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The centralized animal house of SITS PHARMA College of Pharmacy built in 170 sq/mt area in the college campus. The Animal house have different sections as per the CPCSEA guidelines viz. instruction room, quarantine section, store room, surgical room, Animal stock room, experimental room and Cleaning area. The animal house facilities are considered necessary for testing any chemical substances and pharmaceuticals prior to human trials. So very research institutions necessary to have animal house facilities to boost the research, teaching, hands on training to students which help to meet the growing demand in emergent field of Experimental Pharmacology. Our institution maintains a well established Animal House, set up and maintained as per the guidelines of CPCSEA (Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision on Experiments on Animals -Approval no: 685/PO/Re/S/2002/CPCSEA). This Central Animal House facility is a resource center for UG / PG students and faculty of various disciplines in SITS PHARMA College of pharmacy.

Activities

• Periodical Institutional Animal Ethical committee meetings
• Basic and educational animal research studies
• Invivo studies for PG, Ph.D level and collaborative projects
• Providing animal handling Training program periodically for faculty and students

The Drug and Poison information Center is a division of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and is housed at Kovai Medical Center Hospital, Coimbatore. Facilities like Consultation room, Counseling room, library and information service, separate telephone lines to receive and provide drug and poison information calls. Lexicomp clinical drug information database access is available in the department for effective counseling and other clinical pharmacy activities. CD ROM databases such as DRUGDEX, MARTINDALE systems and POISON INDEX Systems are also available.

Drugs and poison information center was established to

• provide information about poison and treatment protocols
• afford inclusive, accurate and timely information to patients.
• boost the medical care of patients

• Medicinal plants have a great role in human life and India has rich diversity of medicinal plants. About 90% of herbs are used in manufacturing of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy medicines.
• In our SITS PHARMA College of Pharmacy we have established an arboretum of medicinal plants in an area of about 500 Sq.M. The objective of establishing this garden is to maintain a conservatory of the most common and important species of medicinal and aromatic plants which are being used in day-to-day primary health care.
• All the plant species were authentically identified by expert taxonomists, labelled and in many cases their therapeutic values in curing different diseases are also highlighted.

The every-growing library is a immeasurable sea of information for young minds. Innumerable text books, reference, journals and periodicals make for interesting reading. To add with it, there's Internet facility for online search that brings the world of information to the students. The library regularly subscribes periodicals related to pharmaceutical sciences.

• Title of Books available - 9441
• Volume of Books available - 16273
• Number of International & National journals - 2443
• Number of e-journals subscribed - 2428
• Number of Print Journals - 15
• Number of CDs available - 319
• Number of Magazines and Newspaper – 04
• E-Books - 1482

Salient Features

• The library is kept open from 8.30 am to 6.00 pm on all working days
• Our library is completely computerized and automation of all its operations
• "Books are for use and not Preservation" With this dictum our Library functions. Hence the Open Access followed
• Loan of books to members is through Identify Cards with Bar-Coding.
• Photocopying facility is available on the library. It provides an invaluable service to the student.
• A convenient spacious reading area with 100 seating capacity is available within the library
• Separate sections for text books, reference books, Journals, Periodicals, Back volumes, Project reports with Internet access available

Rules and Regulations

Students should strictly adhere following rules while they are in the library.

• Students should enter their name with sign the entry register kept at the entrance before entering the library.
• Student should conform the entry /out to the library through barcode reader by using ID card.
• Students should maintain silence and decorum in the library.
• Personal books or notebooks are not allowed in the library. A single sheet of paper, however, can be used for taking notes.
• Bags, handbags, parcels, aprons or other receptacles are not allowed inside the library.
• Four books can be borrowed at a time for a period of 5 days. Borrowed books should be returned on or before the due date.
• The student will be held responsible for any damage to the borrowed books.
• If an issued book is lost by the student, then the same should be replaced with the latest edition.
• The "No dues certificate" will be issued only after returning all the borrowed books.

E-Resources

Journals

• e-Journals
• Print Journals
• DELNET e-Journals
• Science Direct Journals
• e-Books. Knowledge –Hub
• e-Journals Knowledge -Hub