About Us

Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, has 17 libraries on the Manipal, Mangaluru, Bengaluru, and Jamshedpur campuses.

MAHE Libraries are deeply committed to providing physical and virtual access to books, journals, online databases, and other materials to students, faculty members, and researchers. MAHE libraries have varied collections of print textbooks, reference volumes/books, ancient books/manuscripts, theses/projects, and reports in diverse fields. All the collections and services of MAHE libraries are fully automated using Koha library management software.

The libraries provide a growing range of e-resources (online databases, online journals, and e-books) on the campus network and remotely through OpenAthens software.

All libraries are enabled with Wi-Fi facilities, security systems, Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), and Access control. The KMC Health Sciences Library, Manipal; MIT Central Library, Manipal; KMC Central Library, Mangaluru, and MAHE Bengaluru Library are enabled with RFID technology.

The libraries provide various research/project support tools/services such as Web-Scale Discovery Service’ (Single Window Search tool), access to Turnitin (plagiarism check), Grammarly (online grammar and spelling checker), AJE (English Language Editing) author workshops, literature search service, access to bibliographical and citation tools (Scopus and Web of Science).

Other services offered by libraries include reference service, current awareness service, circulation, photocopying, Scanning, inter-library loan/document delivery, computer services, book bank facility, access to question paper archive, display of faculty publications, display of new acquisitions, and training in accessing e-resources. There is a separate audio-visual room, computer lab, group study area, and private study area, Accessible Space (Facilities for Differently Abled Persons) in the libraries. The MAHE libraries are committed to providing world-class information support to its users.