Stock verification policy:

It is a regular process in the library. Stock verification is carried out in accordance with the provisions as laid down in GFR.

Writ-off/ weed out policy:

Weeding out process is carried out in accordance with the Govt. Of India / UGC/ University rules.

Documents Acquisition Policy:

Documents (Books, Jornals, Magazine etc) are procured as per the approved policy bassed on the recommendation of the Library Purchase Committee as approval of the competent authority.

Besides receiving access to e-resources on complementary basis under the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, the Centre maintains a separate Archival Library consisting of print journals received as a part of the agreement with the participating publishers of the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. Under the agreement, the publishers are requested to submit a copy of all the issues of the journals. This archival library is open to all users interested in using these print resources for their study / research. The Centre has received issues of 286 journal titles from different publishers. During this year under review, issues of 100 journals each were received from the Taylor and Francis, Blackwell and Oxford University Press. Users can access information about these journals on their desktops at the website.

The Centre subscribes to a large number of databases on CD-ROM consisting of bibliographic details of research articles mainly in the area of social sciences, arts and humanities. Services from these databases are available free-of-cost to the academic community including research scholars and the students for their research activities. These CD ROM databases have been discontinued since 2003 given the fact that e-resources are now being made available to universities under the purview of UGC through the UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium. The CD-ROM databases available at the INFLIBNET Library are as follows:

• LISA: Library and Information Science Abstract [1969-2003]
• Dissertation Abstracts International: Humanities & Social Sciences [1987-2003]
• EconLit: Economic Literature [1969-2003]
• EMBASE Drugs & Pharmacology CD [1986-2003]
• Philosopher's Index [1999-2003]
• PsycLit: Psychological Literature [1887-2003]
• Sociofile: Sociological Abstracts [1974-2003]
• Current Contents on Diskette: Social and Behavioral Sciences [1999-2003]
• Inside Science [1999-2003]
• Inside Social Science [1999-2003]

The Centre also subscribes to the following bibliographic databases of books that are being used for authenticating bibliographic records in union catalogues. These databases are also available to visiting users:

• Ulrich's On Disc: International Periodicals Directory
• ISSN Compact: The ISSN register on CD-ROM [1999, 2003]
• NUCSAL: National Union Catalogue of Serials in Academic Libraries [2005]
• BNB: British National Bibliography, Current file [1986-2001]
• OCLC: Recent Books [1999]
• OCLC: Old Books [1999]
• OCLC: Serials [1999]
• OCLC: Authority file [1999]
• CDMARC: Subject Headings [1996]
• CDMARC: Names [1996]
• CDMARC: Holdings [1996]