1. Turfgrass Information Center Homepage

2. Logon Screen for TGIF (Turfgrass Information File) Size of database: 100,000+ records! # of Periodicals Monitored: Over 300! # TGIF Searches in 2004: Over 76,000! Academic Institutions subscribing to TGIF: More than 50! Countries with TGIF users: 35+ countries! Oldest publication in TGIF: 1665! # Languages represented in TGIF records: More than 30! TGIF Factoids

3. TGIF Basic Search Screen

4. Note the Ability to Limit by Industry Sector

5. Guided Search Enables Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) and Various Limiting Options

6. Power Search, for Advanced Searchers, Enables Precise Searches

7. TGIF Contains a Variety of Item Types, Including Periodical Articles, Research and Technical Reports, Books and Book Chapters, Published Q&As, Scanned Golf Course Plans From and Video Interviews With Selected Members of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Sample Photographs from the Noer/Milorganite® Division MMSD Image Collection, and More!

8. Sample of the Variety of Items in TGIF, page 2

9. Various Display Formats are Available for Search Results; “Brief Table” Display Format Allows Space-Efficiency of Important Fields in the TGIF Record. Note Items with Full-Text Availability from within TGIF Appear First in the Results Listing

10. “Short” Display Format Contains Important Fields, Including Keywords

11. “Full” Display Format Shows All Available Information About the TGIF Record

12. “Citation” Display Format Orders Results by Author in a Citation-Like Format of Crop Science

13. Horizontal Navigation within a TGIF Record Enables Jumping to Related TGIF Records

14. “See Also” Data Includes Sets of Records Relating to a Topic

15. USGA Research Project Reports Are Accessible as a Group

16. Book Chapter Records Can Be Viewed as a Group

17. The R&A/STRI Golf Research Database Records Link to Resulting Publications with TGIF Records

18. Browsing within TGIF is also Possible Through Turf Topics

19. Several Periodical Back-Runs Are Available for Browsing to TGIF Subscribers

20. “What’s NEW in Turfgrass Research” Returns Research Articles Recently Added to TGIF

21. Turfgrass Theses and Dissertations are Being Loaded as Searchable Full-Text PDFs as Copyright Permissions are Cleared

22. Large PDFs will be Segmented

23. Sponsored Theses and Dissertations and Author- Granted Copyright Permissions will be Acknowledged

24. The MSU Libraries wishes to thank the supporters of the TIC Endowment Campaign, members of the Center Advisory Council, and Center subscribers, especially: