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CSIR-NISCAIR Annual Report 2016-2017

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66 IT Facilities &Programmes

CSIR-NISCAIR’s scientific informationdissemination and sciencecommunication activities are actively

supported by a robust and modern ITinfrastructure. With science communicationand outreach activities relying heavily onmodern ICT, services like Online Access ofNISCAIR’s Primary Journals (NOPR) &Popular Science Magazines, OnlinePublishing Software (OJS), Website and Blog,and a state-of-the-art Data Centre havegained paramount importance.

The volume of data being managed atCSIR-NISCAIR is showing exponential growth.The IT Division has updated its capabilitiesfor management of information resourcesand services including hosting and sharingby adopting new ICT tools. The focus is onproviding uninterrupted, authorised andsecure access to NISCAIR and CSIR Resourcesto the scientific community and researchersall over the world and a platform for CSIRLabs for co-location of their critical servicesand databases.

During the period 2016-2017 many newactivities were initiated and ongoingactivities strengthened. Some of the majoractivities are:

A) CSIR HQRs & CSIR-NPL: HOSTING OFWEBSITE IN NISCAIR DATA CENTRE

CSIR Hqrs & CSIR-NPL had requested to hosttheir website in NISCAIR Data Centre. Alongwith the provisioning of server and logicalsecurity infrastructure, support services wereprovided to CSIR Hqrs.

B) CSIR HQRs: HOSTING OFDEVELOPMENTAL VERSION OF CSIRACCOUNTING SOFTWARE IN NISCAIRDATA CENTRE

CSIR Hqrs constituted an in-house team towork on full time basis for upgradation ofAccounting Software for CSIR Hqrs and itsLaboratories. NISCAIR Data Centre is to beutilised for Central Repository of Data forthe Software. This included ServerPreparation, Security Policy Deployment andAuthentication with remote access to CSIRFinance Team.

C) SECURITY SURVEILLANCE THROUGHCCTV IN BOTH CAMPUSES OF NISCAIR

To promote safety in both locations ofNISCAIR, security surveillance systems usingIP enabled CCTV cameras were installed atboth the locations of NISCAIR. 23 IP


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Cameras were installed at NISCAIR, VigyanSanchar Bhawan, and 11 Cameras at theNISCAIR, Vigyan Soochna Bhawan.

D) INSTALLATION OF DIGITAL DISPLAY ATRECEPTION FOR HINDI SOFTWARE

Provisioning of Server for digital display atreception. This included installation ofSoftware on Server for communication withSet Top Box connected to the Digital Display.

E) UPGRADATION OF VIDEOCONFERENCING FACILITY

For multiparty VC the VC Facility at NISCAIRwas upgraded with the installation ofPolycom Realpresence Group 500 VC Unit,

with 1+5 Multiparty HD Group Videofacility.

F) MANAGEMENT AND UPKEEPING OFDIGITAL INFORMATION RESOURCEFACILITY (MAUKDIRF)

The Digital Information ResourceFacility has been created to provideuninterrupted, authorised and secureaccess of NISCAIR and CSIR Resourcesto the scientific community and researchersall over the world. The DIRF alsohouses ISO 27001:20013 certif iedTier II Level Data Centre (DC). It issuccessfully hosting CSIR and NISCAIRcontents.

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G) FTP SERVER CREATION

For the convenience of the users in NISCAIR’stwo locations, an FPT Server has beencreated to share the files between users ofthe two locations.

H) CSIR–IPU PATENT PORTAL IN DIRFDATA CENTRE

CSIR-IPU Patent Portal is hosted in DataCentre. This facility is exclusively for PatentAttorneys and CSIR IP Coordinators, torecord research output, maintain a databaseand documentation for online filing ofCSIR’s Intellectual Property. It is a gatewayfor measuring novelty index and IPutilisation.

I) NISCAIR E-PAYMENT TRACKINGSYSTEM (NIePTS)

NIePTS is an online Intranet based solutiondesigned and developed by the IT Divisionon special request from Finance & Accountsdepartment. The system provides amechanism to host central repositoryfor bank and personal details of all

CSIR-NISCAIR employees (permanent as wellas temporary), pensioners and vendors. Thesystem also has repository for details of allbills reimbursed by the Finance & Accountsdepartment. The system automaticallygenerates cheque amounts combiningsimilar bills and sends emails to stakeholdersafter sending the list of cheques for ECS tothe bank.

J) NISCAIR ONLINE RECRUITMENTSYSTEM (NORS) FOR GROUP II,III AND IV

NORS is an online application designed anddeveloped by IT Division, for onlineapplication submission for recruitment ofstaff in CSIR-NISCAIR as per the CSIRrecruitment guidelines. Applications areinvited from Indian citizens for filling thepositions at CSIR-NISCAIR.

The IT Division updates the baseversion to incorporate features as per therecruitment process from time to time. Thesoftware has been hosted in the DataCentre.


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K) HOSTING OF NATIONAL KNOWLEDGERESOURCE CONSORTIUM (NKRC)PORTAL IN DIRF DATA CENTRE

The National Knowledge ResourceConsortium (NKRC), established in year2009, is a network of libraries andinformation centers of 39 CSIR and 24 DSTinstitutes. NKRC facilitates access to 5,000+e-journals of all major publishers, patents,standards, citation and bibliographicdatabases. Apart from licensed resources,NKRC is also a single point entity thatprovides its users with access to a multitudeof open access resources.

L) HOSTING OF SOFTWARE FOR ONLINERECEIPT OF APPLICATION FORRECRUITMENTS IN CSIR-CDRI,CSIR-CRRI & CSIR-NPL

NISCAIR provided the following services:

Hosting of software in Data Centre foronline receipt of applications forrecruitment

Backup of Database

Remote Login Provisioning

Monitoring and Maintenance of Process

M)AADHAAR ENABLED BIOMETRICATTENDANCE SYSTEM (AEBAS)IMPLEMENTATION AT NISCAIR

As per the Govt. of India Initiative, theimplementation of AEBAS in NISCAIR hasbeen completed. The process included:

Registration of Organisation

Registration of Employees

Supply, Installation, Commissioning andTesting of the Desktop and Wall mountdevices

Trial Runs

Implementation

N) PROCUREMENT OF VIRTUALIZATIONSOFTWARE & DEPLOYMENT OFVIRTUALIZATION IN DIRF DATACENTER

Server Virtualisation enables the utilisationof existing servers to the fullest of theirefficiency. Server virtualisation utilises thephysical host machine hardware & partitionsthe host machine into multiple logicalinstances – called Virtual Machines. Each ofthese virtual servers can run an independentoperating system and applications. Manyphysical servers in DIRF Data Centre havebeen virtualised and virtual servers were alsoprovisioned to CSIR Labs for hosting of theircontents.

O) NISCAIR INTRANET SITE: ACCESSTHROUGH SECURED LOGIN

NISCAIR Intranet site (https://intranet.niscair.res.in) has been madepublicly available on the Internet throughusername and password. The employee canaccess official circulars, OMs, and formswhile away from office. The site is runningfrom DIRF Data Centre.

P) IT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTAND MAINTENANCE

NISCAIR has LAN infrastructure of 300 nodesat Pusa location and 360 nodes at SV Margwith 1 Gbps (1:1) Leased Line InternetConnectivity. NISCAIR scientists are makinguse of the IT Infrastructure for data transfer,communication, exchange of manuscriptsand data with authors and referees.

As part of the IT Infrastructuredevelopment following purchases weremade during 2016-17:

Two High End Servers Dell R 530

SAN Expansion Enclosure for IBMStorwize V5000 with capacity of 24 TB


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HP Scanner Enterprise NFlow and HPEnterprise Color Printer M552

Renewal of Trend Micro Worry FreeBusiness Security Edition

Q) DEVELOPMENT/MANAGEMENT OFFACILITY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Many Facility Management Software havebeen developed in-house for automation ofvarious functionalities in the organisation.

(i) DIRF Reception ManagementSystem: The Reception Management Systemcaptures all relevant information of visitorsin a secure database file, including visitor’sphoto, name, reason for visit, and entry andexit times. The process takes 15-20 seconds.This application typically consists of threefundamental components: a) VisitorRegistration, b) Visitor Gate Pass Printing,and c) Reporting Functionality.

(ii) DMIS Software: DocumentManagement Information System (DMIS)is a web-enabled application, withfunctionalities including online entry forreceipt and dispatch, action taken, replyreceipt and dispatch, file creation,file transfer to different officials andmaintenance of letter and file movementdata.

(iii) Guest House Management andMaintenance: The software provides facilityof online booking of guest house.

(iv) Registration & Billing Software forMarketing Division: The registration andbilling software for different services likeTranslation, Bibliography, Bibliometrics, ISA,CAPS, etc. in marketing division is used forregistering the customers, invoicegeneration, bill preparation, etc. Thecomplete software is upgraded for newfinancial year processing.

R) IT HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

CSIR-NISCAIR provides six-month training(from January to June and July toDecember) to MCA students and to otherstudents pursuing Computer Science/ITcourse leading to M.Sc., B.E., B.Tech., M.E.,and M.Tech. Degrees to work on projects inthe area of application of IT as partialfulfilment of their degree courserequirements.

In the year 2016-17 a batch of 3 studentsattended the training programme.

S) ONLINE ACCESS OF NISCAIR’SPRIMARY JOURNALS & POPULARSCIENCE MAGAZINES (NOPR)

NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository(NOPR) hosts online its research journals,Popular Science Magazines & NaturalProducts Repository at http://nopr.niscair.res.in. All the 18 researchjournals have been added under OpenAccess mode for accessing full text. Researchcommunities including students not only inIndia but also all over the world are beingbenefited by open access of NISCAIRjournals. This has enhanced accessibility andvisibility of NISCAIR journals at the Nationaland International level. Current issues ofall the research journals are publishedonline in NOPR for open access well beforethe publication of print version for theimmediate benefit of researchers.

Digitisation of following 11 journals hasbeen completed from Volume 1 Issue 1 andthese are available for online & open access:

1. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge(IJTK) [started in 2002]

2. Indian Journal of Biotechnology (IJBT)[started in 2002]

3. Indian Journal of Natural Products andResources (IJNPR) [Formerly Natural


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Product Radiance (NPR)] [startedin 2002]

4. Journal of Intellectual Property Rights(JIPR) [started in 1996]

5. Indian Journal of Engineering & MaterialsSciences (IJEMS) [started in 1994]

6. Indian Journal of Chemical Technology(IJCT) [started in 1994]

7. Bharatiya Vaigyanik evam AudyogikAnusandhan Patrika (BVAAP) [started in1993]

8. Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research(IJFTR) [started in 1976]

9. Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics(IJRSP) [started in 1972]

10. Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences(IJMS) [started in 1972]

11. Annals of Library and Information Studies(ALIS) [started in 1954]

Digitisation facility has been createdin NISCAIR & digitization work ofremaining six journals is in progress.After 100% digitisation of all NISCAIR journals,NOPR will have more than 1 lakh researcharticles in public domain. At present, therepository has about 37019 articles.

Sl. No.

Journal Previous Years

2010 11 12 13 14 15 16 2017

RESEARCH JOURNALS

1. ALIS (54-09)

2. BVAAP (93-09) -

3. IJBB (99-09)

4. IJBT (02-09)

5. IJC-A (94-09)

6. IJC-B (99-09)

7. IJCT (94-09)

8. IJEB (99-09)

9. IJEMS (94-09)

10. IJFTR (76-09)

11. IJMS (72-09)

12. IJNPR (02-09)

13. IJPAP (99-09)

14. IJRSP (72-09)

15. IJTK (02-09)

16. JIPR (96-09)

17. JSIR (99-09)

POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINES

18. SR -

19. VP -

20. SKD -

NATURAL PRODUCTS REPOSITORY

21. NPARR NA NA -

Year wise availability of full text is given in the following Table:


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To increase the visibility of NISCAIRjournals, all the 17 journals have beenregistered with the Directory of Open AccessJournals (DOAJ), Registry of Open AccessRepositories (ROAR), Directory of OpenAccess Repositories (DOAR), Google Scholarand other prominent search engines.

The following three Popular ScienceMagazines published by NISCAIR are alsohosted on NOPR for online access:

1. Science Reporter (in English)

2. Vigyan Pragati (in Hindi)

3. Science Ki Duniya (in Urdu)

NOPR also hosts a quarterly electronic openaccess repository of current information on

Natural Products and Resources entitledNatural Products and Resources Repository(NPARR).

T) ONLINE PUBLISHING SYSTEM FORAUTOMATION OF EDITORIALPROCESS

‘Online Publishing @ NISCAIR (OP)’has been implemented for automationof editorial process for NISCAIRresearch journals. It is based on opensource publishing software ‘OpenJournal Systems (OJS)’, which has beencustomized as per NISCAIR requirement.This system is available at http://op.niscair.res.in.


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At present, this facility is available for thefollowing research journals published byCSIR-NISCAIR:

1. Annals of Library and Information Studies(ALIS)

2. Indian Journal of Chemical Technology(IJCT)

3. Indian Journal of Chemistry-Section A(IJCA)

4. Indian Journal of Fibre & Textile Research(IJFTR)

5. Indian Journal of Natural Products andResources (IJNPR)

6. Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Physics(IJPAP)

7. Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics(IJRSP)

8. Journal of Intellectual Property Rights(JIPR)

9. Journal of Scientific Temper (JST)

U) MAINTENANCE AND UPDATION OFNISCAIR & INTRANET WEBSITE

NISCAIR website (www.niscair.res.in) is beingmaintained and regularly updated in Englishand Hindi. Information about NISCAIR’s 18research journals, two abstracting journals,three popular science magazines andpopular science books and newsletters isavailable on the website. The news & events,

training programmes, tenders, notifications,special issues of journals announcements areposted on the website.

Hindi website has been developed usingUnicode fonts for proper display of Hindifonts.

Bilingual office forms, internal orders/circulars/notifications are regularly hostedon intranet website (intranet.niscair.res.in).


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