Collection & Resources

The collection of the library is developed democratically so that resources for all users can be acquired. Information resources in print and digital format have been added to the library. The collection is mostly focused on biology, chemistry, mathematics, physics, humanities, and other interdisciplinary areas. Approximately 26,522 Print and 10,141 digital books are present; Library also receives Gift books and books from NBHM. Automation, along with the RFID system, is working using the open-source software Koha. Metadata for all the e-books are collected from the publishers and imported in Koha so that users can search the whole book both in print and digital in one interface also, links are provided in the library OPAC to access the electronic books directly from the publisher.

Journals mostly in the electronic format published by reputed publishers, societies, and institutes around the globe, have been subscribed to by the library. Research protocols and well-known databases such as AMS, Annual Reviews, ACS Digital Library, Web of Science, SciFinder-n, Scopus, Jstor, etc. have also been subscribed. Multimedia journals like JoVE (Journals of Visual Experiments) are added to the collection. As NISER is a constituent institute of DAE, it has the privilege to access DAE-Science Direct consortium journals that cover all the journals published by Science Direct. In all total, there is access to around 18,873 reputed journals available in NISER. Besides them, the other scholarly information requirements of faculties and scholars have been fulfilled through information services.