Pearson eLibrary

Pearson eLibrary is a comprehensive digital learning solution to empower learners across all disciplines. They can now access their course books as per their convenience, from anywhere, on any device.

Features:

• A wide collection of eBooks just a click away
• Have a hassle free study material anywhere you like.
• Open your world of knowledge on any device
• No physical boundary or time bound to gain knowledge
• Voice notes, highlights, flashcards and more for quick revision
• Uninterrupted learning at all times
• Easy integration with your eLearning platform Access Link: https://eLibrary.in.pearson.com

User ID: Your registered email ID

Password: Pearson@1

Steps to Access eBooks:

1. Log in to the Pearson eLibrary platform.
2. Click on the My Library tab to view all the subscribed Pearson titles (34 titles in total).
3. Click on Add to Bookshelf for each title you wish to add.
4. Once added, go to My Bookshelf to begin reading the eBook.

e-Kumbh

All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has initiated Technical Book writing scheme initially in a 09 languages viz Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Punjabi, Odia. Subsequently, 03 more languages Assamese, Malayalam & Urdu are added in it.

Link: https://ekumbh.aicte-india.org/index.php

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. Items in eGyanKosh are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved by IGNOU, unless otherwise indicated.

Link: https://egyankosh.ac.in/

SWAYAM PRABHA

The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 40 DTH channels devoted to 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-N, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal.

Link: https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/about

ShodhGangotri

Under the initiative called “ShodhGangotri”, research scholars/research supervisors in universities are requested to deposit an electronic version of the approved synopsis submitted by research scholars to the universities for registering themselves for the Ph.D. programme now it is expanded to MRPs/PDFs/Emeritus Fellowship, etc. The repository on one hand would reveal the trends and directions of research being conducted in Indian universities, on the other hand, it would avoid duplication of research.

Link: https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/

DELNET

(https://delnet.in/)

The following resources can be access:

1. JSTOR: It provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines including management.
2. Manuscripts, Rare Books & Archival Materials: A. Abhilekh Patal of NAI, Govt of India: This platform serves as a gateway to India's historical legacy, offering a treasure trove of meticulously preserved documents and records. B.The Asiatic Society of Mumbai: Granth Sanjeevani- It has over 20,000 books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, journals, government publications and reports in English, Sanskrit and European languages like Greek, Latin, Italian, German and French.
3. E-Newspapers (English, Bengali, Hindi and other regional languages) English includes Telegraph, The Asian Age, Deccan Chronicles, Yugmarg etc. and Bengali includes Anandbazar Patrika, Aajkaal, Sangbad Pratidin, Uttarbanga Sangbad, Dainik Statesman etc.
4. E-Books: specially Biographies, Autobiographies, medical & Ayurveda
5. E-journals: On various subjects like Arts and Commerce, Skill and Entrepreneurship, Startup and Innovation, Engineering, Food Technology, Law, Management etc.
6. Language Learning Tools (Hindi, English & Foreign)
7. Divyangjan Resources EXCLUSIVE PORTALS FOR DIVYANGJAN
8. ViSiOn Portal The single window interactive, innovative and engaging platform allows the faculty, students, researchers and scholars, etc. to access the video lectures through Title, Subject, Speaker’s name, Host Institution, etc.
9. Others: A. Directory of Open Access Repositories: It host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. B. india.gov.in - National Portal of India: This section provides a one-stop source for important documents and reports released or published by the Indian Government at the Central or State level. C. Cambridge Dictionary Online

To Access: https://discovery.delnet.in/Search/Home

British Council Library

Access to books, comics, music, newspapers, and magazines. Watch movies and recorded theatre productions, access academic journals, research publications and professional training.

You can access:

1. JSTOR: It provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines including management.
2. Proquest E-Book
3. EBSCO Research Database: Provide essential research databases, e-journals, and e-books to researchers.
4. E-Magazines: National Geography, Newsweek, Outlook, The Economist, The Week, Science Focus, World Economy and many others.

Link: https://library.britishcouncil.org.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-user.pl

American Library

Access to books, comics, music, newspapers, and magazines. Watch movies and recorded theatre productions, access academic journals, research publications and professional training.

You can access:

1. JSTOR: It provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines including management.
2. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: This is an essential resource for researchers and students looking to explore academic theses across disciplines.
3. EBSCO Discovery Service: It is an all-inclusive search solution that makes in-depth research easy. Rich metadata and superior relevance ranking technology with one-click access directly through the results list.
4. E-Magazines: Bike, Business Today, DataQuest, Down to Earth, Forbes, Frontline, India Today, National Geography, Outlook, PCQuest, Traveller, Sportstar and many others.
5. E-Newspapers of the world.

Link: https://elibraryusa.state.gov/

TO ACCESS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY PLEASE CONTACT:

Mr. Atanu Ganguly, Assistant Librarian

Mobile/WhatsApp: +91 9433312257

Email: atanug@calcuttabusinessschool.org

National Digital Library of India (NDL India)

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) has initiated the National Digital Library of India (NDL India) to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility. It is being developed to help students to prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources.

URL: https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

[use your ID as provided to access NDL]

National Library

The National Library of India, foremost among the libraries in India, is one of the four designated libraries entitled to receive under the Delivery of Books and Newspapers (Public Libraries) Act, 1954 a copy of every publication published anywhere in the country. The library is a permanent depository of all reading and printed materials produced in India, or written by any foreigner, wherever published and in whatever language.

To access resources of National Library, you need to get your membership registered first through the following link: https://nationallibrary.gov.in/account/register

After you get your Membership No. for accessing their Online Resources download the form from the link: https://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/home/E_Resources

Then send the filled in form (PDF) along with supporting documents to the email id: readingroom.nl@gmail.com

Website: https://nationallibrary.gov.in/

Emails: dgnl.kol-culture@nic.in / nldirector@rediffmail.com

Contact Numbers:

Librarian (PLIO): +91 33 2479 2467

Main Campus: +91 33 2479 1381 to 87

1. SEBI Bulletin

The Securities and Exchange Board of India was constituted as a non-statutory body on April 12, 1988 through a resolution of the Government of India. The Securities and Exchange Board of India was established as a statutory body in the year 1992 and the provisions of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992) came into force on January 30, 1992. The site is open and free so you may download them from the site mentioned below for your specific need.

Link: https://www.sebi.gov.in/reports-and-statistics/publications.html

2.RBI Bulletin

The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Central Office of the Reserve Bank was initially established in Kolkata but was permanently moved to Mumbai in 1937. The Central Office is where the Governor sits and where policies are formulated. Though originally privately owned, since nationalisation in 1949, the Reserve Bank is fully owned by the Government of India. The site is open and free so you may download them from the site mentioned below for your specific need.

Link: https://rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx

3. Shodh Ganga: Indian Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers. Theses and dissertations are known to be the rich and unique source of information, often the only source of research work that does not find its way into various publication channels. Theses and dissertations remain an un-tapped and under-utilized asset, leading to unnecessary duplication and repetition that, in effect, is the anti-theses of research and wastage of huge resources, both human and financial.

Link: https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/

4. Open Access Thesis & Dissertation (OATD)

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,218,230 theses and dissertations.

Link: https://oatd.org/

5. Directory of Open Access Books

The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards.

Link: https://www.doabooks.org/

6. Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available.

Link: https://doaj.org/

7. Open DOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories

OpenDOAR is a Open Access Repositories and is considered one of the leading open access directories worldwide. OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. It host repositories that provide free, open access to academic outputs and resources. Each repository record within OpenDOAR has been carefully reviewed and processed by a member of our editorial team which enables us to offer a trusted service for the community.

Link: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/opendoar/

8. World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)

The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

Open Data Initiative (launched in April 2010): a range of reforms enabling free access to thousands development indicators, as well as a wealth of information on World Bank project and finance, and Access to Information Policy (launched in July 2010): a groundbreaking change in how the World Bank makes information available to the public.

Link: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/

9. EconPapers- Economics at your fingertips

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software. A total of 3,366,947 searchable working papers, articles and software items with 3,118,969 items available on-line.

Link: https://econpapers.repec.org/

10. Data Portal India (Government of India)

Data Portal India is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India. The portal is intended to be used by Ministries/Department/Organizations of Government of India to publish datasets, and applications for public use. It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also opens avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.

• Data Sets
• Applications
• Metrics
• World Wide Data Sites

Link: https://data.gov.in/

11. Census Digital Library

• Complete Census Data, Census Reports and other digital files for free download in soft copy format. Presentations, audio clips and maps are available (Maps, Tables, Audios) 1991, 2001, 2011
• District Census Handbook
• Linguistics Survey of India

Link: https://www.censusindia.gov.in/DigitalLibrary/

12. Employment News

Employment News is the flagship weekly job journal from Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. It was launched in 1976 with a view to provide information on employment opportunities to the unemployed and under employed youth of the country. Employment News also provides editorial content on socio-economic issues and career guidance that helps youth in broadening their horizons. The job journal serves as a guide to the youth; especially those in rural areas, by helping them gain an understanding of job market and the plethora of employment opportunities that otherwise go unnoticed.

Link: http://employmentnews.gov.in/NewEmp/Home.aspx

13. Link for Open Access (Free) Book

• PDFDRIVE - Free books in PDF format in popular subjects Link: https://www.pdfdrive.com/category/1
• Cambridge - Free Books Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/books
• Springer Open Books Link: https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/books

PARAKH

The Student Learning Assessment (SLA) Project aims to evaluate technical students in India, assessing both qualitative and quantitative growth throughout their studies to improve employability.

Link: https://parakh.aicte.gov.in/

NPTEL Online Certification Courses

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) is a project of MHRD initiated by 7 IITs along with the IISc, Bangalore in 2003, to provide quality education to anyone interested in learning from the IITs.

Link: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/

SWAYAM

Courses delivered through Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates. Eligibility for the certificate will be announced on the course page and learners will get certificates only if criterion is matched.

Link: https://swayam.gov.in/

ATAL

AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy is to impart quality training through Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) for Faculty Members, Postgraduate students, Research scholars and Industry Professionals.

Link: https://atalacademy.aicte.gov.in/login

Harvard University Free Courses

Harvard University offers many free courses on various subjects which are latest and unique in their nature.

Link: https://pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

British Council Library (BCL)

Location and contact:

British Council Division, British Deputy High Commission, L & T Chambers, First Floor. 16, Camac Street, Kolkata- 700 017

Phone: +91 9830068181

Email: indialibraries@britishcouncil.org

Library Hours: Mon – Sat 10.00 am to 6.00 pm.

American Library (AL)

Location and contact:

The American Library Public Affairs Office, American Center, 38-A, J. L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-700 071

Tel: +91 33 6827 6300

Fax: 91 33 2288 1616/0356

Email: kolkataamlibrary@state.gov

Library Hours:10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.(Mon- Fri)

Full time Faculty Members can only borrow membership cards of The British Council Library/American from the CBS library. Please take note of following rules in this regard:

• Total Membership Cards available: BCL-10; AL-5.
• CBS Library will issue one card of BCL/AL to a faculty member on receiving written application request maintaining the purpose which will be approved by the competent authority.
• Each card will be issued for a period of one month. Cards can be re-issued if there is no demand.
• It will be the responsibility of faculty members to abide by the rules and regulations of BCL/AL
• Before returning the cards to CBS Library, the borrower of such cards must settle all dues/compensations due to late return of/damage to, if any, the books/materials of those libraries.
• CBS Library will not take any of paying or settling any dues of BCL/AL on behalf of the borrower.
• CBS Library will not take any responsibility to bring books from or return books to BCL/AL.
• In case of loss of cards a fine of Rs.1000/- will be charged.

TO ACCESS AND FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Mr. Atanu Ganguly, Assistant Librarian

Mobile/WhatsApp: +91 9433312257

Email: atanug@calcuttabusinessschool.org