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AGRIS/CARIS Centre of Information Management for International Agricultural ResearchSearch on several databases simultaneously, including:1. AGRIS (The International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology), part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. (FAO) collects and identifies literature dealing with all facets of agriculture. At least 199 national, international and intergovernmental centers participate in this project and submit about 14,000 items per month. It allows simple and advanced searching as well as browsing by subject. It provides a Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus that acts as a guide to choosing alternative words to search. 2. CARIS (Current Agricultural Research Information System), part of the FAO, is a database of current agricultural research projects being carried out by, or on behalf of, developing countries. It deals with all aspects of agriculture: plant and animal production and protection; post harvest processing of primary agricultural products; forestry; fisheries; agricultural engineering; natural resources and the environment as related to agriculture; food and human nutrition; agricultural economics; rural development, and agricultural administration; legislation, information, education and extension. 156 national, international and intergovernmental centers participate in CARIS and there is information available on approximately 30,000 currently active projects. 3. AGRIS-MHS - Multi-Host Based and Cross-Database Bibliographic Search Engine (AGRIS, ASFA, ELFIS and others) 4. FAO On-line Catalogue 5. FAO Resource Finder which finds information on the FAO website 6. Other databases from around the world.
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