West Kazakhstan Innovation and Technological University
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Open Internet Resources

Open-access e-resources, libraries and research platforms

Kazakhstani open-access resources

Kitap.kz

An e-library of more than 5,000 books, including fiction, business and popular science. Over 1,000 audiobooks are available for learners with special educational needs.

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Open University of Kazakhstan

An educational platform with free access to online courses by the country’s leading universities and lecturers (IT, mathematics, robotics, innovation, law, history, cultural studies, sociology, education, philosophy, arts, political science, economics, entrepreneurship, management, marketing) and to humanities textbooks published under the “100 New Textbooks” project.

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History of Kazakhstan portal

The official portal for anyone interested in the history of Kazakhstan, as well as teachers, schoolchildren, students and researchers. It brings together a wealth of useful and engaging material on the country’s history.

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Tilqural

A free online helper for learning Kazakh, with video lessons, texts, dictionaries, phrases and textbooks by Kazakh authors arranged by level.

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Literary Portal

An online library of works by Kazakhstani authors that promotes Kazakh culture and language in Kazakhstan and abroad. E-publications are available in several languages.

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Abai Alemi

A portal dedicated to the life and work of Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev, the great poet, educator and founder of Kazakh written literature and literary language.

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Adilet

The official legal information system of the Ministry of Justice of Kazakhstan with a database of current legislation for searching and reading legal acts.

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BestProfi

Search legal documents and read their full text.

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Narikbayev University Repository

Open-access research papers, teaching materials and publications by the university’s faculty, with a focus on law.

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National Institute of Intellectual Property

Search the State Register of industrial property of Kazakhstan: inventions, utility models, industrial designs, plant varieties, well-known trademarks, trademarks and appellations of origin.

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National Scientific Portal of Kazakhstan

Access to abstract databases of R&D articles and dissertations (candidate, doctoral, PhD) defended in Kazakhstan.

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International open-access resources

World Digital Library (WDL)

Free online access, in several languages, to materials representing the world’s cultures — promoting intercultural understanding and providing resources for teachers, scholars and the general public.

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Coursera

A leading online learning platform. Users in Kazakhstan get free access to 50,000 courses in IT, humanities, economics, physics, entrepreneurship, marketing and more.

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Google Patents

The world’s largest and easiest patent search engine: find patents worldwide by keyword, inventor or company name.

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PATENTSCOPE

Search 126.8 million patent documents, including 5.4 million published international patent applications (PCT).

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EAPATIS

The Eurasian Patent Information System by the Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO): a large search system and database of global, regional and national patent documents.

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Espacenet

Free access to more than 170 million patent documents.

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eLIBRARY.RU

Russia’s largest e-library of research publications with rich search and analysis tools, integrated with the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI).

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POLPRED

Information by industry and field of science: millions of stories from international news agencies and the business press.

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Google Scholar

A free search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across formats and disciplines — peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, abstracts and reports — from a single search box.

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Springer Open

One of the world’s largest open-access collections — more than 560 journals and over 120 books.

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