32. National Information Systems and Programmes in Social Science P- 05. Information Sources, Systems and Services

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32. National Information Systems and Programmes in Social Science

P- 05. Information Sources, Systems and Services *

By :Dr.Renu Arora,Paper Coordinator

MODULE 32: NATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND PROGRAMMES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES 

Content Writer/Author - Dr. R K VERMA Structure of Module/Syllabus of module(Define Topic of Module and its subtopics) National Information systems for Social Sciences Introduction, ICSSR, NASSDOC, TISS, IIML, ITPO, FICCI, NI-MSME, SENDOC, NCAER, NCERT,

 Parliament Library, GIPE, Pune, IIPA, SNDT Women’s University 

1. DESCRIPTION OF THE MODULE 

Description of the Module Subject Name Library and Information Science Paper Name Information Sources, Systems and Services Module Name/Title National Information systems for Social Sciences Module Id LIS/ISSS/32 Pre-requisites Library and Documentation services, Information sources, Information dissemination, National Institutes, Social science subject fields Objectives To learn about the structure, objectives, functions, products, achievements, and information dissemination activities of major National Information systems in Social sciences Keywords Information system, Information dissemination, National institutes- Social science, ICSSR, NASSDOC

 2. OBJECTIVES 

After reading this module, you will be able to:  get an overview of National information systems in Social Sciences in India,  learn about the structure, objectives, functions, products, achievements, and information dissemination activities of major National Information systems in Social Sciences,2  familiarize the users with the activities of the major national level institutions in the field of Social Sciences, and  take stock of the information infrastructure of premier institutions in Social Sciences particularly reflecting the use of modern ICT. 

3. INTRODUCTION 

There has been a substantial growth in social science research in India in recent years. It is estimated that every year around 1000 doctoral degrees are awarded in this field. Consequently an increase in investment has resulted in a number of survey and project reports, articles, and papers. Further a marked increase in cultural and ideological contrasts in approaches to social, political, and cultural problems have led to increased growth in literature in this field. 

It is estimated that around 60% of the documents having social science information are not available for dissemination and use. Further, it is realized that social science research is essential for formulation of Government policies. This leads to the importance of National information system ensuring adequate bibliographic control. It is also realized that no single institution can perform and handle the job of library and information services alone. Information is considered as a ‘national resource’ now, and this awareness has led to various information services like indexing, abstracting and computerized information services at national and international level. 

This implies a strong need for a national network which is possible through social science information system and programmes. To gain from the benefits of emerging technologies, India recognised the need for strengthening the information base in the country by integrating various information agencies in to a well-knit information system. The components of an information system include hardware, software, manpower, communication systems and involves selecting, organizing, storing, and disseminating public knowledge to the users as per the objectives laid down in the information programmes and activities of the concerned Institution. Information programmes refer to the objectives to be achieved, infrastructure required and sources of funds for setting up information system. In fact, the institutions act as the vital sources of information. Recognizing this need for research in social sciences, Government of India has initiated various programmes which include the setting up of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) as the major institution. 

The council recognized major disciplines viz. Economics including Commerce; Education; Management & Business administration; Political science including International relations; Psychology; Public Administration and Sociology including Social work and Criminology. Besides ICSSR, there are several other institutions both governmental and nongovernmental and other professional organizations that are involved in the promotion of various social science disciplines. These institutions are either mission-oriented or discipline oriented.

 ICSSR has recognized various disciplines under the broad field of Social sciences. These are:  Economics including Commerce;  Education;  Management & Business administration;  Political science including International relations;  Psychology;  Public Administration; and  Sociology including Social work and Criminology3 This module deals with some national Information systems and programmes in the field of social sciences which include leading Government as well as private institutions engaged primarily in dissemination of information at national level in almost all the above mentioned disciplines. Within each Institution, various aspects like their background, scope, objectives, major activities/programmes, and a brief sketch of documentation and information dissemination activities are highlighted. While describing the various aspects particularly the information dissemination part, an emphasis is laid on only the major services, publications and documentation activities.

 4. SOCIAL SCIENCES IN GENERAL 

4.1 Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Established in the year 1969, ICSSR was entrusted by the Government of India to promote research in social sciences in the country. The main objectives of the Council are to:  Sponsor social science research programmes and projects;

  Review the progress of social science research and offer advice to its users;

  Administer grants to institutions and scholarships/fellowships to individuals for research in social sciences; 

 Provide financial support to institutions, associations, and journals engaged in social science research;

  Undertake and assist publication of books and journals in social sciences; 

 Arrange for technical training in research methodology including guidance for research; 

 Co-ordinate research activities and encourage programmes for interdisciplinary research;

  Develop and support centres for documentation services and supply of data; 

 Organize, sponsor and finance seminars, workshops and study groups; and 

 Advise the Government of India on all matters pertaining to social science research as may be referred to it from time to time; and take such measures generally as may be necessary from time to time to promote social science research and its utilization. 

4.1.1 Research Institutes and Regional Centres Division (RI&RC) These provide maintenance and development grants to research Institutes and maintain Regional Centres in various regions of the country. The Council is at present assisting 27 Research Institutes and 6 Regional Centres in different regions of India. The Research Institutes have adequate infrastructural facilities including well designed libraries/information and knowledge centres. These are engaged in disseminating information in social science research in diverse fields of study with regional, national, and international scope. 

The research Institutes are of all India character- outside the scope of the University Grants Commission (UGC). Their main objectives include providing of talent from more developed to less developed regions, especially to areas where social science research are under 4 developed; and development of quality of research and interdisciplinary research in social sciences in order to improve the social science inputs into development. 

The Council brings out a bi-annual publication ‘ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews’ in five disciplines viz., Economics, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology including Social Anthropology. Other publications are- ‘Indian Social Science Review’- a quarterly newsletter providing an account of major activities and programs of not only the Centre but also its regional centres and various research institutes. The Council also provides grants to scholars to conduct research in various fields of social sciences which have a theoretical, conceptual, methodological or policy orientation on the subject of their choice. The research projects may belong to any one of the following social science disciplines or may be interdisciplinary in nature. 

4.1.2 National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) NASSDOC, established in 1969 as a Division of the ICSSR, is India's leading information centre for research and innovation in Social Sciences. This Centre has the major role of providing library and information support services to researchers in social sciences. The services are for those working in academic institutions, autonomous research organisations, policy making, planning and research units of government departments, business and industry, etc. NASSDOC also provides guidance to libraries of ICSSR Regional Centres and ICSSR supported Research Institutes. 

The main objectives of the Centre are: Facilities Available at NASSDOC 

 To understand development of social sciences with a view to familiarize with tools useful to various stakeholders in imparting information, 

 To sensitize in planning and designing of local/national information systems pertaining to various social sciences, 

 To disseminate information about the developments in social science research, 

 To provide library and information support services of the researchers in the field of social sciences,

  To provide financial assistance for bibliographic and documentation projects in social science field, 

 To conduct short-term training courses for librarians, research scholars, and social scientists; and  To make available study grant to doctoral students for collecting research material from libraries and information centres located in various parts of the country.

 Facilities provided by NASSDOC are: Documentation, Library and Reference Service; Collection of unpublished doctoral dissertations; Research project reports; Current and old volumes of social science journals of Indian and foreign origin; Literature Search Service from printed and digital databases, i.e., CD-ROMS, floppies, Online database etc.; Compilation of short bibliographies on request; Study grant to doctoral students for collection of research material from various libraries located in different parts of India; Provision of financial assistance for taking up bibliographical and documentation projects; Document Delivery Service by procuring books and journals on Inter-library loan or by photocopying the documents; organizing short-term training courses for the research scholars, social scientists, librarians and IT 5 professionals; and Cyber Cafe, to facilitate access to internet resources on social sciences. 

One of the important publications is Indian Social Science Periodicals literature (INSSPEL). NASSDOC has created an integrated and computerized database of articles published in 119 Indian social science journals since their inception till 1970. It consists of 43,272 issues of journals containing 97491 articles thus providing reasonable control over the literature published in Indian social science periodicals during the last 100 years or so. This database, is available in a CD-ROM. Two Indexes viz. Indian Education Index (1947-1978) and Index to Indian Periodicals: Sociology & Psychology (1886-1970) have been published. 

The former is a combined retrospective index, having 26 Indian educational journals in English language. It provides access to more than 20,000 articles published in these journals while the later one contains 35 Indian periodicals in sociology (English) which have been indexed from volume one to the year 1970, covering the period from 1886-1970. The number of periodicals in psychology indexed is 7 and time period covered is from 1926-1970. The earliest periodical indexed in sociology is the 'Journal of Anthropological Society of Bombay'. 4

.2 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) TISS was established in 1936 as Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. During the year 1964, it was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956. 

It is one of the premier Institutes in the country in the field of Social Sciences and has been recognized as one of the progressive centres of learning catering to the educational and research information needs of academic and scientific community for excellent teaching, research and development work carried out by the faculty members, research scholars and students. Since its inception, the vision of the TISS has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all. 

The vision of TISS is:  Creation and provision of socially relevant and high quality professional education in a wide range of inter-disciplinary areas of Social Sciences to students from all sections of the society. 

 Enabling of autonomous research and dissemination of knowledge. 

 Support knowledge creation through M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes and Post-Doctoral scholars.

  Strategic extension, field action and advocacy through training and capacity building of State and non-State institutions and personnel. 

 Initiate field action and advocacy to demonstrate and facilitate creation of policies and programmes.  Professional response to natural and human-made disasters, through participation in relief and rehabilitation activities. Over the years, the Institute has made consistent contributions to civil society and the development sector through its education, research, field action and extension. 

TISS Library established along with the institute way back in 1936 is one of the leading social science libraries in the country. The library was named as "Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library" in the memory of late Sir Dorabjii Tata. It is geared to meet the academic and research information needs of the user community. It provides user-focused services to obtain and evaluate scholarly 6 information and knowledge. As the library specializes in the field of applied social sciences, it has become most sought after library for the social scientists in India. It is a unique knowledge centre, which offers essential and specialized information resources and services to meet the growing information needs by developing user-based resources; organizing information resources; providing human and technologically moderated access to information; and facilitating users to identify, locate, obtain and evaluate information.

Besides this the eresources and services like OPAC, Ezproxy remote access, Access to e-resources, and Indian Journal of Social work online facility (Intranet access only) are worth mentioning.

 5. MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

5.1 Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML)

 IIML was established in 1984 and has now grown into a fully integrated global management school. The guiding philosophy of the school, throughout, has been creation of knowledge, influencing management practices and integrate globally. The objectives of imparting education, combined with creation, dissemination and publication of knowledge, are being met in an integrated form, to create a synergetic impact. Research is undertaken for strengthening the knowledge base, relevant to management practices for the corporate as well as non-corporate sector. Consultancy services are provided to various kinds of organizations, spread across different sectors of the economy, for solving their problems and upgrading their management practices. 

In keeping with the mission of the Institute, Management Development Programmes (MDPs) are conducted to help improve management systems by providing relevant training to senior executives in industry, government and the non-government sectors. Special ‘Centres of Excellence’ in the area of agriculture – ‘Agriculture Management Centre’; leadership – ‘Centre for Leadership in Human Values’; and entrepreneurship – ‘Centre for Entrepreneur Development and New Venture Management’, have been established to undertake pioneering work in their respective areas. Recognizing the role of library and information services in meeting the requirements of the Institute’s academic, research, training and consultancy programs, the Library of the institute was set-up as one of the key divisions. 

The library started functioning in 1985 from a small room in the rented premises of the Giri Institute of Development Studies. Over a period of 28 years, the library has grown tremendously and now stocks a core collection of over 70,000 select documents (in various forms) and subscribes to 533 learned periodicals. Equipped with latest designed furniture and fittings, the library has all modern equipment to support its diverse range of activities. State-of-the-art information technology (IT) products are in place to modernize its operations and services. It meets the complex information requirements of a variety of users (both from within the Institute and outside) satisfactorily. In keeping with the vision and mission of the Institute, the library has been established ‘to promote knowledge generation and application through its effective dissemination’. The library acts as the main learning resource centre of the Institute and provides services and facilities to meet the requirements of the Institute's teaching, training, research and consultancy programmers. Eresources of the library’s collection include e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers, e-databases, 

DELNET databases, video library, digital knowledge repositories, and Union list of periodicals.

 A biannual journal entitled ‘Metamorphosis: A Journal for Business Leaders’ is published as its official organ reporting breakthrough ideas in the ever emerging and evolving processes of management.

 5.2 India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO)7 ITPO

 is the premier trade promotion agency of the Government of India, which provides a broad spectrum of services to trade and industry so as to catalyse the growth of bilateral trade, particularly India's exports, and technological up gradation and modernisation of different industry segments. ITPO’s programmes are carried out in close cooperation with the Indian industry whose promotional needs are served. As an apex agency of the Government, ITPO accords approvals for holding of international trade fairs in India in order to ensure and facilitate, among others, the customs clearance of imported exhibits. ITPO has taken a lead in promoting the Fair Culture all over the country. Major initiatives have been taken through negotiations and discussions with the State Governments for setting up of exhibition complexes. 

The significant achievement in this direction has been the setting up of Regional Trade Promotion Centres at Chennai and Bangalore. Business Information Centre (BIS) is ITPO's initiative in providing trade information services with electronic accessibility. BIC addresses the new challenges and methods of doing business using reliable trade information and support services. BIC provides varied trade information and services on India by serving overseas importers to source from India and Indian exporters to expand business. 

BIC provides efficient management of trade information services besides connectivity and linkages to trade organizations in India and overseas and facilitates greater market access for Indian business The centre hosts 

the first Trade Portal of India http://www.tradeportalofindia.com which provides reliable information access both off-line and online by addressing the entire spectrum of trade information among the other wings converging product profiles, supplier profiles from India, country profiles of major trade destinations, global importer's directory, world economic environment, overseas market situation, trade fairs & exhibitions, market surveys (product-wise), trade and investment policy, trade statistics, tariff and taxes, etc. BIC thus, is the one stop for varied trade information and services on India serving overseas importers and Indian exporters in expanding business. BIC envisages encompassing specialized services like video conferencing, language translation, virtual office, and virtual trade fair and in due course e-transactions. 

5.3 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Established in 1927, FICCI is the oldest and largest non-government, not-for-profit business organisation in India. Its history is closely interwoven with India’s struggle for independence. Its industrialization is considered as emergence of one of the most rapidly growing global economies.

 FICCI has contributed to this historical process by encouraging debate, articulating the private sector’s views and influencing policy. FICCI draws its membership from the corporate sector, both private and public, including Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) and Multi-National Companies; FICCI enjoys an indirect membership of over 2,50,000 companies from various regional chambers of commerce. FICCI brings out several publications in the form of surveys, studies, policy documents, and business digests on wide spectrum of business, commercial and industrial matters for all the states of India.

 5.4 National Institute for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME) NI-MSE was originally set up as Central Industrial Extension Training Institute (CIETI) in New Delhi in 1960 as a Department under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Government of India. The Institute was shifted to Hyderabad in 1962, and was renamed as Small Industry Extension Training (SIET) Institute. SIET, as it was popularly known for over two decades later, is managed by Governing Council, appointed by the Government of India. 

SIET was conferred the status of national institute by the Government of India with the charter of assisting in the 8 promotion of Small Enterprises mainly by creating a pro-business environment. In 1984, the UNIDO had recognised SIET as an institute of meritorious performance under its Centres of Excellence Scheme subsequently, it was also accorded the national status in the same year and SIET Institute became NISIET. Since then the institute has come a long way, in making it a place of distinction for itself in the domain of entrepreneurship promotion, achieving recognition both at the national level and in the international arena. The Institute, in order to reflect the expanded focus of its objectives with name was rechristened as NI-MSE from 11th April 2007 and re-designed its structure and organisation. Now, it is an organisation of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry, Government of India. 

Almost all the information dissemination activities are organized by the documentation centre viz. Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre (SENDOC). 

5.4.1 The Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre (SENDOC) SENDOC was set up in 1970 by erstwhile SIET, to energise MSMEs in India and the developing countries around the world with information and knowledge. Since then, it has been functioning as a clearing house of information both for entrepreneurs and extension agents. 

The Centre has emerged as a one-stop global and IT powered information centre for a wide spectrum of MSMEs, academia, students, research institutions, industry associations and entrepreneurs. The main objectives of the Centre are to collect, store and disseminate technomanagerial information pertaining to MSMEs and to conduct need and demand based training programmes. The library of the SENDOC possesses 70,000 books, 18,000 back volumes of journals, 30,000 reports, 65,000 journal abstracts, 7,500 product profiles, and subscribes to 140 national and international periodicals. It has also a collection that provides information on statistics, economics, production, finance, marketing, technology, machinery and equipment, raw materials, consultants, Government policies and programmes, exports and imports, investment, trade and area literature, licensing, etc. 

Experts working in the Centre scan and arrange information systematically for quick retrieval using LIMS (Library Information Management System) package. The information is accessible through the website www.nimsme.org. Some of the important services provided by the Centre are: Inter-library lending of documents, Lending of books; Reference Services (preparation of bibliographies) and literature search, Newspaper clippings, and Technical enquiry. It also provides reprography and consultancy service, product profiles, and organises training programmes for clientele on cost. Since 1974, SENDOC plays a crucial role in the quarterly publication of the primary research journal SEDME (Small enterprises development, management and extension). This is dedicated to small entrepreneurs and academia who wish to express and exchange their thoughts on any facet of MSMEs

. 6. ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE 

6.1 The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) NCAER 

has done pioneering research work in areas of applied economics with an emphasis on policy analysis and application of modern quantitative techniques to development issues, regional development and planning, household income, consumption, savings /investment and energy. It has a unique position in the country for designing and executing large-scale sample surveys on regional and human development as well as a large range of consumer products.

 NCAER has built up a rich database on economic and commercial data. Its clients include government ministries, The Planning Commission, state governments, public and private sector companies and international agencies.9 The major activities of NCAER are: developing policy reports for clients; Examining domestic agricultural market structures, price policy, linkages between agricultural price policy and poverty, and, the role of the Panchayats in fostering sustainable development.; tracking key sectors of the economy for subscribers; forecasting the economic outlook; conducting, designing, and analyzing surveys that illuminate public policy issues as well as assist private sector decisions ; and Disseminating research findings. 

NCAER library has been an integral part of the institution, providing research support to the Council's economists as well as to policy makers, administrators, consultants, students and others from all over the country. The library plays a vital role in collecting, organizing and disseminating information for the benefit of researchers. 

The NCAER Library is a Depository Library for Asian Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and for selected UN publications. NCAER publishes three periodicals, namely, Margin, Quarterly review of the Indian Economy and Arthasuchi. 

Margin is a peer-reviewed journal of original articles, and a focal point for the dissemination of empirical and theoretical knowledge in the broad area of applied economics-specifically in areas such as monetary and fiscal policies, trade and regulation, international investment, rural economics and development economics. A major emphasis is on policy analysis and application of modern quantitative techniques to development issues. The journal is intended at encouraging economic research and analysis to achieve a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the development process needed for policy making. 

The research articles and empirical information focus on the broad areas of applied economics. The journal intends to influence policy making by encouraging a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the development process. The issues covered have a broad scope of national and international importance. 

NCAER has been monitoring and analysing the macro aspects of the Indian economy for a number of years. Based on its analysis of the economy, they offer a package of reports and seminars comprising of Quarterly Review of the Economy, Quarterly Business Expectations Survey, Monthly Journal MacroTrack and Quarterly State of the Economy Seminars. This package is provided as an annual subscription service under the title “Quarterly Review of the Economy”. 

Arthasuchi is a .quarterly computerised index to Indian economic literature comprising government reports, journal articles and newspaper write-ups. A printed version of this database is published Quarterly as " Artha Suchi: An Index to Indian Economic Literature”. A bibliographical database on Indian Economic Literature covering journal articles and working papers received in the NCAER Library has more than 40,000 citations and is updated regularly. 

7. EDUCATION

 7.1 The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) 

NCERT was set up by the Government of India in 1961 as an autonomous organization registered under Societies Registration Act (Act XXI of 1860) to advise and assist the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and Departments of Education in States/Union Territories in formulation and implementation of their policies and major programmes in the field of education, particularly for qualitative improvement of school education. For realization of its objectives, the NCERT and its Constituent Units:

  Undertake, aid, promote and coordinate research in areas related to school education; 10 

 Organize pre-service and in-service training of teachers; 

 Organize extension services for institutions that are engaged in educational research, training of teachers or have extension services to schools; 

 Develop and disseminate improved educational techniques, practices and innovations; 

 Collaborate, advise and assist State Education Departments, Universities and other educational institutions; 

 Act as a clearing-house for ideas and information to all matters relating to school education; 

 Undertake the preparation and/or the publication of books, materials, periodicals and other literature to achieve its objectives;

  Act as a nodal agency for achieving goals of universalization of elementary education. 

The Division of Library, Documentation and Information (DLDI), 

is the Learning Resource Centre and Service Division of NCERT. 

Population Education Documentation Centre (POPDOC) and International Educational Resource Documentation Centre (IERDOC) are integral parts of DLDI. Its mission is to provide updated and comprehensive information and material on education in general and school education in particular. It houses books on psychology, environmental education, value education, population education, education for special needs groups, literature and languages. 

Textual and supplementary reading materials relating to school curriculum, reports of various commissions, educational surveys and policy documents also find a place in the Library. Among the publications of NCERT, various types of the same viz. E-books, Online books, children books, non-print materials, and journals are included. The journals and periodicals are: Journal of Indian Education, The Primary teacher, Indian Educational abstracts, School Science, Prathmic Shikshak (in Hindi), Journal of Value Education, Bhartiya Aadhunic Shiksha (in Hindi), and Indian Educational review. 

8. POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 

8.1 Parliament Library Parliament Library, one of the richest repositories of books in India, was established in the year 1921 to assist members of the Indian Legislature. A Research and Reference Branch was also established which initially functioned independent of the Parliament Library. During the past four decades, the Library as well as Research and Reference Services for members have gradually developed into what is now familiarly known as 

LARRDIS (The Library, Reference, Research, Documentation and Information Service).

 Even though LARRDIS is a part of the administrative set up of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, it serves members of both the Houses of Parliament.

 LARRDIS is presently divided into the various functional divisions, viz. Research and Information, Reference, Library, Documentation, Press Clipping, Parliament Museum and Archives, Press and Public Relations, Microfilming, Audio-visual and Telecasting, Computerisation of Information Service for Members of Parliament.11 ‘Sansadiya Gyanpeeth’, the new Parliament Library Building having a covered area of about 55,000 sq.m. houses the Library, Reference, Research, Documentation and Information Services (LARRDIS), 

the Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training (BPST) and

 Parliamentary Museum and Archives (PMA)

 and Press & Public Relations Wing.

 It can accommodate about 3 million volumes of publications. The Library has been fully computerized having state of the art Local Area Network and high speed Internet connectivity. The audiovisual aids also form a substantial part of the information services. A sufficient number of cubicles fully equipped with audio and video facilities and computer terminals have also been provided in the two reading rooms for members of Parliament. 

A Closed Circuit TV network has also been provided for viewing the live proceedings of the Parliament. A 'Media Centre' equipped with latest telecommunication facilities, as part of the Press and Public Relations Wing has also been made available. The building is now fully functional and all the information services are being offered from the Library. 

The new Parliament Library Building is a functionally viable library providing for an advanced and sophisticated storage and retrieval system. This is the richest and the second largest library in the country keeping pace with the rapid developments taking place in the field of Information Technology (IT) where networking, microfilming, multimedia and national and international linkages through satellites are every day's realities. It is a futuristic and intelligent library building geared to meet the ever-growing information needs of the members of Parliament for many decades to come. Parliament Library, at present has holdings of over 1.27 million volumes of printed books, reports, governmental publications, U.N. reports, debates, gazettes, other documents (including periodicals and publications brought out by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. Eighty eight Indian and foreign newspapers and 491 periodicals in English, Hindi and other Indian languages are being received regularly in the Parliament Library. 

The Library Division also brings out a monthly publication named Parliamentary Library Bulletin. It contains information regarding the titles of new additions to the holdings of Parliament Library during the month. It also highlights the various activities and developments like visits of delegations/dignitaries to Parliament Library, release of latest publications, backgrounders and information bulletins, etc. brought out by the LARRDIS. Research and Information Division publishes the following periodicals for the use of members: The Journal of Parliamentary Information (Quarterly): This Journal carries practice and problem oriented articles on constitutional and parliamentary subjects from members of Parliament and other experts in the field. It also serves as an authentic recorder of developments in practice and procedure and parliamentary events and activities in Indian and foreign Legislatures. 

The Digest of Central Acts (Quarterly): The Digest contains synopses of all the Bills passed by Parliament and assented to by the President. The Digest of Legislative and Constitutional Cases (Quarterly): This Digest contains abstracts of judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts involving interpretation of the provisions of the Constitution in important legislative and constitutional cases. IPG Newsletter (Quarterly): This Newsletter keeps members of the Indian Parliamentary Group (IPG) informed of the various events and activities of the IPG like exchange of Parliamentary Delegations, IPU, CPA and SAARC Parliamentary Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, Symposia, etc. 

CPA Asia Region Newsletter (Quarterly): The Newsletter provides information to members of the National Branches of the Parliaments of Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka and 12 State Branches of India on important parliamentary events and activities which take place in their Branches and which have a significance insofar as the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) are concerned.

 8.2 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) GIPE, Pune, is one of the oldest research and training institutes in Economics in the country, Research in the socio-economic dimensions of the Indian society, and training to researchers in this domain being its primary objectives. Established in 1930 by the Servants of India Society, the Institute is registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, and the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950. The Servants of India Society, founded by late Shri Gopal Krishna Gokhale, are the Trustees of the Institute. 

In view of the eminent and sustained contribution of the Institute to teaching, training and research in Economics since its inception, and in recognition of its potential to emerge as a centre of excellence in the field of teaching and research in Economics, the University Grants Commission, in 1993, granted to the Institute the status of a Deemed to be University. Since its inception in 1930, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics is renowned for its initiatives in qualitative research in diverse areas of economic theory and practice. Its studies on Poverty, Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes and Cooperatives were instrumental in shaping public policies, and in formulating economic plans at local and regional level.

 GIPE is the one of the handful of research institutions in the country to carry out research on demographic problems facing the country. The Institute is credited with pioneering contributions by way of surveys, research, informed debate and analysis which has shaped public discourse on major socio-economic initiatives in the State of Maharashtra, as well at the national level. For some of the major contributions including on-going research projects its official website may be visited Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library was established in 1905 as a public library under the aegis of Servants of India Society with late Gopal Krishna Gokhale as one of its founding members. The Library has a rare combination of colonial and modern architecture including a rare collection of old British Parliamentary Papers of the 18th and 19th centuries, about almost unbroken series of the proceedings of legislatures in India, both Central and States; and a large collection of reports of commissions and committees appointed by the Government of India, U.K., U.S. etc.

 It also possesses the union budgets rights from 1799-1805 and 1874-75 to till date, the budgets of princely and provincial states of pre-independence period and unbroken series of the budgets of state governments after the formation of states on linguistic basis. The census publications of government of India and states right from 1872 first census of India to till date, also form a very valuable part of our collection. Special holdings include gazetteers Maharashtra state gazettes and Gokhale papers microfilms etc. 

The library is also a depository library for the publications of the United Nations and its specialised agencies, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Community and also the Government of Canada. Besides books, it receives few journals as depository. It has a very comprehensive collection of census publications starting right from the first census (1871 to 2001), Govt. of Maharashtra Gazettes from 1960 onwards, and grey literature in the form of working papers/discussion papers, occasional papers etc. of various national and international research institution, universities, and agencies 8.3 Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) IIPA is an autonomous academic institution of national eminence for training, research and information dissemination in streams related to the ethos of public administration.

 The institute13 established in 1953, is known internationally as a premier centre for training and research in public administration and Management. Its thrust areas are - enhancing leadership and managerial qualities on the one hand and developing a service-orientation on the other. The research work involves simplifying procedures and suggesting policy changes to ensure improved delivery of public services. 

The Institute’s objectives are: 

 To promote and provide for the study of public administration, economic and political science with special reference to public administration and the machinery of government and educational purposes, 

 To undertake, organise and facilitate study courses, conferences and lectures and research in matters relating to public administration and the machinery of government, 

 To undertake and provide for the publication of journals and of research papers and books to impart training in and promote the study of public administration, 

 To establish and maintain libraries and information services to facilitate the study of public administration and spreading information, 

 To constitute or cause to be constituted Regional Branches at convenient centres in India to promote the objects of the society, and

  To cooperate with approved institutions and bodies for the purposes of helping the cause of public administration The activities of the Institute are organized in four inter-related areas of Research, Training, Advisory Services and Dissemination of Information.

 It undertakes normally the sponsored projects of Government and national/international organizations and offers advisory services in operational areas and provides the necessary hand-holding in implementation of schemes, programmes and project in both Government and private sectors. It conducts a large number of long and short-duration training programmes. 

Besides the Indian Journal of Public Administration, Nagarlok and Lok Prashashan journals, the Institute also periodically publishes a bibliographic journal Documentation in Public Administration and a monthly Newsletter. 

The Institute has enriched the literature on Public Administration through a large number of serials and monographs besides research studies, proceedings of seminars /conferences and lectures, etc. The Institute publishes five periodicals regularly: 

i. Indian Journal of Public Administration (IJPA, Quarterly, published since 1955)

 ii. Lok Prashasan (Hindi, six-monthly, published since 2009) 

iii. Nagarlok (Quarterly, published since 1969) 

iv. Documentation in Public Administration (DPA, Quarterly, published since 1973)

 v. IIPA Newsletter (Monthly, published since 1955)

 The IIPA Library is one of the major social science resources in India. IIPA has published about 400 books, monographs, reports, working papers, and compendiums in spheres of governance and public administration. It has a collection of about 2 lakh volumes of books and periodicals and receives 350 current periodicals. It is a depository library for the publications of the World Bank and has been accorded co-operating library status for the publications of International Monetary Fund. The World Bank has recently set up a state-of-the-art Information Kiosk in the Library to facilitate on-line access to the knowledge portals of the Bank and its associate institutions. Its e-resources and research tools include web-OPAC, JSTOR full text, EPW full text, ABI Inform full text, World Bank e-library, IMF e-library, IMF data manager, Governance knowledge centre, UNESCO-WSSR 2010, DOAJ Journals, J-gate , and OAISTER –a project of the Digital Library Production Service of the University of Michigan University Library with a goal 14 is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically oriented digital resources that are easily searchable.

 9. SOCIOLOGY

 9.1 SNDT Women’s University Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) University, earlier known as The Indian Women’s University founded in 1916, got statutory recognition during 1951. 

The goals of the SNDT Women's University are to:

  Provide access to higher education for women through formal and non- formal streams including adult and continuing education, 

 Provide a wide range of professional and vocational courses for women to meet the socio-economic demands, 

 Develop scholarship and research in emerging areas of study, particularly with focus on women's perspectives, 

 Inculcate among women positive self- concept, awareness of women's issues and rights with a rational outlook towards society, 

 Enhance purposeful education with 'human values' and social responsibility by participating in outreach programmes, and 

 Achieve excellence in the academic disciplines, research and extension activities through emphasis on 'quality in every activity'. The collection of the University Library includes information material in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Sanskrit. The collection includes books and monographs, journals, newspapers, back volumes of indian & foreign journals, back runs of newspapers and women’s magazines, state-of –the art reviews, databases, dissertations and these, standards and specifications, reprints of articles & newspaper clippings, pamphlets, leaflets and brochures, annual reports of governments agencies & research institutes, unique collection of hindustani music, select collection of teaching aids audio-visual material, microforms and electronic resources including e-books and e-journals. the collection of the central library is particularly strong in the social sciences, Gandhiana, women’s studies, arts, literature, nursing, education and library and information science. 

10. SUMMARY Recognising the need for a systematic and formal information system in socio-economic development, an overview of national Information systems and programmes in India as reflected in the major activities and programmes of leading institutions in the field of social sciences is presented. In this context, the leading role of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and its major constituent, i.e., 

National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) is emphasized. Keeping in view the seven major disciplines under social science field viz., Economics and Commerce; Education; Management & Business administration; Political science including International relations; Psychology; Public Administration and Sociology including social work and Criminology, a brief sketch of some of the premier institutions in these disciplines including ICSSR and NASSDOC as major carriers of information dissemination has 15 been provided. These institutions are:

 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO),

 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI),

 National Institute for Micro, small, and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSE),

 National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), 

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT),

 Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML), 

Parliament Library, Gokhale Institue of Politics and Economics, Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), 

and Shreemati Nathibai DamodarThackersey (SNDT) 

University. The information content under each Institution covers the important aspects such as background, scope, objectives/goals, major activities and programmes, and information dissemination details including journals and e-resources. 

STORY BOARD/CHUNK 

TEXT 1. 

National Information system in social sciences A marked increase in cultural and ideological contrasts in approaches to social, political, and cultural problems have led to increased growth in literature in this field. It is realized that social science research is essential for formulation of Government policies. This leads to the importance of ensuring adequate bibliographic control. This is possible with information dissemination system through various institutions in the field of social sciences at National level. Government of India has recognized this need and established Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) to fulfill this need. Besides this, ICSSR has recognized various disciplines under the broad field of Social sciences. 

These are:  Economics including Commerce; 

 Education;

  Management & Business administration; 

 Political science including International relations;

  Psychology;  Public Administration; and 

 Sociology including Social work and Criminology 

2. ICSSR activities The main objectives of the Council are to sponsor social science research programmes and projects, provide financial support, to arrange technical training, develop and support documentation centres and advise the Government of India on matters related to promotion of social science research and its utilization. The Council is at present assisting 27 Research Institutes and 6 Regional Centres in different regions in India. 

The Research Institutes are of all India character- outside the scope of the University Grants Commission (UGC). Their main objectives are : Dispersal of talent from more developed to less developed regions, especially, to areas where social science research are under developed. The Council brings out the following publications o ICSSR Journal of Abstracts and Reviews (bi-annual) in five disciplines viz.,

 Economics, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology including Social Anthropology.16 o Indian Social Science Review- a quarterly Newsletter providing an account of major activities and programs including those of Regional centres and various Research institutes 

3. National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) Established as a Division of ICSSR, it has the major role of providing library and information support services to researchers in social sciences. The main objectives of the Centre are to disseminate information about the developments in social science research, to sensitize in planning and designing of local/National information systems pertaining to various Social Science, to conduct short-term training courses, and to provide study grant to doctoral students for collecting research material from libraries and information centres located in various parts of the country. Its publications are: 

 Indian Social Science Periodicals literature (INSSPEL)

  Integrated and computerized database of articles published in Indian social science journals 

 Indian Education Index (1947-1978) 

 Index to Indian Periodicals : Sociology & Psychology (1886-1970) 

 Journal of Anthropological Society of Bombay

 4. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) TISS is one of the progressive centers of learning catering to the educational and research information needs of academic and scientific community for excellent teaching, research and development work. Its vision is creation and provision of socially relevant and high quality professional education, facilitation of autonomous research and dissemination of knowledge, and support knowledge creation through strong M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes and PostDoctoral scholars. Includes strategic extension, field action and advocacy through training and capacity building of State and non-State institutions and personnel. Its library and publication activities are:

  To offer essential and specialized information resources and services to meet the growing information needs by Developing user-based resources; 

 To organize information resources; 

 To provide human and technologically moderated access to information;  To facilitate users to identify, locate, obtain and evaluate information.

  To provide access to e-resources and services like OPAC, Ezproxy remote access; and  Indian Journal of Social work online facility 

5. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML)17

 IIML has been to grow into a fully integrated global management school. The objectives of imparting education, combined with creation, dissemination and publication of knowledge, are being met in an integrated form, to create a synergetic impact. In keeping with the mission of the Institute, Management Development Programmes (MDPs) are conducted to help improve management systems by providing relevant training to senior executives in industry, government and the non-government sectors. It has undertaken some of the pioneering work in the following areas 

 Centres of Excellence’ in the area of agriculture – Agriculture Management Centre;

  Leadership – Centre for Leadership in Human Values; and

  Entrepreneurship – Centre for Entrepreneur Development and New Venture Management. IIMl’s library, acts as main learning resource centre of the Institute and provides services and facilities to meet the requirements of the Institute's teaching, training, research and consultancy programmers. E-resources of the library’s collection include e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers, e-databases, 

DELNET databases, video library, digital knowledge repositories, and Union list of periodicals. A biannual journal entitled ‘Metamorphosis: A Journal for Business Leaders’ is published as its official organ reporting breakthrough ideas in the ever emerging and evolving processes of management 

6. India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) ITPO is the premier trade promotion agency of the government of India, which provides a broad spectrum of services to trade and industry so as to catalyse the growth of bilateral trade, particularly India's exports, and technological upgradation and modernisation of different industry segments. ITPO has taken a lead in promoting the Fair Culture all over the country. Major initiatives have been taken through negotiations and discussions with the State Governments for setting up of exhibition complexes in West Bengal, Assam for the NorthEastern region. 

Its Business Information Centre (BIS) provides following information dissemination facilities: 

 One stop point for varied trade information and services on India by serving overseas importers to source from India and Indian exporters to expand business 

 Efficient management of trade information services besides connectivity and linkages to trade organizations in India and overseas and facilitates greater market access for Indian business 

 Hosts the first Trade Portal in INDIA http://www.tradeportalofindia.com  Reliable information access to whole spectrum of trade information including Product Profiles, Supplier profiles from India, Country profiles of major trade destinations, Global Importer's directory, World economic environment, Overseas Market Situation, Trade Fairs & Exhibitions, Market Surveys (Product-wise), Trade and Investment Policy, Trade statistics, Tariff and Taxes etc.  Specialized services like video conferencing, language translation, virtual office, and virtual trade fair and in due course e-transactions. 

7. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)18  FICCI is the oldest and largest non-government, not-for-profit business organisation, in India.  Considered as emergence of one of the most rapidly growing global economies.  Contributes to the historical process by encouraging debate, articulating the private sector’s views and influencing policy.  Draws its membership from the corporate sector, both private and public, including Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) and Multi National Companies;  Enjoys an indirect membership of over 2,50,000 companies from various regional chambers of commerce.  Brings out several publications in the form of surveys, studies, policy documents, and business digests on wide spectrum of business, commercial and industrial matters for all the States of India 

8. National Institute for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME)  NI-MSE was originally set up as Central Industrial Extension Training Institute (CIETI) in New Delhi in 1960 as a Department under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Government of India.  The Institute was shifted to Hyderabad in 1962, and was renamed as Small Industry Extension Training (SIET) Institute and is managed by Governing Council, appointed by the Government of India.  It was accorded the national status in 1984 and SIET Institute became NISIET. The Institute, in order to reflect the expanded focus of its objectives with name was rechristened as NI-MSE from 11th April 2007 and re-designed its structure and organisation. 

 It is an organisation of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry, Government of India. 

 Almost all the information dissemination activities are organized by the documentation centre viz. Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre (SENDOC) which was set up in 1970 when NI-MSME, was SIET, to energise MSMEs in India and the developing countries around the world with information and knowledge as a clearing house of information both for entrepreneurs and extension agents 

 The main objectives of the Centre are to collect, store and disseminate technomanagerial information pertaining to MSMEs and to conduct need and demand based training programmes. 

 Experts working in the Centre scan and arrange information systematically for quick retrieval using LIMS (Library Information Management System) package.

  The information is accessible through the website www.nimsme.org. 

 Some of the important services provided by the Centre are: Inter-library lending of documents, Lending of books; Reference Services (preparation of bibliographies) and literature search, Newspaper clippings, and Technical enquiry. 

 Also publishes a quarterly publication of the primary research journal SEDME (Small enterprises development, management and extension) – since 1974. 

9. The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) NCAER has a pioneering research work in areas of applied economics. It has a unique position in the country for designing and executing large-scale sample surveys on regional and human 19 development as well as a large range of consumer products. NCAER has built up a rich database on economic and commercial data. Its major activities are : 

 Developing policy reports for clients; 

 Examining domestic agricultural market structures, price policy, linkages between agricultural price policy and poverty, and, the role of the Panchayats in fostering sustainable development.; 

 Tracking key sectors of the economy for subscribers ; 

 Forecasting the economic outlook; 

 Conducting, designing, and analyzing surveys that illuminate public policy issues as well as assist private sector decisions ; and 

 Disseminating research findings. 

The NCAER Library is a Depository Library for Asian Development Bank and International Monetary Fund including selected UN publications. NCAER publishes three periodicals. These are:  Margin - a peer-reviewed journal of original articles, and a focal point for the dissemination of empirical and theoretical knowledge in the broad area of applied economics 

 Quarterly review of the Indian economy- a package of reports and seminars comprising of Quarterly Review of the Economy; Quarterly Business Expectations Survey; Monthly Journal MacroTrack; and Quarterly State of the Economy Seminars. This package is provided as an annual subscription service under the title “Quarterly Review of the Economy”. 

 Arthasuchi - is a .quarterly computerised index to Indian economic literature comprising government reports, journal articles and newspaper write-ups. 

 A printed version of this database is published Quarterly as " Artha Suchi: An Index to Indian Economic Literature”. A bibliographical database on Indian Economic Literature covering journal articles and working papers received in the NCAER Library 

10.The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) NCERT was set up by the Government of India as an autonomous organization to advise and assist the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and Departments of Education in States/Union Territories in formulation and implementation of their policies and 20 major programmes in the field of education, particularly for qualitative improvement of school education. Its main objectives are: to develop and disseminate improved educational techniques, collaborate, advise and assist State Education Departments, Universities and other educational institutions; act as a clearing-house for ideas and information to all matters relating to school education; and undertake the preparation and/or the publication of books, materials, and periodicals The Division of Library, Documentation and Information (DLDI), is the Learning Resource Centre and Service Division of NCERT. 

Population Education Documentation Centre (POPDOC) and International Educational Resource Documentation Centre (IERDOC) are integral parts of DLDI. Its mission is to provide updated and comprehensive information and material on education in general and school education in particular. The publications of NCERT, include E-books, Online books, children books, non-print materials, and journals. The journals and periodicals are: 

 Journal of Indian Education, 

 The Primary teacher, 

 Indian Educational abstracts,

  School Science,  Prathmic Shikshak (in Hindi), 

 Journal of Value Education, 

 Bhartiya Aadhunic Shiksha (in Hindi), and 

 Indian Educational review. 

11. Parliament Library Parliament Library, was established during the year 1921 to assist members of the Indian Legislature. A Research and Reference Branch was also established which initially functioned independent of the Parliament Library. "Sansadiya Gyanpeeth",is the new Parliament Library Building having the covered area of about 55,000 sq.m.

 houses the Library The Library as well as Research and Reference Services for members have developed into LARRDIS (The Library, Reference, Research, Documentation and Information Service). Even though LARRDIS is a part of the administrative set up of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, it serves members of both the Houses of Parliament. 

LARRDIS is presently divided into the various functional Divisions:  Research and Information, Reference,  Library, Documentation,  Press Clipping,  Parliament Museum and Archives,  Press and Public Relations,  Microfilming,  Audio-visual and Telecasting,  Computerisation of Information Service for Members of Parliament21 The Library Division brings out the following publications  Parliamentary Library Bulletin - a monthly publication containing information regarding the titles of new additions to the holdings of Parliament Library during the month. 

 The Journal of Parliamentary Information (Quarterly): carries practice and problem oriented articles on constitutional and parliamentary subjects from members of Parliament and other experts in the field.  The Digest of Central Acts (Quarterly): The Digest contains synopses of all the Bills passed by Parliament and assented to by the President.  The Digest of Legislative and Constitutional Cases (Quarterly): 

This Digest contains abstracts of judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Courts involving interpretation of the provisions of the Constitution in important legislative and constitutional cases.  IPG Newsletter (Quarterly): This Newsletter keeps members of the Indian Parliamentary Group (IPG) informed of the various events and activities like exchange of Parliamentary Delegations, SAARC Parliamentary Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, Symposia, etc.  CPA Asia Region Newsletter (Quarterly): The Newsletter provides information to members of the National Branches of the Parliaments of Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka and State Branches of India on important parliamentary events and activities 

12. Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE)  GIPE, Pune, is one of the oldest research and training institutes in Economics in the country, Research in the socio-economic dimensions of the Indian society, and training to researchers in this domain being its primary objectives.  The Servants of India Society, founded by late Shri Gopal Krishna Gokhale, are the Trustees of the Institute. The University Grants Commission, in 1993, granted to the Institute the status of a Deemed to be University. Since its inception in 1930,  GIPE is renowned for its initiatives in qualitative research in diverse areas of economic theory and practice.

 Its studies on Poverty, Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes and Cooperatives were instrumental in shaping public policies, and in formulating economic plans at local and regional level.  The Institute is credited with pioneering contributions by way of surveys, research, informed debate and analysis which has shaped public discourse on major socioeconomic initiatives .  Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library established in 1905 as a public library has a rare combination of colonial and modern architecture including a rare collection of old British Parliamentary Papers of the 18th and 19th centuries  Possesses the union budgets rights from 1799-1805 and 1874-75 to till date, the budgets of princely and provincial states of pre-independence period and unbroken series of the budgets of state governments after the formation of states on linguistic basis.  The census publications of government of India and states right from 1872 first census of India to till date,  Special holdings include gazetteers Maharashtra state gazettes and Gokhale papers microfilms etc. 

22  As a depository library for the publications of the United Nations and its specialised agencies, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Community and also the Government of Canada.  A comprehensive collection of census publications starting right from the first census (1871 to 2001), Govt. of Maharashtra Gazettes from 1960 onwards, and  Grey literature in the form of working papers/discussion papers, occasional papers etc. of various national and international research institution, universities, and agencies 

13. Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) IIPA is an autonomous academic institution of national eminence for training, research and information dissemination in streams related to the ethos of Public Administration. Its thrust areas are: Enhancing leadership and managerial qualities on the one hand and developing a service-orientation on the other. The research work involves simplifying procedures and suggesting policy changes to ensure improved delivery of public services. The Institute’s objectives are:

  To promote and provide for the study of Public Administration and economic and political science with special reference to public administration;  To undertake, organise and facilitate study courses, conferences and lectures and research in matters relating to public administration  To establish and maintain libraries and information services to facilitate the study of public administration and spreading information; and 

 To cooperate with approved institutions and bodies for the purposes of helping the cause of public administration The activities of the Institute are organized in four inter-related areas of Research, Training, Advisory Services and Dissemination of Information. It undertakes normally the sponsored projects of Government and national / international organizations and offers advisory services in operational areas and provides the necessary hand-holding in implementation of schemes, programmes and project in both Government and private sectors. The Institute has enriched the literature on Public Administration through a large number of serials and monographs besides research studies, proceedings of seminars /conferences and lectures, etc. The Institute publishes five periodicals regularly: 

vi. Indian Journal of Public Administration (IJPA, Quarterly, published since 1955). 

vii. Lok Prashasan (Hindi, six-monthly, published since 2009) 

viii. Nagarlok (Quarterly, published since 1969)

 ix. Documentation in Public Administration (DPA, Quarterly, published since 1973).

 x. IIPA Newsletter (Monthly, published since 1955) IIPA Library is one of the major social science resources in India. 

The World Bank has recently set up a state-of-the-art Information Kiosk in the Library to facilitate on-line access to the knowledge portals of the Bank and its associate institutions. Its e-resources and research tools include  Web-OPAC,  JSTOR full text, 23  EPW full text,  ABI Inform full text,  World Bank e-library,  IMF e-library,  IMF data manager,  Governance knowledge centre,  UNESCO-WSSR 2010,  DOAJ Journals,  J-gate , and  OAISTER –a project of the Digital Library Production Service of the University of Michigan University Library with a goal is to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically oriented digital resources that are easily searchable. 

14. SNDT Women’s University Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) University got statutory recognition during 1951 which was earlier known as The Indian Women’s University founded during 1916 when Maharishi Karve laid down the foundation for Women’s empowerment. The main goals of the SNDT Women's University emerging from the Vision and Mission are to: provide access to higher education for women through formal and non- formal streams including adult and continuing education ,develop scholarship and research in emerging areas of study, particularly with focus on women's perspectives, enhance purposeful education with 'human values’, and social responsibility by participating in outreach programmes. 

The collection of the University Library includes information material in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Sanskrit particularly in the areas such as Social sciences, Gandhiana, women’s studies, arts, literature, nursing, education and library & information science. It covers:  Books and monographs ;  Journals;  Newspapers;  Back volumes of Indian & foreign journals;  Back runs of newspapers and women’s magazines ;  State-of –the art reviews;  Databases;  Dissertations and theses;  Standards and specifications;  Pamphlets, leaflets and brochures;  Annual reports of Governments agencies & research institutes;  Unique collection of Hindustani Music;  Select collection of teaching aids audio-visual material, microforms; and Electronic resources 

ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION

 A. Multiple Choice Questions with Answers 

1. Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is currently assisting following numbers of research institutes spread all over the country a. 25 b. 27 c. 30 

2. The main role of National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC) is to a. Provide library and information support services in the subject of social sciences b. Advise researchers for their career developments c. Provide awards and prizes to eminent social science scholars

 3. SENDOC stands for a. Sociology and Economics National Documentation centre b. Social and Economical National Documentation Centre c. Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre 

4. The library of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is known as a. Population Education Documentation Centre b. Division of Library, Documentation and Information c. International Educational Resource Documentation Centre 

5. The periodicity of Indian Journal of Public Administration is a. Quarterly b. Bi-monthly c. Monthly

 Answers: 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. b 5. a B. 

True & False Statements

 1. The various components of an information system include : hardware, software, manpower, and communication systems. 

2. Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has recognized three disciplines viz. Economics, political Science, and Sociology in its various programmes and information systems 

3. Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library belongs to Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

 4. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) is one of the oldest institutions set up by Government of India. 

5. The NCAER Library is a Depository Library for Asian Development Bank and International Monetary Fund including selected UN publications

 Correct Answer

 1. True 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. True 

C. Fill in the Blanks 

1. A biannual journal entitled ----------------------------------- is published as official organ of IIM, Lucknow

 2. Business Information Centre (BIS) is ITPO's initiative in providing ----------------------- with electronic accessibility. 

3. National Institute for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (NI-MSME) was originally set up as --------------------------------- in New Delhi

 4. "----------------------------" is the new Parliament Library Building having the covered area of about 55,000 sq.m. 

5. Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library was established in 1905 as a ----------------------under the aegis of Servants of India Society with late Gopal Krishna Gokhale as one of its founding members

Correct Answer 

1. Metamorphosis: A Journal for Business Leaders electronic format 

2. Trade information services

 3. Central Industrial Extension Training Institute (CIETI) 

4. Sansadiya Gyanpeeth 

5. Public library

SUPPORTING MATERIALS/LEARN MORE 

A. DID YOU KNOW 

1. Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) provides maintenance and development grants to its various research Institutes. Its one of the major programmes is sponsoring of research institutes which fall outside the scope of the University Grants Commission. These institutes constitute an important mechanism for implementing the ICSSR’s policy of dispersal of research talents and building up of research capabilities in the different regions of the country, particularly in the areas where social science research is not yet well developed. 

2. ICSSR has established six Regional centres as a part of its programme for decentralising administration and broad basing social science research in the regions. These are: Eastern Regional Centre, Kolkata , North-Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong, North-Western Regional Centre, Chandigarh, Northern Regional Centre, New Delhi, Southern Regional Centre, Hyderabad , andWestern Regional Centre, Mumbai Description Image Source Parliament Library is the largest library in Delhi and second largest library in India after the National Library. The bibliographic details about the publications received after 1992 are available for online searching. 

http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Libr ary/parliament_library.html In IIPA, the academic interaction between the faculty members of the institute is facilitated through its 12 academic centres. These are engaged in different sub-disciplines viz. economic analysis, financial management, public policy and planning, rural development, urban studies, e-governance, consumer studies, climate change, environment, and drought administration http://www.iipa.org.in/centers.htmlB. 

INTERESTING FACTS 

No. Interesting Facts 

1. The Indian Parliament Home Page was inaugurated by the President of India on 15 March, 1996. The information available on the PARLIS database has been converted into a Web enabled environment. Twelve Touch Screen Information Kiosks have been installed at the various vantage points in Parliament House and its Annexe building

 2. Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) has a membership of over 11,000 including about 100 overseas, a nation-wide network of 23 regional branches and 44 local branches, which provide exchange of ideas on current trends and practice in public administration to public servants, academics and students. The Institute is one of the founder members of the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA). It works in association with the universities, industry associations advanced research institutes, training centres and government departments in India.. 

3. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)’s Business Information system network (BISNET) has launched several web portals to provide a wide variety of business information and match-making services in the cyber space. The web portals are packed with information and interactive tools for business development, promotion, facilitation and match making. All the web portals are hosted on dedicated web servers co-located at data centers with excellent infrastructure and high bandwidth. 

BISNET not only manages its own business portals on the web but also offers web site development and hosting services, migration services (redesigning and revamping), e-survey campaign, content creation and management 

C. TIMELINE D. GLOSSARY Starting Character Term Definition Related Term B Bibliographic control Bibliographic control refers to the operations by which recorded information is organized or arranged according to established standards and thereby made readily retrievable Information organization or bibliographic organization C Cyber Café Cybercafé is a place which provides internet access to the public, usually for a fee. These businesses usually provide snacks and drinks, hence the café in the name. 

The fee for using a computer is usually charged as a time-based rate. Internet caféE Ezproxy remote access EZproxy remote access is the recommended way to get subscription Library content from off campus, since most people find it easier to use. Requires only a web browser plus a MyAccess username and password, no software or computer set-up required I Information Kiosk An information kiosk dispenses free information in the form of maps, pamphlets, and other literature, and/or advice offered by an attendant or self operated information booth M Metamorphosis A major change in the appearance or character of someone or something V Virtual office A virtual office provides communication and address services that allow users to reduce traditional office costs while maintaining business professionalism Information Kiosk 

E. WEB LINKS / REFERENCES 

References Agrawal, S P. National Information for Social Sciences in India. In: Sharma, CD, and Vyas, Kailash (eds). Developing Horizons in Library and Information science. Printwell, Jaipur, 1983, 95-108pp 

Agarwal, S P. National Information systems in Social Sciences: A study in perspectives. In: Gupta, B M (et.al.) (eds). Handbook of Libraries, Archives, and Information Centres in India. Information Industry Publications, New Delhi, 1986, vol.3, 179-95pp

 Goil, N K. Need for social science information system: guidelines for model for India. Library Herald 17, no. 1-4 (1975-1979), 70-93 

Web links 

http://www.icssr.org/

 http://www.ssrc.org/ 

http://www.tiss.edu/ 

http://www.iiml.ac.in/ 

http://www.indiatradefair.com/

 http://www.ficci.com/

 http://www.nimsme.org/ 

http://www.ncaer.org/

 http://www.ncert.nic.in/

 http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/intro/p14.htm 

http://www.gipe.ac.in/ 

http://www.iipa.org.in/ 

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15 Evolution of Social Science Research Libraries In India

2. Objectives:

• To learn about  social science libraries  and research facilities.
• To help users by guiding them to appropriate resources
• To gain knowledge about collection and services of different libraries.

3. Introduction

Social Science libraries have played important role in organizing and disseminating social science information and facilitating research. These libraries have served as useful resourcescentres and provided access to vital informationfor social scientist. Some of these libraries bring out various publications containing review of important social science literature.

Some of these libraries are described below: The information aboutthese libraries hasbeen taken from their respective websites.

4.1.Introduction

The NCAER Library is one of India's premier research libraries in applied economics. Ever since its inception in 1956, the library has been an integral part of the institution, providing research support to the Council's economists as well as to policy makers, administrators, consultants, students and others from all over the country. The library plays a vital role in collecting, organizing and disseminating information for the benefit of researchers.

The NCAER Library is Depository Library for Asian Development Bank and International Monetary Fund. It is also depository for selected UN publications.

Library follows an open access system. Access is free to research scholars and Ph.D. students with proper identity card or letter. There is a user fee of Rs. 100/- per day for all others.(http://www.ncaer.org/libraryoverview.html)

4.1.1.Library Collections

The library's collection development policy is guided by the Council's research requirements as well as a broader policy toward making it a prominent resource centre in the area of economics: new areas include health care infrastructure development and the informal sector among others. The library collection comprises of books, reports, and back volumes of journals and electronic resources, maps and microfiche.

4.1.2. Library Collection as on 31 March 2010

Books	Reports	Bound Journals	Maps / Microfiche	CD ROMs
26,966	36,380	15,943	1,800	1,000

4.1.2.1.CD ROM Collection

Important Statistical CD ROMs in the collection include

CMIE – Prowess

CSO - Annual Survey of Industries

DGCI&S - Foreign Trade Statistics of India

DGCI&S - Statistics of foreign Trade of India

DGCI&S - Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India

EPW - Annual Survey of Industries

EPW - National Accounts Statistics of India 1950-51 to 2002-03

IMF - Balance of Payments Statistics

IMF - Direction of Trade Statistics

IMF - Government Finance Statistics

IMF - International Financial Statistics

RBI - Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy 1999+

RBI - Handbook of Statistics on State Government Finances

The World Bank - World Development Indicators

The World Bank - Global Development Finance

UNCTAD/WTO - PC TAS (Personal Computer Trade Analysis System) HS and SITC3rd Ed.1995+

4.2. Library Services

The NCAER Library provides a variety of services to researchers at the Council and those who visit the library for research purposes. The services provided by the library include: 

• Bibliographic Services
• Reference Service
• Photocopy Service
• Resource Sharing and Inter-library loan
• Recent Additions
• Current Awareness Service in Economics
• Latest Working Papers
• Artha Suchi - an Index to Indian Economic Literature 

(http://www.ncaer.org/LibraryServices.html)

4.3.1.Current Journals

List of Current Journals being received at NCAER Library

Click Here to visit Current Journals

4.3.2.Journal Holdings

List of Journals at NCAER Library

Click Here to visit Journal Holdings

4.3.3.E-Journals

Full - Text access to select journals subscribed by the library. I P authenticated access for NCAER researchers only

Click Here to visit EJournal

4.3.4.Union Catalogue of Journals

The Union Catalogue of Journals is co-operative initiative of major Economic Research Institutions and Management Institutions in India. It gives holding of more than 8200 journals received by these libraries.

Click here to visit the Union Catalog

4.3.5.Directory of Open Access Journals

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scholarly journals. There are 5058 journals in the directory out of which 2085 journals are searchable at article level.

Click here to visit the Directory

4.3.6.Open J-Gate Open Access Journals (www.openj-gate.com)

Open J-Gate is world's largest portal and article database for open access journals, both peer-reviewed and professional. Open J-Gate is a well-structured and extensively indexed database. More than 3100 journals are indexed and more than 300,000 articles are added every year.

Click here to visit the Open J-Gate Portal

(http://www.ncaer.org/JournalInfo.html)

 

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5.1. INTRODUCTION

The Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) is an autonomous, multidisciplinary Centre for advanced research and training. Widely recognized as a Centre of excellence, it is one of India’s leading academic institutions in the fields of economic and social development. Established in 1958, its faculty of about 30 social scientists (economists, demographers and sociologists) and a large body of supporting research staff focus on emerging and often cutting-edge areas of social and policy concern. Many past and current faculty members are internationally renowned and award-winning scholars.

The library and its facilities are available to the faculty members; Indian Economics services Probationers and other officer trainees of the Institute.

5.1.2.ACCESS/ USERS

The library and its facilities are available to the faculty members, Indian Economics services Probationers and other officer trainees of the Institute, for example, officer trainees from NABARD, Indian Audit and Accounts, Environmental Economics, faculty, Ph.D. scholars and students of Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi and other Universities in India, research scholars, alumni members and others who are interested in accessing information.

5.2. COLLECTION

The library of the institute has a specialised collection on social sciences with an emphasis on development and planning. It caters mainly to the needs of research and training undertaken at the institute. Apart from routine and trade publications procurement, the library makes a special effort to procuring research publications, Micro-documents, serials and official publications brought out by research organisations, corporate bodies, international organisations and their allied agencies, universities and the Central and the State government, departments and their research and their evaluation cells.

5.2.2. Journals

In addition to a stock of 20,000 back volumes of journals of 2,000 titles, the library subscribes to 104 journals, receive 51 journals in exchange and receive 123 journals on gratis. The library exchanges the Institute's research output and publications (including its journal, Contributions to Indian Sociology) with similar institutions in India and abroad. In total, the library receives 278 journals

5.2.1.Books

As on date the library has  about 1,31,000 accessioned documents including books, monographs, workshop papers, proceedings of conferences, statistical serials in the field of economics, economic development, energy, environment, finance, econometrics, mathematics, agriculture, forestry, industry, irrigation, sociology, social anthropology, gender, demography, health etc. An equal number of unaccessioned Micro Documents comprising of Institutional Research Reports, Discussion, Occasional and Working Papers are also held. The library also collects on a fairly wide basis, the Annual Reports of Companies, of Departments of Central and State Government and other corporate bodies

5.2.3. Serials

Since data publications are important for research, the library specialises in collecting statistical serials, mostly annually. There are around 3000 serial titles containing statistical information on India and its states and other countries.

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5.2.7. Census Reports

The library has a complete set of census reports commencing from 1872. This section maintains the census data of India for the period 1872 to 1951 in microfiche format and from 1951 to 2001 in hard copy. 1991 & 2001 Census are available in floppy and CD at the IEG also.

5.3.1. JSTOR

The library is subscribing to JSTOR. It is an electronic database of more than 400+ journals spread across 13 academic disciplines with full text from starting issue of the journal.

www.jstor.org

5.3.2.INDIASTAT

www.indiastat.com

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5.4. CD-ROM

The Library has about 200 CD-ROMs and 8 computers with CD Drive.

5.5. LIBRARY SERVICES

Institute of Economic Growth Library provides the following services to its users:

• Online Information Retrieval
• Access  to Internet
• E-mail
• CD-ROM Databases
• Selective Dissemination of Information
• Current Awareness Service (Arrivals this Week)
• Bibliographic and Documentation Service
• Indexing of Periodical Literature
• Inter-library loan
• Reference Service
• Circulation Service
• Reprographic service 

 

6.1. Introduction

The Ratan Tata Library (RTL)

is a part of the Delhi University Library System since 1957, when the Delhi School of Economics ceased to be an autonomous institution and its management was taken over by the University of Delhi. The Ratan Tata Library now serves post-graduate students, research scholars and faculty members of the Delhi School of Economics, University and its affiliated Colleges.

Ratan Library is one of the most prestigious libraries in the country particularly in the areas of Economics,Sociology and Geography. It has a very rich collection of books, journals and provides access to huge number of electronic resources in the areas of social sciences. Besides the regular members, scholars from India and abroad visit the Library for varying periods and make use of its valuable resources. The total collection of the library, at present, is about 3.25 Lakhs, including books, bound volumes of periodicals, government reports, documents of international organizations and electronic databases.

The Library has been designated as a depository of publications brought out by the United Nations and International Organizations like FAO, ILO, IMF, IBRD, GATT etc. The Library has also exchange agreement with about 70 institutions all over the world and receives publications in exchange of Indian Economic Review & Occasional Papers (Economics).

In addition to the Ratan Tata Library, the books and periodicals resources of various libraries situated in and outside Delhi are made available to the members of the RTL through DELNET.

6.2. Admission to the Library

The Library is open to following:

• Teachers, Teacher Fellows, Research Associates, Research Scholars (Ph.D., & M. Phil.) of Economics, Commerce, Sociology, Geography and Management Studies and post-graduate degree students of Economics, Commerce, Sociology and Geography of the Delhi University, excluding students of External Cell, School of Correspondence Courses and Non Collegiate Women's Board.
• Post Graduate Ex-students enrolled for examination of the Delhi University, who were earlier members of the Ratan Tata Library, on the recommendation of the Director Delhi School of Economics. On payment of Rs. 1,000/- as refundable library security, Rs.1,000/- as DSE Library Fee, Rs. 200/- as Library Development Fee to be deposited with the Delhi School of Economics.
• Ph.D./M. Phil. students and teachers of other departments of Delhi University wanting to make use of it for specific purposes on individual merit. Two of their borrower's cards issued by their parent Library can be converted for use in the Ratan Tata Library.
• Research staff of Agricultural Economics Research Centre.
• Those scholars engaged in higher studies and research under special permission of the librarian on payment of Rs. 1,000/- as library security.
• Technical Staff of the Delhi School of Economics, Agricultural Economics Research Centre, Faculty of Management Studies can get two of their borrower's cards issued by the University Library, converted for use in the Ratan Tata Library.
• Teachers and Research Scholars (Ph. D.) of other Universities and Research Institutions (Indian & Foreign) as guest members for consultation for a specified period on production of his/her registration/ recommendation letter duly signed by the Head of Institution/Department with official seal, two stamp size photographs, Identity Card of the person issued by the parent University/Institute and a Fee of Rs. 100/-.

6.3. LIBRARY SERVICES

All library services are provided to its users free of cost and 64 Computer terminals have been placed in the e-library for users for accessing Internet / OPAC/Electronic Resources (ERs). Some of the important services being provided are as under:

• Circulation Service
• Reference Service
• Internet
• E-mail
• CD-ROM Databases
• Selective Dissemination of Information
• Current Awareness Service
• Bibliographic and Documentation Service
• Indexing of Periodical Literature
• Inter-library loan
• Reprographic service

RTL library plays key role inproviding resources to the researchers and their   publications. It has one of the richest documentation units containing valuable reports and research papers.

7.1. INTRODUCTION

Madras Institute of Developmental Studies Library  

 In India is one of the leading libraries for research and references with a very good collection of books, journals, government publications for social science research. Over the years the Institute has built up a rich collection of social science literature and related material. On an average it adds to its stacks about 1500 volumes a year. The library's present collection is about 56,500 volumes. It subscribes around 190 Indian and Foreign Journals.

The library is widely used by students, research scholars, teaching scholars from various social science disciplines, Government officials, professionals such as journalists and consultants, and even lay persons, from various parts of Tamil Nadu, the rest of the country, and abroad. (http://www.mids.ac.in/library.htm)

7.2. Membership

Borrowing privileges are limited to regular members of the library comprising of two categories.

1. Internalmembership
2.Externalmembership

A member of the public may use the library for consultation and reference. Such visitors are requested to bring an official letter from their librarian or head of the organisation.

7.3. Services / Facilities offered

The MIDS library is primarily intended to be a research library. But members of the public may also make use of the library materials. Photo copiers and microfilm readers are available.

7.4.1.Books:

The Library has a very good collection of books covering Anthorpology, development studies, economics, Government Publications, sociology, demography, statistics, history, and political science.

7.4.2.Journals:

The Institute's library is receiving around 190 Indian and foreign journals. These are received either through subscription or on a complimentary basis. Journal subscribed during 2009 is 134.

7.4.3.E - Journals within MIDS Domain

The following e-journals and databases are available to the members of MIDS.  Accesses to these resources are restricted to mids.ac.in domain only.

• China Report
• Contributions to Indian Sociology
• The Indian Economic and Social History Review
• Indian Journal of Gender Studies
• International Sociology
• South Asia Research
• Studies in History
• Indiastat.com
• JSTOR

7.4.4. E- Journals in Public Domain:

Library provides access to several important E - Journals available in the public domain with full text access.

MIDS is known for strong research in the area of developmental studies and public policy. Its library   provides   very useful support to research and publication activities.

8.1. INTRODUCTION

The CSDS library is a specialized research library on the social sciences and humanities. Its collection reflects the interdisciplinary ethos of CSDS.

The library began its career with the founding of the Centre and developed initially in step with the research conducted there. Over the decades, it has acquired a reputation for its rich collection and is used widely by social science researchers from the city of Delhi and beyond. It is a medium-sized library with more than 33,000 books and 5500 bound volumes of journals and a modest set of reports and booklets. More than 100 journals are received regularly. Readers have access to two excellent electronic databases of journals, namely JSTOR and Project Muse.

8.2. COLLECTION

Apart from works on contemporary themes, the library houses a rich collection of works on Development, Asia and Africa, Arms Race and Peace Movement, non-European Perspectives, Science Studies, Ecology and Environment, Human Rights, Democracy, Philosophy, Political Theory etc. collected over many years. Significant collections developing during the last decade are in the areas of New Media, Cinema, City/the urban, Cultural Studies, Art, History, Indian Thought, Mahabharat Studies.

There is a separate collection of Hindi language books covering almost all subject areas that are covered in the English language collection subject to availability of such writings. There is a significant collection of books in the subject areas of literature, philosophy, politics, media, history etc. The collection is perhaps unique in the range of Hindi writings in the field of literature, media and development of Hindi language itself, Social scientists.

The library catalogue is available to a wider community of researchers through the union catalogue of books at the Developing Libraries Network’s (DELNET) website. Scholars can avail of the inter library loan facilities through DELNET.

The library is open to all scholars with a minimum of formality. Lending facility is only for the CSDS researchers. Besides the Developing Libraries Network (DELNET), the library is also a member of the Social Science Libraries Network (SSLN). (http://www.csds.in/index.php?inc=library)

9.1. INTRODUCTION

CPR embodies a vibrant community that is committed to the highest standards of excellence in public policy research. An active academic life is sustained via resources that are available to all faculty members of CPR, and in some cases to external partners as well. These resources include a well-stocked library, contemporary conference facilities and information technology infrastructure. CPR also provides access to various external resources through memberships or partnerships with external institutions.

9.2. LIBRARY RESOURCES AND SERVICES

CPR’s library houses an impressive collection of books, periodicals, journals and other documents on foreign policy, urbanization, governance, law and other areas of CPR’s focus. It is a valuable resource for faculty members, and a symbol CPR’s commitment to excellence in policy research. External researchers may be permitted to use the library on a specific basis.

CPR library plays key role in dissemination of information to social scientist. It brings out an updated documentation list regularly and also maintains newspaper clipping services on different areas of social science research. CPR publishes   monographs which library disseminates among social scientist. Library also provides bibliographic and data services to eminent social scientist working at the Centre which immensely helps in   conducting research.

10.1. INTRODUCTION

National Institute of Public Finance and Policy is a centre for advanced applied research in public finance and public policy. Established in 1976 as an autonomous society, the main aim of the institute is to contribute to policy making in spheres relating to public economics.

10.2. LIBRARY

The three-storied refurbished library houses one of the largest collections of Public Economics books and reports among all research institutes in the country. It is popular among researchers in the field of public finance owing to its extensive collection of central and state budget documents. The library is centrally air-conditioned with cubicles providing private workspace to the visitors. The library can be accessed by providing a valid ID proof and introductory letter. It is open between 9:00 am to 5.30 pm (Thursdays until 8:00 pm and Saturdays until 04:00 pm).

10.2.1. Services

The NIPFP library has grown to be a leading research and reference library in the area of public finance in Asia. The focus is on the following core areas:

• Public finance; 
• Economic theory and methodology; 
• Macro and micro economics;
• Industry studies; 
• New institutional economics;
• Planning and development economics; 
• Indian economy;
• Political economy; 
• Environmental and natural resource economics; 
• Urban economics and urban finance;
• Health economics. 

The library holds membership of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) and Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), through International Monetary Fund (IMF) Depository Programme for enriching the Public Finance collection at the international level.

Equipped with modern facilities, the library offers a conducive environment to researchers, and scholars from India and abroad who visit for reference from time to time. The library operations are largely automated through LIBSYS and WINISIS software’s. It subscribes to 248 international journals, maintaining a collection of 78,000 documents including books, articles, journal holdings, budget documents, and finance accounts accessible through the Institute’s Local Area Network (LAN). It has networking arrangement with various institutions for sharing of resources.

Library provides following services to its users: 

• Reference and referral services
• Inter-library loan
• Literature search
• Abstracting & Indexing services
• Recent additions bulletin
• Journals Table of content
• Digital library Initiatives
• CD-ROM access
• DELNET database access
• Online Public Access catalogue (OPAC)
• Internet Access to electronic full-tax journals
• Document lending services
• Scanning facility
• Document delivery
• Reprography

(http://www.nipfp.org.in/content/services)

10.2.2.Collection:

The library has over 55000 documents including books, journals, study reports and working papers. Loose Leaf Service offered by International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, Netherlands, constitutes a special feature of NIPFP’s reference collection. It provides cross country perspective on tax system, procedure and law through the following publications.

• African Tax System
• Taxation and Investment in South Africa
• EC Corporation Tax Law
• Supplementary Service to European Taxation
• Guide to European Taxation
• A guide to European Vat Directive
• Taxes and Investment in Middle East
• Taxes and Investment in Asia and Pacific
• Taxation and Investment in People’s Republic of China
• Taxation and Investment in Canada
• Taxation and Investment in Mexico
• Taxation and Investment in the Caribbean
• Taxation in Latin America
• The Tax Treatment of Transfer Pricing
• The International Guide to Mergers and Acquisition
• The International Guide to Advance Rulings
• The International Guide to Partnerships
• Investment Funds
• The Taxation of Permanent Establishment
• The Tax Treatment of Cross Border Donations
• International Guide to Taxation of Trust
• The International Guide to Taxation of Local Estate

10.2.2.1. Government Publications

The library has comprehensive collection of publications brought out by government agencies such as RBI, CSO and Ministry of Finance. The publication pertaining to various states are acquired on a priority basis. The 'States' section containing the following material:

• Budget Papers
• Appropriation Accounts
• Finance Accounts
• Report of CAG
• Statistical Abstracts
• Economic Survey

10.2.2.2.Journals

• The library has regular subscription of 250 national and international journals. EJOURNAL access through science direct and JSTOR facility are available online. Alphabetical list of Journal holdings are as follows.
• Current journals are 183
• Magazines are 16
• Newspapers are 15
• Electronic Journals: Total no of electronic journals is 288

(http://www.nipfp.org.in/content/collection)

10.2.2.3.Statistical Database available in CD-ROM

• Census of India 1991
• Census of India 2001
• EPW Annual Series
• Annual Survey of Industry Data
• Selected NSSO Unit Level Data
• World Development Indicators
• Global Development Finance
• Balance of Payments
• Direction of Trade Statistics
• Government Finance Statistics
• International Finance Statistics Foreign Trade Statistics of India
• Monthly Statistics of Foreign Trade of India (Import & Export)
• India, Annual Survey of Industries (1973-74 to 2003-04) / EPW Research Foundation
• Domestic Product of States of India (1960-61 to 2006-07) EPW Research Foundation 
• India, State Budget Documents
• Handbook of Statistics on State Government Finances 2004, India
• Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy (RBI)
• ISID Research Reference
• Law Commission Reports of India 
• National Accounts Statistics of India / EPW Research Foundation
• World Investment Reports
• India: National Family Health Survey 1998-99 (NFHS-2)
• TERI Energy Data Directory & Yearbook
• World Development Report  (1998-2006)
• Maps Of India
• State Human Development Reports 2003

10.2.2.4.Online database

Legal Database – Manupatra (On-line)

10.2.2.5.Subscribed database (updated periodically)

• Prowess (CMIE)
• Business Beacon (CMIE)
• Capex (CMIE)
• Econlit

1.1. INTRODUCTION

The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, was founded in February 1973. Financed primarily by matching grants from the ICSSR and the Government of West Bengal, the Centre has full academic autonomy, is designed to function democratically and is proud of its impeccable record of public accountability.

11.2. LIBRARY

The Library comprises the Centre’s own collection as well as that of the Eastern Regional Centre of ICSSR. It is primarily meant for researchers / teachers in the social sciences including postgraduate students, and serves over 590 registered members from various institutions and some 40+ in–house members. In–house members enjoy book–borrowing facilities whereas members from other institutions are readers only. External members may also make a limited number of photocopies upon payment of Re.1/- per A–4 page of text material (chapters of books, articles in journals). Government reports can not be photocopied, but printouts of reports available in the Library on CD–ROM are delivered upon payment. No membership fees are charged to any member. The Library is open for users from 1030 to 1730 on all working days. The Library also has interlibrary lending facilities between bonafide academic libraries in the city, and is a member of CALIBNET (Calcutta Library Network). The Library will shortly be able to provide bibliographic database searches upon payment.

11.2.1 General Collection:

Housed on two floors in the main building, this has over 30,000 books, monographs and government reports, 175 journals and 12 daily newspapers, and around 3,500 working papers from various institutions in India and abroad. Here is a retrospective list of periodical holdings.

11.2.2 World Bank Collection:

The Library has been a depository of all World Bank publications since 1995 and receives through this arrangement all formal World Bank publications in printed as well as electronic format. A database of WB publications is in the making.

11.2.3.OECD Collections:

The Library has a small collection of OECD / IDS publications. A computerized database of the collection has been prepared using CDS / ISIS software in DOS format, which is accessible by users.

11.2.4.UNDP Collections:

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) provides its Human Development Reports to the Centre in hard copies. Besides this the Library has two other databases, the Human Development Database (Version 1.1) and the Human Development Report CD–ROM containing the Human Development Statistical Database 1999 and full text HDR 1990–1999.

11.2.5.Government Reports:

Government publications constitute an important resource for social science research. The Library has a rich source of such data in its collection of Census Reports since 1911.

11.2.6.Important collections at the Resource Centre:

Almost the complete set of the major Bangla daily, Anandabazar Patrika from 1944 to 2000 and a few other Anandabazar group publications acquired through the Anandabazar group of publications are housed at the new Resource Centre. A collection of 200 books, mainly children’s fiction in Bangla published between 1930s to 50s gifted by Arun Dasgupta to the archive has been moved to the Resource Centre from the archive.Sevati Mitra gifted her collection of about 200 books to the Archive of the Centre has been moved to the new Resource Centre. A few text books of History authored by Bijaychandra Majumder in the 1920s and 30s following the syllabus of Calcutta University is one of the major attractions in this collection.An important collection of about 200 books of Hitesranjan Sanyal mainly on local history, family history and caste gifted to the Centre by ManaswitaSanyal.(http://www.cssscal.org/resources_centre.html)

12.1. INTRODUCTION

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences established in 1936 is one of the premier Institute in the country in the field of Social Sciences and has been recognized as one of the progressive centers of learning catering to the educational and research information needs of academic and scientific community for excellent teaching, research and development work carried out by the faculty members, research scholars and students. The University has been viewed as the harbinger of positive social change in view of the tangible improvements it has brought about in the fields of intellectual awareness, aptitude for learning and pursuit of scientific endeavor. Considering the progress and achievements the university could accomplish in the last two decades, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore has accredited the institute with FIVE Stars.

12.2. TISS Library

TISS Library established along with the institute way back in 1936 is one of the leading social science libraries in the country. The library was named as "Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library" on 3rd May, 2002 in the memory of late Sir Dorabjii Tata. It is geared to meet the academic and research information needs of the user community. It provides a conducive environment for intellectual enquiry by providing user-focused services to obtain and evaluate scholarly information and knowledge. Since the library specializes in the field of applied social sciences, it has become most sought after library for the social scientists in India. It is a unique Knowledge Centre, which offers essential and specialized information resources and services to meet the growing information needs by;

• Developing user-based resources;
• Organizing information resources;
• Providing human and technologically moderated access to information; and
• Facilitating users to identify, locate, obtain and evaluate information.

12.2.1. Library Collections

Sir Dorabji Tata Memorial Library develops and provides essential and specialized information resources and services to meet the growing information needs by; i) developing user-based resources, ii) organising information resources iii) providing human and technologically moderated access to information; and iv) aiding users to identify, locate, obtain and evaluate information.

12.2.2.Books and Journals:

Print Resources still continue to be primary learning resources. Library has a specialized collection of resources taking into consideration the course contents and research needs of all the departments and centres of the Institute. Library employs a strong collection development policy and on an average, three thousand books are added to the collection every year. As on date it has a stock of about 1,02,958 volumes.

Library subscribes to over 290 scholarly print journals and receives another 80 journals on exchange and gratis. It has acquired about 1600 audio-visual materials. It also has in possession a small collection of rare and out of print books on social reform movements and biographies of Social Reformers. Library provides a host of information services to its users.

12.2.3.E-Journals and Online Databases:

SDTM Library is one of the leading social science libraries in the country to provide access to e-journals and e-books in the field of social sciences. More than 7500 full text online journals are available for access. It is one of the first institutes to be part of the UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium initiated by UGC in 2003 to provide electronic access over the Internet to scholarly literature in all areas of learning to the university sector in India.

The SDTM Library is one of the members of INFLIBNET UGC-Infonet Digital Library Consortium since 2003. UGC has set up this programme to promote use of electronic databases and full text access to e-journals by the research and academic community of the country. Online databases are accessible via the Library Homepage, which provide access to full-text scholarly research articles beyond the physical wall of the library.

12.2.4.E-Resources under UGC-Infonet Digital Consortium:

• Project Muse (389 journals)
• Wiley InterScience (503 journals)
• Oxford University Press (202 journals)
• JSTOR (729 journals)
• Springer Link (1236 journals)
• Taylor & Francis (1076 journals)
• Cambridge Journals Online (279 journals)
• JCCC (Gateway Portal)
• ISID (Industrial Development Bibliographic Database)

12.2.5.E-Resources Subscribed by SDTM Library:

• Sage Publications (388 journals)
• Emerald Management Xtra (160 journals)
• ABI/INFORM Complete™ (2950 journals)
• Indiastat.com (statistical database)
• Manupatra.com (Indian Legal Information database)
• World Bank Databases (WDI+GDF+e-Library)
• India Business Insight Database – IBID (bibliographic database)
• GALE Virtual Reference Library (e-Books-30 titles)
• OCLC NetLibrary (e-Books-111 titles)

(http://library.tiss.edu/librarycollection.html)

12.3. Services/Facilities

• Cyber library
• MKTML Centre
• Library Security System
• Lending Policy
• Document Delivery Services
• Inter Library Loan
• Reference Services
• Photocopying Facility

12.4. Library e-Resources:

The Library presently provides online access to the several e-journals on the campus network. These ejournals are unique and are of high quality in nature and content. They are considered best among the academic and research community in the field of social science.

13.1. Introduction

The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) established in the memory of Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964) is an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Culture of the Government of India, located in the majestic Teen Murti House, the official residence of the first Prime Minister of India, it has four major constituents namely, a Memorial Museum, a Library on modern India, a Centre for Contemporary Studies and a Planetarium.

13.2. Library

The library collections are enormous and diverse ranging from books, journals, photographs, periodicals, newspapers, private papers and oral history records. Currently, the Library maintains a collection of more than 2.5 lakh printed books; over 1.5 lakh photographs related to Jawaharlal Nehru and the Indian freedom movement and around 8,000 audio tapes.

Regular purchase of printed material and donations by various individuals and institutions help NMML update and expand the holdings of its Library continually. The Library has grouped its holdings of published works about Jawaharlal Nehru and on issues and subjects related to him under the heading 'Nehruana'. This collection of published books concerning Nehru has his writings; numerous collections of his correspondence and speeches; academic works relating to diverse aspects of his life, thought, politics and leadership. Similar collections have been prepared for Mahatma Gandhi under the head 'Gandhiana' and for Indira Gandhi under the title 'Indirana'. 

Additionally, the Library houses an extensive collection of documents on microfilm rolls and microfiche plates in the Microfilm Section. The newspapers, periodicals and private papers dating back to the year 1838 are available on approximately 18,500 microfilm rolls. Other rare documents are available on more than 51,322 microfiche plates in this section. Journals and periodicals are housed in a separate Periodicals Section within the Library, which currently maintains a collection of 503 journals in English, Hindi and other regional languages.  

The Photographs Section housed within the Library, possesses an impressive collection of photographs of the freedom movement in India and national leaders of the pre and post independence periods. This collection currently stands around 1, 76,264 photographs and negatives of another one lakh images. In the past few years, the Library has also built up a collection of published works on north-east India. With the increase in acquisition of photographs, schemes of classification and cataloguing were devised in-house for speedy retrieval of photographs with captions for reference and use of scholars. Apart from being utilized for different exhibitions held in the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, the photographs are being used increasingly by newspapers, authors, publishers and various government and non-official agencies for multiple purposes including exhibitions, documentaries and television programmes.(http://www.nehrumemorial.org/library.php)

13.3. Digitization:

The NMML has undertaken a project to digitize its collection of newspapers, manuscripts, photographs and other related documents as the existing methods of preservation and accessibility of research resources are outdated in the context of rapid growth of information technology. Digitized holdings will dramatically improve accessibility and ensure better preservation of documents and will prevent excessive exposure of original documents increasing their longevity.The broad proposals in this regard are Digitization of Archival Documents, Digitization of Newspapers on Microfilms and the setting up ofa Digital Archival Management System. The proposal for Digitization of Archival Documents will eventually cover about 90 lakh archival documents in our holdings. This includes digitization and full text conversion with search facility. In the first phase, 35 lakh documents will be digitized after due prioritization. 

The proposal for Digitization of Newspapers on Microfilm will eventually cover the 110 lakh pages of newspapers on microfilm in our library.

Teen Murti House also houses a specialized Library which has been designed and developed as a specific research and reference centre on colonial and post-colonial India with its very rich and varied collection of books, journals, photographs and other resource materials on microfilm and microfiche.Open to bonafide researchers on payment of a nominal fee, the Library offers valuable opportunities for doing advanced research and reference work on social sciences, with an emphasis on modern Indian history. 

Its relevance is augmented by the archives of rare non-official research materials; an Oral History Project to record the reminiscences of the makers of modern India and the NMML's Centre for Contemporary Studies, which awards Fellowships for exploring new areas and issues of research in social science.

Over the last four decades, scholars on modern and contemporary history have found the institution almost indispensable for carrying out their research.. It is the biggest repository in the country for microfilmed newspapers and collections of private papers of eminent individuals as well as of non-official social and political organizations. The manuscript and newspaper collections in NMML run into millions of pages. The holdings of the Library cover a wide range of subjects and aspects related to modern and contemporary history, roughly covering the period from the eighteenth century onwards up to the present times.

14.1. Introduction

Gokhale Institute of Politics &Economics is one of the leading social science research institutes in western India. It carries out research on different issues of economics and politics.

14.2. Library

Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library, the library of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, has one of the largest and most important collections of social science documents in India. It has quite a large member of publications on Economics and allied social science subjects and successfully caters to the needs of scholars, academicians, policy makers and other users working in social science subjects in India and abroad. Though attached to GIPE, the library extends membership to outsiders also and thereby performs the dual function of an academic and a public library as well.

14.2.1.History

Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library was established in 1905 as a public library under the aegis of Servants of India Society with late Gopal Krishna Gokhale as one of its founding members. With the establishment of the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in 1930, the Library has started to act as the Library of the Institute also since 1930, and then has been mainly responsible for building its collection. Presently the Library is housed in a majestic four-storey building, which has a rare combination of colonial and modern architecture. Besides, some of the Library collections are also housed in a separate building inside the campus of the Institute.(http://www.gipe.ac.in/lib/default.html)

14.2.2.Library Collection

The Library was having 13,480 books and 204 journals at the time of independence; whereas at present the Library possesses more than 2.6 lakhs of documents covering all branches of knowledge. However, as already stated the collection of the Library is very strong in social science subjects especially in Economics and other related disciplines. Other than books, the collection of the library includes bound volumes of 1873 journal titles, about 400 unpublished theses and dissertations and some microfilms, floppies, CDs, and maps. The Library is a depository library of the publications of the United Nations and its agencies, the World Bank, the European Economic Community, the International Monetary Fund, and the Government of Canada. Besides books, the Library also receives 445 current periodical titles including almost all leading English language journals.

The section-wise specialities of the Library are described below.

14.2.3.Books on Economics:

The Library has a very good collection of books on Economics and its allied subjects. Its holdings of literature on Indian economic history and land legislation in particular are most comprehensive and unique. It has also quite a fair collection of books on agricultural economics, Indian economy and also reports of committees and commissions.

14.2.4.Rare Books:

The Library possesses quite a large number of books published before the advent of twentieth century and which may not be available elsewhere. The oldest book in the Library dates back to 1680. Besides, there are quite a few hundred books which were published during the 18th and 19th centuries.

14.2.5.Serial Publications

The serials section of the Library contains more than 51,738 publications which include annual administrative reports, serially published reports, annual conference volumes and other such publications which come out serially once in a year or two. Some of the features of this section include:

• Unbroken complete series of some of the important serial publications like Human Development Report, Asian Development outlook, Indian Agricultural Statistics, National Accounts Statistics, Economic Surveys, Statistical Abstracts of India and States, Reports on Trend and Progress of Banking in India (RBI), Reports on Currency and Finance (RBI), Agricultural Wages in India, Annual Survey of Industries, Public Enterprises Surveys, Indian Livestock Census, etc.
• Annual reports of national and international banks like the Reserve Bank of India, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Banque de France, and Central Banks of many more foreign countries (about 25 in all).
• Annual reports of most of the ministries, departments of Govt. of India, Govt. of Maharashtra and also some others State Governments.
• Reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts for various years of Govt. of India and also the State Governments.
• Lok Sabha/Rajya Sabha standing committee and subject committee reports.

Reports of Public Accounts Committee, Public Undertakings Committee and Estimates Committee of Government of India and also the State Governments.

14.2.6.Special Collection

The Library possessess a rare collection of old British Parliamentary Papers of the 18th and 19th centuries, about almost unbroken series of the proceedings of legislatures in India, both Central and States; and a large collection of reports of commissions and committees appointed by the Government of India, U.K., U.S. etc. It also possesses the union budgets rights from 1799-1805 and 1874-75 to till date, the budgets of princely and provincial states of pre-independence period and unbroken series of the budgets of state governments after the formation of states on linguistic basis. The census publications of government of India and states right from 1872 first census of India to till date also form a very valuable part of our collection. Special holdings include gazetteers Maharashtra state gazettes and Gokhale papers microfilms etc.

14.2.7.Depository Collection:

As already stated, the library is a depository library for the publications of the United Nations and its specialised agencies, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Community and also the Government of Canada. Besides books, it receives a few journals as depository.

14.2.8.Grey Literature:

The Library also receives working papers/discussion papers, occasional papers etc. of various national and international research institution, universities, and agencies (about 60-70 organisations)

14.3. LIBRARY SERVICES

The Library provides reading facilities, lending facilities, inter-library loan service, photocopying service, and documentation services. The documentation service of the Library includes:

• Fortnightly List of Articles
• Fortnightly List of Additions
• Monthly Current Awareness Bulletin (since1996)

It is worth mentioning here that the Fortnightly List of Articles on India is one of the very few indexing services in the country which has been published regularly for more than three decades. It includes all the articles on India that appear in all the journal issues and also four business and finance newspapers being received by the Library.

While the Fortnightly List of Additions lists documents being received by the Library, the monthly Current Awareness Bulletin provides information about the grey literature (working papers, discussion papers, etc.), documentation lists of other libraries, and reprints, which are being received by the Library from time to time. Besides, it also includes the book reviews on Economics and Sociology that appear in all the journals and newspapers being received by the Library.

14.3.1.Lending Services:

The Library extends lending facilities to all types of members except casual members. While research staff of the Institute can borrow 20 books at a time (subject to increase on demand), the annual members can issue a maximum of two books with a refundable deposit of Rs.500/- per book. Students enjoy the benefit of overnight and weekly issue only.

15.1. Introduction

The IIPA Library is one of the major social science resources in India. It has a collection of about 2 lakh volumes of books and periodicals and receives 350 current periodicals. It is a depository library for the publications of the World Bank and has been accorded depository library status for the publications of International Monetary Fund. The World Bank has recently set up a state-of-the-art Information Kiosk in the Library to facilitate on-line access to the knowledge portals of the Bank and its associate institutions.

15.2. Library Collection

The collection is particularly rich in the areas of public administration, management sciences, economics, planning and development, political science, sociology, rural and urban studies, gender studies and environmental sciences. The Public Document Section of the Library which contains Census of India publications, reports of various committees and commissions appointed by the Central and State Governments, National Sample Survey reports, annual reports of various ministries and departments of the Government of India, and select publications of international organizations, is acknowledged to be one of the richest collections in the country.

The library has an exhaustive collection of press clippings of important editorials, signed articles, and news items published in national dailies going back to the early 1980s.

15.3. Library Services

Most of the Library functions and services are computerized. The Library is providing a variety of current awareness services. It regularly brings out monthly List of Additions, fortnightly List of Significant Articles and weekly Current Contents to keep its readers informed of the incoming documents. It undertakes literature survey and makes subject bibliographies available on demand. The Library has internet facility and provides access to following e-resources:

• World Bank e- resources
• Access to ABI Inform Full Text Database
• Access to JSTOR Database

16. NATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE

Established by ICSSR, NASSDOC is premier social science agency providing access to a variety of resources to social scientists. It also provides several important services to researchers.

16.1. Facilities Available at NASSDOC

i.	Documentation Library and Reference Service; Collection of unpublished doctoral dissertations, research project reports, current and old volumes of  social science journals of Indian and foreign origin; Literature Search Service from printed and digital databases, i.e. CD-ROMS, floppies, Online database etc.; Compilation of short bibliographies on request; Study grant to doctoral students for collection of research material from various libraries located in different parts of India; Financial assistance is provided for taking up bibliographical and documentation projects; Document Delivery Service is provided by procuring books and journals on Inter-library loan or by photocopying the documents; Short-term training courses are organized for the research scholars, social scientists, librarians and IT professionals to acquaint them with the latest information and communication technology, and Cyber Cafe, to facilitate access to internet resources on social sciences.
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(http://www.icssr.org/doc_main.htm)

16.2. Documentation Library and Reference Services

NASSDOC has a rich collection of reference sources, bibliographies, 5,200 doctoral theses, 3,100 research project reports (funded by the ICSSR) and 12,500 books and documents. This includes books on social science research methodology and also subjects like economics, political science, sociology, psychology, computer and information technology etc. It also has working papers, seminar papers etc. The library also keeps priced and non-priced publications of ICSSR including those, for which, the Council has provided publication grants.

Documents are available for consultation in the library premises only. Borrowing facility is extended to registered members only. Printed publications are available on Inter-Library Loan. The collection is further augmented by about 450 current Indian/ foreign periodicals, including ICSSR journals and other abstracting and indexing journals in social sciences. The library has over 11,000 bound volumes of periodicals, census reports and other government publications. Some of the research project reports and theses are also available on microfilm and microfiche. Following services are provided by the library:

6.2.1.Consultation Facility:

It is provided to research scholars visiting NASSDOC for their research work and for writing papers.  They can also access various on-line databases such as Econlit, International Political Science Abstract, Socio file, Psycinfo etc.

16.2.2.Reference Service:

Reference queries in the field of social sciences are entertained via e-mail, telephone, fax, in person, and through correspondence.

16.2.3.Referral Service:

In case of non-availability of material in the library, research scholars are referred to other institutions/ libraries.

16.2.4.Literature Search

NASSDOC has a good collection of bibliographic data, both in printed as well as in digital format, including Online and CD-ROM databases. The Centre has also created its own databases, both in printed and in electronic format. These databases are useful for scholars for conducting literature search on various topics in social sciences.

16.2.5. Document Delivery Services

NASSDOC, apart from photocopies of documents available in its library, also provides copies of research materials from other libraries and institutions in India and abroad. Orders can be placed by post, telephone, fax or e-mail.

(http://www.icssr.org/doc_main.htm)

16.3. NASSDOC DATABASES / PUBLICATIONS

NASSDOC is engaged in creation of databases and information locating tools. Some of these tools are available for sale

Library Databases

Directories

Indian Social Science Periodicals Literature (INSSPEL)

Union Catalogues

Bibliographies

Current Awareness Service Periodicals

(http://www.icssr.org/doc main.htm)

16.4.BIBLIOGRAPHY ON DEMAND SERVICE

Bibliography is a systematic descriptive list of published (books, periodical articles etc) as well as unpublished material pertaining to a specific subject for reference and study. National Social Science Documentation Center provides this service to the social scientists on demand. The scholars doing their M. Phil, Ph.D. Post Doctoral Research or writing an article or a book can make a request for this service. A Scholar who is working on a project or a teacher can also avail this service. This service is provided in two formats:

1. Bibliographical References (for Books - author, title, publisher, year of publication, pages; and for Journal Articles-author, title, name of the Journal, pages).
2. Bibliographical References (as above) and abstract or description of the thought content of the document printed.

NASSDOC uses published printed sources as well as CD-ROMs, computerised databases and unpublished sources for compilation of a bibliography.

(http://www.icssr.org/doc_main.htm)

16.5.DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON ASIAN STUDIES (DOCAS)

The council has set up a Documentation Centre on Asian Studies (DOCAS) with the financial assistance from the government of Japan. The Centre is located in the Council's headquarters. The subject areas covered are mostly social sciences including Environmental Sciences and public health. This will help the policy makers in Asia to establish better relations among the Asian countries for the welfare of the people of the region .The main objectives and functions of the Centre are as follows:

i.  Library: It has a collection of about 3,000 documents and it subscribes to 30 journals and 11 newspapers. The library remains open for users from 9.30AM to 6PM on all working days (Monday - Friday).

ii.  Documentation: Dissemination of information is one of the major objectives of DOCAS. To fulfill this objective , the Centre brings out the following two publications at regular intervals:

Conference on Asian Studies: It is a calendar of forthcoming conferences, seminars, workshops, etc. related to Asian Studies.

Select Journals on Asian Studies (Content Pages): The objective of the publication is to bring under bibliographical control, the literature published on the region during the period and to disseminate it.

iii.  Database: The centre is working on following two databases:

iv.  Bibliography of Indian Literature on Asia: Aims to bring under bibliographical control the literature published in India on Asian Studies. About 2000 records have been computerised.

v.  Exchange of Literature: The Centre has also established exchange relations with SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation), International Institute of Asian Studies (The Netherlands), ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific), etc and has been regularly receiving their publications on exchange basis.

(http://www.icssr.org/doc_main.htm)