Central Library

The Silicon Central Library, spread over 17000 sq.ft., is at the forefront of ensuring access to the world’s educational, teaching and research resources to its student and faculty community. It has an extensive collection of printed volumes, audio and video courses, and digital and online resources. The careful curation makes it easy to find the most relevant and useful resource for diverse subject areas.

64835

Volumes of books

10149

Titles

9045

Reference books

5537

Reference titles

37

Periodicals subscription

41969

ProQuest & Elsevier e-book subscriptions

981

e-journals

35911

e-proceedings

64835

Volumes of books

10149

Titles

9045

Reference books

5537

Reference titles

37

Periodicals subscription

41969

ProQuest & Elsevier e-book subscriptions

981

e-journals

35911

e-proceedings

Library Team

Dr. Biswajit Baral
Faculty In Charge (FIC)

Nibedita Bhuyan
Library Assistant

Dr. Nrusingh Kumar Dash
Librarian

Bhajendra Kumar Ray
Library Assistant

Manoranjan Mohanty
Senior Library Assistant

Ajay Pani
Library Assistant

Prasanta Satpathy
Library Assistant

Bijay Paikaray
Library Attendant

Parsuram Mishra
Library Assistant

Sudipta Muduli
Library Attendant

Infrastructure & Facilities

The 17,000 sq.ft., air-conditioned Central Library at Silicon provides the ideal space for individual and collaborative study. With a seating capacity of 450, the library promotes a productive environment for learning and research. While reading rooms with separate cubicles support focused study, discussion rooms enable collaboration and engagement.

Discussion Room

Volumes of books

Reading Room

Reference books

Discussion Room

Volumes of books

Reading Room

Reference books

Rules & Regulations

The library remains open throughout the week. Students can borrow books for different durations depending on their need. Faculty members and students have access to a wide range of reference resources for consultation and use within the library.

Silicon Student Handbook
Library User Type of Book Issue Number of books DURATION

Faculty

Regular

10

One semester

Other Staff Members

Regular

5

One semester

Students

Fortnight

2

14 days

Students

Book Bank

7

One semester

Students

Night

1

One night

Students

Scholars Club

2

14 days

Students

GATE enrolled

2

14 days

Students

Reference

3

One day

Students

CDs/DVDs

2

One day

Library User & Type of Book Issue

Library User: Faculty
Type of Book Issue : Regular
Number of books : 10
DURATION : One semester
Library User: Other Staff Members
Type of Book Issue : Regular
Number of books : 5
DURATION : One semester
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : Fortnight
Number of books : 2
DURATION : 14 days
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : Book Bank
Number of books : 7
DURATION : One semester
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : Night
Number of books : 1
DURATION : One night
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : Scholars Club
Number of books : 2
DURATION : 14 days
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : GATE enrolled
Number of books : 2
DURATION : 14 days
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : Reference
Number of books : 3
DURATION : One day
Library User: Students
Type of Book Issue : CDs/DVDs
Number of books : 2
DURATION : One day

Courseware & Open Access Resources

Silicon Central Library gives students access to different CourseWare and a curated set of Open Access resources, which helps them find relevant and useful material readily.

COURSEWARE

Special Academic Group Autonomy (SAGA)

SAGA is a faculty group who makes courseware to complement textbooks, classroom learning and create teaching aids. Students get a ready reference for the detailed course content based on individual lesson plans.

National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)

NPTEL provides online web and video courses from IITs and IISC, Bangalore, in engineering, science and humanities.

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MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.

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OERu

OERu connects learners around the world with defined pathways to education, created by recognised educators and assessed by renowned global institutions.

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Mooc.org is an extension of edX.org, a leader in online courses.

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Academic Earth

Free online lectures and courses for engineering.

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Open Culture

Free online audio and video engineering courses from the world’s leading universities.

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UTM OpenCourseWare (UTM OCW)

Collection of digital learning materials in engineering, science and technology in a course format from UTM, Malaysia.

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OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

01. American Society for Microbiology 02. ASCI Journal of Management
03. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 04. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
05. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry 06. Bentham Open Access
07. Bio-Med Central 08. ChemSpider
09. Cochrane Library 10. Copernicus Publications
11. Current Science 12. De Gruyter Reference Global
13. Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) – IJPP 14. DOAJ
15. Elsevier 16. Engineering Journal
17. Free Medical Journals 18. Friends Science Publishers
19. High Wire Press Archives 20. Hindawi Corporation
21. IEE Xplore 22. Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
23. International Journal of Engineering (IJE) 24. International Journal of Engineering Research & Science
25. J-Stage 26. MathWorld
27. MedIND 28. Optics Express
29. Osaka Journal of Mathematics 30. PLoS
31. Proceedings of the Japan Academy 32. Publications of the Research Institute of Mathematical Sciences
33. PubMed Central 34. SabiNet
35. Scientific Research Pub 36. Scimago Journal & Country Rank (SJR)
37. Springer Plus 38. Techpedia
39. The Open Education Consortium

Contact Us

LIBRARIAN

Dr. Nrusingh Kumar Dash

ncd@silicon.ac.in

+91 9937289499, +91 7381499499 (Ext. 245)

FACULTY IN CHARGE

Dr. Biswajit Baral

Associate Professor

biswajit@silicon.ac.in

FIND YOUR LIBRARY

Ground Floor, South Block Annex