Library

Ever since its inception, the Regional Research Institute of Unani Medicine has been committed to supporting the teaching-learning and research activities of its academic and scholarly community with the best learning resources. RRIUM Library caters to the academic needs of the large number of scholars consisting of faculty members, research officer and other technical staff in various disciplines. The library provides useful and research-oriented services to the reading community in calm, cozy and clean atmosphere. At present, it has a collection of more than 3000 books. The collection of valuable material in shape of ancient Unani classical books, journals, magazines newsletters, technical and annual reports, encyclopaedias, dictionaries, thesis, sale of Council’s Publications, Free Literature for distribution and newspapers clipping collection etc. It also possesses rare original manuscripts, rare books and scanned copies of rare books and manuscripts in Arabic, Persian and Urdu in the field of Unani System of Medicine. The library is getting access to a leading Bibliographic Database known as Science Direct, where under the contents pages, abstracts and full-text articles (wherever available) in Medical Science, Social Science etc are made available to the users on-line. The library has access to the internet facility for scholars.

The library has started its services to the readers through e-Granthalaya 4.0 Library Software that controls the Web Online Public Access Catalogue (Web-OPAC). Now, both the Catalogue systems are available for the library user’s manual as well as the OPAC.