ENVIS Centre Documentation

The WWF-India Maharaja Fatesinghrao Gaekwad Library and the Documentation Centre form a specialised reference Library on Environment. The facilities offered include a reference library open to the general public, researchers, media persons etc. on all working days, and provision of photocopying facilities at a nominal charge as well as personal attention to the visitors.

It has a limited exchange programme with other documentation centres in India and overseas. The holdings of the library are partially computerised offline/online also. Each record in the database contains complete information about a book, including accession number, class, title, author, an easy-to-use interface permits information to be quickly retrieved. Efforts are underway to make this database available for general reference by incorporating electronic networking system for the library.

The library has acquired several volumes on a diverse range of subjects ranging from forests, wetlands, oceans & marine systems, flora & fauna, pollution and toxics, climate change, environmental education, environmental law and cases, wildlife trade, protected areas, watershed management and other subjects on environment.

The ENVIS Centre library has a computerized database (click) on various subject areas searchable on the basis of various subjects. The ENVIS Centre library services help users by dissemination of information through the ENVIS website which provides regularly updated information from newspapers, journals and articles on environmental issues of concern. The ENVIS Centre Documentation Unit has a vast collection of books and periodicals on the environment and constant efforts are made to acquire latest books and reports on the various subjects.

List of ENVIS Publications & ENVIS Centre Documentation Publications

The Centre has brought out a series of publications pertaining to its focus areas as provided below:

ENVIS Centre Publications