National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), located at New Delhi, India, is one of the premier information science institutes in India under the umbrella of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) that comprise 38 other labs/institutes of different disciplines spread across the country.

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

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