1. URL for free electronic books:

* DLIST http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/

Digital Library of Information Science and Technology is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Museum Informatics, and other critical information infrastructures. The DLIST vision is to serve as a dynamic archive in the Information Sciences, broadly understood, and positively impact and shape scholarly communication in our closely related fields.

* Ebook4free.net http://www.ebooks4free.net
* Free-Books.org http://www.free-books.org

This site includes: More than 100,000 pages of free books and teaching materials. Over 20,000 pages of books and commentaries by Carl Peterson. Over 1000 Classic books reformatted to Peterson E-writing .

* Free-ebooks.net http://www.free-ebooks.net/
* Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or e Books. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

* Applied Mathematics e-books

iGroup Infotech India Pvt Ltd, a sister concern of Balani Infotech Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, a leading e-resource provider to academic and corporate libraries in India, has provided access to their e-books collection for Applied Mathematics from one of the prestigious society publisher called ‘Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM’.
The collection, called SIAM e-books, has 377 e-books till date and 20 new books published every year catering almost every area of Mathematics.
A free trial for SIAM e-books has been set up for AMU starting from 17th September, 2009 to 31st December, 2009.

Kindly visit the given below URL for the access of SIAM e-books:
http://www.igpublish.com/SIAM-ebooks
For Medical News: Pl. log on
www.kaiserhealthnews.org
For Courses and Lessons on various subjects: Pl. log on
www.academicearth.org

2. Elsevier Science Direct

Elsevier Science Direct is a an advanced Web Delivery System through which the users can have access to information to over eight million full-text articles with a facility to access Back files of articles of the subscribed Journals in either Summary Plus, HTML & PDF format. The database also offers free access to Abstracts of more than 1800 Journals in 21 subjects published by Elsevier. Science Direct is currently subscribed by the Aligarh Muslim University for the J.N. Medical College (25 journals) and Z.H. College of Engineering & Technology, A.M.U. It is a full text database in Sciences, Technology and Medicine. The database can be accessed by logging on www.sciencedirect.com with an option to access through:-

1. University, A.M.U.
2. J.N. Medical College Library; or
3. Z.H. College of Engg. & Tech.

3. Biological Abstracts available Online

Further this is also to inform you that BIOSIS DVDs published by M/s. Ovid Technologies for web access to Biological Abstracts database from 1969-2004 have recently been installed on the Server of M.A. Library. It can be accessed University wide by typing either of the following.

http://10.0.33.2:8595/
or
www.amu.ac.in → Facilities → Library → Biological Abstract

4. Online Legal Database

Maulana Azad Library has recently subscribed to Online Legal Database (for the scholars of Law). The database may be accessed on the following website.

Website : www.unilawonline.com/manuals
For Banking Laws :
For Civil Laws :
For Criminal Laws :
For Intellectual Property Laws :
(Please note: The above sites are available only on intranet by a given user ID & Password)

5. E-journals available against each of the following URL.

www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in (2093 journals available on campus network)
www.freemedicaljournals.com (430 journals- Public domain)
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov (499 journals- Public domain)
www.medind.nic.in (40 full text Indian journals- Public domain)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ (A database of 18 million documents- Public domain)

6.Open J-Gate

This database provides free full text of 4791 Journals covering the following subject areas.

Agricultural & Biological Sciences 908 Journals
Arts & Humanities 684 Journals
Basic Sciences 1328 Journals
Biomedical Sciences 1737 Journals
Engineering & Technology 1356 Journals
Social & Management Sciences 1352 Journals

URL : www.openj-gate.com

7. J-Stage (Japan Science & Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic)

It contains free full text of about 2624 Journals and Proceedings covering the following subject areas:

Basic Sciences 377 Journals
Life Sciences 486 Journals
Medical and Health Sciences 607 Journals
Engineering and Technology 06 Journals
Information Sciences 149 Journals
Interdisciplinary Sciences 200 Journals
Humanities and Social Sciences 99 Journals

URL : www.jstage.jst.go.jp

8. ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre)
Eric is free searchable database for the educational articles. It provides unlimited access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials covering 1966 to the present, with partial free full text.
URL: www.eric.ed.gov

9. High Wire Press, Stanford University

High Wire Press is the largest archive of online journals covering the subject areas of Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains about 2 million free full text articles.
URL: http://highwire.stanford.edu

10. Directory of open Access Journals

This database provides free full text of more than 3886 scientific and scholarly journals covering the following subject areas.

Agriculture and Food Sciences Languages and Literatures
Arts and Architecture Law and Political Science
Biology and Life Sciences Mathematics and Statistics
Business and Economics Philosophy and Religion
Chemistry Physics and Astronomy
Earth and Environmental Sciences Science General
General Works Social Sciences
Health Sciences Technology and Engineering
History and Archaeology

URL: www.doaj.org

In case of any query, please contact:

1. Mr. Aslam Mehdi, Asstt. Librarian
E-mail : aslammehdi@yahoo.co.in
2. Mr. Saeed Akhtar, S.P.A
E-mail : saeedakhter02@yahoo.co.in

The scholars and faculty members may send their feedback on the following e-mail ID.
malpls.amu@gmail.com

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