National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), located at New Delhi

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, is one of the premier information science institutes in India under the umbrella of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) that comprise 36 other labs/institutes of different disciplines spread across the country.

National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) came into existence on 30 September 2002 with the merger of National Institute of Science Communication (NISCOM) and Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC). Both NISCOM and INSDOC, the two premier institutes of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), were devoted to dissemination and documentation of S&T information.

NISCOM had been in existence for the last six decades (first as two Publication Units of CSIR, which were merged to form the Publications Division, which was later renamed as Publications & Information Directorate and in 1996, as NISCOM). Over the years, NISCOM diversified its activities, and through a host of its information products, comprising research and popular science journals, encyclopaedic publications, monographs, books, and information services, it had been reaching out to researchers, students, entrepreneurs, industrialists, agriculturists, policy planners and also the common man.

INSDOC came into being in September 1951 and was engaged in providing S&T information and documentation services through myriad activities such as abstracting and indexing, design and development of databases, translation, library automation, providing access to international information sources, human resource development, consultancy services in setting up modern library-cum-information centres. INSDOC was also host to the National Science Library and the SAARC Documentation Centre. The first director of INSDOC was B.S. Kesavan.

Now, with the formation of NISCAIR, all the above multi-faceted activities have been amalgamated, making NISCAIR, an institute capable of serving the society using modern IT infrastructure in a more effective manner and taking up new ventures in the field of science communication, dissemination and S&T information management systems and services. Broadly the core activity of NISCAIR will be to collect/store, publish and disseminate S&T information through a mix of traditional and modern means, which will benefit different segments of society.

This institute provides the Associateship in Information Science (AIS) Degree. The current batch of AIS is for the year 2010-2011. Admission for next batch of AIS will be announced in July 2011.

Mission statement

To become the prime custodian of all information resources on current and traditional knowledge systems in science and technology in the country, and to promote communication in science to diverse constituents at all levels, using the most appropriate technologies.

Services

• E-Publishing
• Editing
• Indexing
• Print & Production
• Herbarium
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   Techniques
• Taxonomical Identification of Plants
• Identification of crude Plants-based products
• Contents, Abstracts and Photocopy Service(CAPS)
• Document Copy Supply Services
• Literature Search Services
• ISSN
• Translation Services
• Training Programmes
• Short term courses in Science Communication

National Science Library Services

• Reader's Service
• Technical Query Service
• Copying Service
• Inter Library Loan Service
• e-Journals Access
• National Science Digital Librarynsdl

Associateship in Information Science (AIS)

This is the flagship course of the institute and is highly acclaimed in industry and academia. The past students of this course are serving the national and Internationallevel.

Admission Procedure

A national level competitive exam generally happens in June the notification publish in the Employment News in February, this test followed by interview is the criteria of selection.

External links

• NISCAIR
• CSIR

http://csir.res.in CSut