NICFOS

NICFOS, the National Information Centre for Food Sciences and Technology, is a discipline oriented information centre to provide information in Food Sciences & Technology and its peripheral areas. Set up in October 1977, it is one of the Sectoral Information Centers funded by NISSAT.

NIFOS DATABASES

• Indian Food Science & Technology Database
• Bibliographies in specified areas
• Directory of on-going projects in food technology in India
• Directory of processed food industries in India
• Directory of Equipments and Machinery for Food Processing
• CFTRI Publications (1950-1990)
• Directory of Food Technology Experts in India
• CFTRI Thesis and Dissertations
• CFTRI Library Holdings
• Mysore City S&T Liberaries' holdings
• Food Technology Database

SERVICES OFFERED

• Retrospective Search through International Database on Food Science & Technology CDROM
• CFTRI Library, designated as Food Science & Technnology Information Service (FOSTIS) with 22,000 books and 30,000 back volumens of journals, forms the base for information dissemination activities
• Secive Oriented publications of the NICFOS includes, Food Technology Abstracts (monthly), Food Digest (Quarterly), Food Patents (quareterly)