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Reference Sources and Services

Notes Functional Areas and Activities

In order to meet various objectives and provide the services, the activities of the centre are organised
covering the following functional areas:
(a) Internet and e-mail Access. DESIDOC provids e-mail and Internet access to the DRDO
Laboratories in the country, through ERNET and NICNET. Communication links have
also been established between the Internet gateway of VSNL and DESIDOC and also
between VSNL gateway and DRDO Headquarters to provide scientists/managers high
speed easy access to Internet and its resources. DESIDOC has established an Internet Lab
to cater to the needs of the Internet users.
(b) Multimedia Laboratory. This facility has been provided to facilitate multimedia authoring,
designing and presentation facilities to the top management and the Scientific Adviser to
the Defence Minister. Expertise in the areas of image processing, CD-writing, audio-video
designing, desktop CD publishing and multimedia CD-ROM production has been
established. In order to establish multimedia laboratories both within and outside DRDO
a few multimedia products were published and consultancy was provided.

(c) Reprographic Facilities. Reprographic facilities has been set up to help DRDO top
management and scientists in their technical presentations. This facility has a computer-
based multicolour slide making system, a digital colour copier, high quality colour printers
and video recorders, which helps in providing high quality presentation materials.
(d) Printing Facility. A full-fledged high quality printing facility has been established which
includes designing, layout, typesetting, DTP, processing and printing units for in-house
production of DRDO publications. Commercial printing agencies have been given the
responsibility for high quality multicolour printing.

Functions

DESIDOC functions as a central information resource for DRDO, providing DRDO
scientists and labs with scientific and technical information, based on its library and
other information resources.
It also provides secure e-mail and Internet connectivity to DRDO labs through the networks of
ERNET (of Dept of Electronics) and NICNET (of the Planning Commission).

Library
DESIDOC maintains the Defence Science Library (DSL), a well-equipped library housing 262,000
documents. It also provides access to various databases, as well as newspaper archives and other
reference material. Additionally, DESIDOC has taken up the initiative of digitizing complete research
papers of DRDO scientists, as well as preparing presentation material and promotional material for
DRDO scientists.

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