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Information Resources on The Web. Carol Green. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Information Resources on The Web
Carol Green
Portals and Gateways
• GFIS: Global Forest Information Service
IUFRO: International Union of Forest Research Organizationshttp://www.gfis.net/
An Internet gateway to forest information resources from around the world.
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.
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/
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
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/
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.
Libraries
• UN Dag Hammarskjold Libraryhttp://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/
United Nation’s library.
Libraries
• Oxford UniversityPlant Sciences Library and Oxford
Forest Information Servicehttp://www.plantlib.ox.ac.uk/
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/
Libraries
• Yale University Science Libraries Forestry and Environmental Sciences
Resourceshttp://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/forestry.html
• University of British ColumbiaMacMillan Libraryhttp://www.library.ubc.ca/macmillan/
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/
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.)
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.
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.
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
Thesauri
• Agrovocwww.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.
Thesauri
• CAB Thesaurus CAB International5th 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
Directories
• Green Pageshttp://www.eco-web.com/cgi-local/sfc?a=/index/index.html&b=/register/00726.html
• International Directory of Forest Information ServicesIUFRO 6.03.00http://iufro.andornot.com/
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/
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.