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Information Resources on The Web
Carol Green
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Portals and Gateways
• GFIS: Global Forest Information Service
IUFRO: International Union of Forest Research Organizations
http://www.gfis.net/
An Internet gateway to forest information resources from around the world.
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Portals and Gateways
• Biome and AgiFor
http://www.biome.ac.uk/
Evaluated Internet resources in the Health and Life Sciences.
http://agrifor.ac.uk/
Evaluated internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry.
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Portals and Gateways
• NBIIhttp://www.nbii.gov/index.html
National Biological Information InfrastructureBiological Information on the WebIncludes an image library and
information about current ‘hot topics.’AgNIChttp://www.agnic.org/agnic/
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Portals and Gateways
• Science.govA gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.http://www.science.gov/
• SciTechResources.gov– Subset of Science.gov
Catalog of government science and technology web sites.http://scitech.gov/index.php
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Portals and Gateways
• United Nations Publications and Databaseshttp://www.un.org/Pubs/index.html
Both online publications and books for sale.• FAO Waicent Portal
http://www.fao.org/waicent/http://www.fao.org/waicent/portal/Virtualibrary_en.asp
• United States Department of AgricultureNational Agriculture LibraryWater Quality Information Servicehttp://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/
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Gateways and Portals
• Eco-Portal: the EnvironmentalSustainability.Info source
• Ecological Internet, Inc.• www.eco-portal.com/welcome.asp • Extensive, well-established portal for news and
comment on all aspects of environmental • sustainability, with categorised searching
capability.
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Libraries
• UN Dag Hammarskjold Library
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/
United Nation’s library.
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Libraries
• Oxford University
Plant Sciences Library and Oxford Forest Information Service
http://www.plantlib.ox.ac.uk/
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Libraries
• University of MinnesotaForestry Library http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/
• University of WashingtonNatural Sciences Library(includes Forest Resources
Collection)http://www.lib.washington.edu/natsci/
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Libraries
• Yale University Science Libraries
Forestry and Environmental Sciences Resourceshttp://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/forestry.html
• University of British Columbia
MacMillan Library
http://www.library.ubc.ca/macmillan/
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Databases and Indexes
• AgricolaUSDA National Agriculture Libraryhttp://agricola.nal.usda.gov/Journals indexed in Agricolahttp://www.nal.usda.gov/indexing/jia.html
AGRIShttp://www.fao.org/agris/
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Databases and Indexes
• FindArticleshttp://www.findarticles.com/
“Search millions of articles from leading academic, industry and general interest publications. We give you free access to information you can trust, from a collection you'll only find here.”
• Scirus: for scientific information onlyhttp://www.scirus.com/srsapp/(Bibliographic citations are free; others require subscription.)
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Databases and Indexes
• Treesearch-USDA Forest Servicehttp://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/US Forest Service Research Reports. Most are full text.
• Water Resources DatabasesWater Quality Information Center of NALhttp://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/dbases.htmlA listing of online sources relating to water issues.
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Databases and Indexes
• Google Scholar
• http://scholar.google.com/
• search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
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Databases and Indexes
• The Green Pageswww.thegreenpages.ca/
A hierarchical subject listing of free resources, web pages, book reviews, etc., mostly from Canada.
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.asp?loc=3-0-0 US government technical reports
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Thesauri
• Agrovoc
www.fao.org/agrovoc/
Multilingual agricultural thesaurus maintained by FAO. The online version can be searched in seven languages and the whole thesaurus can be downloaded free.
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Thesauri
• CAB Thesaurus CAB International
5th edn. 1999, £150. ISBN 0851993664
Widely-used thesaurus for the applied life sciences, available in printed and electronic formats; the latter may be used by third parties under license
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Directories
• Green Pages
http://www.eco-web.com/cgi-local/sfc?a=/index/index.html&b=/register/00726.html
• International Directory of Forest Information Services
IUFRO 6.03.00
http://iufro.andornot.com/
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Organizations
• International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)http://www.iufro.org/
• The Finnish Forestry Institute (Metla)http://www.metla.fi/metla/index-en.htm
• United States Department of Agriculture Forest Servicehttp://www.fs.fed.us/
• Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/
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Organizations
• CAB Internationalwww.cabi.orgCAB International is a global not-for-profit organisation involved in the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge in the applied biosciences to enhance development, human welfare and the environment. Publishers of CAB Abstracts, Forest Science Database and TreeCd.