MANDATE MAIN FACILITIES SIGNIFICANT ACHEIVEMENTS CONTACT ADDRESS

MANDATE

• Providing formal linkages of communication among the scientific community in the form of research peroidicals in different areas of science and technology.
• Collection, collation and dissemetion of information on plant and mineral wealth, and on industrial infrastructure of the country.
• setting up of specialized databases and providing information services to entrepreneurs, pollicy planners, agriculturists and research workers.
• Dissemenation of S&T information to general public.
• Providing consultancy services on editing, designing and printing of various types of S&T publications.
• Human resource development in the field of S&T communication.

• Photo type-setting and DTP.
• Offset printing.
• Designing, layout and art.
• Computerised dtabases.
• Computer facilities: computer systems of various capacities; Philips CDD 522 CD-Recorder CD-ROM drives.
• Herbarium.
• Library.

• The Directorate brings out special issues of the research journals, on topics of contemporary relevance. The issues brought out in the last couple of years include those on catalysis, Buckminister fullerenes, conducting polymers, recent advances in fabric formation, contraception and reproductive biology, technology management and mathematical modelling in S&T, and light wave systems.
• The wealth of India - Raw materials series is being revised and updated. Already three volumes of the revised series have been brought out. In addition, a large number monographs on specific and composite topics has been brought out. Sone of the recent ones are Plants for Reclamation of Wastelands, Birds, Groundnuts, and Indian Brassicas.
• MAPIS database has been developed computerized and is available on-line to users not only in India but abroad as well.
• Under the Science Popularization Programme, thirteen books on scientific topics of general interest have been brought out. Published in English as well as Hindi, these books have been very well received by the students and general public. A scientific encyclopedia, Golden Treasury of Science and Technology has been brought out. This encyclopedia meant for secondary level students and intellegent laymen with no formal training in science, focuses on Indian contrubutions also, which receive scant attention in the usual publication of these type. Many of these books are being translated into regional languages like Kannada, Tamil, Marathi & Bengali.
• Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has sponsered a project on dissemation of biotechnological information and under this project NISCOM has been brought out ten books/monographs on biotechnological topics.
• NISCOM & Willey-Eastern Ltd. (WEL) have started a copublishing programme for making available to general public resonably priced books under the series entitled "International Series on Pollution" and "Encyclopedia of Natural Wealth of India Series". A number of books have already been brought out under the copublishing programme.
• NISCOM has been selected as the managing organization for an IDRC (canada)-sponsered international consortium formed for  the production and global marketing of a series of CD-ROM disks. NISCOM has acquired in this futuristic technology and the first pilot disk has already been produced.

CONTACT ADDRESS
Dr K. S. Krishnan Marg, New Delhi, 110 012.
Telephone: (091)11-5786301
Telegram : PUBLIFORM, NEW DELHI.
Telex    : 031-77271 PPD IN.
Fax      : (091)11-5787062
E-mail   : pid @ sirnetd.ernet.in