SCIENCE-CENTRAL is Centralized Institutional Repositories Hosting Service for DST-DBT Labs and a Harvester service for DST-DBT Institutional Repositories.

Individual OAI-PMH Compliant Institutional Repositories have been configured and customized on the central server for the each of DST-DBT labs which do not have Institutional Repositories in their own data centre. All DST-DBT lab’s repositories are being regularly harvested by the central harvester. This value added service enables the research community to search and view the R & D literatures from different DST-DBT Institutes through one single console.

The sciencecentral.in is a main domain under which sub domains for each laboratory’s IR are created like http://nccs.sciencecentral.in/ and http://nabi.sciencecentral.in/. In addition two dedicated centrilized IR's for DST and DBT have been installed namely http://dst.sciencecentral.in and http://dbt.sciencecentral.in.

The sciencecentral server is hosted and maintained by CSIR-Unit for Research and Development of Information Products, Pune.