The objective of the Service is to facilitate inter/exchange of information on irrigation and drainage related literature amongst all professionals at large, including IPTRID Network Countries and ICID members. The Service provides literature, which also includes extensive ICID Library publications catalogue in electronic format for online searching through keywords, author, ISBN, ISSN, publisher, UDC number, accession number, and place of publication etc. Full texts of papers presented at recent ICID Congresses and Conferences, as well as available grey literature have been uploaded under 'ARTICLES'. Complete documents where available, can be viewed/downloaded through RESOURCES AVAILABLE link put at the end of the search results. A 'REQUEST FOR RESOURCES' link will appear to get e-mail assistance (from ICID Central Office) when the full text is not available on-line. If your computer does not have `Adobe Acrobat Reader' software to read PDF files it can be downloaded from this hyperlink. 

Note : A REQUEST FOR RESOURCES link is available at the end of Articles search results to order the document by filling out the on-line form. If the document is available in the Central Office it will be mailed within two working days. When the document cannot be found, an answer will still be mailed. Mailing of documents by e-mail is free of charge. When a text has to be sent by airmail a standard charge of US$ 10 will have to be remitted, before the document can be mailed.

ICID TDS on new Z-Server

To make the TDS online function more user-friendly, ICID Central Office has come up with a new online software. It is an attempt to integrate the various libraries/information centres, and online educational and informational resources into a centrally managed environment for accessing. The architecture for the new software involves aggregating different services via Z39.50 server. The end user would interact with only one portal, which would bring together different resources into an integrated web-based user interface. Main feature of this new software is to attempt to integrate databases from various water-related organizations/institutions with similar objectives at one place on single search field.

Presently, ICID Central Office has introduced 3 databases under Database field (ICID Online Library, Library of Science ICID, and Library of Science1 ICID). In this only ICID Online Library is the main database and the remaining 2 are dummy prospective databases from other institutions who could join later, just to show the feature of the new software.

What is Z39.50?