MINSK, 30 December (BelTA) – The main library of Belarusian State University (BSU) has been included in the consortium of digital library networks of classical universities. This gives the BSU teachers, researchers and students the right to use academic and scientific literature of 32 universities of the CIS member states for free, BelTA learned from the BSU press service.
The universities have joined efforts to expand book holdings and improve cost efficiency by providing free access to collections of digital materials within the framework of the consortium. “At present, the list boasts more than 6,000 academic editions, including books on humanities and natural sciences of Russia's Siberian Federal University, Kazan Federal University, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, and Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University,” the press service said.
The creator and curator of the consortium is the digital library system Lan that compiles collections in eight fields: agriculture, technology, education, healthcare, physical education and sport, economy and law, culture and arts. The BSU book holdings is included in the section “classical universities”. The collection of the consortium includes about 30,000 editions in various academic disciplines and subjects.
