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E-Book Subscription for SUST & E-Journals Subscription for SUST

E-Journals /E-Books/ Research Databases from the following publishers are made available via the UDL & LiCoB Consortium. These resources can be accessed within the university network (IP's) without any password Kindly also note that indiscriminate downloading is not permitted. Kindly do not download full volumes, etc. Only download the articles that you consider useful. Usage is monitored by publishers and indiscriminate downloading may result in a cancellation of our subscription ! ** Of the selected resources APS-American Physical Society, BIR- British Institute of Radiology, Cochrane Library, Geological Society were available free of cost last year (2021). ASP-American Physical Society is confirmed but other are to be confirmed for 2022. Nature (Nature Research Journals - 48 titles), Nature (Palgrave Macmillan Journals) & Springer- Aid Collection are now provided in 'access only'mode for 2022. Title from Canadian Science Publishing (was NRC Press), The Royal Society, OSA- Optical Society of America & SIPE are now available under Research4Life. IMF e-library has become Open Access from 2020. Oxford Journals is new from 2022.

EBOOKS SUBSCRIPTION FOR SUST

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge Core is the home of academic content from Cambridge University Press. Built with our users in mind our online platform has been designed to help readers and researchers to make fast and easy journeys to a vast range of valuable content. We consulted extensively with almost 10,000 users while developing Cambridge Core to make sure we are providing a platform that meets the needs of our researchers and customers. Cambridge Core is the place to find valuable, useful and inspirational research and academic information. With over 1.8 million journal articles and 46,000+ books, Cambridge Core is the central destination for academic research.

ScienceDirect

Elsevier offers open access publishing in nearly all of their 2,800 journals, including over 750 journals that are fully open access.

FREE E-RESOURCES FOR SUST FROM UN

AGORA

The AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of up to 8,200 key journals and up to 22,000 books.

ARDI

The Access to Research for Development and Innovation (ARDI) program, coordinated by WIPO together with its partners in the publishing industry, aims to increase the availability of scientific and technical information in developing countries. By improving access to scholarly literature from diverse fields of science and technology, ARDI seeks to: reinforce the capacity of developing countries to participate in the global knowledge economy; and support researchers in developing countries in creating and developing new solutions to technical challenges faced on a local and global level.

GOALI

Academic and peer-reviewed journals, publications and databases on law and social sciences. Incorporating disciplines such as politics, economics, philosophy, history and many more from the most prestigious academic publishers, GOALI offers access to up to 16,000 resources, including books and peer-reviewed journals from 70 publishers, and the offering keeps growing.

Hinari

Hinari offers access to thousands of journals, books, and other information resources in biomedical and health sciences topics. The journals and books can be searched through a special version of PubMed (Medline) and through other databases.

OARE

OARE provides access to information resources in a wide range of disciplines contributing to our understanding of the natural environment, including environmental toxicology and pollution, ecology, geography, environmental economics, environmental law, conservation policy, environmental engineering, energy and many others.

Research4Life

Free for SUST until 31 December 2025. Need User Name & Password, for it please contact LIBRARIAN, Central Library - PABX: 220 & 250. Password do not shaire with anyone outside SUST, do not post any webpage/social network, do not use from abroad. Violation may lead to suspension of access for the whole university.

Ebook Database

ACM Digital Library

General Science, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering

E-BOOKS

These are electronic version of printed books which can be read on a computer or a specifically designed handheld device. They are book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices. This is an open access publications which contains more than 2,450 books ranging from Physical Sciences, Engineering, Technology, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities

NCBI Bookshelf

Provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.

National Academies Press Free eBooks

Created by the National Academy of Sciences to publish the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine with more than 8,500 titles in PDF format.

Open Library

Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Other projects include the Wayback Machine, archive.org and archive-it.org

Open textbook Library

Transform Higher Education and Student Learning Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Now offering 1353 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.

ProQuest Ebook

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology has selected ProQuest Ebook Central as a key ebook provider for Pearson eBooks (2851 title) only You need credible content from authoritative, scholarly sources. Ebook Central delivers with a breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including university presses and other top publishers.

Project Gutenberg

"Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks." The database contains millions of copyright free books and speeches, all available for free download.

E Journals

AIP (American Institute of Physics)

About the American Institute of Physics: Since the time of Galileo, practitioners of the physical sciences have given humankind powerful, ever-evolving predictive models of our world, enabling stunning technological achievements and enriching our understanding of the universe and our place in it. For nearly a century, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has worked to advance, promote and serve the physical sciences community for the benefit of humanity. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, AIP is committed to the preservation of physics for future generations, the success of physics students both in the classroom and professionally and the promotion of a more scientifically literate society.

BRILL

Founded in 1683, Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international focus. The company’s head office is in the Netherlands, with offices in Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia. Brill was listed at the Amsterdam Stock exchange in 1896. Brill shares have been publicly traded since 1997. Summarized market details for Brill can be found on Euronext. Brill’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences. Brill publications also include several major imprints with a distinguished history of publishing high quality and successful titles. Products Brill publishes more than 2,000 books and reference works per year in both print and electronic format. Titles are often collated in Brill's E-Book Collection. The E-Book collections are sold by copyright year. Brill publishes almost 600 journals titles – including 42 fully Open Access titles. Many of Brill’s journals are indexed by major abstracting & indexing services, such as Web of Science and Scopus. All back volumes are digitized and are included in the Brill Journal Archives Online. In addition to its journals and books publishing programs, Brill also offers reference works and primary source materials, including prestigious publications such as the Encyclopedia of Islam, Brill’s New Pauly and The Hague Academy Collected Courses. Primary sources usually refer to original material, which scholars study and interpret as a basis for their own academic works. Brill’s Primary Source Collections include scanned printed or handwritten texts, e.g. pre-modern archival documents, Oriental manuscripts, but also printed art sales catalogues and contemporary human rights reports.

Open Access Journals

Academic Journals

Academic Journals is a publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals covering a wide-variety of topics.

CORE

CORE is a multidisciplinary aggregator of open access research. It allows users to search more than 66 million open access articles. While most of this link to the full-text article on the original publisher’s site, five million records are hosted directly on CORE. In addition to a straightforward keyword search, CORE offers advanced search options to filter results by publication type, year, language, journal, repository, and author.

Cambridge University Press (open Access Journals)

Cambridge University Press accepts open access submissions in 350+ journals.

IOPScience

IOP Science publishes open access journal articles from the the Institute of Physics (IOP).

IntechOpen Journals

These are open access, international, peer-reviewed scientific journals which are addressed to a cross-disciplinary readership including scientists, researchers and professionals, and can be accessed via electronic transmission.

PLOS ONE

According to their website, "PLOS ONE accepts research in over two hundred subject areas across science, engineering, medicine, and the related social sciences and humanities."

PUBMED

Digital Archive of Biomedical and Life Sciences Journal Literature is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Open Access Online Directory

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available. Service of OAPEN Foundation based at the National Library in The Hague. Database contains more than 5,000 academic, peer-reviewed books from 163 publishers.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

ERIC

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), of the Institution of Education Sciences, is the largest education database in the world-containing over 1.5 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books. It allows you to search by topic for material related to the field of education.

HathiTrust Digital Library

HathiTrust makes the digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries available for all. HathiTrust has partnerships with over 90 institutions providing more than a million open access.

IG PUBLISHING

Publishing is a leading aggregator of e-books for academic, government, corporate and public libraries around the world. We work with leading publishers and societies to host their high-quality content on our platform. The content is carefully curated and then distributed to customers via our state-of-the art platform which is securely managed, and provides advanced analytics features. Customers have come to appreciate IG Publishing as a reliable partner for their e-resource needs.

MIT OPEN COURSEWARE

MIT Open Courseware (MIT OCW) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate– and graduate-level courses online. It is a large-scale, web-based publication of MIT course materials. This provides access to over 2,800 courses online. While a few of these were limited to chronological reading lists and discussion topics, a majority provided homework problems and exams (often with solutions) and lecture notes. Some courses also included interactive web demonstrations in Java, complete textbooks written by MIT professors, and streaming video lectures.

WORLDLII

The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively by Legal Information Institutes and other organisations. It provides databases of decisions of international Courts and Tribunals, Internation decisions, law journals, law reform, treaties, final appeal courts, etc.

UDL Journals

LiCoB Journals

AIP - American Institute of Physics

About the American Institute of Physics Since the time of Galileo, practitioners of the physical sciences have given humankind powerful, ever-evolving predictive models of our world, enabling stunning technological achievements and enriching our understanding of the universe and our place in it. For nearly a century, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) has worked to advance, promote and serve the physical sciences community for the benefit of humanity. As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, AIP is committed to the preservation of physics for future generations, the success of physics students both in the classroom and professionally and the promotion of a more scientifically literate society.

APS - American Physical Society

About APS The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world.

ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers

The American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150,000 members of the civil engineering profession in 177 countries. Founded in 1852, ASCE is the nation’s oldest engineering society.

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Technical Library

The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Founded in 1907 and headquartered in St. Joseph, Michigan, ASABE comprises members in more than 100 countries. Agricultural, food, and biological engineers develop efficient and environmentally sensitive methods of producing food, fiber, timber, and renewable energy sources for an ever-increasing world population. The adjacent image provides a profile of ASABE's membership and their contributions to society. ASABE membership is open to all—engineers as well as non-engineers—who are interested in engineering and technology for agricultural, food, and biological systems. Learn more about the scope and history of the profession.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASME serves a wide-ranging engineering community through quality learning, the development of codes and standards, certifications, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach.

SAGE JOURNALS

SAGE was founded to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE now publishes over 800 books a year, over 850 journals – including those of more than 300 learned societies and institutions – across a broad range of subject areas encompassing business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine.

SPIE Digital Library

The SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 450,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1962 to the present. More than 18,000 new technical papers are added annually. All full-text papers and eBook chapters are provided in PDF format.

Thesis and Dissertation: free Access

Harvard University: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

DASH is the central, open-access institutional repository of research by members of the Harvard community. Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services (OSRDS) operates DASH to provide the broadest possible access to Harvard's scholarship. This repository hosts a wide range of Harvard-affiliated scholarly works, including pre- and post-refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, working papers, and reports.

Library of Congress Theses and Dissertations Resources

The Library of Congress has compiled an annotated list of theses and dissertations databases from around the world: coverage includes the Theses Canada Portal, where you can search for theses and dissertations in the National Library of Canada.

Open Educational Resources

BC Campus OpenEd

Books on opentextbc.ca and pressbooks.bccampus.ca are available for viewing and downloading.

GALILEO Open Learning Materials

GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary material. Each document is classified by its Creative Commons license. You are allowed to reuse, redistribute, revise, remix, and retain these documents with particular restrictions.

Teaching Commons

The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world.