UYI Central Library
Overview
The UYI Central Library (BC-UYI) is located in the heart of the main campus in Yaounde Ngoa-Ekele, close to the Rector’s Office. It is built on a site covering 4 760 m² with a capacity of 1 200 seats, and offers a pleasant and comfortable setting for reading.
The BC-UYI has been renovated and digitized. Indeed, it is seven specialized libraries combined into one, offering a single catalogue of collections and services accessible to all UYI users:
- Students;
- Lecturers and Researchers;
- Technical and administrative staff.
It has over 100 000 digital resources available via a fully functional intranet and comprehensive Wi-Fi coverage throughout the library, enabling users to access the collections remotely.
UYI Institutional Repository
An institutional repository is designed to collect an institution’s scientific output in full text and make it freely accessible via the internet in order to increase its visibility and impact. It offers a range of services for recording, preserving and disseminating digital documents. Researchers can upload their own work to the repository (self-archiving).
Benefits for researchers: An institutional repository makes possible the following:
- greater promotion and dissemination of research globally;
- faster access to scientific output;
- a guarantee that uploaded material will be safeguarded and remain accessible;
- a boost to the institution’s prestige and the international standing of its researchers.
Tools for searching multiple archive repositories simultaneously
Google Scholar
Makes it possible to explore academic works across all disciplines, with full
access where possible. Such works may derive from sources such as scientific
publishers, learned societies, preprint repositories, universities and other
research organizations.
Go to Google Scholar
OAISter
Offers a simultaneous search across 680 diverse repositories containing
articles, theses, reports, digitized documents and more, all available free of
charge.
Go to OAISter
BASE
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): one of the world’s largest search
engines, particularly for open-access academic resources. BASE contains
over 65 million documents from more than 3 200 sources.
Go to Base
Tools for searching multiple archive repositories simultaneously
A more inspiring space for collections that inspire excellence in 2025
- Reading room, Level 1A;
- Shelf;
- Reading area for people with reduced mobility;
- Level 2 consultation posts;
- Level 1 consultation posts;
- Reading room, Level 2;
- Reception;
- Periodicals reading room;
- BC-UYI entrance;
- Reading space, Level 1;
- Reading space, Level 2;
- Reading space.
A more inspiring space for collections that inspire excellence in 2015; major refurbishment work was carried out in 2013, with the extensive renovation of the BC-UYI’s 6 000 m² premises, a renewed partnership with the faculties and a significant enhancement of the collections. The library is a core mission of the university and must serve the objectives of teaching and research support.
