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National record set up by Social Science Cyber Library
Social Science Cyber Library, AMU sets a National Record as per its registration in
Limca Book of Records
The Editor of Limca Book of Records, VijayaGhose, after a thorough enquiry, issued a certificate of National record to the Social Science Cyber LibrarySocial Science Cyber Library on 24th October 2016. The certificate mentions that the Social Science Cyber Library (www.socsccybraryamu.ac.in) at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is the first library in the world thatcollectsand updates daily the web-based e-resources in public domain available in the form of e-books, e-journals, in-house lectures, websites, databases, subject gateways, video lectures of eminent scholars and ahost of software pertaining toSocial Sciences. The Cybrary provides access to the social scientists across the globe through a user friendly interface and is presently being accessed in 142 countries for research and scholarship so far. Set up under the leadership of Prof.Shabahat Husain, Chairperson, Deptt. of Library and Information Sc.andthe then Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, the Cybrary was inaugurated by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India, on 27thDecember, 2013.The Cybrary was awarded ISO9001:2008 certificate in 2015, and is registered in the ‘Directories of Open Access Repositories of U.K.’ called DOAR and ROAR.
Lt. General Zameer Uddin Shah, Vice- Chancellor mentioned this achievement in his convocation address on 1stNovember 2016. Brigadier Syed Ahmad Ali, the Pro- Vice-Chancellor described it as ‘a milestone and an exemplary achievement, not only for the Department of Library and Information Science but also for the entire University’. He congratulated Prof. Shabahat Husain and his team for this feat.
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