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The Aligarh Muslim University, established by the Act of Parliament as a Central University in 1920, is one of the oldest and probably the biggest residential university in the country. Out of the 12 faculties, Social Sciences is the largest faculty, consisting of about 2700 students, 500 Research Scholars and 137 faculty members.
The Aligarh Muslim University, established by the Act of Parliament as a Central University in 1920, is one of the oldest and probably the biggest residential university in the country. Out of the 12 faculties, Social Sciences is the largest faculty, consisting of about 2700 students, 500 Research Scholars and 137 faculty members.
Recently, the faculty under the leadership of Prof. Shabahat Husain (a Professor of Library & Information Science), Dean of the Faculty, under the patronage of Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah (Vice Chancellor of the University) have taken a pioneering step to establish the first Social Science Cyber Library in the world. The same was inaugurated by His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India on 27th of December 2013. The library is aimed at providing access to the freely available e-resources in form of e-books, e-journals including in-house publications, web courses, video lectures of eminent scholars, web sites, Data bases, Subject Gateways and a host of software, pertaining to the Social Sciences. The cyber library is expected to serve the social scientists across the globe.
The Library can be accessed at : www.socsccybraryamu.ac.in


Recently, the faculty under the leadership of Prof. Shabahat Husain (a Professor of Library & Information Science), Dean of the Faculty, under the patronage of Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah (Vice Chancellor of the University) have taken a pioneering step to establish the first '''Social Science Cyber Library''' in the world. The same was inaugurated by His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India on 27th of December 2013. The library is aimed at providing access to the freely available e-resources in form of e-books, e-journals including in-house publications, web courses, video lectures of eminent scholars, web sites, Data bases, Subject Gateways and a host of software, pertaining to the Social Sciences. The cyber library is expected to serve the social scientists across the globe.
'''Social Science Cyber Library Modules'''


==External links==
== E-Books (900) ==
* {{Official|www.socsccybraryamu.ac.in}}
The e-books can be searched by:
# Author
# Languages
# Publishers

== E-Journals (407)==
The e-journals are accessible by subject and different categories consist of:
# ID
# Subject
# Title of the Journal
# Publisher
# Year
# URL

== Conference Proceedings ==
The Conference Proceedings are also categorized by subject, which are further visualized as:
# ID
# Subject
# Title of the Journal
# Publisher
# Year
# URL

== In-house Publications ==
This section consists of the publications produced by the researchers of the University and it is also displayed into following elements:
# ID
# Subject
# Title of the Journal
# Author
# Publisher
# Year
# URL

== Video Lectures (114) ==
There are a large number of video lectures given by eminent scientists and scholars in a variety of subjects areas. These can be visualized by:
# Snap
# ID
# Title
# Delivered by
# Year
# Subject
# Server Link

== Useful Websites (58) ==
The cyber Library provides links to a galaxy of useful websites for the social scientists which can be distinguished by the following elements:
# ID
# Subject
# Title
# URL

== Subject Gateways (143) ==
A number of subject gateways which are devoted to different subjects are being linked with the Library in order to provide a single stop shop for large reservoir of information. These gateways are classified and visualized into the following headings:
# ID
# Subject
# Title
# URL

== Databases (67) ==
As the contemporary era is witnessing a great escalation of different databases in multiple areas of research and thus the library provides the links to useful and highly evaluated databases in social sciences, which are categorized in the elements mentioned below:
# ID
# Subject
# Title
# URL

== Software (54) ==
A large number of softwares are nowadays used for analyzing the data in the research process. The Library provides various links to the widely used softwares and plagiarism checking softwares. These softwares are displayed as:
# ID
# Useful for
# Title
# Description
# URL

== E-Theses ==
This section provides a direct link to the 'Shodh Ganga' which is an Online theses and dissertation repository of Inflibnet.



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# United Arab Emirates- 18
# Germany - 4
# Australia - 4
# Ireland - 4
# United Kingdom - 3
# Spain - 3
# Canada - 3
# Indonesia - 3
# South Africa - 2
# Netherlands- 2
# Japan - 2
# Bulgaria- 1
# Guinea - 1
# France - 1
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# Northern Mariana Island-1
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# Brazil - 1
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# Jordan - 1
# Qatar - 1
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Revision as of 11:30, 9 April 2014

The Aligarh Muslim University, established by the Act of Parliament as a Central University in 1920, is one of the oldest and probably the biggest residential university in the country. Out of the 12 faculties, Social Sciences is the largest faculty, consisting of about 2700 students, 500 Research Scholars and 137 faculty members.

Recently, the faculty under the leadership of Prof. Shabahat Husain (a Professor of Library & Information Science), Dean of the Faculty, under the patronage of Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah (Vice Chancellor of the University) have taken a pioneering step to establish the first Social Science Cyber Library in the world. The same was inaugurated by His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India on 27th of December 2013. The library is aimed at providing access to the freely available e-resources in form of e-books, e-journals including in-house publications, web courses, video lectures of eminent scholars, web sites, Data bases, Subject Gateways and a host of software, pertaining to the Social Sciences. The cyber library is expected to serve the social scientists across the globe.