Tribhuvan University Launches Free ProQuest Digital Library Access for Students
Key Takeaways
- Free ProQuest access introduced for TU students, costing the university Rs 3.2 million
- Offers over 50,000 e-books, five million theses, and thousands of journals and articles
- Registration open via the TU Central Library website, with over 30,000 users already enrolled
Tribhuvan University Rolls Out Free ProQuest Digital Library for Students
Tribhuvan University (TU) has launched a new initiative to provide students with free access to the ProQuest digital library, a comprehensive database containing millions of educational resources. This move aims to give students at TU constituent institutions and other partnered universities access to a wide range of international books, journals, and other digital reading materials.
The TU Central Library purchased the ProQuest software from the United Kingdom for Rs 3.2 million. The platform offers aggregated content including dissertations, theses, ebooks, newspapers, journals, historical collections, governmental archives, and cultural archives. Students can access these materials remotely through a simple registration process on the library's website, where they will receive a unique email address for login.
As of March 2021, more than 30,000 readers had already created profiles on the platform. The database currently hosts over 50,000 e-books, more than five million e-theses and dissertations, and thousands of journals, articles, and magazines. TU has also recently signed agreements with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the National Digital Library of India, adding approximately three lakh materials from ADB and 45 million items from the Indian library to the available resources.
The central library is also developing its own digital repository, with plans to host postgraduate, philosophical, and doctoral research articles online. To date, 2,000 research papers have already been digitized as part of this initiative.
