SDG 4: Quality Education

2Free learning resources for everyone

The UPES Library opens a large part of what it offers to people who do not study at UPES: its website, free learning materials and much of its collection.

Anyone can use the library's online resources and visit its campus facilities free of charge, and the free courses it signposts lead to a certificate.

Free online resources for anyone

• Open Educational Resources portal. The library website, open to all, curates around 190 free resources by subject, from open-access journal directories such as DOAJ and BASE to case law, statutes and law commission reports, health science databases and dictionaries.
• Free courses and lectures. It points learners to free and certified online courses on SWAYAM, NPTEL, e-PG Pathshala and Swayam Prabha, along with the National Digital Library of India, MHRD Virtual Labs and free audiobooks.
• Open research. UPES deposits its PhD theses in ShodhGanga, the national open repository run by INFLIBNET, so anyone can read them. Its researchers' profiles and publications are public on IRINS.
• Accessible learning. A section for Divyangjan (people with disabilities) offers screen reader software and virtual labs.

Libraries and facilities on campus

• Two campus libraries. The Bidholi library (about 22,500 sq ft) and the Kandoli campus library, with branch libraries for law, management, design and health sciences, open from 8:30 am to 8 pm on weekdays and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. The Kandoli library also opens on Sundays.
• Walk-in visitors. The library's fair-use guidelines list onsite visitors among the authorised users of its licensed e-books, e-journals and databases, alongside students, faculty and staff.
• One search for everything. A KOHA-based online catalogue and an EBSCO Discovery search cover the print and digital collections, including 382 theses, 3,189 dissertations and 4,582 e-standards.
• Shared with other libraries. Through DELNET and the e-ShodhSindhu consortium, UPES lends and supplies documents to other institutions' libraries.
• Other facilities. UPES opens its amphitheatres and Multi Activity Centre for public events such as Virasat, and its 12-inch telescope for free sky-gazing nights (see Section 3).

UPES also runs free courses that end in a certificate for people outside the university, such as computer hardware and networking training for inmates of Dehradun District Jail and DigitalDhaam's digital skills training for villagers (see Sections 4 and 5).