Nigerian universities now have access to over 100,000 e-books which were made
available by the Nigerian Research and Education Network (NgREN).
Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission » (NUC), made this
disclosure at the formal donation of a -four- million dollar worth of
e-content to
Nigerian universities.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), EBSCOHost, a multinational
Information Communication Technology (ICT) firm, made the donation on Thursday,
May 26, in Abuja.
Okojie said that by accessing these resources, Nigerian universities
and research
institutes will be part of more collaborative efforts that would facilitate
accreditation of programmes.
Nigerian universities were urged to utilise the resources which were
made available
on the NgREN » at no cost until the end of 2016.
"The NgREN has secured access to all EBSCOHost e-books collections and seven
EBSCOHost research databases among which is a full text e-journal.
"Others are periodicals and magazines of several academic disciplines and
professional specialisations.
"These resources contain more than 100, 000 high-quality e-book
titles, 27,100 full
text journals, 18, 430 indexed and abstracted journals, 9,041, 400
cited references,
daily updates and 630 videos with transcripts and related articles.
"This will in fact, grow the number of available resources in the
nation's university
libraries and as a result, heighten research activities among
institutions in the
Nigerian University System (NUS).
"In addition, it will improve the ranking of Nigerian universities ,'' he said.
In her remark, EBSCOHost's Vice-President (Sales), Mrs Collen Mills, said that
access to e-content could raise the quality of education.
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