Annual Report

The NICD Library came into being in 1909 alongwith the establishment of the Central Malaria Bureau at Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) and since then the library facilities continued to expand with the increased activities and the renaming as Malaria Institute of India. The expansion received a fillip in 1963, when the activities of Malaria Institute of India were expanded and reorganised and it was renamed as NICD.

NICD is the only library in the country which has got enormous early literature in the fields of malaria and other vector borne diseases prevalent in the country. The Library is having up to date literature on all the vector-borne diseases, communicable diseases and related aspects viz. Bacteriology, Parasitology, Microbiology, Infections Diseases, Mycology, Biochemistry, Immunology etc. A total of 126 (Journal 85 foreign and 45 National) are subscribed. In addition about received on exchange or on complementary basis.

The library has a total of 29825 books and bound journals, 250 maps, 89 photocopies on various subject and about 1276 Annual Reports from various organisations.

Some of the important indexing and abstracting journals available in the library are Tropical Diseases Bulletin. Abstracts on Hygiene, Excerpta Medica (immnology and Microbiology). Index Medicus (Monthly) and Helminthology Abstracts.

The library maintains adequate stocks of reprints of a large number of papers and articles published in Indian Journal of Malariology and Journal of Communicable Diseases for supply to research workers in the country and abroad and participants to different courses at NICD. Similarly, the library also obtains reprints or research papers for research workers of this Institute.

Besides, the library provides the following services to the readers and scientific workers:

Bibliographies: The library regularly provides literature on various subjects of topical interest to the research workers and participants attending various courses at the Institute.

Liaison with other libraries: the library maintains liaison with scientific and medical libraries in the country for inter-library loan facilities to meet the demand of the research workers and the participants attending various courses at this Institute. The library also gives books and journals to other libraries on Inter Library Loan.

Quarterly Addition Lists: The library circulators a list of new books received every quarter.

Photocopying Services: The library is providing photocopying services.

News Paper Clipping: The library publishes Health News Clippings, a monthly compilation of news items on various topics from several leading Hindi & English Newspapers in India. The topics are arranged subject-wise, and a suitable subject heading is assigned to each item.

Membership: The membership is restricted only to NICD and NMEP and participants of various courses organised by both the institutions. The library has 160 members from NICD and 25 from NMEP. Personnel from other institutions are allowed only for consultation.

List of Foreign Journals

Abstracts on Hygiene & Co. Dis.	J. of Bacteriology
AIDS	J. of Clinical Epidemiology
Advance in Immunology	J of Clinical Microbiology
Advance in Insect Physiology	J. of Clinical Investigation
Advance in Parasitology	J. of Clinical Pathology
Advance in Virus Research	J. of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research
American J.of Epidemiology	J. of Eukaryotic Microbiology
American J.of Epidemiology	J. of Experimental Medicine
American J. of Public Health	J. of Immunology
American J. of Tropical Med. & Hyg.	J. of Infection
Annals of Tropical Med. & Parasitology	J. of Infectious Diseases
Annals Review of Biochemistry	J. of Med. & Veterinary Mycology
Annual Review of Entomology	J. of Medical Microbiology
Annual Review of Immunology	J. of Parasitology
Annual Review of Microbiology	J. of Tropical Paediatrics
Archieves of Internal Medicine	J. of Virological Methods
Biologicals	Lancet
British medical Bulletin	Microbiology
Bulletin of Entomological Res.	Microbiological Review
Clinical Infections Diseases	Microbiology Abstracts Section-B
Current AIDS Literature	Mosquito Systematics
Current Contents (life Sciences)	Mycologia
Bulletin of New York Academy of Med.	Mycopathologia
Diagnostic Microbiology & Inf. Dis.	Mycological Research
Epidemiology and Infection	Nature
Excerpta Medica Section. 4	New Zealand Medical Journal
Excerpta Medica Section. 26	Parasitology
European J. Clinical Microbiology	Parasitology Today Library Edition
Experimental Parasitology	Practitioner
European J. Tropical Med. & Int. Health	Public Health
Health Trends	Review of Med. & Veterinary Entomology
Hepatology	Review of Med. & Veterinary Mycology
Helinthology Abstracts series	Science
Immunology	Scientific American
Infection	Southeast Asian J. of Trop. Medicine & Pub. Health
Immunology Today Library Edition	Tropical Diseases Bulletin
Index Medicus	Tran. of Royal Soc. Of Tro. Medi. & Hyg.
Infection & Immunity	Vaccines
International J. of S.T.D. & AIDS	Virus Research
International J. of Epidemiology	Virology and AIDS Abstracts
JAMA	WHO GLOBAL
J. of Acquired Immune Deficiency	Virology
J. of American Mosquito Con. Association

List of Indian Journals

Abstracts of current Literature in Toxicology	DDR
Annals of National Academy	Excel Time Table AIR India
Antiseptic	Gazette of India Pt. 1 Sec. 2
Bull. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Res.	Gazette of India Pt. 2 Sec. 3 Sub. Sec. I
Current Science	Gazette of India Pt. 3 Sec. I
Gila Bulletin	Indian J. of Pathology and Microbiology
Health Action	Indian J. of Ped.
Health and Population Perceptive and issue	Indian J. of Public Health
Health for Millions	Indian J. of Tuberculosis
Indian J. of Biochemistry and Biophysics	Indian Medical Gazette
Indian J. of Chemistry Sec. A	Indian Paediatrics
Indian J. of Chemistry Sec. B	Indian Practitioner
Indian J. of Clinical Practice	Indian Veterinary Journal
Indian J. of Clinical Practice Medicine	J. of Biosciences
Indian J. of Entomology	J. of Communicable Diseases
Indian J. of Experimental Biology	J. of Entomology Research
Indian J. of Leprosy	MIMS India
Indian J. of Malariology	National Medical Journal of India
Indian J. of Medical Microbiology	J. of General Medicine
Indian J. of Medical Research	J. of Parasitic Disease
Indian J. of Microbiology	PC Magazines India
Indian J. of Medical Sciences	Pesticide Information
	Swamy’s News

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