Smt.

Hansa Mehta Library

University Library
of

The Maharaja Sayajirao

University of Baroda,
Vadodara
E-mail : libmsu@gmail.com
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Smt. Hansa Mehta Library

www.hmlibrary.ac.in
Established on May 1, 1950
Named after Smt. Hansaben Mehta, first Honorable
Vice Chancellor of this University
Library started with a collection of 25,000 books
Total Present collection of books - 5,11,444
Using Library of Congress Classification scheme
University Library System comprises of all the Faculty Libraries
in the University
Present collection of books in University Library System
8,16,931

Vision & Mission

Provide seamless and reliable access to scholarly, peer

reviewed electronic resources to academic community
Strengthen ICT infrastructure with value added services
Create a virtual network of people and resources with an
aim to provide effective and efficient access to
knowledge.
Increase awareness for use of e-resources available
Develop resource guides for effective use of e-resources
Create a digital collection of rare collection for posterity

Automation
Using SOUL 2.0 software in all library
functions
8 Libraries offer Library operations through a
smart card
Use of Bar Code Technology.
Centralized Distributed Database Management
System on a single server

First University Library in the state to become

Wi-fi compatible
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Collection(as on 31-3-2012)

No of books 5,11,444 (Smt. Hansa Mehta Library)

No. of Books 8,16,931 (University Library System)
Journals subscribed 287 (Smt. Hansa Mehta Library)
Journals subscribed 508 (University Library System)
Journals received as Gratis 188+
Theses and Dissertations 12,804
300 plus daily transaction of books

Prof T K Gajjar Library

Book Collection 1,00579
Journals subscribed 122
Registered users 3379
Average daily transactions 90+
Can accommodate approx 475
readers
Internet surfing centre 42 nodes

(74 Indian & 48 Foreign)

Special Collections
Baroda (State) Collection
BARODA (STATE) COLLECTION of Smt. Hansa
Mehta Library is a unique historic collection of
Administrative, Legal, Educational & other
documents and publications of the Baroda State of
Pre-Independence Era. This collection is of prime
importance for the study and research of the
history and functioning of the various States of
the Pre-Independence period, especially the
Baroda State of Gaekwads. It contains some of the
rare Administrative documents of the British Era.
The available books are in printed form from early
19th century to the 1950s.
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Special Collections contd..

Prof.
Balvantrai
Kalyanrai
Thakore
(B.K.T.)
Collection
It is unique collections of 3985 titles of Prof. Balwantrai
Thakore, an eminent literary figure in Gujarati Literature.
This collection includes variety of literary forms such as
Bhasha Shastra, Old ejoyanati, Kavya, Natak-Natika,
Novels, Lekh-nibandh,Criticism,Vivechan, Praveshak,
Charcha-Patra, Avlokan, Nivedan, and letters etc. by
Prof.B.K.Thakore.
Rare books Collection
Rare books include books as old as dated back to
Sixteenth Century. Approximately 3,500 books are
preserved in this precious collection, which comprises of
some noteworthy titles, which are Out of Print.
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 Journals - 60% foreign and some as gratis including Indexing

and Abstracting Journals
Rich collection of bound journals out of which some are as old
as nineteenth century like :
Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Vol 1 (1834) 2004
Annals - American Academy of Political and Social Science
Vol 1(1890) Till date
Economic Journal Vol 6 (1896) 2004
Geographical Journal Vol 2 (1893) - 2004
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Vol 1- 1890 1991 till Vol. 91

Journal Collection

Noteworthy Indexing and Abstracting

Journals

Biological Abstracts
Current Contents: Life Science
Dissertation Abstracts International Section A
Chemical Abstracts (Now Scifinder)
International Political Science Abstracts
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Section A
Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews Section B
Physics Abstracts
Psychological Abstracts
Physical Reviews A
Physical Reviews B
Physical Reviews C
Physical Reviews D
Sociological Abstracts
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Databases :

Journals/Encyclopedias/Dissertation & Theses

More than 50000+ online full text journals accessible
across the campus(24x7)
- 7500+ UGC Infonet Digital Library Consortium
- 250+ Journals through INDEST Consortia
14000+ EBSCO
6085 open access full text journals
100+ Online Encyclopedia (Sage Reference online Collection)
2.4 million E-thesis through PQDT (ProQuest Dissertation
and Theses)

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E- DATABASES
Bibliographic Databases
(Through UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium)

SciFinder
MathSciNet
Royal Society of Chemistry
(6 Databases)
Web of Science

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CD ROM Databases
Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)1965-2007 on
DVD
MathSci+ 1940-2008 on DVD
Wilson Social Science Abstracts (1984-2000)
EconLit (1969-2002)
ERIC (1966-1998)
CABSAC (1973-1997)
IBID (1993-1999): India Business Insight
Database
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E- Resources
Web version)

MathSciNet(UGC-Infonet)
SciFinder (web version ) (UGC-Infonet)
Royal Society of Chemistry (6 Databases) (UGC-Infonet)
ISID (UGC-Infonet)
Web of Science (UGC-Infonet)
Capitaline Plus (Subscribed)
Taxmann (Subscribed)
Academic Search Premier (Subscribed)
Business Source Premier (Subscribed )
Prowess (Subscribed )
Business Beacon (Subscribed)
IndiaStat.com (Subscribed)
IBID(Subscribed)
Indian Journals.com(N-List)
SRO(Encyclopedia)(Subscribed)
PQDT
World E-book Library
World Bank E-Library
Company Annual Report
FOAP
Indian Standards(Till 2009)
Cambridge books online (Physics)

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Research Platform

EJ-Server
Global Periodicals
Knimbus
EOLSS
J-Gate
A to Z Resource Locator

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E - Journals
UGC Infonet Consortium
Aggregated Databases
Free Online journals against Print Subscription
(FOAP)
INDEST Consortium
N-LIST
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A to Z : E- Resource Locator
EBSCO A to Z is a industrys most
complete web based tool for organizing
and providing links to all the Library
resources viz. e-books, e-journals and titles
in full text databases and e-journal
packages
helps in locating library resources
Alphabetically, Publisher wise, Subject wise
and Title wise.
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Open Access Journals

Open Access: Open access is a publication model wherein neither a reader nor the reader's institution are
charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search,
or link to the full texts of these articles.
Open Access E-Journals
Barnolipi
http://www.reflectionedu.com/barnolipi.php
Bioinfo Publications
http://www.bioinfo.in/
Bioline International
http://www.bioline.org.br/
BioMed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
HighWire Press
http://highwire.stanford.edu/
Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
http://www.ias.ac.in/
Indian Journals
http://indianjournals.com/
Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)
http://jodi.tamu.edu/
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
http://www.jpgmonline.com/
MedIND
http://medind.nic.in/

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Open Access Journals

Contd

Medknow
http://www.medknow.com/
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
http://www.mdpi.org/
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
http://www.plos.org/
PubMed Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
Trials
http://www.trialsjournal.com/
Versita Open Journals
http://versitaopen.com/
Open Access Directories
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
http://www.doabooks.org/doab
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org/
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Open J-Gate
http://www.openj-gate.com/
Scientific Open Access Repository - OMA
http://scoar.net/

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Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)

ULS University Library System
IndCat Online Indian Catalogue of Indian Universities
DELNET Developing Libraries Network
username gjtmsub
password tms2079
NUCSSI

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Facilities

Single largest Reading Room of 10,600 sq. ft.

Can accommodate about 1100 readers at a time

Open to readers from 8.00 am to 10.00 pm i.e. 14 hours a day

throughout the year except National holidays

Separate reading area for girl students, researchers and teachers

Curricular collection consisting of recommended textbooks with latest

editions

ZoomEx Instant Text Reader for visually impaired and low vision

Global Information and Communication Centre for browsing internet

and e-resources with 14 nodes

Web OPAC (apart from OPAC in the library building) Web OPAC

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Reading Room
It has a single largest Reading Room of
10,600sq. ft. which can accommodate
about 1100 readers at a time.
It is situated in the North Side of the
building, in order to have a continuous
natural light throughout the year.

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Library Membership

Students

Under Graduates & Post Graduates

Research Scholars
Ph.D. Student, JRF, SRF etc
Ex- Students
Non M S University fraternity - research scholars from other
Universities and Institutes

University Officers including Class IV

Full time, Visiting, Temporary teaching and administrative staff
Individual Membership
Learned representatives of the Society and former Teachers
and Administrative Staff of the University
Corporate Membership
Temporary Library Membership
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Services to Readers
Out of 13 constituent Libraries
under
the
University
Library
System, 8 Libraries are fully
automated.
Provide Library operations through
a smart card using bar code
technology
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Services to Readers

Inter Library Loan Services

Document Delivery Service
Referral Service to its clientele.
Access to University Research Reports and other material.
Access to Rare books and Special books Collection and related services
User Orientation programme to New entrants
Visitors from outside The M S University of Baroda
Compilation of Bibliographies and Webliographies on demand
Services to Visually Disabled users
Assistance to readers in the use of Library resources
Information service based on CD and web databases
E-information to the User community of MSU thru e-mail
Photocopying services
Internet Surfing

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Document Delivery Service

http://www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in

Our University Library is designated as

Inter Library Loan Centre under UGC
Infonet Digital Library Consortium
Library provides article level access for all
the journals available under UGC Infonet
Digital Library Consortium as well as
journals subscribed by our Library
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JCCC : A Gateway for E-journals + print journals

Access with automated Articles Delivery System

JCCC provides content-level access of all ejournals subscribed through the UGC-Infonet
Digital Library Consortium as well print / online
journals subscribed by 22 selected universities
libraries. JCCC acts as a gateway for Inter Library
Loan Services for requesting documents from 22
ILL Centres (University Libraries identified based
on their journals collections) Foremost purpose
of JCCC is to encourage resource sharing
amongst universities.
Please login to:

www.jccc-ugcinfonet.in
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Benefits of JCCC

11,000+ E-journals Instant Access

Single Point Access to 1000+ Publishers
site
Find and download Articles of your choice
Browse table of Contents
Request Articles not available online
Create Alerts to your favorite Journals
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CCTV

Library is under surveillance through closed

circuit television
24 cameras are located strategically around
various functional areas
8 Display units are placed on various
Library locations

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Seminar Room

Library has a well equipped air-conditioned

seminar room with multimedia facility, LCD,
cordless microphone system having a
capacity
to
accommodate
35-40
participants, revolving chairs.

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Achievement
University Library is recognized as Document
Delivery Centre in terms of quality and
quantity of
collection
with
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other
Universities of the country
HML has been ranked no. 18 among 200+
Universities of India(2011-2012)(YTD)
Provided 2157 pages during the year as a
part of document delivery service

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Year wise usage of e-resources

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Awards
Indian
Library
Association
felicitated
University Librarian as the Best Librarian of
the year 2004 at the 51st All India Library
Conference held at Kurukshetra University,
Kurukshetra.
Smt. Hansa Mehta Library accredited the
Best Library Award in the year 2006 at 52nd
All India Library Conference held at H N
Bahuguna University, Srinagar, Garhwal

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Organized National Workshops

A series of National Workshops organized in
2006
under
the
theme
Empowering
Librarianship in IT Applications on
Library Automation (May 1-5, 2006)
Library Networking (June 5-9, 2006)
Database Management and E-Resources
(July 10-14, 2006)
Web Designing and Virtual Library
(August 21-25, 2006)
Digital Libraries (September 18-22, 2006)
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Seminar / Conference

CALIBER organized with INFLIBNET in 1996.

Workshop training Programme with NISSAT on CDS/ISIS and
WINISIS in 1999.
Two days National Seminar on UGC Infonet Consortium:
Access to scholarly journals and databases during 25-26,
October 2004
50th All India Library Conference on Knowledge Organization in
Digital Environment during 1-4 December 2004.
One day Regional Seminar on Networking and DELNET
services on 4th April 2005 jointly with DELNET.
One day awareness programme on E-resources available
through UGC Infonet Consortium on 29th January 2008 with
INFLIBNET.
One Day awareness program on DELNET Resources and KOHA
on 4th Sept 2011

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Future Plan
Increase in use of e-resources
Remote access
Networking and resource sharing with other
Consortiums
RFID and Total Automation
24 X 7 Access to HML
Federated Search
Cloud for HML
Fully air conditioned Library
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Users' satisfaction
is the Motto of
University Library System
of
The Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda, Vadodara
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Thank You

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