VOL. 16 NO. 3 JULY-SEPTEMBER 1997 - Databases and Information Products/Services

BG Sunder Singh

National Information System for Science & Technology, DSIR, New Delhi-110016

Exim India On CD : A reference guide to customs, excise, imports and exports policies, procedures and taiffs.

Concieved by Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, EXIM INDIA On CD is an electronic reference tool on CD-ROM providing a compilation of policies, procedures and tariffs of the Government of India with regard to foreign trade comprising of both imports and exports.

This product aims to serve as a comprehensive source of information to all those involved in foreign trade as it incorporates published data from various government agencies and integrates them in a manner convenient for the user to access.

Contents:

_ Enactments of the Government of India relating to export and import;
_ EXIM Policy of the GOI and Handbook of Procedures
_ Indian Trade Classification—Harmonised System of Nonmenclature (ITC/HS)-Tariff and Policies
_ The Customs and Central Excise Tariffs of India
_ Notifications, Clarifications, Circulars, Notes, etc. from various government agencies.
_ Addresses of Government and private agencies related to EXIM trade.
_ An exhaustive product index.

Benefits: Uniform representation of HS Codes—for over 16,000 items issued by various departments in the Ministries of Commerce and Finance.

  • Tariffs and policies in one location—Vice the current tariff and the EXIM Policy for each of the items listed in the HS Codes at one place.

  • Regular Updates—Quarterly CD-ROM updates supplemented with fortnightly hard copy bulletins.

  • Easy Duty Computation—All relevant duties, levies, cess, with corresponding exemption notifications for a specific commodity available at one glance.

  • Specimen Form—Print directly from the application

  • Addresses—Useful address included in the Reference Manual.

  • Cost saving—A subscription product costing less than equivalent print products.

  • Comprehensive—with over 16,000 items classified by the harmonized code, 20,000 hypertext links, 9000 items in the product index, 19,000 relevant notifications, 800 addresses of authorities agencies, related to EXIM trade, 200 specimen forms.

Software: Searches across the complete content:

Easy navigation with DynaTEXT—8500 pages of text Hypertext links—enables easy access to all related information SGML based Electronic book—data is compliant to ISO-8879 Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

User friendly interface—No special search skills required.

System Requirements:

486 PC with 2 MB of diskspace
8MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive2x (min)
VGA Monitor (color preferred to view HyperText links)
Laser Printer (optional)
MS DOS 4.0 and above
Windows 3.x and above

For price and further details contact:

Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Electronic Publishing Division
337, Karuna Complex, 3rd floor, PB No 360, Sampige Road
Malleswaram, Bangalore-560003
Tel: 91-80-336 7867, 336 5940
Fax : 91-80-3344598
E-mail : info[at]giasbg01[dot]vsnl[dot]net[dot]in
Offices at : Calcutta, Cochin, Hyderabad, Lucknow, New Delhi, Pune.

(source : IIPL brouchure)

Indian Export Directory (IED), 5th edn.

It is an essential guide for overseas buyers to source products & services in India. It provides trade information on India with details of over 25,000 exporters in India. Easy to use with a classification of products based on the internationally accepted Harmonized Commodity Description & Coding System. IED circulates through Indian Embassies abroad, International Chambers of Commerce, foreign offices of ITPO, CII, FICCI and Export Councils. IED is also available on Internet and other online networks like BISNET and NCTI.

For more details, contact :

Reed Information Services Teledirect
A-30 Kailash Colony
New Delhi 110048
Tel : 011-623 6124/621 9819
Fax : 91-11-621 3861
e-Mail : REED[at]giasd101[dot]vsnl[dot]net[dot]in

[source : IED brochure]

Database on Foundry Industry [Indian Foundry Directory, 6 edn. (1997)]

The Foundry Informatics Centre of the Institute of Foundrymen, New Delhi, through a NISSAT project, has produced their Database on Foundry Industry. Created on CDS/ISIS, the Foundry Industry database has the following information:

Material Castings Unit1081

Material Suppliers213

Equipment Suppliers141

On the basis of the information obtained for the database, the Foundry Directory 1997 has been produced. It gives information on :

Name of the unit and its status [small, medium, large etc] Head office and Factory addresses, Phone numbers, Fax numbers, etc.

  • Name of the contact person

  • Types of materials cast with weight range and installed capacity

  • Classification of the castings; Total number of employees of the company; Manufacturing equipment available ; Process technology established; Quality control assurance equipment; Accreditation of the units to ISO 9002 certification; Foreign collaboration if any with type, nature and duration of collaboration; Identification of exporters, their export performance and countries of export.

  • User sector companies like agricultural machinery, automobile, earth moving equipment, diesel engines, electric motors, electric equipment, railways, defence, etc.

For further info, please contact :

Mr Udayan Sen, Director
Foundry Informatics Centre, Indian Instt of Foundrymen
67, Tuglakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi 110062
Phone : 011 - 698 1101
Fax : 011 - 698 8028
e-Mail : iif.del[at]gems[dot]vsnl[dot]net[dot]in

Index Translationum on CD-ROM, 3rd edn. (1996)

Updated with nearly 100,000 additional references, this third cumulative edition of the Index Translationum contains more than 815,000 bibliographical entries on translated books in all disciplines covering over 100 countries and recorded by UNESCO since 1979. Each bibliographical entry lists the author, the translation's title, the translator, the publisher, the year of publication, the original language and the number of pages. The subjects are indicated according to the ten main categories of the UDC system. An independent database, Cross-Ref, facilitates the author's name search.

A valuable instrument for rapid retrieval of references on translated works by more than 200,000 classical and contemporary authors.

Technical information: comprises trilingual (English/French/Spanish) retrieval interface, help screen and user's guide. For use on a PC with DOS 3.0 (minimum) and 640K RAM. Multiple use possible on a non-commercial network.

(Source: INISIST Newsletter Vol. 24 No. 2, 1997)

Energy Database UnesCO/Iseek on Cd-rom, 2nd edn. (1996)

A unique referral database on renewable sources of energy and energy conservation, compiled by UNESCO in co-operation with the Iseek network. An indispensable working tool for experts, planners, students and all those who wish to know where to obtain what information. Provides valuable information on national governmental organizations, research and information centres, professional and trade associations, networks, training and education centres, databases and data-banks, journals, reference publications, audio-visual aids and experts from one hundred and seventy countries, United Nations organizations and regional and international institutions.

Technical information: comprises trilingual (English/French/Spanish) retrieval interface, help screen and user's guide. Text in English, with names and titles also in the original language (transliterated when necessary). For use on a PC with DOS 3.0 (minimum) and 640K RAM. Multiple use possible on a non-commercial network.

All CD-ROMs are available from: UNESCO Publishing, Promotion and Sales Division, 7 place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France, Fax: (331) 45.68.57.41. Internet: http://www. unesco.org/publishing.

(Source: UNISIST Newsletter Vol. 24, No. 2 , 1997)

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* Information on databases, information products/services was compiled and included in last issue of ITT for wider dissemination. NISSAT would continue this column for readers' benefit —Editor