NISCAIR is an institute that collects, publishes, and disseminates science and technology information in India. It was formed in 2002 by merging two existing institutes. NISCAIR operates under CSIR and its headquarters are in Delhi. It provides various services including a national science library with over 251,000 documents, a national digital science library for students, an online repository of research journals, and assigning ISSN numbers to Indian serials.

1. NISCAIR
(National Institute Of Science Communication And Information Resources)

2. Introduction
 National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources
(NISCAIR) is an information management system and service using modern
IT infrastructure devoted to Science & Technology.
 An information science institute, operates under the umbrella of the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
 Capable of organization and dissemination of S&T information generated in
India as well as which has relevance to Indian S&T community.

3. Introduction
 Came into existence on 30 September 2002 with the merger of National
Institute of Science Communication (NISCOM) and Indian Institute of
Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC).
 NISCAIR Headquarter is located at New Delhi,
 The core activity of NISCAIR is to collect, publish and disseminate S&T
information through a mix of traditional and modern means, which benefit
different segments of society.

4. Objectives
 To provide formal linkages of communication among the scientific community in the
form of research journals in different areas of S&T.
 To disseminate S&T information to general public, particularly school students, to
inculcate interest in science among them.
 To collect, collate and disseminate information on plant, animal and mineral wealth of
the country.
 To develop human resource in science communication, library, documentation and
information science and S&T information management systems and services
 To collaborate with international institutions and organizations having goals similar to
those of NISCAIR.
 To harness information technology applications in information management with
particular reference to science communication and modernizing libraries.

5. Services
 National Science Library:
 The NSL has over 2,51,000 printed collection of S&T documents which includes
monographs, bound volumes of journals, theses and dissertations and patents etc.
 National science Digital Library:
 NSDL aims at providing comprehensive S&T information to students of science
engineering and technology in the country in order to address their needs.
 NISCAIR Online Periodical Repository:
 User can access full text articles from research journals published by NISCAIR like
Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian journal of chemistry etc .
 NISCAIR is the national center of ISSN international center for assigning ISSN to
serials published in India

6. Services
 National Union catalogue of scientific Serials in India:
 NUCSSI is a data repository of a large number of unique journal titles and library
holdings, belonging to major universities, S&T institutions etc spread all over the
country.
 In addition to these
 Editing service, Translation service, Inter Library Loan,
 Print and Production, Document Search Services

7. National Science Library
 The decision to establish National Science Library (NSL) was taken by CSIR
in June 1963 and accordingly it started from National Physical Laboratory
(NPL) building.
 The NSL has over 2,51,000 printed collection of S&T documents which
includes monographs, bound volumes of journals, reports,
theses/dissertations, standards, and patents etc.
 The NSL's collection policy is to build resources with an emphasis on high
end R&D reference sources, Indian S&T publications, foreign language
dictionaries, library and information science, information & communication
technology, computer science, conference proceedings, technical reports
and other sources relevant to S&T community of the country.

9. National science Digital Library
 National Science Digital Library (NSDL) aims at providing comprehensive
S&T information to students of science, engineering and technology in the
country.
 Begun as a Tenth Five Year Plan Network Project of Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR), NSDL is the only one of its kind that
provides curriculum based content to address the information needs of the
undergraduate students of science.
 The content creation and development for NSDL has gone through rigorous
procedures to make available quality content for the students.
 Authored by eminent teachers and validated by renowned faculty in Indian
universities and colleges, NSDL envisages to bring finest content to the
students.
 The discussion forum has been provided for interactions amongst NSDL
users

11. NISCAIR Online Periodical Repository
 Access full text articles from research journals published by CSIR-
NISCAIR! Full text facility is provided for all nineteen research
journals viz. ALIS, AIR, BVAAP, IJBB, IJBT, IJCA, IJCB, IJCT, IJEB,
IJEMS, IJFTR, IJMS, IJNPR, IJPAP, IJRSP, IJTK, JIPR, JSIR & JST.
 NOPR also hosts three Popular Science Magazines viz. Science
Reporter (SR), Vigyan Pragati (VP) & Science Ki Duniya (SKD) and a
Natural Products Repository (NPARR).