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The National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR), located at
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, was an information science institute in India founded in 2002. In 2021, the institute was merged with National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies to form National Institute of Science Communication and Policy Research (NIScPR). It operated under the umbrella of the
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research ( IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the ...
(CSIR) that comprise 38 other labs and institutes in India. The institute published several
academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
s and magazines.


History

In 2002, the Indian Scientific Documentation Centre (INSDOC), which came into being in 1952 under CSIR, was merged with NISCOM in 2002, to form National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR).


General services


National Science Library services


Open access

18 journals and 3 popular science magazines ('' Science Reporter'' and its
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and
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' open access from the NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository website.


List of publications

;Academic journals ;Magazines ;Repository


Associateship in Information Science (AIS)

NISCAIR offered Associateship in Information Science (AIS), a two-year master's degree level professional programme, earlier.


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* Research institutes in Delhi Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 2002 establishments in Delhi Research institutes established in 2002 {{Delhi-university-stub