National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research(
Formerly Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology
- Indian Council of Medical Research)
An Autonomous Institution of Ministry of Family and Health Welfare, Government of India
Library:Institute’s library has been catering to the needs of the scientists and staff. Apart from the institute’s staff, library is being used by the JRF, SRF, short term trainees, summer trainees, Ph.D students. Library provides the services like Lending, References Services, Xerox Service, Interlibrary loan and Science Citation Analysis Service from NISCAIR. Institutional library has a rich book-bank covering diverse subject. During the current financial year library accumulated more than 70 books in the field of Oncology, Cyto-pathology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Gynecology, and Statistics making the total collection to 1368 and total holdings of the bound volumes about 1300. Institute subscribes 20 reputed journals (17 International, 3 National) like Cancer, Cancer Research, International journal of Cancer, Nature, Lancet, Lancet Oncology, JNCI, American J of Epidemiology, & Papilloma Virus Report. Library has acquired the institutional membership to National Medical Library (NML), New Delhi and provides the membership to its staff. Scientists and students are extensively using the journal collection (current and retrospective) of NML.
Laboratory: The Data Management Laboratory is a specialized unit for developing and providing professional data management solutions/applications for programs of ICMR and medical fraternity from medical college / research institutes. It will help in development of secure and robust data portals and knowledge hubs, long term data storage and management, providing standards in data collection and sharing and mining.