Herbs generally denotes medicinal plants, even though botanically, it means plants with soft stem and branches. A good number of these plants are being lost due to various factors like deforestation, indiscriminate collection/over-exploitation, forest fire and due to trampling by wild animals. Out of the 2.5 lakh species of flowering plants, more than 80,000 (about 30 per cent) are reported to be medicinal. At present, about 15,000 plant species are exploited for ...
Once passive storehouse, Libraries have become active agents of a social change and early adopters of new information and communication technologies. The range of materials and media they handle has diversified enormously in the last decade. Access to full-text databases, networked resources and multimedia information systems has become the norm in a matter of years, fueled in no small measure by the prodigious growth of the internet and World Wide Web. The ...