Library for Management and Business Researchers

Dr. H. AnilkumarLibrarian, IIM Ahmedabad

INFORMATION SOURCES

♦ PRINT

♦ NON-PRINT

♦ PEOPLE/INSTITUTIONS

PRINT SOURCES

♦ PRIMARY SOURCES

♦ SECONDARY SOURCES

♦ TERTIARY SOURCES

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

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

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.

EVALUATING INFORMATION SOURCES

♦ Purpose

♦ Scope

♦ Format

♦ Treatment

♦ Authority

♦ Special Features

♦ Edition

♦ Cited/Referred

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VIKRAM SARABHAI LIBRARY

Library Resources

Books 1,76,120

Bound Volumes of Periodicals 42,004

Foreign Journals 424

Indian Journals 643

Electronic Databases 70

Working Papers 2,257

Thesis 274

Student Projects 1,712

Newspaper 32

CDs / Videos 1,961

Subjects coveredMain 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 ChildrenHindi

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Library Layout

Circulation Desk

Reuters and Datastream Terminal

Newspapers

Cyber Lab

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New Arrivals (Every Monday)

CD/DVD Collection

Current General Magazines

Self operated photocopier

Faculty Publications

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Reference Books (Second Floor)

Print Journals (Second Floor)

Compact Shelves (Second Floor)

Individual Carrels (Each Floor)

Reading Spaces

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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

Books Arrangement on the Shelves

Spine labels…

Call NumberCall Number

Reference Books (R)

Call Number

Faculty Publication (FP)

Call Number

Community and Childrens Collection

Call Number

Date Slip

Book Card (inside cover)• Issue Date

• Due Date

• Member No.

• Signature

Journal Bound Volumes

Journal Bound Volumes…

Volume, Issue, Month & Year

Bound Newspapers

Economic Times&

Financial Times

Economic Times&

Financial Times

Bound Newspapers…

Bound Newspapers…

March 28, 1966 (Bombay)

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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

Users Category No. of MembersFaculty / 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 MembershipType 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

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 HoursMonday-Friday

8.45 AM to 10.00 PM

Saturday & Sunday

9.00 AM to 5.45 PM

Library Hours

24 x 7

♦ 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

www.iimahd.ernet.in/library/

Online Catalogue

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Online Resources

Categories

Country / Company / Industry Databases

Scholarly Resources A. E-Journals

B. E-Books

C. Others

Legal & Other Databases

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.

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

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.

CMIE – i3

• Business Beacon • CapEx • Economic Intelligence Service (EIS)• States of India• India Trades• Indian Harvest • Industry Analysis Service• Prowess

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 SectorOil & 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

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

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.

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.

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.

Prime DatabaseInformation 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.

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.

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.

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

• 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)

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.

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.

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.

EBSCO HostEBSCO Host Includes following databases

Academic Search Premier Business Source Complete EconLit Human Resources Abstracts PsycARTICLES Regional Business News The Serials Directory Green File

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.

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.  

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Taylor & Francis We subscribe to 110 peer reviewed journals on Economics, Business, Finance, and allied subjects.

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

• Our library offers e-books (about 70000) from trusted publishers in all academic subject areas along with powerful research tools with Academic Complete™

ebrary

• 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

• 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)

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.

• 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

 • 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

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

Other Databases

These databases provide access to information on legal aspects, development related, governmental / regulatory, conferences, etc.

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)

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.

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

World Bank LibraryE-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

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