Archival Collection

Basic Overview

It includes archival collections; like news, books, serials, pamphlets, essays and more


Annual Reports Library provides 1,18,300+ annual reports from 14,313 BSE and NSE-listed companies, spanning the years 1997 to 2021.


CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading academic publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.

  • Campus wide Access

Delivers the complete searchable run of the Financial Times Newspaper. Every item ever printed in the paper, from 1888-2016, can be searched and browsed article by article and page by page.

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The Making of the Modern World database includes 62,400 titles, includes books, serials, pamphlets, essays and more. This collection follows the development of the modern western worlds through the lens of trade and wealth. It has major historical events during the period 1450-1850 with full-text search capabilities. Some of them are rare books and primary source materials. It focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology and special collections on banking, finance, transportation, and manufacturing.

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ProQuest Times of India Archive from 1838 - 2005.
For the issues of TOI from 2006 till current, they are freely available on Times of India platform : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/archive.cms

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The South Asia Archive is an extensive resource for students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences. The historical documents within the Archive are truly interdisciplinary, reflecting the varied range of knowledge production in colonial and early post-colonial India. It contains more than 4.5 million pages spanning the period of the 18th and mid-20th century from documents across the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.


The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2015. Full-colour images, multiple search indexes, and the facility to browse each and every issue - all combined to offer a unique primary source covering the 19th and 20th centuries.

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About VSL

The Vikram Sarabhai Library (VSL) is named after Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, world renowned physicist and founding Director of IIMA. It was set up in 1962 and is one of the best management libraries in Asia. The library is open 24x7. Our mission is to facilitate convenient and user friendly access to current, global and relevant information by identifying, acquiring, organizing and retrieving information in various formats (print & non print) to serve the information needs of the academic fraternity of IIMA to meet their teaching, research, consulting, training and learning requirements.

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Vikram Sarabhai Library,
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Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, Gujarat,
India - 380015

Phone: +91-079-71524977/80/75
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Email: librarian@iima.ac.in


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