The Library at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology is a combination of physical and electronic resources. It supports learning at all levels for staff and students and ensures access to current and up-to-date educational content. Access to the virtual library is restricted to staff and students of the University but visitors can use the links below to view open source electronic content. As the custodian of knowledge, our library serves as a repository for Enugu state government publications and laws.

Access is automatically given upon registration of new and continuing students on the Academia Higher Institution Management System. Staff access is also generated from the information in the Personnel section of Academia.

Here is a list of the electronic resources available

ABC Chemistry

ABC Chemistry - is a compilation of free full text peer reviewed journals in Chemistry in English language. The archive is divided into 2 sections, one with journals that are permanently available full text on the web, and another section with trials and journals that are temporarily for free. There is a separate list with journals in Russian.

African Index Medicus

African Index Medicus - attempts to make health literature produced in Africa more visible worldwide. The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has created an international index to Africa literature and information sources in Health disciplines. All medical journals in Africa are eligible to join the initiative in order to promote African publishing. An important number of journals articles are not only indexed but freely available in full text.

Bibliomania

This contains thousands of free e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays, study guides, dictionaries, biographies, religious texts, and popular non-fiction.

Bioline International

Features 30 peer-reviewed journals from Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe etc. Subjects included are health, biodiversity, environment, conservation and international development.

British Library For Development Studies

This is Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries. The E-library contains full-text electronic resources. This includes journals, reports and working papers from NGOs and International Organisations.

British Library for Development Studies at IDS – Institute of Development Studies

This is Europe’s largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries.

Chemistry Central

This collection of peer-reviewed open access research and journals in chemical sciences.

CommsDesign

Provides access to online resources for CommsDesign engineers

Development and Gender

A searchable database of gender and development materials from across the wild. The collection includes tools, case studies, policy papers and research.

Digital Book Index

Digital Books Index is a fairly new site which offers simple, swift and direct access to online digitalbooks. Extensive subject headings used to classify more than 73,000 titles records.

Directory of Open Access Journals

This provides access to 2,565 quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Electronic Journal of Biotechnology

Launched in 1998, Electronic Journal of Biotechnology is an online international journal covering all areas of biotechnology research, including molecular biology and the chemistry of biological process to aquatic and earth environmental aspects, as well as computational applications, policy and ethical issues directly related to Biotechnology. It is hosted by the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile. Publishing in EJB is free, as is access to all of its content. Articles are reviewed by a scientific committee. They may be reproduced, with the editor's permission.

Electronic Journals and Magazines on the Middle East

Provides a list of journals related to the Middle East, some of which include access to full texts or abstracts of articles.

Electronic Literature Directory

An e-resource for intensive search of literature works including books, poems e.t.c

Electronic Medical Resources

This provides Free Access to Medical Journals, Medical books, Medical information and lots more with full-text.

Environmental Health Perspectives

Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health

Escholarship Editions

Access to electronic editions of academic books published by scholarship editions, mainly in the humanities, religion, history, literature, arts and social sciences.

FreeFullText.com

FreeFullText.com - provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists.

GDN Journal Services

This provides a comprehensive listing of the different initiatives which provide researchers with access to academic journals This list also provides links to databases that provide access to online journals or documents. Some databases link to both journals that provide full text access and those that provide access to abstracts or table of contents.

Highwire

The new HighWire Press - site contains more than 1000 peer reviewed, high impact journals and other scholarly content publicly available.

INASP

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, Directory of Free and Open Access Online Resources.

Index Data

The searchable indexes below expose public domain ebooks, open access digital repositories.

INDIACLEN

INDIACLEN - is a directory of Health Sciences journals that are freely accessible on the web, either in full text or abstracts. The journals listed belong in different regions, and cover English, Spanish and Portuguese languages.

INFOMINE

INFOMINE is a large virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, preprints and working papers and many other types of information. Built by librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges, the site makes searches of scholarly e-resources in scientific and humanities/social sciences disciplines, in terms of record origin, resource access (free or fee based) and resource type. Much content displayed is for free.

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an "Internet library", with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

Krugosvet

On-line Russian language Encyclopedia, Krugosvet.

Law Nigeria online

Is the first website in Nigeria, giving Nigerian Law students and Lawyers a platform to exhibit their services. It also gives them access to important links and events. Individual registration is necessary for full access.

Los Alamos ePrint Archive

Open access to more than 400,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Quantitative Biology.

National Academies Press

Provides access to thousands of entire books and reports on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and the health sciences.

Nigeria Medicinal Plants

A complete guide to research on plants, containing a Medicinal Plants Gallery of Nigerian Plants by Prof. Tolu Odugbemi, the current Vice Chancellor of University Of Lagos, Nigeria. First of its kind in Nigeria.

Open J-Gate

Open J-Gate - is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is the contribution of Informatics (India) Ltd to promote OAI by providing seamless access to millions of journal articles available online. Open J-Gate is also a database of journal literature, indexed from 3000+ open access journals, with links to full text at Publisher sites.

OpenLearn

Launched in late 2006 by the UK-based Open University, OpenLearn provides free open educational resources for learners and educators around the world under a Creative Commons licence (this means that users can download and reuse the materials, amending them to suit their purpose and context). The site can boast in excess of 2500 hours of free study materials across nine subject areas: Arts & History, Business & Management, Education, IT & Computing, Mathematics & Statistics, Science & Nature, Society and Study Skills & Language Learning.

Pandora, Australia's Web Archive

The PANDORA Project (Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia) was set up in June 1996 in an attempt to develop an archive with Australian Internet publications for preservation purposes by the National Library. The PANDORA Archive contains an ever growing number of selected Australian online publications such as electronic journals, organisational sites, government publications and ephemera in a broad range of topics from Agriculture to Sports.

Popline

This is World’s largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE provides citations with abstracts for 300,000 records.

N.B: You can request full-text copies of most documents cited in POPLINE. Requests are processed during business hours of 8:00 am-5:00 pm EST (0800-1700). POPLINE documents are free of charge by Sending your document request to: POPLINE® INFO Project Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs. Email: popline@jhuccp.org

Limit your request to 15 documents or fewer. Requests for more than 15 documents must be split into multiple requests. POPLINE will process one document request for a maximum of 15 documents per customer per day. POPLINE cannot provide rush service.

RePEc

Database of working papers and journal articles on economics. The website links to IDEAS, the largest bibliographic database on Economics available on the internet.

The Electronic Journals Library

The Electronic Journals Library - is an initiative of the Regenburgs University in Germany that facilitates the access to full text articles online. The journals compiled cover many disciplines on both Humanities and Sciences in different languages and are divided into those that are fully accessible for all and those that are freely available from a group in institutions, normally University libraries in Germany

The Ptolemy project

The Ptolemy project, a Canada-based professional organization which seeks to foster scientifc partnership between Canadian and African researchers and facilitate access to health sciences related electronic information, has compiled an extensive list with Open Access material fully or partially dedicated to Health sciences, including journals, surgery and medical resources, injury control and public health, subject guides and recommended websites. The e-resources listed at "The Ptolemy project" have been produced in diverse regions in the world, thus covering several languages, mostly English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

USAID Development Partner Resources

A searchable database listing USAID programme and technical documents, with many available to download.

Wikipedia

The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

World Bank Documents

Collection of World Bank reports, documents and working papers.