Agricultural College & Research Institute Library, Madurai – 625 104

The library was established during the year 1965. New premises was occupied on 28th September 1994. The modern library centre funded by AHRDP as annex to the main library was declared open on 23rd July 2001 for students browsing centre.

The library has automated through Koha-open source library software. The college library is mainly providing with the document collection of Agriculture, Horticulture, Food Science and allied subjects. Totally 71129 Text, Reference, Competitive examination books, Theses and Back Volumes.

Working Hours:

8.00 am -8.00 pm on all working day

8.00 am – 2.00 pm on Saturday

Book Issue / Return Timings:

9.00 am – 6.00 pm on all working days

Staff in Position:

Dr. C. Karuilancheran, Ph.D.,  Librarian   

 

Dr.R.Priyadharshini,  Ph.D., Library Assistant 

Library Facilities:

  1. Documents:

Text book, Reference Books, Peer Reviewed current Journals, Back Volume of Journals, Newspaper, Annual reports and Conference Proceedings.

  1. Special Collection:

Competitive exam books & Journals; Thesis.

  1. E-Information resources:

e-books, e-Journals, CD’s, Library e-services for Access of e-Resources by off-campus users.

e-Books available in AC&RI Campus Network

  • CAB   e – books
  • Astral e -books
  • Taylor & Francis e-books
  • Elsevier – Science direct e-books
  • Springer e-books
  • Wiley  e-books

CAB e-books

Agriculture    – 242 titles

Animal and Veterinary -219 titles

Environmental Sciences –220 titles

Human Health and Nutrition – 120 titles

Leisure & Tourism –169 titles

Plant Science – 345 titles

Science Direct

Browse 4,668 journals and 33,345  books

DiscpLine

Springer:

  1. Business and Management – 26,905
  2. Life Science -14,095
  3. Social Science – 17,981
  4. Biomedicine – 8167
  5. Economics – 11,003

Sub discipline:

  1. Subtainbale development – 2,538
  2. Biomedicine general – 2,157
  3. Agriculture – 2669
  4. Environment management – 2187
  5. Business and Management general – 9913

Wiley online Library

1600 Journals

250 Reference works

22000 online books

Printed Journals:

20 Nos of Indian Journal subscribed (print version)

 

 

Access of e-Resources by off - campus users

e-Journals

CeRA (Consortium for e Resource in Agriculture)

Indian Journals.com

Directory of open Access Journal (DOAJ)

e-Databases

Web of Science

Scopus

Indiastat.com

Commodity India

DELNET

Endnote

iTenticate

e-Theses

KrishiKosh

Shodhganga

CD’s:

Competitive Exam

Subject

Thesis

Services:

Circulation Services (Book Issue and Return etc)

Current Awareness Service

Reference Services

User Orientation

Reprographic Services

Information display and notification Services

Digital Resources availability

Online Public Access Catalogue

Newspaper clipping services in agriculture

Contact:

Dr. C.Karuilancheran,Ph.D.,
Librarian
Library
Agricultural College & Research Institute,
Madurai - 625 104.
E-mail ID: librarymac@tnau.ac.in
Office No: 0452-2422956 Extn:206