Central Library

 

library

 

Central Library is the hub for information services in the institute and serves as a major learning and resource centre. It is a creative and innovative partner in supporting the teaching, learning, scholarship and research activities of the institute. With the fast growing collection, both in digital and print forms using the state-of-the-art facilities, the Central library is contributing at an higher extent to provide a world class academic institute.

It is located in a separate building comprising two storey, ground and first floor. The location of the central library overlooks beautiful landscape of lush green plants and variety of flowers. The pleasant ambience and the well-furnished well-lighted location create an atmosphere of serenity and thereby inspire the learning and research. It has a spacious area of 13950 Sq. mt / 1,50,156 sq. ft that exudes peaceful learning environment.

The collection in the library encompasses 313760 books of 53013 titles varying in subjects like Engineering, Management, Architecture & Design, Law, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dental, Basic Science & Humanities and also includes reference books, 3179 CDs/DVDs and subscribed to 134 print journals and 100 magazines in print and e-resources. Major e-resources such as IEEE Journals, Science Direct, IEEE Journals and Proceedings, ASME, ASCE, ACM Digital Library, ProQuest Academic Complete e-Book collection, ProQuest Central e-Journal package and Web of Science are accessible to the user community.

Central Library is providing 24x7 services through Knimbus Remote Access and mLibrary mobile app. It facilitates users to get secure remote access of e-Resources with federated search.

Know Your Library

Vision: 

To be a central hub of the Institute for the best scholarly and educational resources and be digitally enabled by adopting to latest technology and cultivate continuously by setting new benchmarks.

Mission: 

Central Library shall function as the major Provider of scholarly the information resources to the campus community, by Working with faculty and students in the discovery, use and management of Information that supports their research, teaching and learning

Objectives:

Training and development for the staff and Students and offer Intellectual and physical environment:

  • To identify the information needs of the user community 
  • To provide access to the learning resources 
  • To provide access to the library resources through web pages and Online resources.

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Remote Access Digital Library

Remote Access (Off Campus) to e-Resources of the Central Library
URL : https://sist.knimbus.com/
Username     : Your mail ID
Password     : user@knimbus

mLibrary app:

  • Install mLibrary app from Google Play or App store.
  • The User Name and Password are the same as above.
  • Provides access to our subscribed e-resources with federated search.
  • Access to academic content including eLearning and multimedia at your fingertips.
  • Access to lakhs of e-Books, thousands of e-Journals and other learning resources from anywhere, any time, on any device.
  • Knowledge of the latest additions to the library collection.
  • All relevant content curated for our institute are now available at one place.
  • Click here Knimbus e-Library user guide

     

Web OPAC & Question Bank
Access to Library for Students with Special Needs

Sathyabama does not discriminate students with disabilities and ensures that they have equal access to Library resources. The students with disabilities are provided extra care and support to access the Library facilities. They are provided with remote access, extended reserve period and are given late fine waiver. Books and other e content are sent by mail to these students. The library provides volunteer readers for the visually impaired students and Sign Language Interpreters’ for Hearing impaired students. Visually impaired students can access the library with the help of JAWS software installed in all the systems in the digital library.

Facilities
  • The Library remains open from 8.00 A.M. to 10.00 P.M. on all working days, for all the students
  • Library opens for the students till late evenings every day. Dedicated presentation hall and reading lounges are other supporting facilities in the Library.
  • Advanced search facilities, wi-fi, e-learning facilities, magazines, thesis, print journals, back volumes, autobiographies, rare and distinct collection of books, newspaper back volumes enhances the learning potential of a student.
  • Advisory bureau for higher studies This division has the books from fiction to biographies; career building to self - help; booklets, brochures, essays, magazines, manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias and motivational titles of the most diverse collection.
  • An exhaustive collection of educative CDs are archived to support the student in improving communication skills. Foreign Language Coaching, training for competitive examinations are given by this window of higher studies.
  • Preparation to competitive examinations like GATE, IES, TOEFL, GMAT and IELTS becomes easy with the abundant material available in this section.
  • You’ll be able to take advantage of all the fantastic opportunities such as Library, ABHS associated with studying at SATHYABAMA.Extended learning opportunities includes Studying abroad, Skill development, Volunteering, Internships, Participatory Learning and Placements.
e-Resources

Details of online database with URL link

SL. NO. NAME OF THE DATABASE URL LINK
1 IEEE E-JOURNALS https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6040
2 ELSEVIER E-JOURNALS https://www.sciencedirect.com/browse/journals-and-books?contentType=JL&accessType=subscribed&accessType=openAccess
3 ASCE Journals (AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS) http://ascelibrary.org/journals
4 ASME Journals (AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS) http://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
5 ACM Digital Library  https://dl.acm.org/contents_dl.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM
6 WEB OF SCIENCE https://apps.webofknowledge.com/WOS_GeneralSearch_input.do?product=WOS&search_mode=GeneralSearch&SID=E6KXs3tiDsEz5q5bK7i&preferencesSaved=
7 PROQUEST (ACADEMIC COMPLETE E-BOOKS) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sathyabamain
8 PROQUEST (CENTRAL E-JOURNALS) https://www.proquest.com/publicationbrowse/C6C018E4EA83433DPQ/1?accountid=201034
9 DELNET http://164.100.247.26/
10 NPTEL PHASE I PART 3 | NPTEL PHASE I PART 2 | NPTEL PHASE I PART 1 http://7.7.7.26/nptel/ | http://7.7.7.26/nptel1/ | http://7.7.7.26/nptel2/
11 CDJ LAW JOURNALS https://www.cdjlawjournal.com/judgement.php
12 LIVE LAW https://www.livelaw.in/
13 DERWENT INNOVATION PATENT DATABASE https://www.derwentinnovation.com/login/
Useful Links

CONTENTS

SOURCE

URL

SUBJECTS

MOOC

SWAYAM

https://swayam.gov.in/

All Subjects

SWARYMPRABHA

https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/

All Subjects

NPTEL

https://nptel.ac.in

Engineering, S&H

edX

https://www.edx.org/

All Subjects

Saylor

https://www.saylor.org/

All Subjects

Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/

All Subjects

Harvard

https://online-learning.harvard.edu/

All Subjects

Academic Earth

https://academicearth.org/

All Subjects

University of the

People

https://www.uopeople.edu/tuition-free/what-is-tuition-free/

All Subjects

Open Yale Courses

https://oyc.yale.edu/

Arts & Science

My MOOC

https://www.my-mooc.com/en/

All Subjects

Class Central

https://www.classcentral.com/

All Subjects

Future Learn

https://www.futurelearn.com/

All Subjects

TED

https://www.ted.com/

All Subjects

COURSEWARE

MIT Courseware

https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

All Subjects

JHSPH Courseware

https://ocw.jhsph.edu/

All Subjects

NOTRE DAME

https://www.nd.edu/

All Subjects

CEMC Courseware

https://courseware.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/

Maths & Comp.

Virtual Library

http://www.vlib.org.uk/

All Subjects

E-BOOKS

National Digital Library

https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

All Subjects

e-PG Pathshala

https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/

All Subjects

DOA Books

https://www.doabooks.org/

All Subjects

PDF Drive

https://www.pdfdrive.com/

All Subjects

Free e-books

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

All Subjects

Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/

All Subjects

Many Books

https://manybooks.net/

All Subjects

Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks

All Subjects

Adobe

https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html

All Subjects

Book Boon

https://bookboon.com/

All Subjects

e-Library

http://e-library.net/free-ebook.htm

All Subjects

Planet

https://www.planetebook.com/

Literature

PDF Books

https://pdfbooks.co.za/

All Subjects

e-Book Lobby

http://www.ebooklobby.com/

Arts & Science

BAEN

https://www.baen.com/allbooks/

All Subjects

Book Yards

https://www.bookyards.com/en/welcome

All Subjects

SCRIBD

https://www.scribd.com/

All Subjects

Computer Books

http://freecomputerbooks.com/

Computer

Get Free Books

https://www.getfreeebooks.com/

All Subjects

Open Library

https://openlibrary.org/

All Subjects

Archive

https://archive.org/details/texts

All Subjects

Free Book

http://www.freebookspot.es/

All Subjects

ISSUU

https://issuu.com/

All Subjects

Bookspics

http://bookspics.com/

General books

Know free

https://knowfree.tradepub.com/

All Subjects

Online Programming

https://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/

Computer

Learn Pub

https://leanpub.com/

All Subjects

UPENN

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

All Subjects

Avax Home

https://avxhm.se/ebooks

All Subjects

Oreilly

https://www.oreilly.com/

All Subjects

BOOKRIX

https://www.bookrix.com/download-free-ebooks.html

All Subjects

OBOOKO

https://www.obooko.com/

All Subjects

Authorama

http://www.authorama.com/

literature

E-BOOKS

Questia

https://www.questia.com/library/free-books

All Subjects

Read Print

http://www.readprint.com/

All Subjects

Wiki Books

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

All Subjects

Sacred Archive

https://www.sacred-texts.com/

All Subjects

Slide Share

https://www.slideshare.net/

All Subjects

Lifewire

https://www.lifewire.com/download-free-books-3482754

All Subjects

E-JOURNALS

e-ShodhSindhu

https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/

All Subjects

DOAJ

https://doaj.org/

Directory

Indian Academy of

Science

https://www.ias.ac.in/

Science

Springer Nature

https://www.springernature.com/gp/open-research/journals-

books/journals

Science

Elsevier

https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access

Science

Open Access

https://www.openaccessjournals.com/

All subjects

Wiley

https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-

access/browse-journals.html

All subjects

Oxford Academic

https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access

All subjects

Springer Open

https://www.springeropen.com/journals

All subjects

MDPI

https://www.mdpi.com/

All subjects

AJE

https://www.aje.com/arc/media_type/#!/downloadable

All subjects

SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sgo

All subjects

Hindawi

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/

All subjects

Frontiers

https://www.frontiersin.org/

All subjects

Intl. Open Access

https://www.openaccess.nl/en/what-is-open-access

All subjects

De Gruyter

https://www.degruyter.com/page/open-access-journals/open-

access-zeitschriften

All subjects

Emerald Publishing

https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/openaccess/oa_journ

als.htm

All subjects

Royal Society of

Chemistry

https://www.rsc.org/journals-books-databases/open-access/

Chemistry

IEEE Open

https://open.ieee.org/

Engineering

PLOS

https://plos.org/research-communities/

All subjects

Online schools

https://www.onlineschools.org/open-access-journals/

All subjects

E-JOURNALS

Open Access Journals

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

All subjects

Longdom Pub

https://www.longdom.org/open-access-journals-list.html

All subjects

Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess

All subjects

Cambridge

https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/open-access

All subjects

Symbiosis

https://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/journals.php

Medicine

Karger Gateway

https://www.karger.com/OpenAccess

All subjects

BioMed Central

https://www.biomedcentral.com/journals

Science,Medicine

Liebert Open Access

https://home.liebertpub.com/open-access/Open-Access-

Home/129

All subjects

Science Open

https://www.scienceopen.com/

Science,Medicine

Science Direct

https://www.sciencedirect.com/

All subjects

World Scientific

https://www.worldscientific.com/page/open

All subjects

JSTOR

https://about.jstor.org/oa-and-free/

All subjects

SciMed Central

https://www.jscimedcentral.com/journals.php

All subjects

IOP Science

https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/questions/gold-

open-access-journals/

All subjects

Medcrave

https://medcraveonline.com

Medicine

Medicine

https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Pages/OpenAccess.aspx

Medicine

NCBI - PubMed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Medicine

EBSCO

https://www.ebsco.com/open-access

All subjects

Scientific Research

https://www.scirp.org/journal/OpenAccess.aspx

All subjects

ARC

https://www.arcjournals.org/open-access

All subjects

IUCr Journals

https://journals.iucr.org/services/openaccess.html

All subjects

Royal society

https://royalsociety.org/journals/free-content/

All subjects

SOFTWARE

e-Yantra

http://www.e-yantra.org/

Engineering

Fossee

https://fossee.in/

Software

Virtual Lab

http://www.vlab.co.in/index.php

All Subjects

Spoken tutorial

https://spoken-tutorial.org/

software

University ERP

https://samarth.edu.in/

Software

Source forge

https://sourceforge.net/

Software

UNESCO

https://en.unesco.org/freeandopensourcesoftware

Software

Europa

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eu-fossa-2/news/foss-

benefits-all

Software

SOFTWARE

Open windows

http://opensourcewindows.org/

Software

softonic

https://en.softonic.com/downloads/open-source-software

Software

Techradar

https://www.techradar.com/in/best/best-open-source-software

Software

Scientific

https://www.scientificpsychic.com/software.html

Software

Fosshub

https://www.fosshub.com/

Software

OSDN

https://osdn.net/

Software

github

https://github.com/

Software

F-Droid

https://f-droid.org/

Software

Bit Buket

https://bitbucket.org/

Software

Launch Pad

https://launchpad.net/

Software

Tigris

http://www.tigris.org/

Software

Open source directory

https://opensourcesoftwaredirectory.com/

Software

ICAR

http://cpcri.gov.in/index.php/rti/9-uncategorised/677-e-kalpa-

%20android-app

Agriculture App

AGRIS

http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/index.do

Agri. Database

A-View

http://aview.in/

e-Learning Tool

Talk to Teacher

https://co-learn.in/

e-Learning Tool

THESES & DISSERTATIONS

Shodhganga

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

Theses

Shodhgangotri

https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/

Synopsis

Dart-Europe

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

Theses

NDLTD

http://www.ndltd.org/

Theses

Open access theses

dissertations

https://oatd.org/

Theses

Theses Canada

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/services/theses/Pages/theses-

canada.aspx

Theses

Tezpur Univ

http://www.tezu.ernet.in/Library/LibraryOldWebsite/thesis.htm

Theses

Standford

https://library.stanford.edu/guides/find-dissertations-and-theses

Theses

R & D

Vidwan

https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/

Expert Database

Shodh Sudhhi (PDS)

https://pds.inflibnet.ac.in/

Plagiarism Detection

Tool

Contact Us
lib Dr. E. Boopalan,M.Sc.,MLIS.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,NET.
Librarian, Central Library
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
E-mail :[email protected]
Contact No: 044-24503150