Library

Welcome to the NMIT Central Library, where a world of information and discovery awaits. The library is dedicated to creating a supportive and resourceful environment, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, to support learning, research, and innovation for all its users.

• Extensive Collection: The library offers diverse collection of books, spanning disciplines such as Engineering, Management, and a wide array of genres, including fiction, classics, and collections for personality development.
• Departmental Libraries: The specialized departmental libraries play a crucial role in supporting academic activities, providing valuable resources for teaching, learning, and research across various disciplines.
• Koha Library System: In addition to standard modules like Circulation, Cataloguing, Serials Control, Acquisition, Patron, and OPAC, Koha offers distinctive functionalities such as Mail & SMS notifications for each transaction, and notifications for overdue accounts and the ability to capture cover images from Google for titles with ISBNs.
• Collections & Facilities: The NMIT Central Library offers a rich array of resources and services. With a collection of 59,400 volumes and 13,500 titles, the library is equipped with the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system, specifically the 22nd edition, ensuring an organized and accessible repository. Additionally, there are 1,600 bound volumes, 5,754 e-Journals and 25,157 e-books. Diversifying learning opportunities, the library houses 1,000 NPTEL courseware options, catering to various educational needs.

In addition to regular lending services, the library offers Book Bank facility for SC/ST students, and an Inter-Library Loan (ILL) facility to ensure broad access to learning materials. Previous year question papers, project reports, and theses are accessible to students for academic reference. To maintain academic integrity, plagiarism checking through Turnitin and Drillbit is employed.

Digital Library

The user can search and reserve books from our library collection, even outside the campus. The system displays the cover image when searching by title for easy recognition. Visit http://nmitlibrary.in/ for more details.

Full text of e-resources (e-books & e-journals) can be downloaded through Knimbus remote access software. Access it here.

Institutional Repository- Dspace: Freely available (Open Source) software has been installed and E-Books, soft copies of Question papers, Lecture Notes are indexed, and made available to access. Newspaper clippings on achievements of Institution are archived. http://172.17.0.148:8080/jspui/

Archiving E-Books in Calibre Software: Calibre is a Free Book Indexing software where more than 2000 Text and Reference E-books are loaded. The E-books can be accessed/ downloaded from http://172.17.0.147:8080/ in the campus only. These can be searched by Author, Title, Subject, Language.

E - Resources

IRINS @ NMIT

IRINS is a web-based Research Information Management (RIM) service developed by the Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre. The portal facilitates the collection, curation, and showcasing of scholarly communication activities of faculty members and scientists from academic and R&D organizations. It provides an opportunity to create a scholarly network. IRINS is available as free software-as-a-service to academic and R&D organizations in India.

IRINS facilitates the integration of various research management systems, encompassing HR, course management, grant management, institutional repository, open and commercial citation databases, scholarly publishers, and more. The system has integrated academic identifiers like ORCID ID, Scopus ID, Research ID, Microsoft Academic ID, and Google Scholar ID to gather scholarly publications from diverse sources.

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QUILLBOT

QuillBot, an indispensable writing companion, is now accessible through our college library, offering students and faculty an array of tools to enhance their writing and language skills. To register with QuillBot, sign up using your official email ID at https://quillbot.com/. Upon registration, activate Premium access by clicking on the verification email received.

Tools

• Grammar Checker: Simplify the writing workflow, correct grammar, spell check, check punctuation, correct a multitude of grammatical errors.
• Paraphraser: The paraphrasing tool helps rewrite and enhance any sentence, paragraph, or article using state-of-the-art technology.
• Plagiarism Checker: analyzes whether any section of text did not properly attribute authorship to content already published on the web or in books, research papers, academic papers, or news sources.
• Summarizer: Summarizer can condense articles, papers, or documents down to the key points instantly in two ways: key sentences and Paragraph mode.
• Citation Generator: The Co-Writer is an all-in-one writing space that combines online research capabilities, note-taking, and AI-assisted auto complete to give users a seamless writing and research experience.
• Integrations: QuillBot integrates directly into Google Docs, Chrome Extension, and Microsoft Word.
• Help Centre | User Guide: consists of short and crisp tutorials on QuillBot’s features, security, demo videos, and tool usage.