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.

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 Library

http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/

United Nation’s library.

Libraries

• Oxford University

Plant Sciences Library and Oxford Forest Information Service

http://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 Columbia

MacMillan Library

http://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

• 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.

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

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/

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.