FOA LIBRARY
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ABOUT FOA LIBRARY
The Faculty of Arts & Law Library of MUJ has a spacious area of 150 Sq.m. that exudes peaceful learning environment. The Library is fully air-conditioned with the seating capacity of 100. The FoA&L Library employs Koha: LMS software for access control, automatic issue and return of library documents, and stock verification of library holdings. The FoA&L Library has a collection of 9000 books with 1900 titles on various subjects and over 300 reference books. It subscribes about 50 national and international print journals and holds over 150 project reports and 7 Ph.D Thesis. The Digital Library has subscribed 6 E-Resources include 1500 e-journals, manuals, reports, standards, and other information from Manupatra, Lexis India, Supreme Court Cases, and AIR Onine
The Digital library holds nearly 500 CDs and DVDs. The FoA&L Library has established an Institutional Repository using Dspace: A Digital Library Software. The FoA&L Library provides off campus access to all of its subscribed contents to the students, faculty, and research scholars through username and password using knimbus software
NOTE:-Username will be your your MUJ Outlook ID and Password will be muj@123
WORKING HOURS
| Week Days | ||
| Working Hours | 8.30 a.m. | 11.00 p.m. |
| Issues/Returns | 8.00 a.m. | 6.00 p.m. |
| Reprography | 9.00 a.m | 5.00 p.m. |
| Sundays & Holidays | ||
| Working Hours | 9.00 a.m. | 6.00 p.m. |
| Issues/Returns | 9.00 a.m. | 6.00 p.m. |
| Reprography | 9.00 a.m | 6.00 p.m. |
LIBRARY LAYOUT
Reading Hall
Books Stock Area
Periodical Section
Circulation Conuter
Digital Library
LIBRARY TEAM
LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
BOOKS
| Faculty-wise | No. of Titles | No. of Volumes | E-Books |
| Faculty of Arts & Law | 2064 | 9270 | 76602 |
PRINT PERIODICALS
| S.No. | Faculty | List of Print Journals |
| 1 | Faculty of Law | Click Here |
ONLINE COURCES
| 1 | NPTEL | Click Here |
| 2 | Swayam | Click Here |
| 3 | e-PG Pathshala | Click Here |
E-Resources
Manupatra is India's premier online research service for the legal community. Manupatra enables legal professionals to retrieve cases, statutes, and other documents from Manupatra's vast library of legal and business materials.
IEEE Xplore digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields
Authoritative Content – Drawing from our years of publishing, technology and legal research experience, Lexis®India is a trusted legal information source used by some of the prestigious law firms, legal professionals and leading law schools throughout India
A law graduate. Mr Bhargava is the founder of the journal "Corporate Law Adviser" which started its journey in the year 1989. He has to his credit in the capacity of Author / Editor, several books in Corporate Laws, Business Laws and Direct Taxes.
The All India Reporter, as an organization can take pride with all humility, as being a pioneer in the field of law publications and for revolutionizing the law publication sector. Apart from conceiving the first and only pan-India Law Reports publication, we have many Firsts to our credit.
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company. It offers journals in Engineering, Social Sciences, Management and allied
Academic Complete is ProQuest’s award-winning subscription database trusted by libraries around the world. For more than a decade, students have relied on Academic Completes unlimited access, multidisciplinary coverage, and powerful research tools.
Other Recources
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe via continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach.
ScienceDirect is a website which provides subscription-based access to a large database of Engineering and Computer Sciences. It hosts over 12 million pieces of content from 3,500 academic journals and 34,000 e-books.
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Kingdom-based publisher and conference company. It offers journals in Engineering, Social Sciences, Management and allied.
EBSCO provides products and services to libraries of very many types around the world. Its products include EBSCONET, a complete e-resource management system, and EBSCOhost, which supplies a fee-based online research service with 375 full-text databases, a collection of 600,000-plus ebooks, subject indexes, point-of-care medical references, and an array of historical digital archives.
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. We help you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. We collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free.
ProQuest provides applications and products for libraries. Its resources and tools support research and learning, publishing and dissemination, and the acquisition, management and discovery of library collections.
IEEE Xplore digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.
Turnitin is an American commercial, Internet-based plagiarism detection service which is a subsidiary of Advance.
E-Books & Services
| 1 | ProQuest E-Books | Click Here |
| 2 | Pearson Education | Click Here |
| 3 | National Digital Library of India | Click Here |
LIBRARY SERVICES
MUJ Libraries hold vast information resources. Libraries regularly bring out services to inform the users of latest developments and availability of newly acquired documents for use. These services assist the users in pursuit of and access to required information and keeping them informed of latest developments in their subject fields.
The Faculty of Arts & Law Library of Manipal University Jaipur provides value added services including:
Inter Library Loan Service
It is impossible and not feasible for a library to acquire all documents demanded by the users. It will be imprudent to spend budget on buying an odd request for a document from a noncore subject field. In such cases the library should depend on the resources of other libraries. The stray demands of users can be fulfilled to some extent by entering in to Inter Library Loan (ILL) agreement with DELNET member libraries.
Photocopying and Printing Service
The Central Library of Manipal University Jaipur extends printing service and photocopying of few pages of books, journal articles and previous year University question papers and assignments at a nominal charge.
Web OPAC Service
The Central Library holds nearly 65000 books; 400 print journals, 1000 back volumes, 2500 CD/DVD-ROMs and 500 project reports, dissertations and theses. The full bibliographic data of the holdings is entered in the Koha LMS system and the OPAC database is updated. The OPAC of Library resources is constantly updated and is made available on the University Intranet/Internet as Web OPAC for searching. Users can search OPAC from any computer terminal in the Campus-wide network. Also many terminals are provided in the Central Library which can be used for searching the OPAC. The digital documents can be downloaded from the servers while users can find the location of print documents for accessing them.
Reference Service
Optimum utilization of print and digital resources of the library, through meaningful interaction with the users, is an important feature of the reference service. The MUJ Central Library provides information and referral services to the library users. It covers familiarizing new users with the library stack area, reference and digital resources available in the library and their access information.
Current Awareness Service
Most of the Faculty usually have interest in a few subject fields and continue to work and do research in their own chosen fields of interest throughout their career. About a quarter of their professional man-hours are devoted to scientific writing of papers, attending conferences, delivering invited lectures, and attending technical meetings for exchanging and updating their expertise with peers.
Standards/ Patents Information Service
Any institution dealing with developmental works, projects, laboratory work, research, and education a necessity will arise for standards as well as patents. These are very crucial documents and provide vital specifications to be followed and primary information on innovations. MUJ Libraries procure on need basis standards from concerned Standard/Patent offices.
User Education Programme
Libraries spend a lot of budget in acquiring, processing, and making print and digital resources to its users. It is the primary responsibility of the Librarian to create awareness in the library users. In academic environment there is always change in the population of Students, Scholars, Staff and Faculty due to starting of new courses, new batches of students and so on. So, it becomes imperative to initiate the new members joining MUJ fraternity to the library, its resources, facilities and services offered. This would not only create interest but also knowledge of the valuable information and knowledge repositories in the Institution.
LOAN PRIVILEGES
Any of the Students, Scholars, Faculty and Staff with a valid RFID-enabled Identity (ID) Card of Manipal University Jaipur is entitled to borrow, renew, reserve and return the library documents on or before the due date. The library issues documents-books, back volumes, CDs/DVDs and audio cassettes to borrowers for a definite period as under:
| Borrowers Type | No. of Books | Loan Period | Overdue Charges | |
| Faculty Members | 8 | One Semester | Not Applicable | |
| Non Teaching Staff | 4 | One Semester | Not Applicable | |
| Research Scholar | 8 | 90 days | Not Applicable | |
| PG Students | 5 | 14 Days | Rs.2/- Per day for one week. After that Rs.5/-Per Day |
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| UG Students | 5 | 14 Days | Rs.2/- Per day for one week. After that Rs.5/-Per Day |
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| Non Book Materials | Faculty |
2 | 2 Days | Not Applicable |
| Students | 2 | 2 Days | Rs.2/- Per day for one week. After that Rs.5/-Per Day |
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No Due Certificate
All Schools, Colleges, and Departments of the University will ensure that a No Dues/No Demand Certificate is obtained from the Library by students, scholars, staff and faculty working under them on their completion of studies, research or resignation or superannuation.
Loss of Documents
Occasionally a borrower loses a document or damages it. If the document is damaged, the action depends upon the extent of damage; if it is a minor damage, it can be repaired locally. If the document is lost or seriously damaged, the users must:
- Replace the latest library edition of the lost document or
- If document is out of print, pay two times the latest known price of the document.
- In case of loss of any issue of a periodical, it has to be replaced or cost of the entire volume must be paid.
- In case of loss of a single part of a multi-volume publication, the volume has to be replaced or cost of the entire set will be recovered from the borrower.
- The library will suspend all its services to the defaulters till the recovery is made and the recovery note duly certified is received in the Library.
LIBRARY RULES & POLICIES
| RULES & POLICY | ||
| 1 | LIBRARY GENERAL RULES | CLICK HERE |
| 2 | LIBRARY BOOKS PURCHASE POLICY | CLICK HERE |
| 3 | BOOK DONATION POLICY | CLICK HERE |
LIBRARY MEMBERSHIP
The membership of the Central Library is open to all the students, research scholars, faculty and staff of Manipal University Jaipur. Library users can be grouped into following categories:
Library Members:
The University Identity Card enables the Students, Faculty Members, and Research Scholars as Members of the MUJ Libraries to avail all the library services including borrowing books.
Temporary Members:
Persons entitled to utilize library facilities only on special permission granted by the Head of the University for a short period are referred to as Temporary Members.
Admission to Library
All members desirous of using the library shall swipe the University Smart ID Card at the Smart Card Reader at the entrance.
INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
Research publications are the result of intense R&D efforts made by the researcher who strives hard to add new knowledge to the existing world knowledge. This is done by way of research or review papers, project reports, conference papers, chapters to books, etc. All academic and research institutions publish research. This is intellectual capital is to be archived and preserved. The Institutional Repository covers publications by the Faculty, Research Scholars, and Staff in the form of published research papers, book chapters, conference papers, project reports, etc.
BOOK SEARCH
Single Window Search Box for Library Resources
MAJOR LEGAL DATABASES
Research platform that integrates legal information with business news and intelligence. Provides a legal citator, points of law, cases, statutes, news, and transactional documents. Personal accounts are available for members of the Cornell Law School community. Contact Law Library reference for information on setting up an account.
Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) publishes daily, weekly, and monthly reports on the latest in legal news. BNA offers numerous databases on the following topics: antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, corporate and securities, criminal law, employee benefits, employment and labor, environment and safety, ethics, family law, health care, homeland security, intellectual property, international, international tax, litigation, product liability, tax, and trade and commerce. Many of these databases offer automatic email updates for members of the Cornell Law School community. Sign up in the appropriate database.
Fastcase is a comprehensive, searchable legal database that provides access to statutes, cases, regulations, constitutions, and court rules from the federal government and all 50 states.
Access to PDF versions of many different American, foreign, and international legal sources, including law journals, ALI restatements, foreign case reports, federal administrative regulations, federal statutes, U.S. treaties and agreements, historical legal treatises, among others.
Intelliconnect (CCH) provides access to CCH looseleaf services that contain primary law, treatises, commentary, and analysis of a wide variety of topics, including intellectual property, labor and employment, and tax
Comprehensive legal research system providing access to U.S. federal and state statutes, case law, news, treatises, and more. Individual accounts are available for members of the Cornell Law School community.
Legal treatises, practice guides, and study aids in ebook format
Complete access to Practising Law Institute’s treatises, course handbooks, legal forms, program transcripts and answer books
Contains materials pertaining to the U.S. Congress including the complete U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-2014; bills, laws, hearing transcripts, committee reports, documents, and the Congressional Record. Includes digital images of many bills and resolutions.
Includes over 18,000 thoroughly researched legislative histories, including the full text of the enacted public law, all versions of related bills, and related Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, committee reports, committee prints, Presidential signing statements, and miscellaneous congressional publications.
Comprehensive legal research system providing access to U.S. federal and state statutes, case law, news, treatises, and more. Individual accounts are available for members of the Cornell Law School community.
WORLD LAW PORTALS
A search engine for cases, laws, treaties and more from over 400 databases from over 25 Commonwealth countries. Operated by the Australasion Legal Information Institute.
Laws from around the world.
Links to foreign embassies in Washington, DC.
From the Univ. of Toronto. Includes General Country Information, Governments , Constitutions/Laws/Treaties and Statistics.
D'Angelo Law Library, Univ. of Chicago.
A project of the University of Michigan School of Information Alternative Spring Break.
Law and Government Resources for 230 Countries. Internet Links section provides access to compilations of government sites
Inter-Parliamentary Union.
More than 50.000 Links to Legal sites in over 160 countries.
BEST LIBRARY USER AWARD
To promote maximum and proper utilization of library facilities and services, the Faculty of Arts & Law Library gives away Best Library User Award to the students and faculty every month who make maximum use of library resources and facilities. The following students and faculty have been awarded Best Library User Award on 29 January 2020.
| Month | Name | Roll No./Staff ID | Department | |
| October 2019 | Mr. Raj Singh | 191301045 | School of Law | |
| December 2019 | Ms. Rahul Kumar Kumawat | 181301019 | School of Law | |
| Sl.No. | Topic | Date & Time | Venue | Trainer |
| 1 | Training Program on Manupatra: A database on Law | 11 October 2019 10 a.m – 11 a.m. | Class Room, SoL | Mr.Manoj, Manuaptra |
| 2 | Training Programme on IEL online for the students of ECE | 21-01-2020 10 a.m. – 11 a.m. | AB1 Computer Centre | Mr.Lakhpat singh Naruka, Training Manager, EBSCO |
| 3 | Training Programme on IEL online for the students of EEE | 21-01-2020 11 a.m.-12 Noon | AB1 Computer Centre | Mr.Lakhpat singh Naruka, Training Manager, EBSCO |
| 4 | Training Programme on IEL online for the students of CSE/IT | 21-01-2020 2 p.m.-3p.m. | AB1 Computer Centre | Mr.Lakhpat singh Naruka, Training Manager, EBSCO |
| 5 | Training Programme on EBSCO Art & Architecture for the students FoD | 22-01-2020, 3 p.m.– 4 p.m. | Open Reading Hall | Mr.Lakhpat singh Naruka, Training Manager, EBSCO |
| 6 | Training programme on EBSCO Business Source Elite, Hospitality and Tourism Complete and EBSCO Academic Search Elite for the students and faculty of School of management, Commerce, and Hotel Management | 22-01-2020, 11.30 a.m.-12.30p.m. | Open Reading Hall | Mr.Lakhpat singh Naruka, Training Manager, EBSCO |
| 7 | Training on Access of All India Reporter: A Law Database for II Year and III Year of School of Law | 10-2-2020 | Classroom, SoL | Ms. Guddi Yadav, Training Manager, All India Reporter, Jaipur |
BEST PRACTICES
The Central Library of MUJ has implemented best practices in terms of using Standard Formats and Procedures for all library activities and follows Policies that are well publicized. These include
- Computerization of library with standard digital software.
- Inclusion of comprehensive information about the library, resources, facilities and services in the University website and prospectus.
- Compiling student/teacher usage statistics and displaying the same on the notice board.
- Displaying newspaper clippings on the notice board periodically.
- Display of career/employment information/ services.
- Information literacy programs.
- Suggestions register for timely response.
- Displaying new arrivals and circulating a list of those to academic departments.
- Conducting book exhibitions on different occasions.
- Establishing of Readers’ Forum
- Organizing book talks.
- Organizing competitions annually.
- Conducting user surveys periodically.
- Instituting Annual Best User award for students and Faculty
- Remote access service to the users.
- MUJ Library App – A mobile access technology.
- Conducting of International Conference/National workshop on Scholarly Communication.
- Screening of Academic videos once in a week in the Media Resource Centre.
- Author of the Month programme.
RESEARCH SUPPORT TOOLS
About Plagiarism Prevention Software
Originality Check allows educators to check students’ work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their institution’s academic integrity.For the same objective MUJ holds a campus licence for the plagiarism detection software turnitin as a learning and prevention tool.
Turnitin
Turnitin is a web-based system that allows student papers to be submitted and checked for plagiarism. The Turnitin system compares student papers with sources available on the Internet, select commercial article databases, and papers submitted of other institutions using Turnitin. For every paper submitted to Turnitin, a unique customized Originality Report is generated. Each report identifies the matches that the system made, which can then be investigated. For more information please visit. (http://turnitin.com/)
