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University Library

University Library

The ICFAI University Library has a well-stocked book, journals and periodicals and other publications. Students have access to the finest collections of contemporary books and journals which supplement the prescribed reference books and text books.

The University Library is fully automated with the help of SOUL 3.0 (Software for University Libraries) developed by INFLIBNET (an inter University centre of UGC). To save the time of our library patrons, the University library is using barcode technology in the circulation section for daily transactions of library books. To encourage research and development in the University, the University Library has access to Drill-bit Extreme Plagiarism detection software, which is being provided by INFLIBNET through Shodh-shuddhi.

Library Timing - Library is open from Monday to Saturday for all the students and faculty members from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. The students may contact the Librarian at library@iusikkim.edu.in

Documents loan eligibility varies for different categories as given below.

User Category

Max. Number of documents allowed

Period

Faculty

5

30 days

Students UG

3

15 days

Students PG

3

20 days

Administrative Staff

3

30 days

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Particulars

In Numbers

1.

Total Number of Books

12,029

2.

Total Number of Titles

3,390

3.

Weeding Out

5,728

4.

Dissertations

376

5.

Journals Print

30

6.

Online Legal Database

03

7.

Magazines

07

8.

National & Local Newspaper

04

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Description

Link

1.

AIR Online (All India Reporter)

https://www.airinfotech.in/login

2.

SCC Online (Supreme Court Cases)

https://www.scconline.com

3.

Manupatra

https://www.manupatrafast.com

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Description

Link

1.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

http://doaj.org/

2.

Open access journals-This publisher hosts over 700+ leading-edge peer reviewed Open Access Journals and organizes over 3000 International Conferences all over the world. Obtained enormous global visibility and tremendous response from the authors and readers from all over the world inspired the publisher to maintain reputed Open Access Journals in various scientific disciplines.

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

3.

Indian Journals-Open Access Journals provided by Indian Journals.Com

http://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=open_access_publications_list

4.

Webology is an international peer-reviewed journal in English devoted to the field of the World Wide Web and serves as a forum for discussion and experimentation. It serves as a forum for new research in information dissemination and communication processes in general, and in the context of the World Wide Web in particular.

https://www.webology.org/index.php

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Description

Link

1.

DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available

https://www.doabooks.org/

2.

HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection — the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries — under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests.

https://www.hathitrust.org/

3.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

4.

Free e-books-Discover the rising stars of the writing world, & Give yourself the gift of some of the best books you can find on Fiction, Non Fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Self Help, Business, and SO much more.

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

5.

The complete works of William Shakespeare-This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/index.html

6.

Open Library-The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

https://www.oapen.org/home

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Description

Link

1.

Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations-NDLTD Contains metadata & full text of more than one million electronic theses and dissertations contributed by 125+ member universities & consortia.

http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds

2.

Open access thesis and dissertations- OPATD is an indexes theses and dissertations from well-known sources and provide direct link to the full text ETD.OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

https://oatd.org/

3.

EBSCO - OpenDissertations.org is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs that brings an innovative approach to increasing traffic and discoverability of ETD research.

https://biblioboard.com/opendissertations/

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Description

Link

1.

Egyankosh-A National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country with all rights reserved by IGNOU.

http://egyankosh.ac.in/

2.

E-PG-Pathshala- E-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences

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

3.

Vidya-Mitra-An Integrated e-Content Portal for all e-content projects developed / funded under the National Mission of Education through ICT developed by INFLIBNET Centre.

https://vidyamitra.inflibnet.ac.in/

4.

Free Lecture Videos-The Education Marketplace. Browse and download thousands of educational content designed for students, educators and parents.

https://examville.sellfy.store/

Some of the Useful links for Legal Studies

For Law Case Studies

  • Indian Kanoon - Indian Kanoon, a law understanding tool used by students for understanding judgements was founded by Sushant Sinha in the year 2008. https://indiankanoon.org/
  • Livelaw - It was created in 2013 by Rashid M.A. It is the largest blog platform in India. They wanted to create awareness in society by being a source of honest and correct information.
  • Ipleaders -ipleaders was established in 2010. It was founded by NUJS graduates. It is an educational set-up whose main purpose is to make legal educational resources accessible for students. It focuses on legal issues and legal questions. It also provides notes and studies materials for free.
  • Vakilo No-1 - is a group of lawyers and legal experts in India who are passionate about providing the latest information and article on the Indian Legal System.
  • Lawctopus - Lawctopus is a site exclusively for law students regarding their career, internship and other opportunities that they can grab.
  • Bar & Bench - It is a comprehensive news and analysis portal for the legal community.
  • Path Legal - Path Legal is a legal dictionary founded by Sunil Joseph in the year 2011.It provides legal advice, online telephone consultation, free legal advice, free LPO training, legal papers and much more other legal software.
  • Law times Journal - Is one of the leading online educational portal devoted to the law. Law time’s journal inculcated free educational ideology in the Indian Legal Sector.