Our Services
Our platform provides free, easy access to essential scholarly resources, helping to eliminate barriers and support education and research across Nigeria.
How FRELIP Works
The Services section explains how the Free eLibrary Portal delivers value to its users and partner institutions. FRELIP is more than a collection of links – it is a carefully designed service that harvests, organises and disseminates open access and open educational resources at scale.
Core Delivery Model
- FRELIP gathers metadata from academic and research institutions, publishers and reputable OA platforms around the world.
- Open-source technologies – including RSS/OPML, SubjectsPlus, and VuFind – are used to index, organise and expose millions of records.
- The portal interface allows users to browse by discipline, search across services and follow links to full-text content hosted on external platforms.
Key Services
Open Access Journal Feeds
• Real-time feeds of new OA journal articles by subject.
• Bibliographic information plus links to full text.
Discovery Service (In Progress)
• Based on an Open-Source unified discovery platform.
• Allows users to search multiple repositories and portals (including OA article platforms and ETD repositories) through a single search box.
• Online catalogue of OA books, monographs, textbooks and proceedings.
Research Guides (In Progress)
• Curated guides that list high-quality OA and OER materials for a given discipline.
• Organised by format (journal, book, website, video, audio, datasets, etc.).
Consultancy Services
Being and entirely Voluntary Initiative and to sustain and extend its mission, FRELIP provides fee-based consultancy and implementation services to libraries and institutions, including:
- Library Management Systems implementation and retrospective conversion projects.
- Institutional repository design, digitisation workflows and metadata support.
- Discovery service implementation and integration with existing collections.
- Remote authentication and single sign-on for e-resources.
- Support for library-led publishing and online journal platforms.
- Electronic resource management and accreditation-oriented collection planning.
- Research impact measurement services: contributor IDs, citation databases, metrics and anti-plagiarism tools.
Benefits for Users and Partners
- Students and independent learners gain free access to high-value scholarly content.
- Lecturers and institutions gain a scalable way to support teaching and accreditation requirements using OA and OER.
- Researchers and authors increase the visibility and impact of their work.
The Services page positions FRELIP as both a public-interest knowledge portal and a professional partner to institutions that wish to strengthen their digital library infrastructure.