These developments in the library services include- campus wide access to online catalogue, Digital Resource Centre with 2 lakh e-books/ encyclopedias and many language learning software, online journals; Automatic Security Gate for books; CCTV and a show case displaying recent publications of academic community of the University.

 As a sequel to that the library has recently received IP based online access to almost all important internationally reputed Full Text Data Bases namely Web of Science, Science Direct, SciFinder Scholar, ERMED Consortia, J-Gate, BIOSIS and DELNET. It is worth noting that the University had been trying to get additional UGC funding to subscribe Science Direct for more than 5 years. Fortunately, access to Science Direct with 1000 online journals worth `2 crores; 908 Online Wiley Journals worth `9 crores and ERMED with 2400 online journals in Health Sciences worth `7.5 crores, has been provided to the University.

 Some other most prestigious and costliest research tools, namely, Science Citation Index (1961), Social Science Citation Index (1966) and Arts and Humanities Index, (1977), published from Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA since 1961, that the. University had since been aspiring for, have now been made accessible online in the form of Web of Science (with 10 yrs backup) worth `3.5 crores.

While the aforesaid Online Information Services have already been made accessible, Sci Finder scholar a publication of American Chemical Society, Columbus, Ohio, USA that provides access to the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Chemistry and related scientific information, worth `20 lakhs (Single user) made available in February this year.

Prof. PK Abdul Azis, Vice-Chancellor while appreciating the efforts of Prof. Shabahat Husain, Librarian-in-charge, MA Library in modernizing the library services in AMU has sent a good will message to all the Deans of the Faculties, Chairmen of the Departments and other academic community of the University, exhorting them to make fullest use for these facilities to improve the published out put both in quantity and quality. He has assured his full support in the scholarly endeavor of AMU academic community.