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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
July 27, 2001
Len Carey, (301) 504-6778,
lcarey@nal.usda.gov
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's
National Agricultural Library
has added the 4-millionth record to the AGRICOLA (AGRICultural
OnLine Access) database of citations to the agricultural
literature. AGRICOLA is the largest bibliographic database for
agriculture in the world and has been available
for free public use via the World Wide Web since 1998 (www.nal.usda.gov/ag98).
The 4-millionth AGRICOLA record was the citation for "FEIS final
environmental impact statement: Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Wilderness Fuel Treatment," published by USDA's Forest Service
and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Technical
services librarians at the National
Agricultural Library entered the citation into AGRICOLA on July
9.
AGRICOLA contains citations to books, audiovisual materials and
serial publications as well as to journal articles, book
chapters, reports, electronic publications and reprints. Many
AGRICOLA citations to electronic publications are directly
linked to full-text articles, databases and image
files.
Subjects included in AGRICOLA encompass all aspects of
agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and
veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry,
aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems,
agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human
nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
The National Agricultural Library is the world's largest and
most accessible agricultural research library and is the
principal resource in the United States for information about
food, agriculture and natural resources. The library established
AGRICOLA in 1970 as one of the principal means of
carrying out its mission "to ensure and enhance access to
agricultural information."
For more information about AGRICOLA or the National Agricultural
Library and its programs and services, contact the library at
(301) 504-5755 or
agref@nal.usda.gov, or visit the NAL Web site at:
http://www.nal.usda.gov
USDA news release
N3686
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