DST - Various International Programmes
Open Access E-Journals
1.Indian Academy of Science Journals2.NISCAIR Research Journals
3.MIT Open Courseware
4.Directory of Open Access Journals
5.National Digital Library (NDL)
6.National Science Digital Library
7.KHAN Academy
8.Electronic Resources for Mathameticians Science
9.Springer Open Access Journals
10.Free On-line Chemistry journals
11.Wiley Open Access Journals
12.High Wire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text peer-reviewed content
13.Taylor & Francis Open Access Journals
14.International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
15.INSPIRE- HEP L iterature Database
16.Open Access Journals (various subjects)
17.NPTEL Audio & Video Course Materials
18.Myownjournal
19.Scientific Research Publications
20.Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
21.National Preservation Office – NPO
22.Nature Proceedings – Preprint server for the Life Science community.
23.Nature Publishing Group – Open Access Journals
24.Nutrition Bytes – Free full text
25.OMICS Publishing Group – Open Access Journals
26.Open Access Library (OALIB) – Free Access to 263,388 Academic Articles
27.Open Science Directory – Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library
28.Palgrave Macmillan – Open Access Journals
29.Physics related free access journals
30.PSI gate provides access to evaluated network based information services and resources in the physical sciences.
31.Public Library of Science – premier open-access journals in Biology and Medicine
32.Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed Open Access Journals
33.SAGE Open Subject Collections
34.Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – Worldwide dissemination of social science research.
35.Springer Open gives you free access in Science, Technology and Medicine.
36.The African Journal Archive
37.The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
38.University of Tennessee – Research Guides – Citation Formats and Style Manuals, Databases and other e-resources collection.
39.Wiley Open Access Journal
Subscribed e-Journals
The Central Library is subscribing following e-Journals. Mobile access and Remote access facility is available to browse the journals from anywhere at anytime by anydevice.
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
ProQuest ABI Inform Collection (Management Studies)
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Supreme Court Cases (SCC)
CMIE
CMIE, (Centre
for Monitoring Indian Economy), is a leading business information company. It
was established in 1976, primarily as an independent think tank.
Today,
CMIE has a presence over the entire information food-chain - from large scale
primary data collection and information product development through analytics
and forecasting. It provides services to the entire spectrum of business
information consumers including governments, academia, financial markets,
business enterprises, professionals and media.
CMIE
produces economic and business databases and develops specialised analytical
tools to deliver these to its customers for decision making and for research.
It analyses the data to decipher trends in the economy.
CMIE
has built India's largest database on the financial performance of individual
companies; it conducts the largest survey to estimate household incomes,
pattern of spending and savings; it runs a unique monitoring of new investment
projects on hand and it has created the largest integrated database of the
Indian economy.
All
databases and research work are delivered to customers through subscription
services.CMIE is a privately owned and professionally managed company
head-quartered at Mumbai.
Contact us
Librarian
B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology
G.S.T Road, Vandalur
Chennai – 600 048
Phone: 044-22759209
E-Mail:librarian@crescent.education
Seminar / Workshop
- The university library has organized one-day seminar on ‘Information Requirements of Today’s Users’ on 12th November 2005 at university campus.
- The university library has organized two-day workshop on ‘Digital Library initiatives using Dspace & GSDL’ during 16 – 17 March 2007 at university campus.
Conference
- The Central Library has organized an International Conference on ‘Knowledge Networking in ICT Era’ (KNICT09) during January 22-24 2009, as a part of Silver Jubilee Celebrations. Delegates from US, South Africa, New Zealand, France, Srilanka, Malaysia, Bangladesh and all parts of our country have been participated in the conference.
- A two day National Conference on 'Advancement Library and Information Science & Technology: Challenges and Opportunities (ALIST2015)' was conducted during 10 - 11 July 2015.
- The Central Library organized two day National Conference on 'Open Source Integrated Library Systems' during 8 - 9 June 2012.
OPAC
User friendly Online Public Access Catagloue (OPAC) is in place to know about the availability of the books, journals, magazines and other resources. Users can reserve them thru OPAC.
OPAC can be accessed by the members through a customer friendly system MasterSoft.
Merit Card
Wi-Fi Library
Value added Services
Audio Visual Section
General & Search Engine
1.BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
2.Intute – Free online service with access to the best resources available on the internet
3.List of academic databases and search engines
4.List of top companies in Indian and abroad
5.Nobel Prize Internet Archive
6.Scirus is the most comprehensive scientific search engine for scholarly literature
7.Selected internet resources in all subjects
8.Social Science Information gateway
E-Reference
1.Cambridge Dictionaries Online
2.Foreign Language Dictionary-French
3.Foreign Language Dictionary-Spanish
4.Glossary
5.Librarian’s Index to the Internet
6.Merriam-Webster
7.One Look Dictionaries
8.Scholarpedia
9.Subject Dictionary-Business/Finance
10.Subject Dictionary-Library and Information Science
11.Subject Dictionary-Medical Science
12.Subject Dictionary-Science
13.Subject Dictionary-Technology
14.Wikipedia
Open Access E-Books
1. National Digital Library of India
2. PDF Drive
3. Pharmacy
4. Pharmacy
5. Engineering
6. Engineering
7. Engineering
8. Business & Investing
9. Computers Science & Internet
10.Directory of Open access Books
11. e-Book Lobby containing collection of various subjects.
12. Engineering & Technology
13. ENVIS Bulletin “Telemetry in Wildlife Science”
14. Free Book Spot is an online source of free e-books download with 4485 Titles in various subjects
15. Free E-zine
16. Free Online Books
17. Free Online Computer Science & programming Books
18. Free e-Books
19. Free Computer Books
20. Get Free EBooks
21. Gigapedia – more than 3,00,000 free e-books in various subjects
22. Globusz is a unique e-Publishing house, specializing in free e-Book downloads
23.Gutenberg- more than 20,000 public domain books that are out of copyright and also world’s greatest fiction available.
24.Health, Mind & Body
25.History
26.Humanities
27. 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
28. Law
29. Literature & Fiction
30. Many Books provides more than 20,000 e-books in various subjects
31. Mathematics
32. Medical Science
33. Memo Ware has a unique collection of thousands of documents
34. Nonfiction35.Online Books for children36.Online Computer Books contains details about free computer books
37. Online Free E-Books provides various subject e-books
38. Open Book Publishers – Publishing open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences.
39. Outdoors & Nature40.Pure Science
41. Religion & Spirituality
42. Read Print43.Scribed, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats.
44. Snip Files offers you free e-books and software
45. Science & Engineering books for free download
46. The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web
47. The Public Library and Digital Archive
48. Topics like biography, fiction, games, history or tutorials etc.
49. Tourism & Travel50. Eduinformer