The library collection contains of textbook, reference book, journals, periodicals, articles, thesis, dissertation and magazines. Currently, the library has more than 165,000 collections such as textbook, reference books, journals, periodicals and magazines. Mekelle university libraries play an important role in supporting the university mission of excellence through teaching and research by making information resources easy, timely and accessible both hard copy and softcopy resources to all university library users.
E-RESOURCES
- Open Access Journals
- research4lifeResearch4Life provides institutions in lower income countries with online access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content. It aims to improve teaching, research and policy-making in health, agriculture, the environment and other life, physical and social sciences. Five reputable databases are accessible through Research4Life.
Research4Life content is grouped into the following collections:
- HINARI is one of the world’s largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
- AGORA is an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food and agriculture.
- ARDI gives access to scientific and technical information.
- GOALI focuses on law and social sciences, including politics, economics, philosophy, history and more.
- OARE collects information resources on environment, including ecology, geography, energy and more.
- Acoustical Society of America
- American Astronomical Society
- Cambridge University Press – Cambridge Journals Online
- Duke University Press
- Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- JSTOR
- OER Handbook
- Open Educational Resources
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
- Taylor and Francis Online Journals
- University of Chicago Press
- World Bank e-library
- VideoLectures
- IPHCE E-resources
- NADER /NADEL
- Open Access Repository
- OASIS
A large user friendly OER search engine that allows for users to search by subject or by course material type (e.g. textbooks, simulations, audio). - Mason OER Metafinder
This search engine from George Mason University is connected to 15 major OER repositories. - Merlot
this repository is one of the biggest and more famous places to find and share teaching resources. - Connexions
Large repository of individual teachers' content, some courses and lots of modular writings about a variety of topics. - OER Commons
- This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects.
- Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES)
- This repository contains learning materials, software, data, and models for teaching quantitative skills in undergraduate biology courses. QUBES is developed in part by faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Curriki
Open educational materials for K-12. - AMSER
Materials in the Applied Math and Science Educational Repository are free for use and adaptation. Most resources are at the high school and community college levels. - Edsitement!
Learning objects and lessons from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers a large collection of peer evaluated websites. - OpenCulture
This blog formatted repository seeks to bring together free resources on culture and education. The list of movies here is impressive. - Community of Online Research Assignments
- Open resource for faculty and librarians about Research Assignments. A research assignment is anything that requires students to engage with information resources in a critical or reflective way. This most often includes finding, retrieving, analyzing and evaluating, using and integrating, or organizing the information in order to produce new knowledge
Free E-books
PDF Drive https://www.pdfdrive.com/
Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
Library Genesis https://libgen.li/