BITS Hyderabad Library
Welcome to BITS Hyderabad Library
The BITS Pilani Hyderabad campus library is housed in a state-of-the-art new building (Block G), covering about 45000 sq.ft area. It is fully air-conditioned with 575+ seating capacity and is closely located in the Lecture Theatre Complex (LTC) and classrooms of the Institute.
The Library has a collection of over 48047+ books and subscribes to over 49 Indian & foreign periodicals/magazines. Users can have access to over 10250+ e-journals, 7105+ e-books, and various databases such as Sci-Finder, Scopus, etc.
The Library facilities have the primary purpose of supporting BITS’ educational and research programs. Access to and use of the Library is a privilege extended to the members of the BITS community of faculty, students, and staff; including members of their immediate families and sponsored affiliates.
Expectations:
Library users and staff will interact with mutual respect and consideration.
Library users will:
- Respect private and Institute property.
- Abide by all Institute and Libraries’ policies, licensing and contractual agreements.
- Comply with all requests made by library staff.
- Show valid identification upon request.
- Use Library resources (content, equipment, or facilities) safely and appropriately.
Library Working Hours:
Day | Timings |
Monday to Friday | 09 am - 11 pm |
Saturdays | 09 am - 09 pm |
Sunday & Holidays | 09 am - 05 pm |
Book Issue & Return Hours:
Day | Timings |
Monday to Friday | 09 am - 10.45 pm |
Saturdays | 09 am - 08.45 pm |
Sunday & Holidays | 09 am - 04.45 pm |
The library is fully enabled with RFID technology with Self Check-In and Check-Out Kiosk facility. With this technology now one can borrow, return and renew books through a Kiosk at any time during the library’s working hours.
Book Suggestions
You are welcome to suggest books to our library which help us to improve collection through library OPAC: http://libraryopac.bits-hyderabad.ac.in/ You may also mail us at: library@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in or contact Library Helpdesk for more details.WIFI @ Central Library
Free wireless internet facility is available in the library. You may click on the below link to search the books and other resources from anywhere including the hostel as well. http://libraryopac.bits-hyderabad.ac.in/Reserve a Book
Now you can reserve the books from the New Arrival Display and books which are in circulation.To reserve a book please mail us: library@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in or personally contact the library staff for more details.
Suggestions and Complaints
Suggestions for enrichment of library collection or improvement of services and complaints, if any, may be sent to the Librarian at: ramesh.bidi@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in or library@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in- ARAI Journal of Mobility Technology
- Asian Journal of Chemistry
- Asian Photography & imaging
- Autocar India
- Automotive abstracts
- Bhavan's Journal
- Bioscope Journal (South Asian Screen Studies)
- Business of Biotech Biospectrum
- Business Today
- Business World
- Career 360
- Civil Engineering & Construction Review (CE & CR)
- Competition Success Review
- Civil Services Chronicles
- Civil Services Times
- Current science
- Dataquest
- Defence Science Journal
- Digit
- Down to Earth
- Economic & Political Weekly
- Electronics For You
- Embedded for you
- Entrepreneur
- Forbes Magazine
- Fortune Asia Magazine
- Frontline
- Harvard Business Review, South Asia
- India Today
- Indian Literature Journal
- IT Next
- Journal of Development Societies
- Kurukshetra
- Marg: A Magazine of the Arts
- Open Source
- Outlook
- PC Quest
- Pratiyogita Darpan
- Reader's Digest
- Resonance Journal of Science Education
- Research Jr of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Social Change
- Sportstar weekly
- The Economist
- The Week
- The World Focus
- Time
- University News
- Voice & Data
- Yojana
e-Books
e-Journal Databases
- ACI Materials Journal
- ACI Structural Journal
- ACM Digital Library
- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Physics
- American Physical Society
- American Society of Civil Engineers
- ARAI Mobility Technology
- ASME Digital Library
- Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies
- Business communication (Intl. Journal)
- Economic & Political Weekly
- Economist
- EPWRF India Times Series
- IEEE Xplore Digital Library
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Journal of Developing Societies
- Nature
- Nature Chemistry
- Nature Electronics
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Pavement Engineering (Intl. Journal)
- Road Materials & Pavement Design
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Science Direct
- SIAM Journals
- Social Change
- Springer link
- Structure & Infrastructure Engineering
- Time
- Wall Street Journal
- Wiley Online Library
Citation & Other Databases
Guidelines for Fair Use of e-Resources at BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus Library: Usage Policy
- Electronic resources such as e-journals, e-databases, and e-books made available by the BITS, Hyderabad campus Library, is for academic use only.
- These resources can be searched, browsed and material may be downloaded. Downloading or printing a complete book or an entire issue or a volume of one or more journals (called systematic downloading) is strictly prohibited.
- Use of robots, spiders or intelligent agents to access, search and/or systematically download from these resources is also prohibited. Any violation of this policy will result in penal action as per the rules and regulations of the Institute.
- Please be aware that systematic downloading will cause the publisher to block the entire community of users at the BITS Hyderabad campus from accessing these resources.
- Make sure that you download the Research papers actually required by you.
- Please don’t download Research papers that you might require in the future.
- The access to the required e-resources will continue. So, please don’t download irrelevant Research papers.
- The quantity of allowed downloading varies from publisher to publisher. Contact Library staff to seek clarification if any.
- Beware: our campus IT server has a surveillance mechanism in place. Any violation of e-access guidelines can be identified immediately.
- CCTV cameras are placed in E-zone / Reading areas for surveillance.
- Remember! All the E-resources are subscribed under a license agreement with the publishers. Let’s make sure that we do not violate any agreement.
- Please feel free to contact library staff when you need any help.
- NPTEL Video lectures
- CORE (Connecting Repositories)
- Directory of Open Access Books
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- E-Books Directory
- Encyclopedia
- FOSSEE
- MIT Open Courseware
- National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
- NDLTD
- NISCAIR
- Open Access Thesis & Dissertations
- Open Standards.net
- PQDT (ProQuest Open)
- Shodhchakra
- Shodhganga
- Shodhgangotri
- Spoken tutorial
- Springer Open
- SWAYAM (open online courses)
- SWAYAM PRABHA
- Vidyamitra (e-Content Portal)
We add new books, journals, reports and other publications to our library constantly.
New-Book Display - 19(22nd Apr 2024 - 05th May 2024)
New-Book Display - 18(08th Apr 2024 - 21st Apr 2024)
New-Book Display - 17(25th Mar 2024 - 07th Apr 2024)
New-Book Display - 16(11th Mar 2024 - 24th Mar 2024)
New-Book Display - 15(26th Feb 2024 - 10th Mar 2024)
New-Book Display - 14(12th Feb 2024 - 25th Feb 2024)
New-Book Display - 13(29th Jan 2024 - 11th Feb 2024)
New-Book Display - 12(15th Jan 2024 - 25th Jan 2024)
New-Book Display - 11(01st Jan 2024 - 14th Jan 2024)
New-Book Display - 10(18th Dec 2023 - 31st Dec 2023)
New-Book Display - 09(04th Dec 2023 - 17th Dec 2023)
New-Book Display - 08(20th Nov 2023 - 03rd Dec 2023)
New-Book Display - 07(06th Nov 2023 - 19th Nov 2023)
New-Book Display - 06(23rd Oct 2023 - 05th Nov 2023)
New-Book Display - 05(09th Oct 2023 - 22nd Oct 2023)
New-Book Display - 04(25th Sep 2023 - 08th Oct 2023)
New-Book Display - 03(11th Sep 2023 - 24th Sep 2023)
Librarian: Ramesh Bidi
Library Committee Members:
Sl.No | Department | Committee Member |
---|---|---|
1 | Biological Sciences | Prof. Amartya Sanyal |
2 | Civil Engineering | Prof. Bahurudeen A |
3 | Chemical Engineering | Dr. Ramendra Kishor Pal |
4 | Chemistry | Dr. Arijit Mukherjee |
5 | Computer Science & Information Systems | Dr. Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy |
6 | Economics & Finance | Dr. Nivedita Sinha |
7 | Electrical & Electronics Engg. | Prof. Surya Shankar Dan |
8 | Humanities & Social Sciences | Dr. Aruna Lolla |
9 | Mathematics | Prof. PTV Praveen Kumar |
10 | Mechanical Engineering | Dr. Mrinal Ketan Jagirdar |
11 | Pharmacy | Prof. Balaram Ghosh |
12 | Physics | Dr. Subhadeep Roy |
Librarian, Chairman - Library Committee.
Postal Address:
Librarian
BITS, Pilani- Hyderabad Campus
Jawahar Nagar,Shameerpet
Hyderabad 500 078
Telangana State
Ph: +91-040 66 303 809
Fax: +91-40 66 30 39 98
E mail: library@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in
Contact personnel for Library services/Suggestions:
For General suggestions related to Library improvement , services and complaints. Librarian, ( 040 -66 303 809)
Enquires relating to books availability, book suggestions, digital library, lending and overdue books. K B Madhu / D V R Seshagiri Rao(040-66303810/811)
Enquires relating to e-journals access, online subscriptions, Books availability, printed journals and Inter Library Loan Service (ILL) B Haritha (040-66303810/811)