Library Resources

The library has built specialized and robust collection of rare documents in social sciences catering to the research objectives of the Institute. It is an asset for academicians and policy makers in this part of the country. The books in print form still are the prime need of the users. There is also focused subscription of on-line resources in the library which are highly used by the scholars. The library is part of a few consortiums and networks and is part of the network plan for ICSSR libraries. The scholars are largely benefited by the DELNET and the EPW research foundation, time series data.

Books And Journals:

The GIDS Library has a specialized collection of resources keeping view the changing research and academic needs of its scholars. The collection is also built up in terms of an asset for the Institute which is the driving force for creative efforts, innovative changes and knowledge sources, endeavoring to provide rich information that is historical and contemporary in diversified fields of interest. The Library houses a total collection of 42,768 and subscribes to 90 Indian Journals apart from foreign journals subscribed through JSTOR. The core areas are Economic, Sociology, Education, Political Sciences and allied areas. There is special emphasis laid on the collection of the state of Uttar Pradesh for which documentation is also done on regular basis. The Library has a few CD-ROM Databases especially of the World Bank publications. There is link to a few on-line subscriptions providing facility from any networked computer within the Institute. The Library provides a few databases of its own of books and journals, article indexing and abstracting, digitized Institute publications, news paper clippings of a few core subject areas and CO-ROM databases. The collection in terms of various heads is given below:

Major learning resources - 42768
Books - 38690
Government reports - 1797
Monographs - 2946
World bank - 8337
Pamphlets - 271
Bound journals - 7266
Reference volumes - 2490
Ilo - 225
Oecd - 500
United nations - 375
Cmie - 456
Periodicals

Special Collection:

Microforms of Gids publication
Institutional publications
Digitised & microforms of Gids publication
Official publications on Uttar Pradesh
World Bank depository library

Electronic Journals:

Conference Alert
Contributions to Indian Sociology
Down to Earth
Economic & Political Weekly
History & Sociology of South Asia
India Quarterly
Indian Economic & Social History Review
Indian Journal of Gender Studies
International Journal of Rural Management
Journal of South Asian Development
Kurukshetra
Laghu Udyog Samachar
Manushi
Margin
Panchayati Raj Update
RBI Bulletin
Social change
Sarvekshna
Yojana

World Bank Depository Library Status:

GIDS Library is the World Bank Depository since 1983 wherein it holds the entire collection of its Publications for wider academic use. The GIDS Library also conducts various User Outreach Activities for researchers in this part of the country. This is done under the GIDS/ World Bank partnership programme. The GIDS library now avails the electronic library facility extended for users.