Information Resources on The Web Carol Green
Portals and Gateways GFIS: Global Forest Information Service IUFRO: International Union of Forest Research Organizations An Internet gateway to forest information resources from around the world.
Portals and Gateways Biome and AgiFor Evaluated Internet resources in the Health and Life Sciences. Evaluated internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry.
Portals and Gateways NBII National Biological Information Infrastructure Biological Information on the Web Includes an image library and information about current ‘hot topics.’ AgNIC
Portals and Gateways Science.gov A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.authoritative selected science information SciTechResources.gov –Subset of Science.gov Catalog of government science and technology web sites.
Portals and Gateways United Nations Publications and Databases Both online publications and books for sale. FAO Waicent Portal United States Department of Agriculture National Agriculture Library Water Quality Information Service
Gateways and Portals Eco-Portal: the EnvironmentalSustainability.Info source Ecological Internet, Inc. Extensive, well-established portal for news and comment on all aspects of environmental sustainability, with categorised searching capability.
Libraries UN Dag Hammarskjold Library United Nation’s library.
Libraries Oxford University Plant Sciences Library and Oxford Forest Information Service
Libraries University of Minnesota Forestry Library University of Washington Natural Sciences Library (includes Forest Resources Collection)
Libraries Yale University Science Libraries Forestry and Environmental Sciences Resources University of British Columbia MacMillan Library
Databases and Indexes Agricola USDA National Agriculture Library Journals indexed in Agricola AGRIS
Databases and Indexes FindArticles “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 only (Bibliographic citations are free; others require subscription.)
Databases and Indexes Treesearch-USDA Forest Service US Forest Service Research Reports. Most are full text. Water Resources Databases Water Quality Information Center of NAL A listing of online sources relating to water issues.
Databases and Indexes Google Scholar 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 Pages A hierarchical subject listing of free resources, web pages, book reviews, etc., mostly from Canada. National Technical Information Service (NTIS) US government technical reports
Thesauri 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 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 local/sfc?a=/index/index.html&b=/register/ html International Directory of Forest Information Services IUFRO
Organizations International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) The Finnish Forestry Institute (Metla) United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Organizations CAB International CAB 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.