News & Announcement

Dear Students and Staff,

We’re excited to announce a new collection of 197 essential McGraw Hill eTextbooks, recommended by our Faculties and Centres! You can borrow up to five McGraw Hill eTextbooks at a time to support your studies or teaching. You can borrow these eTextbooks online through VitalSource Bookshelf—up to five at a time—to support your studies or teaching.

Getting started is easy: just create a VitalSource Bookshelf account using your TAR UMT Gmail credentials and you’ll be all set to start borrowing right away!

Dear Students and Staff,

We are thrilled to announce the much-anticipated results of the Emerald Malaysia National Online Quiz 2025!

Thank you to everyone who participated and congratulations to the First Prize Winner! The Library will be in touch with you soon regarding prize collection.

Dear Students and Staff,

We would like to inform you that the library system will undergo maintenance from 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 December 2025 to 6.00 a.m. on Thursday, 4 December 2025.

During this period, borrowing and renewal services at the Service Counter and the RFID self-check station, as well as returns at the RFID book drop machine, will be unavailable. You will also be unable to sign in to My account (Locate), renew items or place requests online. However, you can still return borrowed library materials at the Service Counter. 

We apologize for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.

Dear Students and Staff,

Want to publish your work? Join Erika Newton and Claire Jackson from the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) publishing team to learn about publishing in reputable journals, the peer-review process and the benefits of publishing case studies.

The details of the webinar are as follows: 

📅 Date: 26 November 2025 (Wednesday)

🕙 Time: 9.00 p.m.    

📍  Platform: Zoom

Please register using your TAR UMT Gmail credentials HERE.

Dear Students and Staff,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Cengage eBook Contest!

We extend our appreciation to all who participated and our warmest congratulations to the five winners.

The Cengage team will be in touch with the winners regarding prize redemption.

Dear Students and Staff,

We are pleased to announce that a new selection of 116 essential Pearson eTextbook titles, recommended by our Faculties/Centre, are now available for online borrowing through VitalSource Bookshelf.

You may borrow up to five Pearson eTextbooks at a time. To get started, simply create a VitalSource Bookshelf account using your TAR UMT Gmail credentials.

Start exploring and borrowing today to enhance your learning or teaching experience with these valuable resources!

Dear Staff and Students,

Great news! Starting from 15 January 2024 until 31 December 2026, TAR UMT authors have the opportunity to publish an unlimited number of open-access research articles across the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals, conference proceedings and magazines through ACM Open. Best of all, this comes at no cost, with an exemption from article processing charges (APCs)!

Learn more about ACM OPEN HERE.