Research Divisions

LIBRARY AND DOCUMENTATION

A. LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CENTRE

Mandate

SFRI library and information center is a prominent library of the state of Madhya Pradesh in the field of forestry. It houses books, reports, Indian Forest Records, Working Plans, Working Schemes, Forest resource surveys and Sanctuary Plans. Apart from the research staff of the Institute, forest officers, scientists and technical staff make use of the library facilities. Students, research scholars from various institutes and universities also visit the library regularly.

The library and Information Centre maintains literature on forestry and allied subjects. It has books on environment, silviculture, forest protection, mensuration, management, marketing, utilization, social forestry, biodiversity, ecology, botany, tissue culture, tree improvement, law, medicinal plants, wild life, seed scheme and computer science, etc.

Staff

S.S. Raguvanshi        : Research Officer
Girish Shukla             : Senior Research Assistant

Activities

Books

7279

Reports

359

Indian Forest Records

641

Working Plans

1386

National Park/Sanctuary/ Management Plans

24

Working schemes

85

Forest resources surveys reports

27

B. DOCUMENTATION

Mandate

  • Documentation of Research information/results.

  • Documentation of technical literature on forestry research activities of the Institute.

  • Maintenance of ledger files.

  • Providing research information to the users.

Staff

Shri K.L. Verma             : Research Officer
Dr. S. Chakravarty         : Ledger Assistant

Activities

  • Maintenance of general and specific ledger files. At present 250 general and     173 specific ledger files are maintained.  The research results  published in    various journals/bulletins and reports etc. were copied and added regularly         in the respective ledger files.

  • Documentation of technical literature on forestry research.

  • Documentation of research articles published in different journals/magazines/ newsletters/bulletins/Vaniki Sandesh/annual research report/extension series.

  • Documentation of research projects financed by external agencies.

  • Publication of quarterly journal “Vaniki Sandesh” technical bulletins and    extension series.

  • To disseminate the research knowledge among the users.

  • Sale of SFRI publications.

Sale of Publications

The institute has published 41 technical bulletins and 32 extension series     which are available for sale.

Journal Section

 The branch is well furnished with a reading room. During the year 21 Indian journals, 3 Foreign journals, 6 Magazines, 7 Foreign newletters and 15 Indian newletters are being subscribed for reference to the users.

A. JOURNALS (INDIAN)

S.No.

Name of the Journal

Volume/Year

Issue No.

1.        

Annals of Forestry

Vol. 17

1  &  2

2.        

Advanced Biotech

Vol. 09

Vol. 10

1 - 6

7 & 8

3.        

Down to Earth

Year 2009

7 - 24

4.        

Economic and Political Weekly

Year 2009

14 - 52

5.        

Indian Journal of Forestry

Vol. 32

1 - 2

6.        

Indian Journal of Agroforestry

Vol. 11

1 - 2

7.        

Journal of Non Timber Forest Products

Vol. 16

1 & 2

8.        

Journal of Economic & Taxonomic Botany

Vol. 33

1 - 4

9.        

Journal of Nature Conservation

Vol. 21

1 & 2

10.    

Journal of Genetics

Vol. 88

1 & 3

11.    

Jharkhand Journal of Development and Management studies

Year 2009

04

12.    

Journal of Soil & Water Conservation

Vol. 8

1 - 4

13.    

RE & D (Resources, Energy & Development)

Year 2009

No. 1

14.    

The Indian Forester

    Vol. 135      Vol. 136

    5 - 12  

1 - 2

15.    

TIDEE

Vol. 8

1 - 2

16.    

Tropical Ecology

Vol. 50

1 & 2

17.    

JNKVV Research Journal

Vol. 42

1 - 2

18.    

Krishi Vaniki Alok

Year 2009

01

19.    

The BAIF Journal

Vol. 30

1 - 4

20.    

Vikas Vani Journal

Year 2009

1 - 2

21.    

Journal of Tropical Forestry

Vol. 25

  I & 2 

 3 & 4

B. JOURNALS (FOREIGN)

S.No.

Name of the Journal

Volume/Year

Issue No.

1.        

Banko Janakari

      Vol. 18        Vol. 19

2

1

2.        

Taiwan Journal of Forest Science

Vol. 24

1 - 4

3.        

SAARC Journal of Agriculture

Vol. 7

1 & 2

C. NEWSLETTERS (INDIAN)

S.No.

Name of the newsletter

Volume/Year

Issue No.

1.        

Arc India News

Vol. 2

1 - 3

2.        

Agro Forestry Newsletter

Vol. 20

3 - 4

3.        

Akshay Urja

Vol. 5

1-4

4.        

Dream-2047

Vol. 11

Vol. 12

4 - 10

1 - 5

5.        

MPTS News letter

Vol. 30

1 - 2

6.        

MLBD News letter

Vol. 30

5 -12

7.        

Nuclear India

Vol. 43

1 - 2

3 - 4

8.        

Nitti Marg

Vol. 25

9-20

9.        

NBRI News letter

Vol. 36

2 - 4

10.    

Parti Bhumi Samachar

Year 2009

2 - 4

11.    

PTI Science Service

Vol. 28

Vol. 29

May to Dec. 1 - 4

12.    

Weed News

Vol. 6

3, 4

13.    

XIVANI News letter

Vol. 7

1 - 4

14.    

Wastelands News

Vol. 24

1 - 2

15.    

Green File

Year 2009

Year 2010

5 - 10

1 & 2

D. NEWSLETTER (FOREIGN)

S.No.

Name of the newsletter

Volume/Year

Issue No.

1.        

Asia Pacific Agro Forestry News

Year 2009

30 - 31

2.        

APAFRI Brief

Year 2009

23 & 24

3.        

CIFOR News

Year 2009

Year 2010

3 & 4

1 & 2

4.        

Non Wood News

Year 2009

1 & 2

5.        

SAIC News letter

Vol.18

3 & 4

6.        

Tropical Forest Update

Vol. 18

3 & 4

7.        

Tiger Paper

Vol. 32

3 - 4

E. MAGAZINES

S.No.

Name of the Magazine

Volume/Year

Issue No.

1.

Amruth

Vol. 13

3-6

 2.   

Scientific American Indian

Year 2009

Year 2010

5-12

1 & 2

  3.     

Vanoshadhi Darpan

Vol. 6

01

  4.      

Vaniki Sandesh

Year 2009

2-4

   5.       

Wisdom

Year 2009

Year 2010

5-12

1 & 2

  6.       

Paryavaran Digest

Vol. 23

Vol. 24

4 & 5

1 & 2

 

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