"Maps of India on CDROM" is an electronic atlas of India providing detailed coverage of the country including political boundaries, States, districts, cities, tourist destinations, rail, road, air & water linkages of India. The CD has been enriched with maps in categories like City Maps, Cencus Maps, Overview Maps (including Agro-based Industries, Chemical Industries, Handicrafts, Climatic maps, Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Oil & Gas, Parliamentary Constituencies, Power Project Maps etc.) The CD includes maps of all States and Union Territories and has maps up-to the district level. One of thte advantages of the "Maps of India" CD is the Map Search feature, which will locate most places in India in the maps. The Distannce Calculator, Air & Rail schedule, STD/ISD Search, Lattitude & Longitude of important cities of India are the additional and useful information that the CD provides at the desktop. The CD provides options to print, search, and view maps.

To access this database, a client installation is needed in the computer. In addition to it, the CDROM has to be physically present in the client's CDROM drive. The users can use the machine kept at Nalanda Reading Room for the database purpose. The users can get the CDROM from the Nalanda Server Room by producing their Identity Card. After use, the CDROM has to return to Nalanda Server Room without any damage.

"India Patents On CDROM" aims to provide a one stop solution to make Indian Patent information easily accessible by way of a searchable bibilographic database containing around 60,000 records of India Patents, covering the period from 1970 to present, with a powerful software for search and retrival. Patents are excellent source of technological information and it protects industrial and intelectual property.

To access this database, a client installation is needed in the computer. In addition to it, the CDROM has to be physically present in the client's CDROM drive. The users can use the machine kept at Nalanda Reading Room for the database purpose. The users can get the CDROM from the Nalanda Server Room by producing their Identity Card. After use, the CDROM has to return to Nalanda Server Room without any damage.

This handbook and its accompanying disk contain engineering data and algebraic equations for sizing virtually every functional component in any kind of building. Of course its primary objective is to enable the architect or engineer to determine whether a particu-lar functional component is the proper size, i.e., large enough to sup-port its load (whether its mass be solid, liquid, gas, or flow of elec-trons) yet not excessively large and economically wasteful.

India Business Insight Database (IBID) , is a business and industry database, the first of its kind in the country. IBID acts as the best business companion to corporate planning managers, market/equity research companies, financial lending institutions and management institutes amongst others. It covers all types of industry, business and market information from as many as 80 core business publications which include 30 international sources. IBID encompasses 44 industry sectors with over 300 sub-sectors; over 40,000 companies and establishments; over 10,000 products and over 70 major business questions embedding over 230 sub-queries. IBID contains over 1,95,000 focused business abstracts from 1993 - Jun 2000 packed with facts and figures.

This can be accessed from the machine kept inside the Nalanda Digital Library Reading Room exclusively for database access.

MTech On CD , the Manufacturing Technology database provides comprehensive information on machine tools and manufacturing engineering compiled from leading periodicals, conference proceedings and other publications in the field.

Subject coverage of the MTech database:

This can be accessed from the machine kept inside the Nalanda Digital Library Reading Room exclusively for database access.

DIALOG OnDisc® Ei Compendex,produced by Engineering Information Inc. (Ei), provides worldwide coverage of significant engineering and technology literature, in bibliographic form. The complete database set contains hundreds of thousands of English-language abstracts from a comprehensive list of journals,conference proceedings,technical reports, and professional society publications. Author-prepared abstracts are used whenever available in this database, which corresponds to the Ei print publication Engineering Index.Worldwide coverage of 2,600 journals and selected government reports and books.One million records of engineering  and technical conference proceedings.

Subjects: civil, energy, environmental, geological, and biological engineering; electrical, electronics, and control engineering; chemical, mining, metals, and fuel engineering; automotive, nuclear, and aerospace engineering; computers, robotics, and industrial robots.

This Abstract Search Service is available to the NITC Users via Dialog@site Web Based Inetrface which runs as a service under the Nalanda Digital Library Intranet Web Service.Default access to all users from within the Library as well as from Campus LAN will be provided based on IP Addresses.This makes a user login process unnecessary.However if a user wants to save his search strategies and results in a personalised directory he has to have a user account in Dialog@site.Users who require such login IDs may contact the Nalanda Staff.

The Dialog@site Web Interface provides adequate help for the novice users.If you would rather read the complete user manual for Dialog@site Database Access please Click Here for the manual in pdf format.