Search Tips

Title Search

You can search book titles from main webpage. The search returns all books in the UDL whose titles match the words you enter in the search box.

Please type the full title while searching for a particular book. Partial search of the book title is not allowed.

Advanced Search

Use the advanced search option to refine your search.

You can enter any key words into the Title and Author text entry boxes. For the Title and Author fields, Unicode search is enabled, for Indian language books please click here to go the website to get the equivalent Unicode for the Indian language title. All the other search criteria can be selected from a pick-list.

For Ex: you can search for the Arabic books from the year 1700 to 1800 from the country India.

Title --> Enter any word/subset of the word of title to search the book.
Author --> Enter full name/ partial name of the author of the book to search for a book.
Subject --> Select from given list of the subjects to refine the search.
Language --> Select from given list of the languages
Year --> You can type in the year or range of years in this field to search for a book through the particular years.
Library --> Select from pick list
Scanning Center --> Select from pick list
Country --> Select from pick list

Browse the Collection

Use the browse the collection option to view the books alphabetically.

Title --> You can just click on the any alphabet from A to Z to see all the book titles starting from that alphabet
Author --> You can click on the any alphabet from A to Z to see all the Author last names starting from that alphabet
Subject --> Select from given list of the subjects.
Language --> Select from given list of the languages
Year --> You can select the range of years given in the list.

FAQ

Do I need a program to view the books online?

All the books pages in the UDL are in TIFF or DjVu format. To display the TIFF images, you need a TIFF image viewer plug-in for your web browser:

To display the DjVu images, you need a DjVu image viewer plug-in for your web browser. You can download a free plug-in which supports all the operating systems are at http://www.lizardtech.com/download/dl_options.php?page=plugins

Very soon we will also be supporting browser-friendly and offline-reading friendly formats like PDF and HTML

I get a message "Book temporarily not online" when I try to read a book. When will I be able to read it?

UDL books are hosted all over the world. There is a possibility that the server that your book is hosted on is temporarily down. The UDL server constantly checks the status of our host servers all over the world and updates their status if a server is down. We suggest that you try back the next day if you get this error message.

It takes a long time to download some pages.

The amount of time it takes to download a page depends on the speed of your internet connection, the size of the book and the location where it is hosted. Sometimes it can take a few minutes to download a page especially if the page is rich in graphics. If you rather download the entire book, see the following.

How do I download an entire book?

If you would like to download an entire book to read it at your leisure, please send an email to help@ulib.org with the name of the book. We will send you a link to the book with download instructions.
Books downloaded from the UDL are for personal use only, commercial uses are not permitted.

How do I request a book to be added to the UDL?

Please see the My Books DL section on the website

How do I make a donation to the UDL?

Please see the donations section on the website