As-salaamu ‘alaykum wa Rahmatu’llahi wa BarakatuH,

 

The Adhoc committee setup to "explore ways of providing online textbooks and educational aids to our scholars and Muslims in Nigeria" concluded its cyber meeting in Ramadhan, 1425H (October 2004). The following websites for free academic materials were identified:

 

 

A. Sites for religious materials

  1. http://www.quran.org/quran/quranframe.htm (Qur’an)

  2. http://www.islam-online.net/iol-english/info/quran.asp (Qur’an)

  3. http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html (Ahaddeeth)

  4. http://www.nzmuslim.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular

  5. http://www.isesco.org.ma/pub/Eng/index.htm (contemporary issues from Islamic perspective)

 

B.  Sites for free books

  1. http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/ (medical)

  2. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html (All subjects - University Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies)

  3. http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

  4. http://www.gutenberg.net/

  5. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects.html

  6. http://64.78.49.204/

  7. http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/

  8. http://www.onlinesapiens.com/books.html

  9. http://www.free-book.co.uk/

  10. http://www.fb4d.com/

  11. http://samizdat.mines.edu/

  12. http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/prof/

  13. http://www.books-on-line.com/bol/DDC.cfm

  14. http://www.sultan.org/books/

  15. http://safari.informit.com/

  16. http://www.intelinfo.com/free_computer_books.html

  17. http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/onlinebooks@d:/em/ga (medical)

  18. http://www.vpw.com/educational/ (For free educational videos for Schools and Colleges, available in US only)

  19. http://www.lightandmatter.com/ (For Physics and Astronomy)

  20. http://books.nap.edu/v3/makepage.phtml?val1=subject&val2=ed (online reading)

  21. http://www.intelinfo.com/free_computer_books.html

  22. http://www.maththinking.com/boat/booksIndex.html

 

C. Seasoned search engines for special purposes

1.      http://www.fazzle.com/

2.      http://www.teoma.com/

3.      http://www.ixquick.com/

4.      http://turbo10.com/

5.      http://www.search-engines-2.com/

6.      http://www.askme.com/

7.      http://www.ez2find.com/

8.      http://www.firstfind.info/default.html

9.      http://www.gigablast.com/

10.  http://www.seekscan.com/

11.  http://yes.wacked.us/

12.  http://www.webfetch.com/

13.  http://www.metacrawler.com/

14.  http://www.google.com/

 

 

D. Free Online Journals

  1. http://www.doaj.org/

  2. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

  3. http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

  4. http://www.ingenta.com/home/fs_subjects.htm

  5. http://catt.bus.okstate.edu/isworld/journal2.htm

  6. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/alphalist.html

  7. http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

The URLs are easy to follow and most of them contain useful links.

 

Was-salaamu ‘alaykum wa Rahmatu’llahi wa BarakatuH,

 

Signed:

 

Abdullateef Bello - Chairman

Kamorudeen Abidogun – Secretary

Suleyman Muyibi – member

AbdusSemi’ Gbadebo – member

Isiaka Balogun - member