IISER-K Library


The IISER-K Library,   established   in   2006, is   specialized in Basic Sciences. Its collection consists of documents (Books, e-books, journals, Multimedia DVDs etc.) in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, Geosciences, Computer Science, History of Science etc. It   is   mainly meant for the staff members, research scholars and students of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.

The Library also extends the facility for general reading. Books in Social Sciences, Humanities (in various languages), and several magazines and newspapers are procured for satisfying the users' quests in this regard. The institutional memberships with the American Library and British Council Library (BCL) also serve this end.

The Library has installed Virtua   Library Management & Digital Library   software form VTLS, USA   to fully   automate its services.  RFID (VTLS-Fastrac) is also put into operation to help in the for management and security of the documents.

The book collection stands at 29,500+ [16,500+ in print and 13,000+ electronic].

Besides the books and e-books, the Library subscribes to 2600+ online journals and around 30 print journals. The e-journals include substantial number of backfiles from publishers like AIP, IOP, Nature, Springer, PROLA, Royal Society, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and World Scientific.From 2011, IISER-Kolkata Library started to subscribe GeoScienceWorld (GSW),a comprehensive database on Earth Science. Apart from SCOPUS, the Library also subscribes MathSciNet, SciFinder,Faculty of 1000 Biology,and GeoRef for searching scholarly bibliographic literature.

The Library provides reference photocopying services to the user community.

Last Updated: 14.10.2014