UNIVERSITY LIBRARY >> FACILITIES
 
 
Overview

The Department of Library & Information Science is committed to realizing the mission of the University to enhance the quality of learning and research through continuous of resources and services. The Students of B.S.Abdur Rahman University have access to two different library facilities namely the General Library and the Digital Library.
The Library is currently is managed by a qualified Librarian and three Assistant Librarians.
Staff Members


Librarian


Dr. P. Panneerselvam, M.A., M.L.I.Sc., Ph.D

Assistant Librarians


Mr.A.Selvantony, M.A, M.L.I.S. MPhil


Mr.T.Pattabhi Raman, B.Com, MBA, M.L.I.S., M.Phil


Dr. M. P.Srinivasan, M.A.M.L.I.S, M.Phil, Ph.D.


Objectives
 
  • To meet the requirement of academic needs of UG/PG students and Research scholars of the Institution.
  • To support and facilitate Research, Learning, Teaching and Administration activities of the Institution.
  • To make Library & Information System as user friendly as possible with the applications of ICT (Information and Communication Technology).
  • To provide appropriate and comfortable ambience for the library users.
 


Library Working Hours
The library works on 12 hours a day, on all working days (8 am to 8 pm). On Saturdays and Sundays also the Library is functioning from 10 am to 4 pm. Book transactions will be done from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm on all working days.

 
Library Collections
 
The library has 57,651 volumes of books in 26034 titles on different disciplines covering all major fields of Engineering, Science and Humanities.
The Library subscribes more than 2500 National & International periodicals including IEEE, ACM, ASME, ASCE, Elsevier, Emerald & Springer publications. The library is also having Educational Audio & Video Cassettes, CD ROMs, Back Volumes, Project Reports, Thesis reports etc. Apart from the central library each department is maintaining department library effectively. (A number of Text guides are available in reference section for competitive exams like GATE, Civil Service Exam, TOEFL, GRE, GMAT, Defence Service exam.) more than 600 courses in Engineering and Technology are made available.

e- Journals

The Central library is a member of INDEST-AICTE Consortium. Through this consortium, it subscribes e- Journals viz. IEL Online, ACM, ASME, ASCE, Springer Journals etc.


OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue)

The library information could be accessed by the members via Internet through a customer friendly web system called as electronic student relation management system (eSRM). Search for a book can be made Authorwise, Titlewise, Subjectwise, and keywords on OPAC catalog. The Advance Search provides with more specific search for a title. The Library has OPAC terminals at various points in the Library and is open from 8.00am to 8.00pm.

Audio Visual Section

Audiovisual section of the university library equipped with computer systems, TV, media players Audiocassettes, CD ROM diskettes and Videocassettes.  The library has got a collection of CD version of final year UG/PG student project reports.  The AV Section provided with a colour television, DVD player and computer systems for effective and efficient utilization.
 

Crescent News: Library Information Bulletin

The library publishes a bulletin called as “Crescent News” once in three months. This quarterly bulletin encompasses information about R&D News, Paper published/presented by staff & students, Conference/Seminar/Workshop attended and conducted by staff & students, Academic section activities, IIPC activities, Higher studies, Industrial visit, Placement details, Sports & Library activities etc.,

Merit Card

The university library issues one membership card to the topper of University exams (per student, per class), as a token of appreciation.

Personality Development Centre (PDC)

To strengthen the campus placement activity of BSAU, the central library has established a personality development center (PDC) inside the library premises.
Books & Periodicals related to communication skill development, aptitude & attitude improvement, Computer systems with multimedia facilities, educational audio & video cassettes/CD-ROM, are made available in the Central Library.

Book Bank Scheme

As per the directions of Government of Tamil Nadu, the library has got a book bank scheme exclusively for the SC/ST students.  The students can avail four additional books for a semester apart from their regular quota.

Membership in other Libraries

The Department of Library has enrolled as a corporate member in the following libraries:

  • British Council Division, Chennai
  • American Resource Information Centre, Chennai
  • Anna University, Chennai
  • Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai
  • IIT-Madras and
  • MALIBNET (Madras Library Network)
  • DELNET, New Delhi.

Value Added Services

In order to meet the contemporary needs of the library user, the Central Library offers the following value added services;

  • OPAC facility
  • Current Awareness Service
  • Reprographic Service
  • Effective Reservation Service
  • News paper-clippings Service
  • Article alert service

ONLINE RESOURCES – SUBSCRIBED

e-Journals

1.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

http://www.acm.org

2.

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

http://www.asce.org

3.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

http://www.asme.org

4.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp?reload=true

5.

Emerald

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/

6.

Springer

http://link.springer.com/

7.

Elsevier (Sciencedirect)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/


Subject Gateway

1.

Knimbus - http://knimbus.com/user/auth.do


Web & Video Course Materials

1.

NPTEL http://nptel.iitm.ac.in


OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

E-Journals

1

Access to Global online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)

http://www.aginternetwork.org/en

2

Bioline international - Open Source Journals and Online Resources Directories News and guide to scientific information on the Web

http://www.bioline.org.br/journals

3

CIMMYT : an international Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre

http://www.cimmyt.org

4

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

5

EPW (Economic and Political Weekly)

http://www.epw.in/epw/user/userindex.jsp

6

European Scientific Co-operative on Phyto therapy - European Phyto journal - free online

http://www.escop.com

7

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/

8

Free Medical Journals

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

9

Free On-line Chemistry journals

http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm

10

Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative

http://www.who.int/hinari/en

11

High Wire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text peer-reviewed content

http://intl.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl

12

Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)

http://www.ias.ac.in/

13

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)

http://www.inasp.info/

14

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

http://www.jpgmonline.com/

15

Med Indian-medical journals – full text of 33 Journals

http://www.medind.nic.in

16

Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)

http://www.mdpi.org/

17

National Preservation Office – NPO e-journals

http://www.bl.uk/blpac/journaltemp.html

18

Nature Proceedings - Preprint server for the Life Science community.

http://precedings.nature.com/

19

Nature Publishing Group - Open Access Journals

http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/nature.php

20

Nutrition Bytes - Free full text

http://escholarship.org/uc/uclabiolchem_nutritionbytes

21

OMICS Publishing Group - Open Access Journals

http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php

22

Open Access Library (OALIB) - Free Access to 263,388 Academic Articles

http://www.oalib.com/

23

Open Science Directory - Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library

http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

24

Palgrave Macmillan - Open Access Journals

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/index.html

25

Physics related free access journals

http://www.eps.org/physNet/journals.html

26

PSI gate provides access to evaluated network based information services and resources in the physical sciences.

http://www.psigate.org

27

Public Library of Science - premier open-access journals in Biology and Medicine

http://www.plos.org

28

Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed Open Access Journals

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

29

SAGE Open Subject Collections

http://sgo.sagepub.com/

30

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Worldwide dissemination of social science research.

http://www.ssrn.com/

31

Springer Open gives you free access in Science, Technology and Medicine.

http://www.springeropen.com/

32

The African Journal Archive

http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive

33

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

http://www.pubmedcentral.com

34

University of Tennessee - Research Guides - Citation Formats and Style Manuals, Databases and other e-resources collection.

http://libguides.utk.edu/style

35

Wiley Open Access Journal

http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/index.html


E-Books

1

4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming e-books.

http://4ebooks.org/

2

Arts & Photography

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=108

3

Ask Sam E-books has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts.

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/

4

Audio books

http://www.audible.com/t1/PBRP0329WS022409? source_code=PBRP0310WS012709

5

Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels.

http://www.baen.com/library/

6

Biographies & Memoirs

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=146

7

Blue Portal provides e-books in various subjects

http://www.zillr.org/

8

Book Yards is a web portal which contains books, education materials, information etc.

http://www.bookyards.com/

9

Business & Investing

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=118

10

Computers Science & Internet

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=9

11

Directory of Open access Books

http://www.doabooks.org/

12

e-Book Lobby containing collection of various subjects.

http://www.ebooklobby.com/

13

Engineering & Technology

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=73

14

Entertainment & Games

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=21

15

ENVIS Bulletin "Telemetry in Wildlife Science"

http://www2.wii.gov.in/envis/telemetry/index.html

16

Free Book Spot is an online source of free e-books download with 4485 Titles in various subjects

http://www.freebookspot.es/

17

Free Computer Books consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books

http://freecomputerbooks.com/

18

Get Free EBooks

http://www.getfreeebooks.com/

19

Gigapedia – more than 3,00,000 free e-books in various subjects

http://www.library.nu/

20

Globusz is a unique e-Publishing house, specializing in free e-Book downloads

http://www.globusz.com/

21

Gutenberg- more than 20,000 public domain books that are out of copyright and also world’s greatest fiction available.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

22

Health, Mind & Body

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=83

23

History

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=110

24

Humanities

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=282

25

Know Free is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice

http://knowfree.net/

26

Law

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=268

27

Literature & Fiction

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=74

28

Many Books provides more than 20,000 e-books in various subjects

http://www.manybooks.net/

29

Mathematics

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=3

30

Medical Science

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=77

31

Memo Ware has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.)

http://www.memoware.com/

32

Nonfiction

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=19

33

Online Books for children

http://www.biguniverse.com/

34

Online Computer Books contains details about free computer books

http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/

35

Online Free E-Books provides various subject e-books

http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/

36

Open Book Publishers - Publishing open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences.

http://www.openbookpublishers.com

37

Outdoors & Nature

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=136

38

Pure Science

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=1

39

Religion & Spirituality

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=65

40

Scribed, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats.

http://www.scribd.com/

41

Snip Files offers you free e-books and software

http://www.snipfiles.com/

42

The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

43

The Public Library and Digital Archive

http://www.ibiblio.org/

44

Topics like biography, fiction, games, history or tutorials etc.

http://www.free-ebooks.net/

45

Tourism & Travel

http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=174


Digital Libraries

1

Consortium for Educational Communication

http://www.cec-ugc.org/

2

Digital Library of India

http://www.dli.gov.in/

3

Directory of Open Access Repositories

http://www.opendoar.org/find.php

4

eGyanKosh (IGNOU)

http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/

5

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov

6

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)

http://www.nsdl.niscair.res.in/

7

NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository

http://nopr.niscair.res.in/

8

NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams

http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/

9

The British Library

http://www.bl.uk

10

UNESCO Library

http://www.unesco.org/library

11

Virtual Library

http://www.vlib.org

12

World Digital Library

http://www.wdl.org



E-Newspapers

1

about 10,000 newspapers worldwide

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

E-Patents

1

Canadian

http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html

2

European

http://ep.espacenet.com

3

Indian Patent design and trademark office

http://www.ipindia.nic.in/

4

Internet sites for patent search

http://www.pfc.org.in/info/site.htm

5

NIC

http://patinfo.nic.in/

6

Thai

http://www.patentarea.com/thai_patent_requirements.html

7

United States

http://patft.uspto.gov/

8

WIPO PCT database

http://pctgazette.wipo.int


E-Reference

1

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/

2

Foreign Language Dictionary-French

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/frenchdictionaries.htm

3

Foreign Language Dictionary-Spanish

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/spanishdictionaries.htm

4

Glossary

http://www.glossarist.com/

5

Librarian's Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/

6

Merriam-Webster

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

7

One Look Dictionaries

http://www.onelook.com/

8

Scholarpedia

http://www.scholarpedia.org

9

Subject Dictionary-Business/Finance

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/businessdictionaries.htm

10

Subject Dictionary-Library and Information Science

http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_d.aspx

11

Subject Dictionary-Medical Science

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

12

Subject Dictionary-Science

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/sciencedictionaries.htm

13

Subject Dictionary-Technology

http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/computerdictionaries.htm

14

Wikipedia

http://www.wikipedia.org


E-Theses

1

DART-Europe E-theses Portal

http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

http://oatd.org/

2

National Chemical Laboratory Pune (Theses full text free)

http://docs.ndltd.org

3

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

http://www.ndltd.org/find

4

Open Access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT Open)

http://pqdtopen.proquest.com

5

Shodhganga -ETD Repository of Indian Universities- INFLIBNET initiative

http://www.shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

6

Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works

http://www.vidyanidhi.org.in/


E-Zines

1

Competitive E-magazine (Pratyogitha Darpan & Success Mirror)

http://www.emagazine.pdgroup.in/

2

Digital LEARNING: Learning Through ICTs

http://www.digitallearning.eletsonline.com/about-us/

3

eGov

http://www.egov.eletsonline.com/

4

eHEALTH

http://www.ehealth.eletsonline.com/

5

Free ezines: offers 22 free magazines in different subject categories

http://www.buzzle.com


Entertainment

1

10,000 free online games

http://www.dailygames.com/

2

more than 5000 free games

http://www.games.co.in

3

Movies

http://www.imdb.com/

4

puzzles, adventure games, sports, fun games and multiplayer games

http://http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/puzzle.php

5

Thousands of free online flash games including puzzles, action and arcade games

http://www.freeonlinegames.com

6

Videos

http://www.youtube.com


Search Engine : Research & Development

Scirus: is the most comprehensive scientific search engine for scholarly literature

http://www.scirus.com/

Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.co.in/


General & Search Engine

1

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

http://www.base-search.net/

2

Intute - Free online service with access to the best resources available on the internet

http://www.intute.ac.uk/

3

List of academic databases and search engines

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_ databases_and_search_engines

4

List of top companies in Indian and abroad

http://www.vcsdata.com/

5

Nobel Prize Internet Archive

http://www.almaz.com/nobel/

6

PDF Genie is a new search service which is tailored towards PDF documents

http://www.pdfgenie.com/

7

Selected internet resources in all subjects

http://bubl.ac.uk/

8

Social Science Information gateway

http://www.sosig.org


Government Sites

1

Election Commission of India

http://www.eci.nic.in/eci_main1/index.aspx

2

Govt. of India

http://www.india.gov.in

3

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre

http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/

4

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)

http://www.education.nic.in/

5

Parliament of India

http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in

6

Planning Commission

http://www.planningcommission.nic.in/

7

Rajbhavan (Tamil Nadu)

http://www.tnrajbhavan.gov.in

8

Supreme Court of India

http://www.supremecourtofindia.nic.in/

9

University Grants Commission (UGC)

http://www.ugc.ac.in/

10

World Bank Data (Data, Reports etc.)

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ EXTABOUTUS/0,,pagePK:50004410~piPK:36602~theSitePK:29708,00.html


Libraries, Library Associations and Information Centers

1

American Library (Chennai)

http://chennai.usconsulate.gov/resources.html

2

American Library Association

http://www.ala.org

3

Austrian National Library

http://www.onb.ac.at/

4

Biblioteca Nacional - Brazil

http://www.bn.br

5

Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico

http://bnm.unam.mx/

6

Bibliothque Nationale

http://www.etat.lu/

7

British Council Library - India

http://www.britishcouncil.org.in/library

8

British Library

http://portico.bl.uk/

9

Central Reference Library (Kolkata)

http://crlindia.gov.in/

10

European Library

http://www.europeanlibrary.org

11

German National Library

http://www.d-nb.de/eng/index.htm

12

Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres

http://www.iaslic.org

13

International Federation of Library Association

http://www.ifla.org

14

Libdex is a worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links.

http://www.libdex.com/

15

Library and Archives Canada

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/default.aspx

16

National and University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski"

http://www.nubsk.edu.mk/index.php?lang=en

17

National and University Library in Zagreb

http://www.nsk.hr/DigitalLibEN.aspx?id=716

18

National and University Library of Iceland

http://landsbokasafn.is/index.php/english

19

National and University Library Slovenia

http://www.nuk.uni-lj.si/nukeng.asp

20

National Central Library (Florence)

http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/

21

National Diet Library - Japan

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html

22

National Library of Australia

http://www.nla.gov.au/

23

National Library of Belarus

http://natlib.org.by/

24

National Library of China

http://www.nlc.gov.cn/old/old/english.htm

25

National Library of Colombia

http://www.presidencia.gov.co/En/

26

National Library of Estonia

http://www.nlib.ee/en

27

National Library of France

http://www.bnf.fr/en/tools/lsp.site_map.html

28

National Library of India

http://www.nlindia.org

29

National Library of Ireland

http://www.nli.ie/

30

National Library of Jamaica

http://www.nlj.gov.jm/

31

National Library of Latvia

http://www.lnb.lv/

32

National Library of Malaysia

http://www.pnm.gov.my/index.php?id=76

33

National Library of Namibia

http://www.nln.gov.na/

34

National Library of New Zealand

http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

35

National Library of Nigeria

http://www.nlnig.org/

36

National Library of Peru

http://www.bnp.gob.pe/

37

National Library of Poland

http://bn.org.pl/en/

38

National Library of Portugal

http://www.bnportugal.pt/index.php?lang=en

39

National Library of Scotland

http://www.nls.uk/

40

National Library of Singapore

http://www.nl.sg/

41

National Library of Spain

http://www.bne.es/en/Inicio/index.html

42

National Library of Sweden

http://www.kb.se/hjalp/english/

43

National Library of the Argentine Republic

http://www.bibnal.edu.ar/

44

National Library of the Netherlands

http://www.kb.nl/index-en.html

45

National Library of The Republik of Indonesia

National Library of The Republik of Indonesia

46

National Library of Turkey

http://www.mkutup.gov.tr/index.php?yenidil=ing

47

National Library of Uzbekistan

http://www.natlib.uz

48

National Library of Wales

http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=2

49

National Sz?ch?nyi Library

http://regi.oszk.hu/index_en.htm

50

National Taiwan Library

http://www.ntl.edu.tw/mp.asp?mp=2

51

Royal Library Albert I

http://www.kbr.be/

52

Royal Library of Belgium

http://www.kbr.be/accueil_fr.html

53

Russian State Library

http://www.rsl.ru/en

54

Slovak National Library

http://www.snk.sk/

55

Swiss National Library

http://www.nb.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en

56

The Helsinki University Library - The National Library of Finland

http://www.nationallibrary.fi/

57

The National Library of Korea

http://www.nl.go.kr/nlmulti/index.php?lang_mode=e

58

The National Library of Norway

http://www.nb.no/english

59

The National Library of the Czech Republic

http://www.nkp.cz/_en/

60

The National Library of the Faroe Islands

http://www.flb.fo/english/

61

The Royal Library

http://www.kb.dk/en/


Library and Information Science

1

Asian open source centre - promoting open source and free software in Asia

http://www.asiaosc.org/topic9.html

2

Digital Information in the Information Research field

http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html

3

E-Prints in Library and Information Science

http://eprints.rclis.org/

4

Librarians Internet Index

http://www.lii.org

5

Library and Information Science, Digital Library, Online Journals

http://www.academicinfo.net/infoscilibraryj.html

6

National Research Centre for free/Open Source Software

http://www.nrcfoss.org.in

7

The British Library – e-journals

http://www.bl.uk/index.shtml#