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Unit 12: Some Important Information Centers

Services in India Notes
From the very beginning India has been actively associated with INIS.

In India, Library and Information Services Division of BARC is the National
Centre for INIS activities. This centre collects information on the subject and
than sends it to the Centre Processing Unit and passes the output to the users.
The INIS database can be accessed online through Internet and CDs which are distributed by IAEA.
The non-conventional literature of INIS is available in the form of CDs, microforms.
Besides the above products, each member state offers a host of individualised services based on
INIS products received from the INIS Secretariat. Details of the exact availability of INIS related
services in the particular country are available from the National INIS Liaison Officer.
Contact details in India:
INIS Liaison Officer, Head, Scientific Information Resource Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
(BARC), Trombay, Bombay 400085.

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12.4 Agricultural Resources Information System (AGRIS)

AGRIS, the International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology, was
started in 1974 by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. AGRIS
became fully operational in 1975 with the first issue of AGRINDEX and was modeled on the INIS
pattern to facilitate information exchange and to bring together the world literature dealing with all
aspects of agriculture.

Presently, FAO’s another programme, Current Agricultural Research Information
System (CARIS) and AGRIS are functioning collectively.
AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating member countries input references to the
literature produced within their country irrespective of the language and, in return, draw on the
information provided by the other participants. To date, 242 national, international and
intergovernmental centres are participating in the AGRIS/CARIS programme. AGRIS was
established with the following objectives:
‘‘Creation of a single, comprehensive, current inventory of world-wide agricultural literature
reflecting agricultural research results, food production, rural development and to help users
to identify problems concerning all aspects of world food supply.
Meeting the information requirements of users requiring agricultural information by offering
specialised subject retrieval services, providing documents on request, current awareness and
selective dissemination of information services, and Collaborating with new and existing
specialised secondary information services so as to increase efficiency and eliminate unnecessary
duplication’’.

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