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
http://www.islam-online.net/iol-english/info/quran.asp
(Qur’an)
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html (Ahaddeeth)
http://www.nzmuslim.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular
http://www.isesco.org.ma/pub/Eng/index.htm (contemporary issues from Islamic perspective)
B. Sites for free books
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/ (medical)
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html (All subjects - University Undergraduate and Postgraduate Studies)
http://www.emedicine.com/cgi-shl/foxweb.exe/onlinebooks@d:/em/ga (medical)
http://www.vpw.com/educational/ (For free educational videos for Schools and Colleges, available in US only)
http://www.lightandmatter.com/ (For Physics and Astronomy)
http://books.nap.edu/v3/makepage.phtml?val1=subject&val2=ed (online reading)
C. Seasoned search engines for special purposes
5. http://www.search-engines-2.com/
8. http://www.firstfind.info/default.html
13. http://www.metacrawler.com/
14. http://www.google.com/
D. Free Online Journals
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