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OP - April 14, 2014, 09:38 PM

Hi guys, basically.. In honour of national library week Oxford university has opened up most of their online resources for free!
This includes academic works on religion,philosophy,psychology,physics etc...

It is only meant to work for US & Canadian citizens, but I am from the UK and I have managed to access several pieces of work, so don't be too disheartened if you can't login on your first attempt, just try later.

Username: Libraryweek
Password: Libraryweek

Website: http://global.oup.com/academic/librarians/national-library-week/?cc=sa&lang=en&

I recommend going to the Islamic studies section, some nice stuff there.

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Reply #1 - April 14, 2014, 09:40 PM

Oh sweet, nice one.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #2 - April 14, 2014, 10:15 PM

No problem

Here is a guide on how to "download" the aforementioned content:

---> For subject entries/biographies/primary sources etc...
- Copy & paste into a word document & then export as a pdf if you wish (my goal here was to ensure that I have a copy after the one week of free access ends)

--> For academic works:
- Firstly, identify the work that you wish to download.
- secondly, open it.
- This method works on a chapter by chapter basis.
- Let's assume that you want to download a book on the philosophy of religion.
- There may be 5 chapters in this book.
- Chapter 1 could have several subsections, you can find this out in the contents section.
- You must open each subsection & click "view as pdf" (or something to that effect), it will then download a copy of this section for you.
- You can do this for all books. However, a major drawback is that this will take quite some time for pieces of work that are lengthy. On the other hand, you do get to keep these copies after the week is over & it is free.

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Reply #3 - April 14, 2014, 10:31 PM

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #4 - August 01, 2014, 09:14 PM

https://archive.org/details/ArabiaAndTheArabs

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http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?425649-Have-some-Hayaa-%28modesty-shame%29-people!
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Reply #5 - August 01, 2014, 09:30 PM

Quote from: Qtian on April 14, 2014, 09:38 PM
Hi guys, basically.. In honour of national library week Oxford university has opened up most of their online resources for free!
This includes academic works on religion,philosophy,psychology,physics etc...

It is only meant to work for US & Canadian citizens, but I am from the UK and I have managed to access several pieces of work, so don't be too disheartened if you can't login on your first attempt, just try later.

Username: Libraryweek
Password: Libraryweek

Website: http://global.oup.com/academic/librarians/national-library-week/?cc=sa&lang=en&

I recommend going to the Islamic studies section, some nice stuff there.

Talk to me Qtian .. so can I gets some book from ACS Symposium Series such as this one

http://global.oup.com/academic/product/advances-in-co2-conversion-and-utilization-9780841225961?lang=en&cc=savNumResPerPage=20vNumResPerPage=20

without paying 150 or so dollars...? can I at least read that??

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Reply #6 - August 01, 2014, 09:45 PM

Hi Yeez,
Unfortunately the library was only free for a week... and yes you would have been able to obtain materials such as the above for free during that period :l
( You would only have been able to read them as online PDFs though)

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Reply #7 - August 01, 2014, 10:03 PM

Quote from: Qtian on August 01, 2014, 09:45 PM
Hi Yeez,
Unfortunately the library was only free for a week... and yes you would have been able to obtain materials such as the above for free during that period :l
( You would only have been able to read them as online PDFs though)

Oh ! I didn't see the date of your OP.. anyways I am glad to see that you are very active and looking around the online libraries..

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Reply #8 - August 01, 2014, 10:06 PM

Thank you Yeez.

Also, feel free to check the course that I added to the resource centre: http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=26975.msg771945#msg771945

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Reply #9 - August 02, 2014, 09:21 AM

An actual free book I recommend is Charles Darwin on Earthworms - there are purchaseable versions, look for free one on kindle! This was a best seller when it came out! Fascinating discussion on are earthworms intelligent!

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne,

"We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
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