UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Federal University Lafia
... a strong repository of relevant and up-to-date print and electronic resources with services befitting top class University library readily made available to users!
e-Resources in the University Library are categorized into four (4) namely:
1. Online Data Bases
2. e-Books
3. Institutional Repository
4. Learning Management System
5. eGranary Digital Library
1. Online Data Bases
These are archives of electronic journals and e-books available on the Internet. Some of the databases require passwords, which is freely made available on request. And for others, all you need is to click on the links provided. Below are a few of them:
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HINARI (http://www.who.int/hinari/en/) - It offers more than 58,000 information resources, with about 1500 form major publishers (Requires password.)
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OARE (http://www.unep.org/oare/en) - has over 4,150 peer-reviewed scientific journal titles (Requires password).
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AGORA (http://www.aginternetwork.org) - provides a collection of up to 6,100 key journals and 5,800 ( Requires password)
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY COMMISSION VIRTUAL LIBRARY (www.nigerianvirtuallibrary.com) -includes Electronic books, journals, films, videos and maps (Requires password).
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JSTOR - with about 1320 archival journals, 64 current journals, 340 primary sources and 84 e-books.( Can only be accessed within the campus)
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SCIENCE DIRECT (www.sciencedirect.com) - a full-text scientific database with nearly 2,500 journals. (Requires password)
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ARXIV (http://arxiv.org) - Open access to about 1,067,759 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics (Does not require password)
2. e-Books - http://10.1.0.5/www.fulafia.elibrary.com/
This is an offline library accessible on the Intranet that store content digitally and is accessible anywhere within the University with computers. Currently, we have 7,078 e-books and 1000 e-journals in the database.
3. Institutional Repository http://rep.fulafia.edu.ng:8080/jspui/
Federal University Lafia's Institutional Repository was established in 2013 as a service for storing and providing access to the outputs (research, workshop, etc.) of Federal University Lafia’s activity.
4. Learning Management System (LMS) http://lms.fulafia.edu.ng/
LMS is an online platform where students access their lecture notes and interact with their lecturers. It is design for Administration, Documentation, Tracking, Reporting and Delivery of e-learning education courses or training programmes. The LMS has being effectively utilized by students.
5. eGranary Digital Library (Accessed through the eGranary Browser)
The eGranary Digital Library is a collection of documents meant to deliver educational Web content through the Institution Local Area Network (LAN). This way, the documents are available instantly to everyone in the Institution. It provides instant access to over 30 million internet resources including e-books, e-journals, complete and partial websites, software, presentations, videos and audios, etc. to users.