Library OBJECTIVES: To meet the requirement of academic needs of UG/PG students and Faculty members of the Institution. To support and facilitate Learning, Teaching and Administration activities of the Institution. To make Library & Information System as user friendly To provide appropriate and comfortable ambiance for the library users. To acquire, organize Information resources to meet the present and future needs of its users   LIBRARY          The library services at P.B. College of Engineering provides student, staff & faculty member for updating their knowledge and supporting the research, and teaching learning activities. These services are provided through the central library and departmental libraries keeping in view the fast changes in technology. The college library is having a collection of books and journals of all related subjects. The Library consists of the following sections: The Circulation Section The Periodical Section The Stock Area The Reference Section The Media Resource Centre   Library Collection: Books: Books with latest editions as per AICTE norms Vast collection of foreign author books. Books for competitive exams such as Gate, TOFEL, GRE, CAT etc., Member of DELNET.

• Online Databases
• Access to Union Catalogues and Databases
• Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services
• Retro-Conversion
• Reference Services
• Professional Training
• Technical Support
• Cambridge Dictionaries online
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• GISTNIC Databases
• MEDLINE & other databases of NLM Patents:
• Full Text
• Full Text Medical Journals
• Engineering & Technology
• E-Journals:
• Table of Contents etc.

• Comprehensive collection of Journals
• Comprehensive collection of Magazines
• Comprehensive collection of CD ROMS (485no’s)
• Comprehensive collection of Periodical Back Volumes (230 no’s)
• Member of IEEE, IETE, ISTE, CSI and IEI

          IEL Online (IEEE / IEE Electronic Library) from IEEE has been setup under INDEST – AICTE Consortium.

Classification Systems:

           Classification System: Dewey Decimal Classification

Access System: 

          “Books are for use and not for preservation”. With this dictum P.B. College of Engineering Library functions. Hence the Open Access System is followed.

Departmental Library: 

           Separate departmental libraries have been set up for an easy access to the faculty members for the reference books as well as the students in each department. Departmental libraries also stock the project reports of the pass-out students and publications done by the faculty members.

                                            Books and Periodicals (Open Access)
J-Gate : 
           
              The e-journal portal for 9200 + scholarly, research and professional journals. Browse table of contents of latest issues, database of millions of articles, free access to 1300 + journals.
                     The J-Gate is an Internet gateway and portal set up nearly two-years ago by Informatics (India) Ltd. It offers affordable access to global electronic journal literature. It provides seamless access to journal articles through database interface of 10,000+ e-journals. Currently J-Gate offers the followings types of products / services:

• Searchable database consisting of more than 10 Lakhs+ articles added every year across all disciplines.

• More than 10,000 journals including 1200+ free journals and 22 Lakh articles across all Directory of e-    Journals that includes more than 10,000 journals listed with link to journal / publishers site.

• Table of Contents (TOC) for an equal number of journals.

• A comprehensive subjects areas.

• Send e-mail to Authors requesting reprints of articles for journals not subscribed by your library
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• Locate a local library that has the journal.

Related Web Address of Open access:

• http://www.techbook sforfree.com/science. shtml
• http://www.onlinebooks4free.com/
• http://www.freeonlinebooks.org/
• http://freeonlinebooks.net/
• http://www.freetechbooks.com/
• http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
• http://www.readprint.com/
• http://www.freecomputerbooks.com

• Directory of Open Access Journals (Covers over 2000 open access journals on all major subject areas) http://myownjournal.com/
• Electronic Library of Mathematics (by European Mathematical Society and Zentralblatt Math and Includes journals, monographs and lecture notes)
• DIGI Zeitschriften (Completely or partial on-line available magazines )
• Seals(Swiss Electronic Academic Library Services) Portals (Provides free online access to archives of Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici and LENSEIGNEMENT MATHATIQUE )
• Goettinger digitization center GDZ (Provides free online access to monographs, articles etc in mathematics )
• Numdam Website ( The NUMDAM programme is supported by the French ministry of higher education and research by CNRS. It attempts to retro-digitize the ancient mathematics documents published in France )
• The NASA Astrophysics Data System (The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation developed by NASA)
• HighWire Press (Standford University)
• CERN Document Server (Over 800,000 bibliographic records, including 360,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more.)
• SPIRES - HEP Literature Database (Search more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.)
• Indian Academy of Sciences Publications
• Gallica - National Library of France (Please select Recherche and then Periodique from this web site to see the list journals including Royal Society of London's Journals available).
• Scirus - a science specific search engine
• Open J-Gate(Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain.)
• http://www.library. auckland. ac.nz/subjects/ eng/resources/ es.htm



Web Address of Other Libraries - National

• Indian Institute of Technology – Madras: http://www.cenlib.iitm.ac.in/docs/library/index.php
• British Council Division, Chennai: http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-regional-chennai-2.htm
• Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai: http://www.imsc.res.in/library/Index.php
• Anna University, Chennai: http://www.annauniv.edu/Library/index.html
• All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE): http://www.aicte.ernet.in
• University Grants Commission (UGC): www.ugc.ac.in
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore: www.library.iisc.ernet.in
• University of Madras, Chennai: www.unom.ac.in
• Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai: www.sercm.org
• Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai: www.clri.org/LibraryMain.html
• Indian Institute of Management – Ahemedabad: www.iimahd.ernet.in/library
• Government of Tamilnadu: www.tn.gov.in
• Tamilnadu Public Service Commission: www.tnpsc.gov.in

International:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: http://libraries.mit.edu
• Singapore National University: www.lib.nus.edu.sg
• California Institute of Technology: http://library.caltech.edu
• Purdue University: www.lib.purdue.edu
• Harvard University: http://hul.harvard.edu
• University of Cambridge: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk
• Stanford University: http://library.stanford.edu
• Columbia University: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb
• Oxford University: http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk