Library Collection
Overview
A total number of 51,000+ printed books, reports and bound journals, 87,903 online e-books (access through INASP/PERI, UDL and Research4Life only), 64,624 online journals (access through 52 E-resource providers), 1,900 CD ROM books and databases, 229 DVDs and videos, 159 audio-cassettes and a good numbers of other resources of the library cover all branches of knowledge. In addition to these collections, the library subscribes print issues of 46 foreign and 19 local journals, 18 foreign and 22 local magazines, two foreign dailies and almost all leading national dailies of Bangladesh. The NSU library is the pioneer of subscribing online journals and OpenAthens (MyAthens) in the country. NSU Library started subscription to online journals with JSTOR, IEEE, ACM Digital library and 39 titles of online journals in various disciplines for the first time in 2002. After that the other libraries started subscription to online journals in Bangladesh. It has also started subscription to e-resource databases, namely, EconLit, AHEAD and Global Development Finance in 1998. All registered members of NSU library get access to online journals and e-books databases from inside and outside campus through Internet.