Institute for Studies in Industrial Development

The Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) is a public-funded, non-profit, autonomous institution dedicated to conducting policy research, advocacy, capacity-building, and outreach activities to foster the industrial transformation of India.

Registered on October 7, 1986, under the Indian Societies Registration Act 1860, ISID in 1988, became one of the institutions that are supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), (Government of India), through grants-in-aid. Since 2006, the Institute operates from its own well-appointed campus located in the Vasant Kunj Institutional Area in South Delhi.

ISID owes its origin to the vision and leadership of its founder, Late Prof S K Goyal.

ISID Campus
ISID activities are housed at three main buildings, Academic Block, Office Block and Conference Block, extending to approximately 200,000 sq. ft, sitting on a land with an extent of 1.5 hectares, in the Institutional Area of Vasant Kunj, in New Delhi. The campus is home to:
 * A library
 * Faculty rooms
 * Conference and lecture halls
 * A guest house
 * A pantry, dining hall and cafeteria
 * An auditorium

It also holds recreational facilities for the staff and faculty of the institute.

Library
The Library stocks an extensive collection of books, journals and reports in subjects such as industrial economics, foreign investment, employment and labour, media and corporate sector, including publications of GATT/WTO, Reserve Bank of India, World Bank, UNCTAD, CMIE (EIS), NSSO and CSO. Some other notable collections are:
 * Bombay Stock Exchange Official Directory
 * Publications of Department of Company Affairs
 * Dun & Bradstreet’s Who Owns Whom
 * Jane's Major Companies of Europe
 * Handbook of Economics Series (59 volumes—view list)
 * The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (8 volumes)
 * Encyclopaedia of Cities and Towns (27 volumes)
 * United Nations Library on Transnational Corporations (20 volumes)

It also stocks reports, policy statements, committee reports, plan documents, statistical sources, government acts, rules and guidelines and a collection of prospectuses of more than 6,000 companies. ISID Library maintains a digital database of CDs, films and online repository as well. It also subscribes to several journals and magazines.

The users of the library have access to JSTOR database, Elsevier Science Direct—Economics, Business and Finance, EconLit Full Text, Wiley-Blackwell Social Science and Humanities, CMIE Prowess, EPWRF On-line Data Series - 13 modules, SANSCO online annual reports and IMF e-library Statistics. It also provides user services such as reference queries, referrals, reprographics and inter-library loan.

ISID offers online referencing assistance and in addition to that, has released a reference database on the subject in CD format, under the name, ISID Research Reference CD which contains index to articles, discussion notes, editorials, Union Budget Speeches, Sections of Economic Survey, key statistics on the Indian economy, Global Development Indicators, reports and website addresses of institutions and scientists.

Projects
ISID has carried out several important projects for the Government of India.


 * Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization
 * Regulating FDI in MBRT: Some Key Concerns
 * Ports as Infrastructure, Ports as Cities: The Indian Port System from Colonialism to Globalization
 * A Multi-dimensional Study of Imperial Order and its Journey towards Neo-liberal Imperialism under Globalisation
 * ISID-PHFI Collaborative Research in Public Health (2013-2015)
 * Crony Capitalism and Contemporary India
 * Survey of Corporate Governance in India
 * Internationalization Process of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
 * Indian Multinationals in Global Economy
 * Changing Pattern of Corporate Ownership and Implications for Monitoring Company Managements

Publications






ISID also offers full text downloading facility of select research studies on the Internet.