Baghdad University Keeps the First Rank among Iraqi’s Universities in the Use of virtual library Resources (IVSL)
Baghdad University maintained over the past months the first rank among Iraqi’s universities in the use of electronic resources provided by the Iraqi virtual scientific library (IVSL), this was in statistics compiled by the Department of Research and Development at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research on 30/08/2012, the registered enrollment of beneficiaries from the library at the University of Baghdad was (9231), the University of Mosul came in second rank as the number of registered beneficiaries of the Library (5637), Kufa University was the third, as the percentage of users and beneficiaries of the virtual library resources (3997). The statistics also included a table of the resources loaded by researchers since January until August 2012, which were (506,015) resources from different publishing houses included (full text, or abstracts, or images), and statistics of publishing houses and institutions that received the highest proportion of accessing such as (Eprints :100692), Springer and proceedings:94438 ) , (DOAJ:73671 ) , (Jstor : 32472 ) ، (IEEE : 19886 )
The virtual library is one of the most important strategic projects adopted by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and represented by the Department of research and development that will provide modern scientific electronic resources for the Iraqi researcher thus contributing to rise the scientific research of Iraqi universities, as it is the first virtual library representing electronic resources in Iraq. It is a national project designed to enhance the electronic society and a gate to cross into the international publishing houses of periodicals ,databases or electronic books, and represents a model in scientific and informational progress which keeps the progressive and development movement that taking place in the world of digital libraries. The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Professor Ali al-Adeeb confirmed the importance of expanding the virtual library to ensure the needs of researchers in the Iraqi institutions through providing all modern resources. The Development and Continuing Education Center at Baghdad University has an active role in the adoption of an integrated training program to use the virtual library included seminars, workshops, courses and lectures within the curriculum of educational qualified courses for training of teachers in colleges and institutes and centers of Baghdad University that aims to spread the culture of using electronic resources provided by virtual library. To register and participate in the virtual library you can be accessed via the link: www.IVSL.org