NALANDA CENTRAL LIBRARY

• WEB OPAC
• नालंदा केन्‍द्रीय पुस्‍तकालय नीति (Library Policy)

About Library: 

Information is the bloodline of the future. It lies at the core of research and forms the mainstay of learning. MCNUJC ensures that students have access to a wide range of information sources. The well-stocked library has a wealth of information on various subjects. The library has an OPAC facility, with information on around 43,000 books covering a wide range of subjects, from media and communication to public relations and information technology.

The library is equipped with e-books, online journals, magazines, periodicals, and newspapers, as well as a national digital library facility for students. A total of forty national and regional newspapers are regularly subscribed to and archived in the library for media and communication studies. Additionally, 50 subject-specific magazines, including those useful for competitive examinations, are also made available. The library has an extensive collection of research journals on media and communication, IT and computers, and library science.

The university has memberships for research journals such as Bioscope – South Asian Screen Studies, Global Business Review, Indian Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Creative Communication, Media Watch, Vikalpa, etc.

To aid the progress of media-related research, the library has developed an archive of newspaper clippings on 300 specific subjects, which is regularly updated. To encourage reading habits among students, an award is given every year to the student who spends the most time reading in the library. Besides the main library, each teaching department also has its own library with books, periodicals, and journals.

The library has also developed an Indian Knowledge System section named “Devarshi Narad Bhartiya Gyankhand” for students, research scholars, and faculty.

Library Timing: 

Open all working days.

Normal Days – Monday to Friday	–	10.00 AM to 6.00 PM
During Exam Time- Monday to Friday	–	10.00 AM to 9.00 PM
Sunday, Saturday and Holidays	–	11.00 AM to 4.00 PM

Web OPAC : Click Here to Open

Library Collection:

Books	–	38142 (Reference Books, Text books, General Books)
Donated Books	–	5000
Periodicals: Magazines	–	– 31 (Year 2024) – Click Here to See the List.
Research Journals	–	28 (Year 2024) – Click Here to See the List.
Newspapers	–	37  (Local & National)- Click Here to See the List.
Bound Volume	–	1504- Click Here to See the List.
Research: Thesis	–	– 97 :- 81 Media – Click Here to See the List. 9 CS – Click Here to See the List. 7 LIS – Click Here to See the List.
Ph.D./M.Phil Portfolio	–	264 :- 159 Ph.D. Portfolio – Click Here to See the List. 105 M.Phil Portfolio – Click Here to See the List.
Dissertation	–	500 :- Dissertation of Media & Others Dissertation of M.Phil
Electronic: CDs	–	– 800
Photo/Video Album:	–	141Photo Album University Programs 106CD/DVD University Programs
Special Section: Newspaper Clipping Files	–	– 300 Files on different subjects – Click Here to See the List.
Devarshi Narad Bhartiya Gyankhand	–	Reference/General Books
Rare collection	–	Original copy of “Karamveer” Newspaper by Pt. Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Back Volumes	–	Last 4 year’s purchased Newspapers Last 1 year’s subscribed Magazines

  

Library Services:

• Circulation Service
• Current Awareness Service – CAS
• Information Dissemination Services – IDS
• Inter Library Loan (ILL)
• New Arrival
• Newspaper Clipping Service
• Open Access Facilities
• Orientation
• Periodicals
• Plagiarism Check
• Reference & Information Service
• Reprography Service
• Shodhganga
• Web OPAC

E-ACCESS

• Web OPAC : Click Here to Open

E-Books:

University Library provides the following E-books facilities to Students and Faculty Member:

1. Access Science – https://www.accessscience.com/
2. Adobe Free eBook – https://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html
3. Alive & Free – https://www.c3f.com/alivfree.html
4. Baen Free Library – https://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/2012
5. Book Boom – https://bookboon.com/
6. Britannica – https://www.britannica.com/
7. CBSE – https://www.cbse.gov.in//
8. DigiLibraries.com – https://digilibraries.com/
9. eAdhyayan – https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/eadhyayan/
10. EBook Lobby – https://www.ebooklobby.com/
11. e-Library – https://e-library.us/free-ebook.htm
12. e-Pathshala – https://epathshala.nic.in/
13. e-PG Pathshala – https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in//
14. Free Computer Books – https://freecomputerbooks.com/
15. Free e Book – https://www.ebooks.com/en-in/free
16. Free e Book.net – https://www.free-ebooks.net/#gs.ag85vt
17. Free Full PDF – https://www.freefullpdf.com/#gsc.tab=0
18. Free Tech Books – http://www.freetechbooks.com/
19. Free Tech Books – http://www.freetechbooks.com/
20. GetFreeEBook – https://www.getfreeebooks.com/
21. Globusz – https://www.globusz.com/
22. Internet Archives – https://archive.org/
23. Many Books – https://manybooks.net/
24. National Digital Library of India – https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
25. National Repositories of Open Educational Resources (NROER) – http://nroer.gov.in/home/e-library/
26. NPTEL – https://nptel.ac.in/
27. Open Library – https://openlibrary.org/
28. PDF Drive – https://www.pdfdrive.com///
29. Planet eBook – https://www.planetebook.com/
30. Project Gutenberg – https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
31. Read any Books – https://www.readanybook.online/
32. Sacred Books – https://gitapress.org/downloadable/ebooks
33. Scribd – https://www.scribd.com/
34. SWAYAM – https://swayam.gov.in//
35. The Movie Blog – https://www.themovieblog.com/2008/11/the-movie-blogs-top-100-movies-based-on-books/
36. The Online Books Page – https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
37. UGC- https://www.ugc.gov.in/publication/ebook
38. Universal digital Library – http://ulib.isri.cmu.edu/
39. Wiki Books – https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
40. World History Encyclopedia – https://www.worldhistory.org/

OER:

University Library provides the following Open Educational Resource (OER) facilities to Students and Faculty Member:

1. AGRIS http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/index.do
2. AidDatahttps://www.aiddata.org/
3. British Columbia Open Text Book Project https://colection.becampus.ca/
4. California Open Educational Resources(OER) by subject https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/oersbysubject
5. CambridgeUniversityPresshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/open-access
6. Commonwealth of Learning (COL) https://colcommons.org/
7. Commonwealth University OER https://library.commonwealthu.edu/OER/list
8. DirectoryofOpenAccessBookshttps://www.doabooks.org/
9. DirectoryofOpenAccessJournals(DOAJ)https://doaj.org/
10. DirectoryofOpenAccessJournalshttps://doaj.org/
11. E-Book Directory https://www.e-booksdirectory.com/
12. e-Campus Ontario https://www.ecampusontario.ca/
13. e-ContentcoursewareinUGsubjects http://cec.nic.in/cec/
14. e-PGPathshala https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/
15. e-ShodhSindhu https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/
16. FOSSEE https://fossee.in/
17. HighWire https://www.highwirepress.com/
18. ILOSTAT https://ilostat.ilo.org/
19. InfoPort https://infoport.inflibnet.ac.in/
20. LegalInformationInstituteofIndia http://liiofindia.org/
21. LegalInformation-commonlii http://www.commonlii.org/in/
22. Libre Texts https://libretexts.org/
23. LibriVox—AudioBooks https://librivox.org/
24. NationalDigitalLibrary https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/
25. NationalKnowledgeNetwork https://nkn.gov.in/
26. NCERTTextBooks http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/textbook.htm
27. NPTEL https://finptel.ac.in
28. OpenAccessThesis&Dissertations https://oatd.org/
29. OpenKnowledgeRepository—WorldBank https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/
30. OxfordOpen https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access
31. ProjectEuclid https://projecteuclid.org/librarians/lib_oa
32. ProjectGutenberg https://dev.gutenberg.org/
33. PubMedCentralPMC https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
34. Rice University Open Stax https://openstax.org/
35. Saylor Academy https://www.saylor.org/
36. ScienceDirectOpenAccessContent https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9781843342038/open-access
37. Shodhganga-areservoirofIndiantheses https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/
38. SNLTR https://www.nltr.org/
39. SouthernConnecticutStateUniversity https://libguides.southernct.edu/openaccess
40. SpokenTutorial https://spoken-tutorial.org/
41. SpringerOpenJournals https://www.springeropen.com/journals
42. SWAYAMOnlineCourses https://storage.googleapis.com/uniquecourses/online.html
43. SWAYAMPRABHA https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in
44. TalkstoTeacher https://www.ted.com/playlists/182/talks_from_inspiring_teachers
45. Taylor&FrancisOpenAccess https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess
46. TheOAPENFoundation http://www.oapen.org/home
47. UG/PGMOOCs http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php
48. University of Pittsburgh OER https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/find
49. Vidwan https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/
50. Virtual Labshttps://www.vlab.co.in/
51. Wiley Open Access https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-access/browse-journals.html

Database:

University Library provides the following Database facilities to Students and Faculty Member

1. EBSCO Open Dissertation – https://opendissertations.org/
2. Internet Movie Database – https://www.imdb.com/
3. Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation – http://search.ndltd.org/
4. PQDT Open – https://www.proquest.com/?defaultdiss=true
5. United Nations Library – https://www.un-ilibrary.org/
6. IDEAS – https://ideas.repec.org/
7. ERIC – https://eric.ed.gov/
8. LISTA – https://research.ebsco.com/c/c2os5f/search?db=lxh
9. MIT Open Courseware – https://ocw.mit.edu/
10. Open Textbook Library – https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
11. The Online Book Page – https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
12. DOAJ – https://www.doaj.org/
13. WorldCat – https://search.worldcat.org/
14. California Digital Newspaper Collection – https://cdnc.ucr.edu/
15. News Library – https://www.newslibrary.com/
16. Global Health and Human Rights database – https://www.globalhealthrights.org/
17. World Culture Encyclopedia: Countries and their Cultures – https://www.everyculture.com/
18. Encyclopedia Britannica Online – https://www.britannica.com/
19. Oxford English Dictionary – https://www.oed.com/?tl=true
20. Scopus database – https://www.scopus.com/home.uri
21. Shodhganga – https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/287250/browse?type=dateaccessioned&submit_browse=Upload+Datehttps://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/287250/browse?type=dateaccessioned&submit_browse=Upload+Date
22. Web of Science – https://clarivate.libguides.com/directlinks
23. Indian data Portal – https://indiadataportal.com/
24. J-Gate – https://jgatenext.com/#basicsearch
25. Cite Seer Database – https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
26. Research Gate – https://www.researchgate.net/
27. HAL (Open Archives) – https://hal.science/

E-Journals:

University Library provides the following subscribed E-Journals facilities to Students and Faculty Member:

Sage Journals – https://journals.sagepub.com/

• Bioscope- South Asian Screen Studies – https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Bioscope-+South+Asian+Screen+Studies&AfterYear=1981&BeforeYear=2024&queryID=37%2F4341628184
• Global Business Review – https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?field1=AllField&text1=&publication%5B%5D=gbra&publication=&Ppub=&access=
• Indian Journal of Public Administration – https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?AllField=Global+Business+Review
• Journal of Creative Communication – https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?field1=AllField&text1=&publication%5B%5D=crca&publication=&Ppub=&access=
• Media Watch – https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?field1=AllField&text1=&publication%5B%5D=mdwa&publication=&Ppub=&access=
• Vikalpa – https://journals.sagepub.com/action/doSearch?field1=AllField&text1=&publication%5B%5D=vika&publication=&Ppub=&access=

Indianjournals.com – https://indianjournals.com/

• Journal of Global Communication – https://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=journals_list&type=alpha&show=subs
• Library Herald – https://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=journals_list&type=alpha&show=subs
• Mass Communicator – https://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=journals_list&type=alpha&show=subs
• Pearl – https://indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=journals_list&type=alpha&show=subs

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Contact:

Dr. Arti Sarang
Incharge Library
Nalanda Central Library
Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication
Bishankhedi, Goregaon, Bhopal (M.P.) INDIA
Pin Code – 462044
Phone – 0755-2574521
e-mail:- library@mcu.ac.in or dlis@mcu.ac.in