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West Bengal State University
The University Library of West Bengal State University started its journey 10 years back with a collection of 1800 books. It was housed at the university’s Guest House. About 8 years back, the collection was shifted to its present location at the academic building of the university. Over the years, the collection of the library has grown, and at now
the library has more than 28,000 books on almost all subjects. It has a great collection of rare books in the form of hardcopy as well as electronic copies. The library is equipped with more than 50 computers with high-speed internet facilities. Wi-Fi is also available now. With the help of the university librarian who has joined recently, the pace of the modernization of the library has been on an accelerated path.
Of various new initiatives that have now been taken, the organization of books through the application of modern library management software needs mention. The process of giving a huge facelift to the library’s look and feel has also started. The plan over the next year is to make the library a Center of Excellence where both students and teachers will get information through modern technologies as well as through reading of books. The library also has plans to organize many events on subjects like Women Empowerment, Career Enhancement, debates, JAM, quizzes, etc. Presently, the library has a footfall of more than 200 people per day. Most of the library visitors are young university students. They get book lending service, photocopying service, and Internet and printing facilities are also provided.
Free Text Books
Subject wise – Free access to essential Springer Nature textbooks from all disciplines
Free Resources
Study Materials of Dept. of Education
Semester 2
- Socialization, Neloy Sarkar
- Social Process, Neloy Sarkar
- Contemporary Issues, Unit 2(IV), AM
- AICTE, AKP
- Contemporary, Unit-1 (ALL), AM
- Contemporary Issue, Unit-2(i), AM
- Contemporary Issues, Unit-2(ii), AM
- Medical Council of India, AKP
Semester 3
Semester 4
- Psychology of Using Teaching Aids, AKP
- TE, Learning Style & Cognitive Style, AM
- TE, Current Issues, AM
- TE, Simulated Teaching, AM
- Teaching, Learning and Pedagogy, AKP
- TE-School Effectiveness, AM
- Unit-1, Psychosis, MKM
- Unit-1, Schizophrenia, MKM
- CS, U-2, SCA
- PS, U-2, SCA (2)
- PS, U-2, SCA
Additional Materials
Open eResources:
Swayam
Facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation. Can be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.
UGC MOOC
It has 128 PG courses and 240 UG courses. Can be accessed at any time and anywhere.
e-PG Pathshala
This platform offers high-quality curriculum-based interactive e-content in 70 PG subjects across all disciplines.
SWAYAM PRABHA
A group of 32 DTH channels that telecast educational programs for PG, UG, and school levels (9-12). Also provides curriculum-based courses for lifelong learners 24×7.
Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)
CEC regularly organizes various capacity-building programs, trainings, and workshops. It also organizes an Annual Educational Video Competition.
National Digital Library (NDL)
Facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation. Can be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time.
Shodhganga
Provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses electronically and make it available to the scholarly community in open access.
VIDWAN
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists/researchers and faculty members working at leading academic institutions and R&D organizations in India.
Publishing Houses
Tayloe & Francis
One of the world’s largest publishers of open access sources. They publish over 180 high-quality full open access journals, ranging across disciplines and subject areas.
Elsevier
Specializes in science, technical, and medical content. It publishes more than 500,000 articles annually in 2,500 journals. Its archives contain over 17 million documents and 40,000 e-books. Total yearly downloads amount to more than 1 billion.
WILEY
Wiley open access publishes authoritative peer-reviewed open access journals across many research disciplines.
SPRINGER
Offers researchers from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities, and social sciences a place to publish open access in journals.
SCIENCE OPEN
Offers content hosting, context building, and marketing services for publishers.
OXFORD ACADEMIC
A platform to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research work.
Other Important Open Resources
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Directory of Open Access Books
An online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access books.
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
An initiative by seven IITs and IISc for creating course contents in engineering and science.
Open Access Thesis & Dissertations
A repository of open access theses and dissertations published around the world. OATD currently indexes 5,153,410 theses and dissertations.
Open Knowledge Repository-World Bank (OKR)
OKR is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.
Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India)
LII of India is an international standard, free-access, comprehensive online collection of Indian legal information.
The OAPEN Foundation
OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for academic books.
PubMed Central (PMC)
PubMed Central is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal.
Project Gutenberg
An online library of free eBooks. Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks.
Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS)
AGRIS is one of the world’s leading public information services that offers 11,934,258 bibliographic records. It also provides full text links to about 3 million of its records.
ILOSTAT
ILOSTAT is the global reference for international labour statistics, providing a comprehensive database and resources for producing labour statistics.
Public Book Database
You can download books, journal articles, etc. from this Public Books Database. Because of COVID 19.
National Library Portal
National Library of India has launched an Integrated Search Portal for Open Access Educational Resources to be used by the citizens of India during lock down period.
West Bengal Public Library Network
Any user can have access to the network at any time with the help of a computer terminal.
Digital Depository of West Bengal Public Library
You can find copyright free rare books which are under the custody of various libraries of West Bengal, India.
Indianjournals.com
Provides a vast collection of interdisciplinary Indian journals and research publications.
Online Books Page
It lists freely accessible archives of magazines, journals, newspapers, and other periodicals.
National Databases of Indian Medical Journals
A database of medical journals.
HathiTrust
A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
BENTHAM Open
Publishes a number of peer-reviewed, open access journals that covers all major disciplines of science, medicine, technology and social sciences.
Spoken Tutorial
This platform provides the opportunity to learn various Free and Open Source Software. Anybody with a computer can learn from any place at any time and in a language of their choice.
OER Manual
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