Library
The college library is one of the proud assets of MSM College. Automation and IT enable services have been successfully installed in the library. The resources and service provided are one step ahead among other colleges under Kerala University. The library provides OPAC (On the Public Access Catalogue) for speedy retrivel of books. The searching of documents through computer is possible by a user even if the documents are present in the department library. Issue and return of books are done both by manual and through computer at the same time. The MSM College management goes ahead with a vision for providing full-fledged automated library services to all by the launching of the portal.
Email Id: msmcollege@rediffmail.com

e-journals
Bioline international – Open Source Journals and Online Resources Directories News and guide to scientific information on the Web
http://www.bioline.org.br/journals
Brill Open E-Journals Collection
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals
Cambridge University Press: Open Access – Open Access journals from Cambridge University Press.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/openAccessContent
Directory of Open Access Journals
EPW (Economic and Political Weekly)
http://www.epw.in/epw/user/userindex.jsp
European Scientific Co-operative on Phytotherapy – European Phytojournal – free online
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Free On-line Chemistry journals
http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm
Free scholarly electronic journals: an annotated webliography
http://www.istl.org/00-fall/internet.html
Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text peer-reviewed content
http://intl.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
Hindawi – Open Access Journals
http://www.hindawi.com/oa/
Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS)
http://www.ias.ac.in/
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP)
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
MedInd-medical journals – fulltext of 33 Journals
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
National Preservation Office – NPO ejournals
http://www.bl.uk/blpac/journaltemp.html
Nature Precedings – Preprint server for the Life Science community.
Nature Publishing Group – Open Acess Journals
http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/nature.php
Nutrition Bytes – Free fulltext
http://escholarship.org/uc/uclabiolchem_nutritionbytes
OMICS Publishing Group – Open Access Journals
http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access-journals-list.php
Open Access Library (OALIB) – Free Access to 263,388 Academic Articles
Open Science Directory – Developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library
http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/
Palgrave Macmillan – Open Access Journals
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/palgraveopen/index.html
Physics related free access journals
http://www.eps.org/physNet/journals.html
PSIgate provides access to evaluated network based information services and resources in the physical sciences.
Public Library of Science – premier open-access journals in Biology and Medicine
Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed Open Access Journals
SAGE Open Subject Collections
Science and Education Publishing (SciEP) is a multidisciplinary open access publisher of 85 Journals
http://www.sciepub.com/portal/Home
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) – Worldwide dissemination of social science research.
SPIE Journals (Open Access)
http://journals.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals.aspx
Springer Open gives you free access in Science, Technology and Medicine.
Taylor & Francis Online :: Open Journals
http://www.tandfonline.com/page/openaccess/openjournals
The African Journal Archive
http://www.sabinet.co.za/?page=african-journal-archive
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
University of Tennessee – Research Guides – Citation Formats and Style Manuals, Databases and other e-resources collection.
http://libguides.utk.edu/style
Wiley Open Access Journal
e-books
Arts & Photography
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=108
Ask Sam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts.
Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels.
http://www.baen.com/library/
Biographies & Memoirs
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=146
Blue Portal provides ebooks in various subjects
Book Yards is a web portal which contains books, education materials, information etc.
Brill Open E-Book Collection
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books
Business & Investing
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=118
Computers Science & Internet
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=9
Darwin Online
Directory of Open access Books
eBookLobby containing collection of various subjects.
Engineering & Technology
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=73
Entertainment & Games
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=21
ENVIS Bulletin “Telemetry in Wildlife Science”
http://www2.wii.gov.in/envis/telemetry/index.html
Free Book Spot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 Titles in various subjects
Free Computer Books consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books
Free Tech Books lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes
Get Free EBooks
Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads
Gutenberg- more than 20,000 public domain books that are out of copyright and also world’s greatest fiction available.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Health, Mind & Body
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=83
Historical Mathematics Collection
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/u/umhistmath/
History
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=110
Humanities
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=282
Know Free is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice
Law
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=268
Literature & Fiction
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=74
Many Books provides more than 20,000 ebooks in various subjects
Mathematics
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=3
Medical Science
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=77
Memo Ware has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.)
Nonfiction
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=19
Online Computer Books contains details about free computer books
http://www.onlineprogrammingbooks.com/
Online Free EBooks provides various subject ebooks
http://www.onlinefreeebooks.net/
Open Book Publishers – Publishing open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences.
http://www.openbookpublishers.com
Outdoors & Nature
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=136
Pure Science
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=1
Religion & Spirituality
http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/listing.php?category=65
Scribd , the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats.
Snip Files offers you free ebooks and software
SpringerOpen books
http://www.springeropen.com/books
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web.
e-reference
Cambridge Dictionaries Onlineth-2
http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/
Foreign Language Dictionary-French
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/frenchdictionaries.htm
Foreign Language Dictionary-Spanish
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/spanishdictionaries.htm
Glossary
Librarian’s Index to the Internet
Merriam-Webster
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
One Look Dictionaries
Sahapedia – An open Encyclopedia on Indian Culture and Heritage
Scholarpedia
Subject Dictionary-Business/Finance
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/businessdictionaries.htm
Subject Dictionary-Library and Information Science
http://www.abc-clio.com/ODLIS/odlis_d.aspx
Subject Dictionary-Medical Science
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp
Subject Dictionary-Science
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/sciencedictionaries.htm
Subject Dictionary-Technology
http://www.libraryspot.com/dictionaries/computerdictionaries.htm
digital library
World Digital library
Consortium for Educational Communication
Directory of Open Access Repositories
http://www.opendoar.org/find.php
eGyanKosh (IGNOU)
Library of Congress
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository
NPTEL provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk
UNESCO Library
http://www.unesco.org/library/
Virtual Library
e-magazine
Competitive E-magazine (Pratyogitha Darpan & Success Mirror)
e-newspaper
The Hindu
The Indian Express
Kerala Kaumudi
http://news.keralakaumudi.com/beta/
Deepika
Mangalam
Mathrubhumi
About 10,000 newspapers worldwide
e-patents
Govt. of India’s Patents Websitepatent
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en
Australian Patent Office
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
Canadian
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/introduction.html
Ekaswaa – Search of all Indian patent documents.
http://www.indianpatents.org.in/db/testmaina.asp
European
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/
FreePatentsOnline.com – A simple patent search database, freepatentsonline.com offers to chemical researchers a unique way of searching for patent documents.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
French Patent Office
German Patent Office
http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/english/index.html
Greek Industrial Property Organisation
http://www.obi.gr/obi/Default.aspx?tabid=71&
Hong Kong Patent Office
http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/home.htm
Indian Patent design and trademark office
Indian Patent Information Retrieval System (IPIRS)
http://ipindiaservices.gov.in/patentsearch/
Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China (SIPO)
Internet sites for patent search
http://www.pfc.org.in/info/site.htm
Irish Patent Office
Korean Intellectual Property Office
http://www.kipo.go.kr/kpo/user.tdf?a=user.english.main.BoardApp&c=1001
Malaysian Intellectual Property Division
New Zealand Patent Office
Patent Facilitating Centre
Patent information centres (PATLIB)
http://www.epo.org/searching/patlib.html
Patent Lens – A worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource.
Russian Patent Office
http://www.rupto.ru/rupto/portal/start?lang=en
Singaporean Patent Office
Swedish Patent Office
Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property
Thai
http://www.patentarea.com/thai_patent_requirements.html
UK Intellectual Property Office
United States
e-thesis
Shodhganga -ETD Repository of Indian Universities- INFLIBNET initiative
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/3
Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works
DART-Europe E-theses Portal
http://www.dart-europe.eu/basic-search.php
National Chemical Laboratory Pune (Theses full text free).5
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Open Access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT Open)
inflibnet n-list
INFLIBNET-NLIST
https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/
The college library has three sections
- General section
- Reference section
- Department section
The general and reference sections are under the direct control the librarian. The departmental libraries are under the control of the concerned Heads of Depts. All Post Graduate depts. have department libraries and their statistics will be verified by the librarian at the end of each academic year.
The concept of library should be changed in accordance with the tune of users. We have been looking forward to change and extent the services to the users. Our management goes ahead with a vision for providing library services to all through the launching of our virtual library within a short span of time.
Information Sources available in the Library
Total number of books in the library 35639.
24196 books are in the general section. These books are circulated.
- Reference book: 3400 books includes Encyclopaedias, who is who, Horthis Malabaricus, Dictionaries,Yearbooks, Atlas etc.
- Periodicals: popular periodicals and journals (nearly 24) are subscribed in the library and kept in the reading room. Certain journals are shifted to the department libraries for the use of PG students.
- Newspapers: 11 dailies, 3 English and 8 Malayalam papers.
- Question papers: Bounded volumes of previous question papers are kept for reference.
- Other Collections: Bounded volumes of Career Books, PSC Bulletins, CSR, Thozhil Vaartha, Thozhil Veedhi etc are available.
Rules
- The Library remains open from 9.00 am to 4 pm.
- Only the staff and students of the college are members of the library.
- All members can borrow books on all working days between 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm.
- The reference books and periodicals will not be issued for use outside the library.
- Only one book shall be issued at a time.
- On receiving the book, damage if any should be reported to the library staff. If they fail to do so, they will be held responsible for any damage detected afterwards.
- Sub-Lending of books is not allowed.
- The books should be returned within 15 days failing which a penalty @ 1 per day will be imposed.
- Students are expected to make the maximum use of the Library.
- Strict silence should be maintained inside library.
- Students coming to the library should produce their identity cards to the library staff.
- The uses of Sweets, Chewing gums, Intoxicants etc are banned in the library.
JESNA JAMAL
Designation: Librarian
Educational Qualification: MLISc, BEd
Mobile No: 9207101494
Email ID: jesjesna5@gmail.com