The SIMS library provides various resources including over 200,000 books, online journals, databases, and e-books. Users can access 15 online journals, 374 e-books, and 5 electronic databases. Resources can be accessed on-campus or remotely through provided URLs. The library staff provides training and assistance to help users utilize the available e-resources.

1. E-RESOURCE MANUAL
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2. Facilities available at SIMS library
• 20141 books, 108 print journals, 1095 CDs, 700+ CPS reports and dissertations.
• 3 years journals bound volumes, and books banks service for first two semester.
• 5 electronic databases, 374 e-books from Pearson publication.
• Subscribed 15 online journals from Sage publication and Publishing India Group.
USAGE OF FACILITIES
• Access details about online journals and e-books, and short introduction on
databases with their URL.
• The training programmes will be arranged periodically
• Users can approach library staff personally or through email for assistance
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3. E-BOOKS
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4. The SIMS library has total 374 e-books on myilibrary platform. To avail the facility
• Log on to http://lib.myilibrary.com/home.aspx
• go to Browse all e-books
To make the search easier on website the list of book is attached with the mail separately. 4

5. 5
Sage Publication
Publishing India Group Journals

6. Sage Publication Journals
• Library has subscribed for 8 online Sage Publication journals. To avail this facility
• Log on to http://online.sagepub.com/
• Click “ journals by Title” option from Browse tab
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7. • Click “Sage journals available to me” to get list of journals subscribed by SIMS library
• The screen will project only those alphabets under which library subscribed journals is listed. By
clicking on “+” sign against the alphabet user can see the title under each alphabets
OR
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8. • Users can directly search from home page. List of the journals given below for your
reference
Sr.
No.
Title Period Archives from
1 Asian Journal of Management Cases Half Yearly 2004
2 International Journal of Cross
Cultural Management
Thrice in a year 2001
3. International Journal of Rural
Management
Yearly 2005
4. Journal of Human Values Half Yearly 1995
5 Journal of Entrepreneurship Half Yearly 1992
6 Margin-Journal of Applied Economic
Research
Quarterly 2007
7 Vision Half Yearly 2000
8 South Asia Economic Journal Quarterly 1999
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9. Publishing India Group Journals -
• Library has subscribed 7 online journals of Publishing India Group. To avail this facility
• Go to http://www.publishingindia.com/
• Click on subscribed journals tab
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10. Users can directly search from home page. List of the journals given below for your
reference.
Sr. No Title Period Archive Available from
1 International Journal of Marketing and
Business Communication
Quarterly 2012
2 International Journal of Management
Prudence
Half Yearly 2010
3 Global Journal of Research in
Management
Half Yearly 2011
4 Drishtikon: a management journal Half Yearly 2009
5 International Journal of Business Ethics
in Developing Economies
Half Yearly 2012
6 International Journal of Financial
Management
Quarterly 2011
7 Journal of Strategic Human Resource
Management
Thrice in a year 2012
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11. DATABASES
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OPAC
EBSCO
EMERALD MANAGEMENT XTRA
TURNITIN.COM
CAPITALINE
CIME SERVICES

12. OPAC
• The Library users can access library catalogue, CDs and other material through OPAC.
• The library has linked Dissertations, Company Project Report etc.
How to access:
• URL: http://simsmain:9094/
• User will come to the main screen (below) where users can avail facilities like new arrivals,
advanced search, my info etc.
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13. • In advanced search users can do give multiple detail of a document for a query. User can search according
to title, author, keyword or class no . Further search by Accession number/ Accession dates/
Publication year.
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14. • In My info, user can see the book issued on his/her name. To use this facility user has to login by using his/her
login (PRN No.) and password (provided by library). User can change their password. Other than monitoring
own account user can also reserve a book by click on “reserve” tab.
My basket facility provides user its own space to save the searched and required documents for future purpose
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15. EBSCO
• EBSCO Information Services is a worldwide leader in providing information access and management
solutions through print and electronic journal subscription services, research database development and
production.
• EBSCO Industries Inc., is a diversified, financially stable company with manufacturing and sales offices
around the world.
How to access database:
• URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/
• Click on EBSCOhost Research Databases for SIU
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16. User will come to search option- basic search, advance search etc
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17. Search result screen where user can further refine their result i.e full text only, Publication
dates, Peer reviewed journals & also see full text of article. The users can also view list of
article by clicking on the folder.
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18. Emerald Management Xtra
• Accessed by students from anywhere in campus.
• Leading international publisher in Business and management, and Library and information
sciences titles.
• Emerald has 175 peer reviewed journals out of which 24 has ranked by Thomson Scientific (ISI).
How to access
• URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
• User can trace SIU name on the left side of the screen which indicates emerald access is
available for SIU institutes, then user can make further search according to their requirement.
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19. CIME Services
1. Prowess
• These contains highly normalized database built on a sound understanding of disclosures in India
on over 9500 companies.
• The database provides financial statements, ratio analysis, fund flows, product profiles, returns
and risks on the stock markets, etc
How to Access
• Available offline in the Library and Computer Lab only.
2. Economic Outlook
• Provides a comprehensive and integrated view of the Indian economy.
• It replaces two of CMIE's earlier services - the Economic Intelligence Service and Business Beacon.
• The core strength of the Economic Outlook is the underlying database.. Time series on more than
a 100,000 indicators are provided in multiple frequencies and in the form of several derivations.
• The full set of indicators including all frequencies and derivations add up to nearly a million time-
series. All these are presented in intelligently laid-out tabulations.The data can be easily
downloaded into spreadsheets or as csv files.
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20. How to Access
• URL: http://economicoutlook.cmie.com/
• The database is accessible on institute IP address. But, database asks for individual users to
create their profiles on subscribed database to avail detailed facilities.
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21. Capitaline
• It is most reliable and empowered Indian corporate database. It contains a highly normalised
database built on a sound understanding of disclosures .
• The database provides financial statements, ratio analysis, funds flows, product profiles,
returns and risks on the stock markets, etc.
• The database is complemented with powerful analytical software tools to enable extensive
querying and research.
How to access
URL: http://www.capitaline.com/
Users can look for Symbiosis name on the right side of the screen, which means users are allowed
to explore database in detail.
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22. Turnitin.com
• Turnitin improves the students writing cycle by preventing plagiarism by providing them with
originality check report.
• Turnitin’s Originality Check helps instructors check students’ work for improper citation or
potential plagiarism .
• It has been refining the process of comparing papers to a vast repository of data to deliver
originality reports in just a few seconds.
• Turnitin Web Crawler that crawls the internet and indexes content into a searchable form.
• Turnitin currently contains over 24 billion web pages from the current web as well as archived
web pages.
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