The Economic Botany Information Service was set up in 1978. It was primarily associated with the National Information System for Science & Technology (NISSAT), a unit for information network under DST, Government of India. The objective of the EBIS is to cater the information needs of the scientists, the industrialists, the planners and the administrators, in certain selected areas of Economic Botany, viz., Non-Traditional, Under-Exploited and New Plants yielding oils and fats, proteins and amino-acids, gums and mucilages, sugar and fibres and other cellulose products; Biomass/Energy Plants; Indigenous Herbal drugs; Plants and Envronmental Pollution; Ethnobiology; Rare, Endangered and Threatened Plants; New Ornamental Plants; Plant Diversity; Biotechnology; Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals.

EBIS collects, collates and disseminates the scientific information through various publications such as Applied Botany Abstracts (ABA),  A quarterly abstracting journal, NBRI News Letter, a quarterly house journal, Annual Report and various other publications on ornamental plants and herbal drugs, etc. In addition to the publications EBIS also attend the Technical Enquiry Services (TES) related to plants of ornamental and economic values and provide Reprographic Services to the scientific communities of other organizations. The EBIS also function as gateway between the parliament and the institute. It is also a bridge between common man and the institute.

Contact:

             Dr J.K.Johri
             Sr. Principal Scientist
             Ph:2297868 / 2204553

             E-Mail: jk.johri[at]nbri.res.in

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