VIP's Speak
Aroon Purie, Chief Executive, India Today Group
VIT Central Library has outstanding, world class facilities. Students here should count themselves fortunate and I hope they use them to the full. Most impressive!
Farooq Abdullah, Minister MNRE, Govt. of India
An excellent institution, I wish it well and pray to the Lord for its growth and success.
Lakshmi Narayanan, Cognizant
An institution of learning has to be open, large, inviting and provide the right ambience. VIT has all the ingredients as visible from its infrastructure. I hope VIT continues to expand and stand out as an institution of repute. A key pillar for the above goal is the library. Best wishes to the central library.
Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-Chancellor, Anna University
The facilities provided are fantastic! All the books are well utilised by the students. Very good ambience. Let me congratulate all including the chairman, faculty and library staff.
Padmaja Chunduru, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Indian Bank
“I was amazed by the sprawling and excellently organised state-of-the art library at VIT, Vellore, which speaks volumes about the high standing of VIT University. The huge collection of books, both in soft and hard forms and the numerous facilities that are provided to the students as well as faculty of VIT are impressive. The library stands as an icon of academic and professional excellence there which is the core ethos of the VIT University”
Library
- WEB-OPAC (Online Book Search)
- National Digital Library of India (NDL)
- DELNET Discovery Portal
- E-Resources
- E-Books - (Access Vellore Campus)
- Fair Access & Download Policy
- Mendeley
- Award
- Government of India Initiatives
- Through e-ShodhSindhu(eSS)
- World e-Book Library (WeL)
- South Asia Archive (SAA)
- Online Multilingual Dictionary
- E-Learning/E-Content
- Disabled User Friendly Services (DIVYANGJAN)
- Features
- INDCAT (Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities)
- IRINS: (Indian Research Information Networking System)
- Swayam Prapha
- Shodhganga (ETD)
- Shodhgangotri
- VIDWAN (Expert Database and National Researchers Network)
- View Our Library Floor Plan
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- View our Library Policy
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National Digital Library
The National Digital Library is a new initiative of National Knowledge Commission, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, under its national mission on education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of various types of learning resources with single-window search facility. NDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provide interface support for leading Indian languages. NDL has the facility of provide support to all academic levels including researchers and lifelong learners in all disciplines. Any individual can access the NDL content after formal online registration. Academic institutions are also eligible to register under NDL Institutional Registration Form. After registration we have to send all our users details, all our members will receive the validation link for accessing the content and they can access the content.
URL : https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/The World e-Book Library including 3 million primary sources spanning past 1,000 years of world history in more than 320 different languages. In addition, contemporary journal collections of WeL include scholarly journals and academic articles from all academic field.)
URL : http://community.worldlibrary.in/?AffiliateKey=NDL-XY1735
South Asia Archive contains more than 4.5 million pages spanning the period of 18th and mid-20th century from documents across the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Bangladesh)
Under the Digital India mission, Indian Government has created nation’s first and largest multilingual dictionary, access to which is completely online namely Bharatvani. We can able to translate words from 22 different languages and in the forthcoming days, Government aims to add 100 more languages into the platform and it was implemented by the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore.
Under Open Knowledge movement, this dictionary will be the single point reference for understanding and learning various languages of India. It has been hailed as the first and largest multilingual dictionary in India.
Using technology, Government will protect and nurture the regional languages from India, and enable easy access to the online tools for learning them.
Such online dictionary will help India to ‘foster national integration’.
This first initiative of Indian Govt. to encapsulate regional languages will help Indian technology companies to integrate regional languages into their products and creations.
BharatVani App also launched of this dictionary, which can be downloaded from Google Playstore. Anyone can create own account in seconds.
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NPTEL (National Program on Technological Enhanced Learning): NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanity streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of
Engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware.
National Digital Library of INDIA: The National Digital Library is a new initiative of National Knowledge Commission, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, under its national mission on education through Information and Communication Technology has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) pilot project to develop a framework of virtual repository of various types of learning resources with single window search facility. NDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provide interface support for leading Indian languages. NDL has the facility of provide support to all academic levels including researchers and lifelong learners in all disciplines. Any individual can access the NDL content after formal online registration. Academic institutions are also eligible to register under NDL Institutional Registration Form. After registration we have to send all our users details, all our members will receive the validation link for accessing the content and they can access the content.
ePGpathshala : An MHRD, under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), has assigned work to the UGC for development of e-content in 77 subjects at postgraduate level. The content and its quality is the key component of education system. High quality, curriculum-based, interactive content in different subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural and mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages is being developed under this initiative named e-PG Pathshala. Mobile App of ePGpathshala : http://epathshala.nic.in/
Swayam Program: SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy. This is done through an indigenously developed IT platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from 9th class till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to the residents in India. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the Country have participated in preparing these courses. The courses hosted on SWAYAM will be in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy technology.
Consortium for Educational Communication(CEC): The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of Higher Education through the use of powerful medium of Television alongwith the appropriate use of emerging Information Communication Technology (ICT).
Swayam Prapha: The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted for telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new content for at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. The channels are uplinked from BISAG, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal. For higher education, Curriculum-based course contents at post-graduate and under-graduate level covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture, etc. All courses would certification in their detailed offering through SWAYAM, the platform being developed for offering MOOCs courses.
Robotics for Education E-Yantra: e-Yantra is an initiative by MHRD to incorporate Robotics into engineering education with the objective of engaging students and teachers through exciting hands-on application of math, computer science, and engineering principles.
Virtual Labs: It provides remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars.
E-Kalpa (Creating Design): 'Creating Digital-learning Environment for Design' also called 'e-kalpa' is sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India as part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology. The main intention is the creation of new learning environments that will provide access to acquisition of critical knowledge, skills, and abilities in the field of design.
Virtual Learning Environment: Drawing from several successful Moodle platform, the multi-media interactive content loaded on VLE are categorized discipline-wise. VLE, an online environment of e-resources caters to several disciplines taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is an initiative of Institute of Life-Long Learning, University of Delhi. Conceived in 2012, VLE today boasts state of art material that addresses emerging needs of a diverse student body, not only of Delhi University but other universities as well. Drawing from several successful Moodle model, the multi-media interactive contents loaded on VLE are categorized discipline-wise. The lessons are developed by highly qualified faculty members across the universities and are continually edited and reviewed, primarily by discipline-expert Fellows employed to edit, oversee and coordinate the content. The content goes through several levels of rigorous peer reviewing and academic vetting to ensure quality and standardization. VLE also contains multimedia repository in form of audio, video and short films to expose students to new technologies in pedagogy.
Webcast: Webcasting allows you to extend the reach of any event to across the globe, with no limitations of physical or geographical boundaries. NIC ensure that your events get an optimum webcast with flawless production quality. NIC's webcast service offers a turnkey solution for an event, bringing onsite production, hosting, and streaming to millions of online viewers.
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MIT Open Courseware: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all the MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
Edx e-learning Program: Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is an online learning destination and MOOC provider, offering high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. With more than 90 global partners, we are proud to count the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and institutions as our members. EdX university members top the QS World University Rankings with our founders receiving the top honors, and edX partner institutions ranking highly on the full list.
Udacity e-learning : University by Industry: Udacity is building an online university, "by Silicon Valley", that: teaches the skills that industry employers need today; delivers credentials endorsed by employers; educates at a fraction of the cost of traditional schools. The learners will acquire real skills through a series of online courses and hands-on projects.
Coursera Program: Coursera provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online. Every course on Coursera is taught by top instructors from the world’s best universities and educational institutions. Courses include recorded video lectures, auto-graded and peer-reviewed assignments, and community discussion forums. All the learners will receive a sharable electronic Course Certificate. |
Special Features
- Highly qualified & efficient Librarians and staff.
- Standard textbooks from well-known Publishers.
- Text books and e-resources are constantly updated
- A Scanner facility is also
IT Infrastructure
- Koha Library Management System
- RFID self check-in book drop and Check-out kiosk
- Touch Screen KIOSK for Library Information
- DELL Poweredge 420 hosts KOHA
- DELL Poweredge 520 Server hosts Digital Institutional Repository.
- 120 seater Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Thin Client) Powered by IBM, CITRIX and N-Computing for accessing of Electronic Resources
- Video Conferencing facility
- Wifi Facility
- CCTV Surveillance System
Researgence is a research platform that is available at VIT. It autocaptures all publications of researchers of VIT from online sources and provides information on citations, h-index, SNIP and impact factor. Other research credentials such as patents, projects, collaborations, research groups, books, editorials, conferences and awards can be manually entered by the faculty members.
Login to ReseargenceThe Central Library provides user-friendly services to our physically challenged users in all aspects such as provision of wheel chair, help in finding or locating the library resources (WEB-OPAC), retrieving the required materials, renewing and returning of books by the library staff (human assistance).There is a separate user friendly rest room for them.
Digital Delivery Services:MyLOFT (My Library On Finger Tips) mobile app is available for all accessing of online databases/e-Journals. In this app there is a facility called Listen TTS. It reads aloud the PDF files. The disability users will use this facility with the support of library staff (human assistance) for listening the research articles. Also, the library has a number of audio book cassettes with devices to play for them.
There is a separate Braille section for visually challenged users.
Braille Section:
Library has good number of Braille books collection in Tamil literature and basic computer applications. It has two dedicated systems exclusively for them, with speaker and head phones. Braille screen reader software NVDA (Non-Visual Desktop Access) is available to support the end users and it reads aloud the text on the screen in a computerized voice. Also the Eye Tool Win 7 software is installed for the benefit of the end user. There are about 295 audio books on various subject titles such as Tamil literature, Indian History, Tamil Novels, e-book chapters like Tamil Sirukathaikal, Bharathiar, Bharathidaasan, etc.
INDCAT (Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities):
https://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in (The Union databases of various library resources)
IRINS: (Indian Research Information Networking System): http://irins.org/irins/
IRINS is web-based Research Information Management (RIM) service developed by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre in collaboration with the Central University of Punjab. The portal facilitates the academic, R&D organisations and faculty members, scientists to collect, curate and showcase the scholarly communication activities and provide an opportunity to create the scholarly network. The IRINS is available as free software-as-service to the academic and R&D organisations in India.
Swayam Prapha
Channel 18 - (Time Table)
NPTEL (National Program on Technological Enhanced Learning)
This channel is completely covered for the topics on the subjects of Physics, Metallurgy, Material Science and Mining Engineering. The introductory lectures are mostly at the under graduate levels of engineering.There are also a few courses on advanced topics which will be corresponding to the masters and PhD level students.
https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/index.php/program/current/18
Channel 30 - (Time Table)
This channel is exclusively for the subject of Mathematics.
https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/index.php/program/current/30
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ (Repository of Indian theses and dissertation- Open Access)
SHODHGANGOTRI :
(Repository of Indian Research in Progress details (Synopses/Research Proposals for Ph.D. programme) : https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
VIDWAN (Expert Database and National Researchers Network):
https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ (VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists/researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India)
Ground Floor
- Circulation Help Desk, Self Check-out Kiosk, Self Check-in, Periodical Section.
- Director - Library Office, Sr. Asst. Librarian Office, (Periodical) Discussion Room.
- Back Volumes Section, Periodical office and WEB OPAC.
First Floor
- Reference Section - Reading Hall, Discussion Rooms, University Librarian, Deputy Librarian & Senior Assistant Librarian and Assitant Librarian Office
- Braille Section in ground floor
Second Floor
- Stack Area - I (Engineering and Technology), Reading Hall, Discussion Room, Book Bank Section, Asst. Librarian Office,STAR Book Bank Section .
Third Floor
- Stack Area - II ( Science and Humanities) Videoconferencing Hall, Digital Library, Media Resource Centre, Library Server Room, Asst. Librarian Office,Discussion Rooms.
Fourth,Fifth and Sixth Floors
- Reading Hall
Open access system is followed in the Library
Wearing ID card is compulsory inside the library.
Bio-metric Entry and Exit is compulsory.
- Strict and absolute silence shall be observed in the Library.
- Speaking on mobile phones inside the library is strictly prohibited.
- Bags, Big handbags, Raincoat, Jerkin and Casual wears are strictly prohibited inside the library.
- Members are requested to keep their belongings at the entrance of the Library. However they are advised not to leave cell phones, purse, money, credit cards and other valuables in the handbag outside the library. These items are liable to be lost.
- Library users are strictly prohibited from taking the borrowed and stamped books again inside the library.
- If the due date falls on a holiday for the Library, the next working day will be considered as the due date.
- Books will not be issued to members on the ID card of others.
- If any book is lost or damaged beyond repair, the person responsible shall replace it with a new copy or pay double the cost of the recent price and handling charges or as may be decided by the librarian.
- Books will be issued subject to availability only.
- No sub-lending of books is permitted.
- Any kind of marking, underlining, clipping of books is absolutely forbidden. Readers shall be held responsible for any damage done to the book belonging to the Library and shall be required to replace such book or pay the value thereof.
- Absence from the university will not be allowed as an excuse for the delay in the return of books.
- Under special circumstances, the University Librarian may refuse the issue of books or recall the books already issued from any member without assigning any reason thereof.
- There is a facility of one online renewal through WEBOPAC.
- The Borrower will be responsible for any loss or non-return of any books issued against his / her original (or) duplicate ID Card.
- No reminders will be issued to individuals but consolidated list of defaulters will be displayed in the library notice board.
- New books and journals received will be on display for a week.
- The borrower will be responsible for any loss or non-return of any books issued against his / her original (or) duplicate ID Card.
- Reference books, Newspapers, Magazines, Journals should not be taken out.However overnight issue is available for selected reference books.
- The Library may accept donation of manuscripts, books, periodicals etc., from the donors. Such donations once accepted will become the absolute property of the University.
- Library timings and fine structure are displayed on the Library digital display Boards.
Note:
The above rules are intended to regulate the best use of Library resources and will be reviewed periodically to meet the Changing needs. Any changes in the rules or instructions or information to members will be notified on the Library Notice Board as and when required.
Royal Society of Chemistry E-Journals (RSC E-Journals)
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On the occasion of 4th Royal Society of Chemistry Appreciation Day, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore has been awarded for the highest usage of Royal Society of Chemistry E-Journals (RSC E-Journals) among the Deemed Universities in INDIA for the year 2018-19. |