Library Collection and Resources

Information resources

The library has a collection of over 45,500 volumes of bound journals and books (journals nearly 75%), over 15,000 reprints and documents, and about 375 current journals hard copies and around 20,000 online journals and databases facilities. The library also receives a good number of newsletters. The library collection is growing at a rate of about 1,000-1200 volumes of books and bound journals per year. The items cover mainly the subjects of the Centre's research interests.

** The Book Collection generally consists of books, monographs, institutional reports, conference proceedings, etc. which are arranged according to a classification system (National Library of Medicine and Library of Congress Classification Schemes), so that items on the same or related subjects can generally be found together.

** The Reference Collection consists mainly of important textbooks, dictionaries, manuals, hand­books, directories, encyclopaedias, etc., and can only be used in the Library.

** The Journal Collection consists of current journals arranged alphabetically by title on the display shelves and bound journals arranged alphabetically by title on the shelves of the Journal Section.

    **   The online collection consists of subscribed with hard copy of journals, JSTOR , Bangladesh, INASP PERI consortium, ISI web of knowledge, Travex and mutual agreement with HINARI , AGORA, OARE, etc. All of these resources website links are displayed in the Centre Intranet website.   

** The Reprints and Documents Collection consists of reprints, documents, reports, book chapters, etc. which are arranged by accession numbers and stored in the file cabinets.

** Old issues of journals @ NHLDC (National Health Library and Documentation Centre) in 2007 hard copies of selected old journals before 1995 has been transferred to the Nakhalpara to save more space in the main library reading room. In 2008, a national collaboration programme with National Health Library and Documentation Centre (NHLDC), Mohakhali, all journals has been shifted from Nahkalpara to National Health Library. The list of these issues of journals are available in the Circulation Desk.

** Digiltal platform of ICDDR,B library, digital resources of ICDDR,B library are available in the Centre Intranet site ( http://www.icddrb.net.bd )

In addition, the library has been developing the digital repository of ICDDR,B using DSpcae software. Research projects/protocols of ICDDR,B, manuscript and published articles in other international journals, book chapters, conference papers, etc are being uploaded in this systems. ( http://dspace.icddrb.org/dspace/  )