To foster and promote a co-operative culture of dynamic critical thinking to help the BMK-KRC emerge as the centre of excellence.
Accredited by NAAC
with ‘A+’ Grade
Accredited by NAAC with ‘A+’ Grade
To reach out to all women learners with resources and services across class and caste boundaries.
To Integrate services and technologies that are essential for learning, research and creation of Knowledge.
To develop print, audio-visual and digital collections relevant to the users.
To develop the BMK-KRC website to enable access to digital resources to all stake holders.
To ensure the preservation and long lasting availability of BMK-KRC resources, archival material and specialized collection in vernacular languages in all formats.
To address the changing needs of the BMK-KRC teaching-learning community with 24×7 access.
To foster and promote a co-operative culture of dynamic critical thinking to help the BMK-KRC emerge as the centre of excellence.
The collection of the BMK-Knowledge Resource Centre includes information material in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Sanskrit. The collection includes :
The collection of the BMK-Knowledge Resource Centre is particularly strong in the social sciences, Gandhiana, women’s studies, arts, literature, nursing, education and library & information science. The BMK-KRC Pune Branch has a rich and varied collection of materials in home science, education, geography and Marathi, while the BMK-KRC Juhu Branch’s special strengths are its collection in food science & nutrition, human development, computer sciences, family resource management, special education technology, apparel manufacture & design, etc.
BMK-Knowledge Resource Centre follows Dewey Decimal Classification System for classification of books and organizing the collection on the shelf. Some of the major class numbers used are labeled on the stacks.
| BMK-Knowledge Resource Centre Details of online resources & databases | |||||
| E-RESOURCES under E – Shodhsindhu (IP Based – Access from Churchgate and Juhu Campus only) | |||||
| 1. | JCCC The Consortium provides current as well as archival access to more than 4500 core and peer-reviewed journals and nine bibliographic databases from 23 publishers and aggregators in different disciplines. These e-resources covers almost all subject disciplines including arts, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, chemical Sciences, life sciences, computer sciences, mathematics and statistics, etc. Link: https://jgateplus.com/search/ | ||||
| 2. | JSTOR It offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching. It includes over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work Link: http://www.jstor.org/ | ||||
| 3. | ISID Institute for Studies in Industrial Development ISID On-line Index to Indian Social Science Journals offers a unique facility to retrieve the desired information through keyword search to the users. The coverage has since been improved by not only keeping the index updated, but also by adding a number of new social science journals. Presently, the On-Line Database Index covers 252 Indian social science journals covering the disciplines of economics, political science, public administration, sociology, social anthropology, business management, finance, geography, social work, health and education, etc. The Institute has been maintaining on-line computerized newspaper clippings on wide-ranging subjects and is referred to as the Press Clippings Index (PCI). Link : http://isid.org.in/ | ||||
| Database Subscribed (IP Based) | |||||
| 1. | APA PsycARTICLES (Access from Churchgate campus) PsycARTICLES® is a robust database offering complete access to the full text of nearly 80 landmark journals contains more than 163,000 articles in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, to neuroscience. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present. Link : https://psycnet.apa.org/search | ||||
| 2. | ELSEVIER Pharmacy: (Access from Juhu) Access to 70 Pharmacy Journals from the areas of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science. Link : http://www.elsevier.com/journals/subjects/pharmacy | ||||
| Databases Subscribed (ID & Password Based) | |||||
| 1. | Indiastat.com Indiastat.com is owned by Datanet India. Indiastat.com serves with authentic and perhaps the most comprehensive compilation of secondary level socio-economic statistical information about India and its states on various socio-economic parameters. These parameters are: General Info, Demographics, Economy, Agriculture, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Environment and Forest, Industries, Infrastructure, Companies, Education, Health, Housing, Labour & Workforce, Polity, Media, Insurance, Tourism, Crime & Law, Social Welfare & Developmental Schemes etc. It provides secondary level statistical information about India, its states, regions and sector. Indiastat.com is a cluster of 56 associate websites wherein 19 websites are sector-specific, 6 are regional websites and 31 websites are state-specific. Link : http://www.indiastat.com/ | ||||
| 2. | IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) + IEEE Proceedings Order Plan (POP) Delivering full text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in engineering and technology. IEL Online combines high-quality technical literature with the power of online searching, including: 169 IEEE online society-sponsored journals, transactions, and magazines; included in IEEE ASPP; peer-reviewed publications, concentrating on theoretical and experimental papers; quality magazines focusing on practical applications in research, design, and specification, more than 324,000 documents, many of them available in HTML as well as the original PDF format. POP offers conference papers through latest conference proceedings. | ||||
| 3. | EPWRF India Time Series (EPWRFITS) EPWRF is disseminating data in the time-series format, using various modes of publications, hard copy as well as electronic modes. In this context, it has been observed that the CDs brought out by the EPWRF have been quite popular. The datasets have been structured under various modules: Financial Markets, Banking Statistics, Domestic Product of States of India, Finances of State Governments, Combined Government Finances, National Accounts Statistics, Price Indices, Agricultural Statistics, Power Sector, Industrial Production, Annual Survey of Industries, External Sector, Finances of the Government of India. Link : http://www.epwrfits.in/ | ||||
| 4. | ProQuest Central (Covers 47 databases) This database serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. This database covers following subjects: Arts, Business, Health & Medicine, History, Literature & Language, News & Newspapers, Science & Technology and Social Sciences. Link: http://search.proquest.com/ | ||||
| ARCHIVAL DATABASES (Access from Churchgate campus on IP) | |||||
| 1. | Women’s Study Archive The Women’s Studies Archive connects archival collections concerning women’s history from across the globe and from a wide range of sources. Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the archive provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, and socialism, and on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals. By providing the opportunity to witness female perspectives, Gale’s Women’s Studies Archive is an essential source for researchers working in Women’s History, Gender Studies and Social History. Link: https://infotrac.gale.com/itweb/sndt | ||||
| 2. | SRELS Digital Archives for 54 years (1964-2017) Contains archives in Library and Information Science Database. | ||||
| E-BOOKS Subscribed (ID & Password Based) | |||||
| Sr. No. | Publisher | Link | |||
| 1 | Pearson | https://elibrary.in.pearson.com | |||
| 2 | S Chand | https://ebooks.schandgroup.com | |||
| 3 | Orient Blackswen | ||||
| 4 | CBS | https://www.eduport-global.com/ | |||
| 5 | Arts & Science Pub(Aadi Publications, Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., Edukeen Publisher, ABD Publisher..etc) | https://www.asapglobe.com | |||
| 6 | T & F | ||||
| 7 | Elib4u (New Age, PHI Learning, Laxmi Publications) | https://digital.elib4u.com/ | |||
| 8 | Himalaya Publishers | https://himalaya.ipublishcentral.com | |||
| 9 | Sage | Login to “SAGE e-vidya website” | |||
Procedures and Policies for maintaining and utilizing the library
Reading & Lending Services
Reference Services
Electronic Services
The BMK-Knowledge Resource Centre and the School have jointly handled several consultancy projects. These range from the planning and design of libraries (of schools, technical institutes, professional organizations), indexing of newspapers (Times of India) and journals [Marg], evaluating libraries, to developing a plan for the Learning Resources Utilization Centre at the Government Polytechnic, Mumbai, under the World Bank project, developing a gender studies gateway, a digital library on women and reproductive health, and a web site for library information for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. They have also developed several database structures for the organization of information (including databases of Government Resolutions and files for the Government of Maharashtra’s Earthquake Relief Documentation Project ) created thesauri for indexing, and conducted training programs for librarians, NGOs and faculty.
This unique facility within the BMK-KRC Juhu Branch is set up to serve as a Laboratory for students of Child Development and Special Education. It aims to promote reading among children and to examine the role of books and reading on the development of the child. Resources include children’s books, a picture collection, cassettes and charts. Current reading, lending, reference and storytelling services are provided. Annual summer activities aimed at developing creative and enquiry skills among children are organized.
| Websites | URL |
| Shodhganga: A reservoir of Indian Theses | http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| ShodhGangotri : Repository of Indian Research in Progress | http://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| IndCat: Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities | http://indcat.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| e-PG Pathshala: A Gateway to all Post Graduate Cources | http://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| Vidwan Database: Expert Database and National Researcher Network | https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| Research Project Database | http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/researchproject/ |
| e-Acharya: Integrated e-Content Portal | http://content.inflibnet.ac.in/ |
| Directory of open access journals | www.doaj.org/ |
| Directory of Open Access Books | http://doabooks.org/ |
| Open Access Journals Search Engine | http://www.oajse.com/ |
| OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories | http://opendoar.org/ |
| Digital Library of India | http://www.dli.gov.in/ |
| Internet Archive | https://archive.org/ |
| NDLTD : Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations | http://www.ndltd.org/resources/find-etds |
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre, Gandhinagar is an Autonomous Inter-University Centre (IUC) of University Grants Commission, New Delhi (Ministry of Education, Govt. of India). It is a major National Programme initiated by the UGC in March 1991 as a project under the IUCAA, it became an independent Inter-University Centre in June 1996. INFLIBNET is involved in modernizing university libraries in India using the state-of-art technologies for the optimum utilisation of information. INFLIBNET is set out to be a major player in promoting scholarly communication among academicians and researchers in India.
Web Link : https://inflibnet.ac.in
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert’s background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc. The database developed and maintained by Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) with financial support from the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The database would be instrumental in selection of panels of experts for various committees, taskforce, established by the Ministries / Govt. establishments for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
Web Link : https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in
