SEARCH – The Health Sciences Library, Manipal

Manipal Academy of Higher Education has an excellent Health Sciences Library, perhaps the best among all Health Sciences Libraries in India. The state-of-the-art library, stretching over 1.5 lakh square feet on five levels, is a domain for information seekers, be they students, faculty, or researchers. It has the capacity to accommodate 1300 students at a time. Besides the comfortable seating and reading environment, the library is well equipped with modern facilities such as access to the internet and web resources, including online journals and e-books. The library provides a growing range of online databases on the campus network.

Access to e-resources (online databases, online journals, e-books, etc.) subscribed by the library is also available remotely to all users (students, researchers, and faculty members) through the OpenAthens account. OpenAthens – Single Sign-on (SSO) enables library users to access e-resources remotely using their Office 365-learner.manipal.edu/manipal.edu login credentials.

The library has provided a ‘Web-Scale Discovery Service’ (Single Window Search tool) to find relevant information across all library subscribed e-resources, open access resources, and library catalogs using the single search box. This tool can search across the library’s all subscribed e-resources the way Google does.

All the library collections and services have been fully automated on modern lines using Koha library management software. Users can search all the library's print resources (books, journals, back volumes of journals, theses, WHO publications, etc.) through the library’s online catalog – the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue).

The library is enabled with RFID technology, Wi-Fi, and security systems, as well as a closed circuit television (CCTV). The library provides various research/project support services like - access to Turnitin (plagiarism check) & Grammarly (online grammar and spelling checker), organizing author workshops, literature search service, and access to bibliographical and citation tools i.e., Scopus and Web of Science.

The library has the best practices like - organizing information literacy programs, library conferences/workshops, general and subject books exhibitions, Librarians' Day & National Library Week celebrations. The library has a separate audio-visual room, computer lab, group study area, and private study area. The library has all the facilities for the students to learn. The Health Sciences Library is committed to providing world-class information support to its users.