The ICAR-DCFR library and Documentation Unit acts as a repository of literature and information and provides services to its scientists and other staff members as well as research scholars, students and other individuals from neighboring organizations interested in scientific literature on coldwater fisheries and allied subjects. During the year 2015-16, the Directorate subscribed 13 online international journals, 7 Indian print journals and procured 239 scientific books of both Indian and foreign authored. The current holding of the library includes 3736 books, 1693 volumes of foreign journals, 536 volumes of Indian journals and 8000 other publications. The Library facilitated the scientists and other staffs to access free online download of publications and articles of many international and national journals through CeRA (www.cera.jece.in). The library is putting its sincere efforts in collection, processing and disseminating scientific/technical information to the potential users. The library maintains active reprography services by producing departmental publications and supplying required photocopies to the scientists and research scholars. Recently, an inventory of e-journals of important fisheries research articles has been developed.
The details of the Journals in the inventory are summarized in the table given below.
S.N.
Journal Name
Articles downloaded from (Year)
Total volumes
Total no. of articles downloaded
A. Journals subscribed by DCFR
1.
Aquaculture Nutrition
1996 to 2015
21
1168
2.
Aquaculture Research
1997 to 2015
46
234
3.
Fisheries Management & Ecology
1997 to 2015
22
945
4.
Journal of Applied Ichthyology
1996 to 2015
31
2662
5.
Journal of Aquatic Animal Health
1997 to 2015
27
736
6.
Journal of Fish Biology
1997 to 2015
86-87
5807
7.
Journal of Fish Diseases
1997 to 2015
38
1740
8.
Journal of Molecular Evolution
1997 to 2015
80-81
1864
9.
Mitochondrial DNA
1997 to 2015
26
1257
10.
Fish & Fisheries
2011 to 2015
16
182
11.
Canadian journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences
1996 to 2015
72
4286
12.
Reviews in Aquaculture
2009 to 2015
7
144
13.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (India)Section B Biological Science
2012 to 2015
85
309
B.Journals available in CERA
14.
Animal feed Science & Technology
2001 to 2014
175
1672
15.
Aquaculture Economics & Management
1997 to 2014
72
462
16.
Aquaculture International
1997 to 2014
99
812
17.
Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management
1998 to 2014
64
611
18.
Fisheries Research
2008 to 2014
76
1115
19.
General & Comparative Endocrinology
2001 to 2014
175
1685
20.
Journal of Thermal Biology
2002 to 2014
89
747
Total no. of articles available in the e-inventory 28,197
Documentation section:
The documentation section of the library is entrusted with responsibility of publications of scientific bulletins, brochures, pamphlets, annual reports and newsletters. During this period, one annual report (2013-14) two bulletins and two newsletters of DCFR has been published. The annual reports, special publications and technical bulletins published from time to time have been mailed to more than 250 organizations, institutions and fishery agencies.
