunity to hear one of India's two great epics in a manner closer to that of its original audiences in ancient India....The epic was composed to be heard and now English speakers can enjoy this greatmasterpiece of world literature in a more authentic form."

Peter Scharf, Dept. of Classics, Brown University

More information about this resource can be found at http://www.ramayanaudio.com/

Open Access Journals From India

Now you can access free of charge and full text open access journals from India at http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/SouthAsia/openaccessjournals.html
Open access journals provide access to full-text contents of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

The journal coverage is mainly in the subject areas of Medicine, Science and Technology but there are some open access journals in this list that also cover the subject areas of Humanities and Social Sciences such as Journal of Social Sciences and Anthropologist.

Please note that access to some of these Indian open access journals require user registration.

These open access journals are published by the following major publishers in India

Indian National Science Academy
Indian Academy of Sciences
Indian Medlars Centre, National Informatics Centre
Medknow Publications
Indianjournals.com
Kamla-Raj Enterprises