1. Information Resources on The Web Carol Green

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Portals and Gateways NBII http://www.nbii.gov/index.html National Biological Information Infrastructure Biological Information on the Web Includes an image library and information about current ‘hot topics.’ AgNIC http://www.agnic.org/agnic/

5. 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 http://www.science.gov/ SciTechResources.gov –Subset of Science.gov Catalog of government science and technology web sites. http://scitech.gov/index.php

6. Portals and Gateways United Nations Publications and Databases http://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 Agriculture National Agriculture Library Water Quality Information Service http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/

7. 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.

8. Libraries UN Dag Hammarskjold Library http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/ United Nation’s library.

9. Libraries Oxford University Plant Sciences Library and Oxford Forest Information Service http://www.plantlib.ox.ac.uk/

10. Libraries University of Minnesota Forestry Library http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/ University of Washington Natural Sciences Library (includes Forest Resources Collection) http://www.lib.washington.edu/natsci/

11. Libraries Yale University Science Libraries Forestry and Environmental Sciences Resources http://www.library.yale.edu/science/subject/forestry.html University of British Columbia MacMillan Library http://www.library.ubc.ca/macmillan/

12. Databases and Indexes Agricola USDA National Agriculture Library http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/ Journals indexed in Agricola http://www.nal.usda.gov/indexing/jia.html AGRIS http://www.fao.org/agris/

13. Databases and Indexes FindArticles http://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 only http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ (Bibliographic citations are free; others require subscription.)

14. Databases and Indexes Treesearch-USDA Forest Service http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/ US Forest Service Research Reports. Most are full text. Water Resources Databases Water Quality Information Center of NAL http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/dbases.html A listing of online sources relating to water issues.

15. 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.

16. Databases and Indexes The Green Pages www.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

17. 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.

18. 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

19. 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/

20. 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 Service http://www.fs.fed.us/ Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/

21. Organizations CAB International www.cabi.org 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.