Central Library, Iit, Bombay

The Central Library is one of the central support services of IIT Bombay. The mission of the Library is to provide information services and access to bibliographic and full text digital and printed resources in order to support the scholarly and informational needs of the students, faculty and staff at the Institute Community. Building PlanThe library occupies an independent five-storey building, Library Servicesthe library offers circulating books, and also a bookbank of textbooks for loan to students whose parent’s income falls below the taxable limit. The library maintains Inter-library loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including IITs, BARC, NITIE, NCST, IISc, IIG, TIFR, IGIDR, TISS and NICT for exchange of books, journals, photocopies and videocassetteLibrary CollectionThe Library receives 450 print periodicals. Apart from this it has books and theses and dissertations, standards and reports, pamphlets which are approximately 5 lakhs. There are 1000 CDs and 231 DVDs. The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 12, 000 full text journals and 10 databases 24 x 7 on institute-wide network as per the following details. Institutional RepositoryThe IIT Bombay Institutional repository is an electronic collection of research produced at IITB, including full-text book chapters, conference /proceeding papers, technical reports, journal pre prints & post-prints, working papers, Patents and annual reports.

The Central Library is one of the central support services of IIT Bombay. The mission of the Library is to provide information services and access to bibliographic and full text digital and printed resources in order to support the scholarly and informational needs of the students, faculty and staff at the Institute Community. Building PlanThe library occupies an independent five-storey building, Library Servicesthe library offers circulating books, and also a bookbank of textbooks for loan to students whose parent’s income falls below the taxable limit. The library maintains Inter-library loan relations with a number of institutions and libraries including IITs, BARC, NITIE, NCST, IISc, IIG, TIFR, IGIDR, TISS and NICT for exchange of books, journals, photocopies and videocassetteLibrary CollectionThe Library receives 450 print periodicals. Apart from this it has books and theses and dissertations, standards and reports, pamphlets which are approximately 5 lakhs. There are 1000 CDs and 231 DVDs. The Central Library provides web-based access to over 450 books, 12, 000 full text journals and 10 databases 24 x 7 on institute-wide network as per the following details. Institutional RepositoryThe IIT Bombay Institutional repository is an electronic collection of research produced at IITB, including full-text book chapters, conference /proceeding papers, technical reports, journal pre prints & post-prints, working papers, Patents and annual reports.