4. PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary Sources of information are the first published
records of original research and development.
♦ Periodicals
♦ Research Reports
♦ Research Monographs
♦ Patents
♦ Standards
♦ Dissertations
♦ Proceedings
5. SECONDARY SOURCES
Organized works and compilations that derive from
the primary sources make up the secondary sources
of information.
♦ Dictionaries
♦ Encyclopedias
♦ Manuals
♦ Year Books
♦ Directories
♦ Abstracts
♦ Reviews
6. TERTIARY SOURCES
♦ Text Books
♦ Bibliography
♦ Guide to Literature
♦ Catalogs
♦ Hand Books
♦ Indexing Periodical
These consist of information which is a distillation and
collection of primary and secondary sources.
10. Subjects covered
Main Allied
Management Marketing
HRM
Organisation Behaviour
Finance
Systems – IT
PQM
Education
Communication
Strategy
Agriculture
Legal Aspects
Research Methods
Gender
Public Systems
Health
Transport
Environment, Energy, etc
Others
Main Allied
Social Sciences Economics
Sociology
Philosophy
Political Science
General Fiction / Non Fiction
Religion
History
Geography
Community and Children
Hindi
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Stack Area by Floor
Gr. Floor: Government Publications
1st
Floor: 001 to 338.920
2nd
Floor: 338.9 to 658.477 + Reference books and
Current Periodicals
3rd
Floor: 658.5 to 999 and A – I Bound Volumes
4th
Floor: I – Z Bound Volumes
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Library Services
♦ Circulation / Reservation /Reprography
♦ Reference Services
♦ Current Awareness Service
♦ Information Research Assistance
♦ Inter Library Loan Services - Networking
and resource sharing
♦ Compilation of Bibliographies
♦ News Archive
♦ Orientation / Information Literacy
Sessions
♦ Remote login to e-resources
40. Users Category No. of Members
Faculty / Visiting Faculty 84/07
Retired Faculty / Staff 06 / 04
Alumni Member 175
Officers / Staff / Res. Staff 38/200/12
Research Staff / Academic Associates 42/42
PGP1 / PGP2 - / 381
FPM 78
ABM1 / ABM2 42 / 36
Armed Forces Programme 50
PGPX 85
FDP 41
PGP Exchange Students 101
External Members 259
Total 1685
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External Regular Membership
Type Deposit in Rs. Loan limit Annual Fee in Rs.
Alumni (PGPs / FPM,
FDP, AFP), Former
Employees, Board
members (present and
past), Academic Visitors
(recommended by faculty)
5,000 2 Books for 30 days NIL
10,000 5 Books for 30 days
Individuals working in
academic institutions /
non-profit / government
organisations, MDP
Alumni
5,000 2 Books for 30 days 1,000
10,000 5 Books for 30 days
Individuals working in
for-profit sector
5,000 2 Books for 30 days 4,000
10,000 5 Books for 30 days
Institutions (academic /
government / non-profit)
20,000 4 Books for 30 days 10,000
Institutions (Corporate /
for-profit)
50,000 4 Books for 30 days 20,000
42. External Reading only Membership
1 Week 1 Month 3 Months 6 Months 1 Year
Persons working in academic /
non-profit / government
institutions, MDP alumni
Rs. 100 Rs. 200 Rs. 400 Rs. 600 Rs. 1,000
Persons working in for-profit
organisations
Rs. 400 Rs. 800 Rs. 1200 Rs. 2,000 Rs. 4,000
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The Library remains closed on 4 public holidays in a year.
Library Timings
Issue-Return Hours
Monday-Friday
8.45 AM to 10.00 PM
Saturday & Sunday
9.00 AM to 5.45 PM
Library Hours
24 x 7
44. ♦ The library has been automated using LIBsys - an ILS
♦ VSL is wi-fi enabled
♦ Collection is bar-coded
♦ We are shifting to KOHA
♦ D-space for IR
♦ Website using an open source software – Joomla
♦ Remote login solution
IT @ VSL
53. Categories
Country / Company / Industry Databases
Scholarly Resources
A. E-Journals
B. E-Books
C. Others
Legal & Other Databases
54. Databases by content
Academic Literature: EBSCO, ABI/INFORM, JSTOR, Project Muse,
Elsevier, Sage, SRMO, etc
Company News , Financial Information: CAPITALINE, Prowess,
Datamonitor, ISI Emerging Market, Reuters 3000XTRA, Datastream,
EBSCO, ABI INFORM, etc.
Industry Information: Reuter 3000XTRA, CRISIL, Euromonitor,
INFRALINE, Datamonitor , Industry Analysis Service etc
Economics and Economics Indicator: Economist, DSI Data Service,
Indiastat, World Development Indicator (World Bank) etc.
IPO: Insight, Prime Database, Prowess, Capitaline, etc.
55. Country / Company / Industry Databases
These databases give you information about
countries, companies and industries. It includes
statistical, financial and technical reports with historical
details. It also includes important raw data for analysis
56. CAPITALINE
• CapitalinePlus is a digital database of 13,000 listed and
unlisted companies.
• It gives extensive financial and non-financial information
on each of the companies. Balance sheet, Profit & loss,
consolidated financial data, segment data, and stock
prices, Board of Directors.
• Industry (NIC) and Product (ITC) classifications corporate
actions and Director’s reports run to over 10 years.
• Being marketed since 1986, CapitalinePlus has the USP
of covering the largest number of data points (1400+) per
company.
• It also covers full text of Director's Reports, Auditor's
Report and extensive news clippings of companies.
57. CMIE – i3
• Business Beacon
• CapEx
• Economic Intelligence Service (EIS)
• States of India
• India Trades
• Indian Harvest
• Industry Analysis Service
• Prowess
58. CRISIL
• CRISIL comprises of accurate and reliable news,
information, analysis and forecasts on the Indian
economy, industries, companies and financial
markets.
• CRIS INFAC Industry Information Service presents a
detailed and comprehensive analysis of the current
trends and the long-term performance outlook on
Indian industries.
• IIMA has access to 46 Industries only.
59. Datamonitor 360
(Earlier Marketline-Business Insight)
• Business Insights and MarketLine are now merged
into a new platform called Datamonitor 360.
• Industries, Geographies, Companies, Subjects,
Publishers and Databases.
• Market data on selected industries and macro/socio
economic demographic data on 215 Countries
worldwide both historical and forecast.
• Research and analysis spans over 25 industries
• It provides Company, Industries and Country reports.
60. Datastream (Incorporating Worldscope )
(Available only in library)
• Covers more than 50,000 companies incorporated in 70
countries and the coverage dates back more than ten
years.
• Equity data cover 30+ year of history, 87,000 active
equities source direct from stock markets
• Economic Data direct from national government sources
as well as OECD and IMF
• Fixed income securities and associated fixed income
indices commodities and derivatives data
• Over 100 million different time series worldwide
61. Data Service & Information (DSI)
• Collection of about 100 autonomous statistical
databases
• World Bank publications
• UN databases
• OECD and IEA statistics
• European Union's statistics
• Germany's statistics
• Various Central Banks
• Research institutions specialized in collecting and
preparing statistics in economic, external trade,
energy and environmental questions.
62. FT.COM
• FT content spans global business, finance and politics, supporting a wide
range of disciplines from accounting and international relations to economics
and management
• Provides access to Lex, Special Report and Print Edition
63. FT Archive (1882-2006)
• The Financial Times Historical Archive,1888-2006, is a
complete facsimile run of the world’s most
authoritative daily business newspaper
• Includes over 700,000 pages of past issues, including
Special Supplements and the FT Magazine
• Search every word of the complete text
• Browse individual editions
• Offers helpful introductions and Research Topics
64. GMID (Global Market Information
Database) - EUROMONITOR
• Industry trends
• Strategic analysis
• Market size and market share database for products across key
countries.
• Business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers
• market data, statistical information of 26 industries worldwide.
• Insight on consumer trend on different product, country insight
and report
• internationally comparable statistics, full-text market reports,
insightful comment from expert industry and country analysts as
well as thousands of sources of further information.
65. Gartner
• The technology-related insights
• News, research, analysis, and events about technology
markets and industries, with focus on technology workers,
vendors, and investors
• Report on trends in information technology industry, available
technologies and analysis of the products on the market.
66. Indiastat
• IndiaStat is the authentic source for Indian statistics collected
from the best sources for information and statistics on India.
• Socio-economic statistical data and useful information on India.
• A cluster of 51 sites including India-specific, Sector specific and
State specific sites
• Authentic and comprehensive compilation of secondary level
socio-economic statistical data about India and its states on
more than 35 variables.
67. INDICUS - District GDP of India,
2006-07 to 2010-11
• First ever estimates on Gross Domestic Product
across sectors at district level for all states and UTs of
the country.
• These estimates provide information for all 593
districts in India.
• Covering important economic indicators like GDP at
current & constant prices, short term real GDP growth
across sectors, labour productivity, credit penetration
in each sector and much more.
68. Infraline
Infraline is India’s premier service provider of critical
business information, industry databases, business
intelligence and related services in the Energy Sector.
It gives detailed overview of the following sectors:
Power Sector
Oil & Gas Sector
Coal Sector
Each sector comprises of
• Online newsletter
• Web-based comprehensive database
• Demand & supply projections and forecasting
• Sectoral, Industrial, Legal, Financial and Company Analysis
• Policy research and analysis and due diligence
• Primary research and surveys
69. INSIGHT
• About a specific company or companies
• Company-to-company or company-to-industry or
industry-to-industry comparison
• Information on corporate fundamentals of 8000+ listed
and unlisted companies and PSUs over the past 14
years
• on corporates classified into more than 260 industrial
sectors with complete break-up
• single window access to 35,000 annual reports and
prospectus of companies dating back to 1995
70. Invest India (Available only in library)
• Invest India Incomes and Savings Survey 2007 is the
most comprehensive study on mass markets for
banking, credit, securities, insurance, microfinance,
residential housing, mutual funds and pensions in
India
• This study was produced by Invest India Economic
Foundation and IIMS Dataworks in collaboration with
around 50 top institutions including NSE, World Bank
and LIC of India.
71. ISI Emerging Markets (Asia)
• ISI Emerging Markets delivers information on Asian
emerging markets.
• Provide full-text news articles, financial statements,
company information, industry analyses, equity
quotes, macroeconomic statistics, and market-specific
information,
• Sources directly from more than 13,000 local and
global publications
• Include Annual report, Research report on company
and industries.
72. NASSCOM
• NASSCOM has the most up-to-date online directory of
the Indian IT Industry
• Including off shoring partners, M&A opportunities etc.
• Also provides various important reports on Indian IT
and BPO industry.
73. Prime Database
Information on all capital market offerings:
• Public issues (Including IPOs);
• Rights Issues (2391 issues covered since April 1990)
• Debt private placements (6579 issues covered since April
1995)
• Commercial Papers (873 issues covered since April 2003)
• Overseas Capital Market Offerings (248 issues covered since
April 1991)
• Takeover Open Offer (663 offers covered since April 1997)
• Delisting Offers (32 offers covered since April 2003)
• Buyback Offers (111 offers covered since April 1998)
• Mutual Fund IPOs (738 IPOs covered since April 1964)
• Preferential Equity Issues (9262 issues covered since April
2000) Directories.
74. Reuters 3000 Xtra Hosted Terminal
(Available only in Library)
• Reuters 3000 Xtra gives users a commanding view of
the global real-time financial arena
• Provides a combination of news, information and
insight as well as access to the global Reuters trading
community.
• Its integrated price discovery and trading capabilities
across all asset classes mean that decisions can be
made and executed from a single desktop.
75. Reuters Knowledge
(Available only in Library)
• State-of-the-art Web-based global research solution
for investment managers, portfolio managers, buy-
side analysts, research analysts, investment bankers,
senior corporate executives, chief investment officers,
and anyone else who requires timely, accurate, in-
depth, and comprehensive financial information and
pre-trading analysis.
• Companies, industries, markets, broker analyses,
independent research, estimates, fixed income,
balance sheets, company filings, corporate events,
world news, regional news, company-specific news,
and so on.
76. Venture Intelligence
• Information and analysis on:
• Private Equity, Venture Capital & Angel Investments
• M&A deals
• Real Estate deals
• Profiles of Companies incubated at various
incubators across India investors and M&A deals
• New Funds being raised
• The first League Tables (for Transaction and Legal
Advisory firms) exclusively tracking transactions
involving India-based companies
• Press releases with quarterly and annual data on
PE & VC investments
77. • flows of investment by country and industry
• overseas mergers and acquisitions
• business costs.
• 60 largest economies
– detailed analysis on political and economic
background
– business environment
– foreign investment regulations
– trends in foreign investment.
World Investment Service (EIU)
78. E-journals Databases
These databases provide access to scholarly e-
journals published in various subjects. Some of them
cover back-files access from the beginning.
79. ABI / Inform
• ABI/Inform is a comprehensive business database
covering more than 4,000 journals.
• The combination of products forms a business
database package covering business & economic
conditions, corporate strategies, management
techniques, as well as competitive and product
information.
80. ACM Digital Library
• ACM Digital Library is the full-text repository published
in the computing field and serves the computing
profession with leading-edge publications,
conferences, and other career resources.
• It covers Core Package of 40 titles published by
(ACM) Association of Computing Machinery.
81. EBSCO Host
EBSCO Host Includes following databases
Academic Search Premier
Business Source Complete
EconLit
Human Resources Abstracts
PsycARTICLES
Regional Business News
The Serials Directory
Green File
82. EBSCO - Academic Search Premier
• This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for
more than 4,600 journals, including full text for more
than 3,900 peer-reviewed titles.
• PDF back-files to 1975 or further are available for well
over one hundred journals, and searchable cited
references are provided for 1,000 titles.
83. EBSCO - Business Source Complete
• Comprehensive coverage - indexing and abstracts for the most
important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are
included.
• In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more
than 1,300 journals, Business Source Complete contains
detailed author profiles for the 40,000 most-cited authors in the
database.
• Additional full text content includes financial data, books,
monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference
proceedings, case studies, investment research reports,
industry reports, market research reports, country reports,
company profiles, SWOT analyses, faculty seminars (videos),
and more.
84. EBSCO - EconLit
EconLit, is the world’s foremost source of references
to economic literature. The database contains more
than 7,85,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit
covers virtually every area related to economics. It is
published by the American Economic Association.
85. EBSCO - PsycARTICLES
• PsycARTICLES – from the American Psychological
Association (APA)
• The database contains more than 100,000 articles
from 59 journals - 48 published by the American
Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied
organizations.
• It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and
errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to
present.
86. EBSCO - Regional Business News
This database provide comprehensive full text
coverage for regional business publications.
Regional Business News incorporates
coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers
and newswires from all metropolitan and rural
areas within the United States.
87. EBSCO - The Serials Directory
• The Serials Directory provide access to the most up-
to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well
as current pricing structures for popular serials.
• It contains nearly 2,12,000 U.S. and international
titles, including newspapers; data from nearly 1,08,235
publishers worldwide, including e-mail and Internet
addresses for every entry.
88. EBSCO - Human Resources Abstracts
• Human Resources Abstracts includes bibliographic
records covering essential areas related to human
resources.
• The index contains more than 63,000 records, which
are carefully selected from the most important sources
within the discipline.
89. EBSCO - GreenFILE
• Well-researched information covering all aspects of
human impact to the environment.
• Collection of scholarly, government and general-
interest titles includes content on global warming,
green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture,
renewable energy, recycling, and more.
• The database provides indexing and abstracts for
more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access
full text for more than 4,700 records.
90. Elsevier (ScienceDirect)
Library subscribes many e-journals from different
packages related to Business and Economics. These
all are available with back-files (Vol. 1, Issue 1).
Following subject back-files are included in the
collection.
Business, Management and Accounting (Current + Back-files)
Decision Sciences (Current + Back-files)
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Current + Back-files)
Agriculture and Biological Sciences (Only Back-files)
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (Only Back-files)
91. Emerald Management Extra
• Emerald Management Extra is a comprehensive
collection of peer reviewed management journals
• Online support for librarians, faculty, researchers and
deans.
• It has access to 190 full text journals with back issue
access containing more than 85,000 articles.
92. IEL Online
• It includes access to the full text published since 1988
• Selected contents published since 1913 from IEEE
journals, transactions, and magazines, conference
proceedings, IET journal, IET conference proceedings,
IEEE published standards, IEEE Spectrum Magazine.
93. IndianJournals.com
(48 Titles)
• IndianJournals.com is a vast collection of
interdisciplinary Indian Journals and Research
Publications.
• We subscribe to 48 journals related to business,
economics and social science
94. INFORMS -12 Titles
• INFORMS serves the scientific and professional
needs of Operations Researchers and those in the
Management Sciences including educators, scientists,
students, managers, and consultants.
• The Institute serves as a focal point for O.R.
professionals, permitting them to communicate with
each other and reach out to other professional
societies, as well as the varied clientele of the
profession's research and practice.
95. InfoScience (IGI)
InfoSci Journals (formerly IGI Full-Text Online
Journal Collection), which provides libraries access
to hundreds of journal articles from IGI Global’s
collection of over 134 journals. The research articles
are represented from 2000 onwards.
96. JSTOR(1800+ Journals)
Content Currently Available in the
JSTOR Archive
Number
Number of Journals Online*: 1,239
Number of Collections Online*: 20
Number of Disciplines Across All
Collections:
53
Number of Issues Online: 296,243
Number of Full-Length Articles
Online:
3,275,336
Number of Articles Online**: 6,221,038
Number of Pages Online: 37,318,850
97. Oxford University Press
(94 Titles)
• As a major international publisher of academic and
research journals, Oxford Journals publishes and
develops titles in partnership with the world's most
prestigious learned societies.
• These journals were shifted from print to online
since January, 2009.
98. Project MUSE
Project MUSE is full-text, affordable and user-
friendly online resource covering over 380 high
quality humanities and social sciences journals
from over 60 scholarly publishers.
99. Sage
(400+ Journals)
• SAGE publishes journals in Business, Humanities,
Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and
Medicine.
• We subscribe to more than 400 titles in the the HSS
and Business Collection
100. Springer-Link
• Springer-Link is one of the world's leading
interactive databases for high-quality journals, and
Online Archives Collection.
• We subscribe to 57 titles in the area of Business
and Management.
101. Taylor & Francis
We subscribe to 110 peer reviewed journals on
Economics, Business, Finance, and allied subjects.
102. Wiley InterSciences
(Includes BLACKWELL Journals)
• Blackwell Synergy covers Medicine, Science, Social
Science and the Humanities
• After merger of Blackwell into Wiley, IIMA has more
than 500 journals including Blackwell HSS collection
• Wiley InterSciences collection includes 69 titles
subscribed under IIM Consortia
103. • Our library offers e-books (about 70000)
from trusted publishers in all academic
subject areas along with powerful
research tools with Academic Complete™
ebrary
104. • Carbonfaqtors is designed for universities,
research institutions and individuals who
require accurate and specific data in the
field of climate change studies and it aims
to become the most trusted source of
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) EF's in India.
Carbonfaqtors
105. • Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
is a peer reviewed, PubMed indexed
journal devoted to the publication of
biological, medical, chemical and physical
research in a video format.
JoVE (Video Journal)
106. PapersInvited
• The database consists of detailed information
and deadlines about calls for papers for
forthcoming conferences and special issues of
scholarly journals.
• Approximately 10,000 conferences are listed
each year along with 1,200-1,500 special
issues. Important dates such as Last Day for
Submission of Abstracts or Manuscripts are
clearly labeled and are provided well in
advance of the event or proposed publication
date.
107. • most comprehensive collection of dissertations
and theses
• official digital dissertations archive for the Library
of Congress and the database of record for
graduate research.
• PQDT includes 2.7 million searchable citations
to dissertation and theses from around the world
from 1861 to the present day together
• 1.2 million full text dissertations that are
available for download in PDF format.
Proquest Theses & Dissertations
108. • SAGE Research Methods is an award-winning tool
designed to help you create research projects and
understand the methods behind them. SAGE Research
Methods' taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to
authoritative content, including:
• - Over 640 books
- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
- The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book"
series
- Two major works collating a selection of journal
articles
- Newly commissioned videos
Sage Research Method Online
109. World Advertising Research Center
• WARC provides the largest single source
of intelligence for the marketing,
advertising, media and research
communities worldwide, drawn from more
than 40 international sources.
WARC Database
110. Other Databases
These databases provide access to information on
legal aspects, development related, governmental /
regulatory, conferences, etc.
111. AIR Databases (5 user license)
• AIR Database is CD-ROM Database which provides
access to cases and judgments of the particular area
and jurisdiction. At present library has three different
databases from 1970-2007. IIMA has five user
licenses for these databases.
– AIR Criminal Law (1960-2008)
– AIR High Court (1965-2008)
– AIR Supreme Court (1950-2008)
– AIR Privy Council (1930-1950)
112. RBI Database
The RBI has been, historically, generating and
compiling a large volume of data on various
aspects of the economy. For the benefit of the
researches, the analysts and others outside, the
RBI Database on Indian Economy is published.
113. Westlaw India
Westlaw is a very extensive package containing legislations,
case laws and journals from various jurisdictions like the United
States, United Kingdom, the European Union and India as well.
Types of Content available under Academic Subscription:
• Legislation
• Cases, law reports/ judgments/ briefs
• Law reviews/ journals/ commentaries/ treatises
and practice guides
• US Patent Information
• Forms/ Precedents/ Sample Agreements
114. World Bank Library
E-library
• World Bank e-Library portal covers 4,500 World Bank documents. The
collection consists of over 1,800 World Bank publications and over 2,700
Policy Research Working Papers plus each new book and paper as they are
published. Other important databases are:
World Development Indicators
• more than 600 development indicators, with time series for over 200 countries
220 countries and country groups from 1960 to the most recent available
year.
Global Development Finance
• external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt
ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, etc.
Global Economic Monitor
• provides daily updates of global economic developments, with coverage of
high income- as well as developing countries. Daily data is provided for
exchange rates, equity markets, interest rates, stripped bond spreads,
commodity prices and emerging market bond indices, etc