Government General Degree College, Mangalkote, started its journey in 2015 in an environment-friendly location, surrounded by a big dighi and vast paddy fields. The college library was set up in the academic session 2015-16 with 378 books. The library has gradually increased its need-based collections and is now fully functioning with 3076 books. It is conspicuously located on the left side of the main entrance of the college, in the ground floor of the college building. It has an area of around 1200 sq. ft. The area is under CC TV surveillance and is fully air-conditioned.
The library is the learning resource centre and knowledge hub of the college. It provides teaching-learning materials to the students and teachers. Students get their library membership ID card after completing their registration. Providing the right document to the right user at the right time is the main objective.
Library Committee
- Convener- Dr. Akash Kedia, Assistant Professor in Botany
- Jt. Convener- Dr. Suchismita Das, Assistant Professor in Sociology
- All HODs
Our Services
- Reading Room Service
- Circulation Service
- Reference Service
- New Arrival Display Service
- Open Access Stack
- Library Extension Program
Our Infrastructure
- 1. CC TV Surveillance
- AC Reading Room
- Free Wi Fi Connectivity
- Power Backup Service
- Dust-free and enclosed stack
Our Targets
- To implement fully automated library service
- To provide OPAC search system
- To provide maximum open access e-Resources through the library web pages.
Our Collections
Library Hours
Monday to Friday- 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Saturday- 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Our Collections
| Department | No. of Books |
| Bengali | 576 |
| English | 424 |
| History | 436 |
| Political Science | 287 |
| Sociology | 254 |
| Zoology | 366 |
| Botany | 210 |
| Chemistry | 505 |
General Rules and Regulations
- Users are required to mandatorily register their presence in the Daily Library User Attendance Register every time they enter or access the library.
- Students, teachers and non-teaching staff are required to keep their bags and belongings outside the library before entering the premises. Bags/Umbrellas/Folders/Newspapers/Personal or Issued books are not allowed inside the library.
- Users should not bring food or beverages inside the library.
- Loud conversation is not allowed inside the library.
- Users are mandatorily required to keep their cell phones in silent mode or switched off inside the library.
- Users are advised to handle library resources i.e. books, journals & magazines carefully.
- Users/readers should not deface, mark, cut, mutilate or damage library materials in any way. If anyone is found doing so, he/she is liable to be charged with the full replacement cost of the damaged material. Such acts may also lead to the suspension of library membership.
- Books and other materials taken from the stacks should not be re-shelved by the users/readers. They are required to seek help of the library staff to avoid misfiling. Books misplaced are considered as books lost.
- Cooperation with the library staff is imperative.
Circulation Rules
- Students can issue 02 Books for a maximum of 21 Days.
- Faculty members can issue 10 Books for a maximum of 06 Months.
- Non-teaching staff can issue 03 Books for a maximum of 02 Months.
- Renewal can be availed maximum twice.
- If the members do not return the issued books after the due date, the library may block their membership card for the next two months.
- Loss of book must be reported immediately. In case of lost books, users are required to urgently replace the book (same edition or higher). Otherwise they have to pay ten times of the actual cost of the book.
Online Newspapers And Magazines
English:
The Telegraph Online–Click here
Hindi:
Bengali:
Anandabazar Patrika–Click here
Magazines
Magazter: Magzter is a cross-platform, self-service, global digital newsstand with thousands of magazines and newspapers from 5,000+ publishers.
E-Books
DOAB(Directory of Open Access Books)–Click here
The biggest platform where you can find the list of open access websites for books published in worldwide.
Cambridge University Press OA Books–Click here
Free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, all on one easy-to-use online ebook platform.
Open and free content on JSTOR:
OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.
Open Access publisher–Click here
Open Access publisher in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK: a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by scholars who are committed to making high-quality research freely available to readers around the world.
Open Textbook Library–Click here
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.
Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources.
OpenStax CNX Library–Click here
OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.
Taylor & Francis Open Access Books–Click here
There are 1000 plus eBooks available as Open Access.
PDF Drive is the world largest Book database
Bengali Books:
Open Audio Books:
LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection(1300+)–Click here
Open Access E-Journals:
DOAJ(Directory of Open Access Journals)–Click here
Oxford University Press (Holding page: Internet Library of Early Journals: A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals)
Open Humanities Press–Click here
GET THE RESEARCH: Open Access Journals An Open Access E-Journal Search Portal:
Open Access Journals An Open Access E-Journal Search Portal (OJAS)–Click here
Core: One of the world’s largest collection of open access research papers
Open Access Scholarly Databases
arXiv: arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
bioRxiv: Preprint archive of Biology, Started in 2013 by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory.
medRxiv: Preprint archive of Medical and Bio-medical literature, Started by Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, Yale, BMJ.
ChemRxiv: Preprints in chemistry and related areas collaboratively managed by ACS, RSC. GDCh, CSJ, CCS.
SocArXiv: An open archive of the social sciences.
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository–Click here
South Asia Open Archive: Open-access resource for research, teaching, and learning about South Asia.
South Asia Open Archive–Click here
Research 4 Life: A content portal for academic and professional resources for education, research, and policy making in all subject areas.
Wolfram Mathworld: Mathematical Science:
Social Science Research Network–Click here
RePEc: Economics and Development
Agricultural Information System–Click here
Open Access Repositories and Digital Library
NDLI (National Digital Library of India)–Click here
Digital Library of the West Bengal Secretariat:
Digital Library of WB–Click here
Hathi Trust: HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via Google Books and the Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
OpenDOAR: OpenDOAR is a global directory of Open Access repositories and their policies.
OER Commons: OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Dryad Digital Repository: Dryad is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
Dryard Digital Library–Click here
OpenLibrary: OpenLibrary is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
Roar: Registry of Open access Repository
Open Educational Resources
NSOU Study Materials–Click here
National Knowledge Network–Click here
E-Thesis and Disssertation
NDLTD-Millions of E-Thesis from thousands of universities around the world-Click here
OATD -Search 1.6 million electronic theses across the Globe–Click here
Shodhganga -E- thesis repository of Indian Universities–Click here
PQDTOpen -Open Access Dissertation and Theses from ProQuest–Click here
EBSCO Open Dissertations-Search Millions of e-Theses from EBSCO–Click here
Journal Ranking:
SCI-journal ranking platform Based on Scopus, Elsevier-Click Here
Reference Management Tools:
Academic Search Engine:
OpenAlex: OpenAlex is made by OurResearch, a nonprofit dedicated to making research open.
ORCID: The ORCID is a nonproprietary alphanumeric code to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication as well as ORCID’s website and services to look up authors and their bibliographic output.
Google Scholar: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
AI Tools for Research
ResearchRabbit: ResearchRabbit is an innovative 田itation-based literature mapping tool available online.
ChatPDF: ChatPDF is an AI-powered app that will make reading journal articles easier and faster.
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WorldCat: WorldCat is a global catalog of library materials. You can search for books, music, video, articles and much more at libraries near you.
Ask Your Librarian
Library Staff:
Mr. Goutam Mondal, College Librarian
Contact
Email ID: ggdcm.library@gmail.com
WhatsApp: 8017560042
