UNB, Dhaka :
A workshop on the ‘Role of Digital Resources for the Enhancement of Higher Education’ was held at the UGC Auditorium in the capital on Thursday.
UGC chairman Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury attended the programme as the chief guest while UGC member Prof Dr Atful Hye Shibly was the special guest at the function, chaired by UGC member Prof Dr Akhtar Hossain.
Kaniz Fatema, Project Director of HEQEP, delivered the welcome speech on the occasion.
UGC Digital Library (UDL) has been operational since July 2012. UDL is a sub-component of Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP). Thirty-eight universities including 31 public and 7 private universities have become members of UGC Digital Library.
About 98 percent users of public and 18 percent users of private universities enjoy accessing of UDL knowledge repository.
From July 1, 2012, UDL is offering access to around 3000 e-journals, magazines, conference proceedings, bulletins, etc. of three major online information resources: ACM Digital Library, Emerald, and JSTOR.
All member universities of UDL are accessing high-quality and scholarly electronic resources at substantially lower rates of subscription as UDL has been offering subsidy on the subscription fee from the HEQEP fund. In order to encourage participation by the private universities in Bangladesh, UDL has been offering subsidy on the subscription fee also.
Wider use of digital resources stressed
