AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although the NAL Catalog (AGRICOLA) does not contain the text of the materials it cites, thousands of its records are linked to full-text documents online, with new links added daily. ... [Information of the supplier]
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is an International Cooperative Information System which comprises an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects. The ASFA bibliographic database is the principal output of the system and it contains over 900,000 references, with coverage since 1971. About 3,500 new bibliographic references are added each month to the database. ..... ... [Information of the supplier]
The ISEE Bibliography is an ongoing project of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. Among the topics dealt with are: biology, energy supply, atomic energy, environmental protection, geography, agricultural sciences, forestry, horticulture, fishing, domestic economy, nutritin science, philosophy. [Editorial staff vifabio]
The AGRIS initiative was set up by the FAO in the 70s and created a worldwide coooperation for sharing access to agricultural science and technology information. Based on available technologies, AGRIS was initially collecting bibliographic references for a central database. However, since the advent of the Internet in the late 90s AGRIS has become the brand name for a network of centres, which are promoting the exchange of agricultural science and technology information through the use of common standards and methodologies. The AGRIS open archives and bibliographical databases cover the many aspects of agriculture, including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, and human nutrition, extension literature from over 100 participating countries. Material includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more. ... [Information of the supplier]
ATSAF ist eine wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft der international ausgerichteten Agrar- und Ökosystemforschung in Deutschland. ATSAF vereinigt Wissenschaftler/-innen und Entwicklungsexpert/-innen aus den Bereichen Agrarwissenschaften, Ökologie, Veterinärmedizin, Ernährung, Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei sowie weiterer, auch grundlagenorientierter Disziplinen mit dem Schwerpunkt entwicklungsorientierte Forschung für Tropen und Subtropen sowie Transformationsländer. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Countryside Survey provides scientifically reliable evidence about the state or ‘health’ of the UK’s countryside today. We can compare 2007’s findings against the findings of previous Countryside Surveys from 1998, 1990, 1984 and 1978. We can then identify change (and the relative rate of change) in the countryside. This evidence is used to help form policies that influence management of the countryside, both now and in the future. ... [Information of the supplier]
DNL-online is a bibliographical database on nature conservation compiled by the German National Agency for Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN). Currently, about 100.000 citations are available, with publication years starting 1980. The data is based on holdings of the BfN's library as well as its documentation center, and contains all forms of publications; the geographical scope of most titles is Germany / Central Europe. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
Ecological Abstracts is a topical, comprehensive reference source for literature in the fields of marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecology. It provides a specialist overview of the increasing number of papers being published in the field. Papers are divided into twelve main sections: global & general ecology; marine ecology; tidal & estuarine ecology; freshwater ecology; terrestrial ecology; general microbial ecology; weeds pests & diseases; pollution; nature conservation; economic ecology; evolution & palaeoecology; general theory & methods. The headings are further subdivided by process and papers grouped according to taxonomic convention. Additional referencing is provided by assigning subject and organism index terms to each entry. ... [Information of the supplier]
GEODOK is a database which contains more than 102.000 entries concerning geographically related literature since 1950 (incl. biogeography). It provides the bibliographical data for scientific articles (primarily in German, English and French) indexed by keywords. GEODOK is a product of the Department of Geography of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The literature database of the vegetation ecology of central Europe of the Braunschweig University Library is a current database in which scientific publications about the flora and vegetation of Central Europe are indexed. Until now, the focus has been on Germany; indexing of the relevant publications for Austria, Switzerland, Northern Italy, and Slovenia is planned. The adjacent areas are also taken into consideration in the selection. Currently ca. 11000 publications have been indexed whereby the data are continually updated and expanded. A special feature of the database is that scientists who are active in this area can themselves enter records of their publications into the database via the World Wide Web. Their entries are stored directly in the database and are then immediately searchable worldwide. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
