LIBRARY

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Library Committee

• Director, ICAR-CICR – Chairman
• Dr. B.B. Fand, Sr. Scientist – Member
• Dr. Dipak T. Nagrale, Sr. Scientist – Member
• Dr. Suhas Karkute, Scientist – Member
• Dr. R. Jaya Kumaravaradan – Member
• Shri. R.K.Jatav, SAO – Member
• Shri. S.K.Singh, FAO – Member
• Smt. Swati Dixit, Librarian – Member Secretary

The total collection of the Library is as follows

Books	5020
Total volumes of Periodicals	5087
Reports	2419
Reprints on CottonHindi Books	1036593

• E-resource collection as described below.

Advances in Agronomy Book Series from 2012 – 2025 in electronic book format

ICAC Cotton Data-book (E-book) 2020 onwards

E-books- digital collection of e-books on various subjects are added to the collection .

3756 books from DOCD library were acquired, processed, classified and cataloged .

Documentation Services  

• Gleanings in Cotton Research

Monthly abstracting service by the title Gleanings in Cotton Research was started from August 2021 which reports the latest research publications on Cotton globally. Various publication sources namely Google Scholar, ScienceDirect and CeRA are scanned on the internet and  latest relevant articles are downloaded. This in-house service, is E-mailed to all CICR scientists. 

• Cotton Research Abstracts

Strengthening the library in-house database namely COTIS by scanning all new journal issues for articles on cotton and entering such articles along with abstract in this bibliographic database. There are  5392  entries exclusively on cotton. The database can be accessed through author, title, subject, year, keywords etc. 

• CICR in News 

This is an annual news bulletin which highlights all news items published in newspapers about CICR. News items are scanned and compiled and presented in the form of an annual publication. 

• E-Reference Service

Library provides  E-Reference Service by virtue of which, important information vital for research such as, alerts, bulletins, articles and circulars received by the Library in electronic format are immediately circulated  to all scientists by sending regular E-mails. For this purpose E-Mail IDs of all scientists are called for and stored. Alerts are prepared by giving relevant keywords through Science Direct- a citation database.

• Participation in ONOS 

CICR Library has successfully registered and initiated in (ONOS) One Nation One Subscription as a participating institution. The Library is actively participating in the ONOS scheme which provides country-wide access to international high impact scholarly research articles and journal publications to students, faculty and researchers.

• Library is actively participating in the E-Journal Consortium namely JCCC@CeRA developed by ICAR through the NAIP Project. For better and effective use of this facility, the Library forwards E Mails received as alerts from the Consortium groups to all the scientists of the Institute. 
• The Library regularly fulfills Document Delivery Requests received from other participating Institutes in the CeRA consortium. Available articles from journals in the Library were photocopied and posted to respective Institutions participating in the Consortium. 

The Library also acts as a Repository for scholarly papers published by the scientists of the institute.  Soft copies of the research papers are stored in the Library and are made available as and when required in multiple formats.