National Informatics Centre on Spices                                                 Go to SpicE-Library   The IISR Library was set up to provide support to research and development workers of the Institute. The Library aims at acquiring scientific literature related to spice crops and various scientific disciplines of interest to the scientists, organizing and displaying these materials and making them available to users. Mandate   To function as a National Information Storage and Retrieval System for spices and related crops.   Objectives To select, acquire, process, preserve, organize, circulate and disseminate publications in all areas of spices research and related fields To provide various services like compilation of bibliographies, Agri Science Tit Bits and Content Page Service To provide Inter Library Loan service To retrieve and disseminate information To provide reprograhic services to the scientific community Resources The major resources of the Library include Books, Journals, CDs, Theses, Reprints, Annual Reports and Technical Reports. At present, the Library has a total collection of 3800 Books, 2621 Bound Volumes, 2562 Reprints, 610 Technical Reports, 82 Theses and is subscribing to 30 foreign journals and 64 Indian journals and also receiving 13 journals and 48 newsletters on gratis.   Pulications brought out from the Library   1. Spices Bibliography Spices Bibliography is published regularly in the Journal of Spices and Aromatic Crops and includes all most all articles on spices that appeared during the current year. 2. Agri Sci Tit Bits This is a collection of miscellaneous news and pertaining to or interesting to scientists that appear in newspaper and popular magazines .   National Informatics Centre on Spices The infrastructure facilities of the library has been expanding continuously, the latest being the establishment of National Informatics Centre on Spices. This was inaugurated by Dr. SL Mehta, DDG (Edn.), ICAR, New Delhi on 28th November 1998 to serve as a documentation centre for disseminating information on various aspects of spices.   Information Resources The Centre is building up a rich resource base of books, journals, reprints, bound volumes and CD-ROMs. At present the Informatics centre possess CAB CDs from 1973 onwards, Biotechnology CDs from 1982 onwards and AGRIS CDs from 1975 to till date. Scientists and research workers working in the Institute can have free access of these CDs. The Informatics Centre has automated a majority of its operations using the Library Management Software, LIBSYS. A sizable database of books, journals, reprints and bound volumes has been created and is available for access by scientists. Attempts are also being made to introduce Internet facilities at the centre to get exhaustive online information.   Note:- To avail the facilities, visitors are requested to produce official letter from the competent authorities.   Contact Scientist-in-charge (Library) Indian Institute of Spices Research Marikunnu P.O., Calicut, Kerala, India - 673012 Ph: 0091-495-731410, 731752 Email: library@spices.res.in