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About Library
The library is the art of the academic centre at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University), Vadapalani Campus. It is designed to meet the information needs of SRM Institute of Science and Technology. The Library has large collections of books, CDs, Journals and Magazines covering various branches of Engineering & Technology, Science and Humanities and thier related fields. The library is located in ‘C’ block, 1st floor, ‘D’ wing covering an area of 7500 sq.ft. with seating a capacity of 150. It is fully air – conditioned.
Vision
To enrich the library as Knowledge Resource Centre to experience an effective and innovative engineering and management Education.
Mission
To inspire learning and discovery of engineering and management Information Resources through knowledge networking.
Objectives
  • To serve user community by providing right information at the right time.
  • To enhance the availability of digital repository of teaching and research materials at any time anywhere to users with Information and Communication Technology.
  • To inspire learning and discovery through Science and Technology Information Resources, by providing a global connectivity to digital networks with learning resources.
Library Services
Library operations at the Vadapalani campus are computerized and barcode technology has been implemented. Among the many services rendered to users are
  • Issue / Return / Renewal of Books and CDs
  • Reservation of Books
  • Reference Services
  • Institutional membership & Inter Library Loan (ILL)
  • National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
  • Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for Book Search
  • Old Question Papers for Reference
  • Access to E – Journals through Remotex in Kattankulathur
  • Reprographics Facilities (Xerox)
  • Dissertation’s and Project Reports are digitized and uploaded in DSpace
  • Equipped with reading halls with reference section
  • Organization of Book Exhibitions / Display of new books.
  • Organization of Book Review / Book Talk Sessions
  • TURNITIN Plagiarism detection software
  • Research supportive service
  • Digital library Service (Digital Knowledge Centre)
  • Users can also submit their suggestions / grievances through general interaction, making an application, and through e-mail to
    librarian.vdp@srmist.edu.in
  • Proper system of obtaining, analysis and action pertaining to feedback from the Users of library services.
  • Well protected with CCTV security systems.
  • Wi-Fi enabled with library building
Working Hours

Library Timings

The library working hours are as follows :-

  • Week Days :– 7.50 AM to 8.00 PM
  • Saturday :– 9.00 AM to 4.00 PM
  • Sunday :– 9.00 AM to 2.30 PM

Holidays

All Government / University holidays will be observed as holidays.

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Library collections
Resources Numbers
Total No of Books 26150
Total No. of Titles 4993
E- Journals (subscribed E-Journals ) 218
Current Journals on Subscription 125
Thesis / Project 734
CDs & Videos 822
Bound Volumes of Journals 424
Number of Newspaper 3
E-Journals
Journal DatabaseNo. of Journals
IEEE218
E-Database
IEEE
Developing Library Network
Institutional Repository
Online Access
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INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND RESOURCES SHARING

The Central Library collaborates with other libraries to explore Inter-library Loan (ILL) to provide articles, books, and other materials to faculty members, researchers, students, through Institutional Membership with the following institutions.

  • SRM Group of Institutions
  • British Council Library
  • National Digital Library (NDL)
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RULES AND REGULATIONS
Membership

Membership is open to all the staff and the students of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Vadapalani campus.

Circulation Policy
  • Staff
  • Students
Issue

Books are issued within the issue limit of the membership category Members’ ID card should be presented at the time of issue Members should get the documents duly issued at the circulation counter Members are responsible for all the books issued on their cards Journals, Reference Books and Question papers will not be issued for circulation. These are for reference only.

Return

Books should be returned within the due date mentioned on the Due Date Slip.

Renewal

Books can be renewed twice for 15 days if there is no reservation against the particular books. Books have to be presented physically at the circulation counter for
their renewal.

Reservation
  • Books can be reserved only when they are on loan
  • Reservation for the available resources will not be accepted.

Additional two books shall be issued to those students who are secure a CGPA of 8.5. The HODs can recommend the student list to the library through the Director. All final year student members should get a “No Dues Certificate” (NoC) from the Librarian. The Course Completion / Mark Sheet, Degree Certificate will be given only on producing of the NoC. Similarly, the staff members who intend to leave the University should settle all the dues including the ID cards and obtain a “No Dues Certificate” (NoC) from the Librarian.

Overdue Charges

A borrowed book should be returned on or before the due date marked on the due date slip, failing which a penalty of

  • 1 – 15 days Rs.1/- per day
  • 16 – 30 days Rs.2/-per day (from day one onwards)
  • 30 days & above Rs.5/- per day (from day one onwards) will be collected as
    overdue charge per book.
Loss of Books

The members should report to the library immediately, if he or she loses a particular book and it should be replaced with a new one along with a levy of overdue charges if any. In case the member is unable to replace the books which are lost, he or she will be levied a penalty three times the cost of the book plus the overdue charges.

Loss of ID Card

The members should report to the library immediately, if he or she loses the ID card. The duplicate ID card will be issued by the ID Card Dept. on payment of Rs. 1000/- by demand draft (DD) in favour of, “SRMIST”.

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CIRCULATION SERVICES
Sl. No.User CategoryAllotted BooksDuration
1Teaching Staff6180 days
2Research Scholar215 days
3Post Graduate – Student415 days
4Under Graduate – Student315 days
5Programmers415 days
6Lab Assistants215 days
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Library Staff Members
Sl. No.NameQualificationDesignation
1Dr. M. NagarajanM.L.I.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.,Deputy Librarian
2Mr. P. RajaB.A., M.L.I.Sc.,Asst. Librarian
3Mr. D. DineshB.B.E., M.L.I.Sc.,Library Assistant
4Mrs. S. VairamB.A., B.L.I.Sc.,Library Assistant
5Mr. R. VigneshB.Com., PGDCA.,Office Assistant
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Important Resources
E-Kumbh
National Digital Library of India
SHODHGANGA
E-PG Pathshala
SWAYAM
SWAYAMPRABHA
Spoken Tutorial
Virtual Labs
Samarth
NPTEL
TALK TO A TEACHER
UGC Moocs
Rare Book Society of India
Directory of Open Access Journals
Directory Open Access Books
NME - ICT
VIDYA-MITRA
SHODHSINDHU
UGC-INFLIBNET
SHODH SUDDHI
N-List
INFISTATS
INFED
SHODHGANGOTRI
SHODHCHAKRA
Vidwan
IRINS
Sherni
Research Gate
Developing Library Network
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Educational E-Resources
Sl. No.E - Books
1Arts & Photography
2arXiv e-Prints Archieve
3Ask Sam E-books has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts
4Authorama Public Domain Books
5Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels
6Bartleby.com
7Bibliomania
8Biodiversity Heritage Library
9Biographies & Memoirs
10Book Yards is a web portal which contains books, education materials, information etc
11Business & Investing
12Complete Works of William Shakespeare
13Computers Science & Internet
14Directory of Open access Books
15Directory of Open Access Books
16e-Book Lobby containing collection of various subjects
17Engineering & Technology
18ENVIS Bulletin “Telemetry in Wildlife Science”
19Free Book Spot is an online source of free e-books download with 4485 Titles in various subjects
20Free Computer Books
21Free Online Books
22Free Online Computer Science & programming Books
23Get Free EBooks
24Gigapedia – more than 3,00,000 free e-books in various subjects
25Great Books and Classics
26Gutenberg- more than 20,000 public domain books that are out of copyright and also world’s greatest fiction available
27Health, Mind & Body
28History
29Humanities
30Internet Public Library
31Internet Sacred Text Archive
32Law
33LibriVox
34Lit2Go
35Literature & Fiction
36Many Books provides more than 20,000 e-books in various subjects
37Mathematics
38Medical Science
39Nonfiction
40OAPEN
41Online Books for children
42Online Computer Books contains details about free computer books
43Open Book Publishers – Publishing open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences
44Outdoors & Nature
45PDF DRIVE
46Public Literature.org: Read Books Online
47Pure Science
48Rare Book Society of India
49Read Print
50Read Print Site
51Religion & Spirituality
52Science & Engineering books for free download
53Scribed, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats
54Snip Files offers you free e-books and software
55The Free Library
56The Internet Archive: Text Archive
57The Online Book page
58The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web
59The Public Library and Digital Archive
60The Universal Digital Library
61Topics like biography, fiction, games, history or tutorials etc
62Tourism & Travel
Sl. No.E - Journals
1Access to Global online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
2Bioline international – Open Source Journals
3Chemistry Central
4CIMMYT : an international Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre
5Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
6Electronic Resources for Mathameticians Science
7EPW (Economic and Political Weekly)
8European Scientific Co-operative on Phyto therapy – European Phyto journal – free online
9Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
10Free Medical Journals
11Free On-line Chemistry journals
12Health Inter Network Access to Research Initiative
13High Wire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text peer-reviewed content
14Hindawi
15Hindawi Publishing Corporation
16Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
17Indian Academy of Sciences Publications
18INSPIRE- HEP L literature Database
19International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
20Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
21JURN org
22Library Publishing Media
23Med Indian-medical journals – full text of 33 Journals
24Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
25myownjournal
26National Preservation Office – NPO
27Nature Proceedings – Preprint server for the Life Science community
28Nature Publishing Group – Open Access Journals
29NISCAIR : Natural Products Repository
30NISCAIR : Popular Science Magazines
31NISCAIR : Research Journals
32Nutrition Bytes – Free full text
33OMICS Publishing Group – Open Access Journals
34Open Access Library (OALIB) – Free Access to 263,388 Academic Articles
35Open Science Directory
36Open Science Directory – Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library
37Palgrave Macmillan – Open Access Journals
38Physics related free access journals
39PSI gate provides access to evaluated network based information services and resources in the physical sciences
40Public Library of Science
41Public Library of Science – premier open-access journals in Biology and Medicine
42Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed Open Access Journals
43PubMed Central
44SAGE Open Subject Collections
45Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – Worldwide dissemination of social science research
46Springer Open gives you free access in Science, Technology and Medicine
47Springer opens
48Strategian
49The African Journal Archive
50The Electronic journals Library
51The Free Library
52The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
53University of Tennessee – Research Guides – Citation Formats and Style Manuals, Databases and other e-resources collection
54Wiley Open Access Journal
Sl. No.Multimedia Resources
1Open Course Ware Consortium
2Open Michigan
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About Library
The library is the art of the academic centre at SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University), Vadapalani Campus. It is designed to meet the information needs of SRM Institute of Science and Technology. The Library has large collections of books, CDs, Journals and Magazines covering various branches of Engineering & Technology, Science and Humanities and thier related fields. The library is located in ‘C’ block, 1st floor, ‘D’ wing covering an area of 7500 sq.ft. with seating a capacity of 150. It is fully air – conditioned.
Vision
To be the premier destination for knowledge creation and dissemination in the field of engineering and technology and management.
Mission

To provide comprehensive resources and services in support of the research, teaching, and learning needs of the University Community.

Membership

Membership is open to all the staff and the students of SRM Institute of Science and Technology (formerly known as SRM University), City campus.

Holidays

All Government / University holidays will be observed as holidays.

Library Timings

The library working hours are as follows :-

  • Week Days – 7.30 a.m to 5.00 p.m
  • Saturday – 9.00 a.m to 4.00 p.m
  • Sunday – 9.00 a.m to 4.00 p.m

Circulation Policy

  • Staff
  • Students

Issue

Library provides the following services to its members :-

 
  • Issue / Return / Renewal of Books and CDs
  • Reservation of Books
  • Reference Services
  • Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for Book Search
  • Old Question Papers for Reference
  • Access to E – Journals through Remotex in Kattankulathur
Name Designation Email ID
Mr.P.John Wesly Librarian librarian.vdp@srmist.edu.in
Mr.P.Raja Asst.Librarian rajap1@srmist.edu.in
Mr.D.Dinesh Library Assistant dineshd@srmist.edu.in
Mr.S.Vairam Library Assistant vairams@srmist.edu.in
Mr.R.Vignesh Office Assistant vigneshr1@srmist.edu.in
Issue

Books are issued within the issue limit of the membership category Members’ ID card should be presented at the time of issue Members should get the documents duly issued at the circulation counter Members are responsible for all the books issued on their cards Journals, Reference Books and Question papers will not be issued for circulation. These are for reference only.

 
Note

Additional two books shall be issued to those students who are secure a CGPA of 8.5. The HODs can recommend the student list to the library through the Director. All final year student members should get a “No Dues Certificate” (NoC) from the Librarian. The Course Completion / Mark Sheet, Degree Certificate will be given only on producing of the NoC. Similarly, the staff members who intend to leave the University should settle all the dues including the ID cards and obtain a “No Dues Certificate” (NoC) from Librarian.

Membership Category Resource Qty Duration
Teaching Staff 6 Full Semester
Supporting Staff
Programmers 4 15 days
Lab Assistants 2 15 days
Students
Under Graduate 3 15 days
Post Graduate 4 15 days
Return

Books should be returned within the due date mentioned on the Due Date Slip.

 
Renewal

Books can be renewed twice for 15 days if there is no reservation against the particular books. Books have to be presented physically at the circulation counter for their renewal.

 
Reservation
  • Books can be reserved only when they are on loan.
  • Reservation for the available resources will not be accepted.
Overdue Charges

A borrowed book should be returned on or before the due date marked on the due date slip, failing which a penalty of

  • 1 – 15 days Rs.1/- per day
  • 16 – 30 days Rs.2/-per day (from day one onwards)
  • 30 days & above Rs.5/- per day (from day one onwards) will be collected as overdue charge per book .
Loss of Books

The members should report to the library immediately, if he or she loses a particular book and it should be replaced with a new one along with a levy of overdue charges if any. In case the member is unable to replace the books which are lost, he or she will be levied a penalty three times the cost of the book plus the overdue charges.

 
Loss of ID Card

The members should report to the library immediately, if he or she loses the ID card. The duplicate ID card will be issued by the ID Card Dept. on payment of Rs. 1000/- by demand draft (DD) in favour of, “SRMIST”.

Books

Library has around 22022 volumes of books consisting of 5505 titles which include Reference Books, Handbooks, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.

 
CDs

Library has around 877 subject CDs covering Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Management and Science and Humanities.

 
Journals

The Library has 107 national journals / magazines covering the following branches :-

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Computer Science Engineering
  • Electronic Engineering
  • Management
  • Science and Humanities
Resources
 
Non-Printed Materials
CDs

Library has around 877 subject CDs covering Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Management and Science and Humanities.

 
Online Resources
Remotex Software http://srmuniv.remotexs.in
NPTEL nptel-//172.31.5.2 (Available in local ip)
IEEE xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resource Sharing
  • BCL (British Council Library, Chennai)
  • Reprographics Facilities (xerox)