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> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 12:02:24 +0200
> Reply-to: ibd@support.nl
> From: IBD <ibd@support.nl>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <infoterra@cedar.univie.ac.at>
> Subject: new publication
>
> PRESS RELEASE
>
> Beat the information overload with Agriculture and Environment for Developing
> Regions: a new, stand-alone information service for
> researchers and experts
>
> The new monthly journal Agriculture and Environment for Developing Regions,
> and its electronic equivalent the TROPAG & RURAL database, are the only
> comprehensive information services for researchers and experts interested in
> agriculture and environmental management in the developing countries. Both
> the printed journal and the database act as an antidote to the modern
> information overload where experts and researchers are faced with a
> bewildering choice between, on the one hand, huge information services with
> their literally millions of abstracts and, on the other, many thousand of
> primary journals, books and reports. No researcher can scan this information
> alone to find the key material in his or her discipline.
>
> First published in January 1996, Agriculture and Environment for Developing
> Regions aims to counteract the information overload by annually selecting
> 6000 key articles and monographs from the contents of more than 4000 journals
> and many more thousands of books, conference reports and theses. These 6000
> key documents are then abstracted by subject specialists for inclusion in the
> journal.
>
> Disciplines covered include plant breeding, animal husbandry, forestry,
> production economics, environmental sciences, land management and agronomy.
> All tropical crops are covered including rice, coffee, cocoa, sugar cane and
> many others. Poultry, cattle, goats, rabbits, sheep and camels are all
> included. The international literature on agricultural production can be
> found in seven chapters in the "Production and processing" section. This is
> complemented by two further sections on "Agricultural development" and
> "Environmental management" respectively, giving the new journal comprehensive
> coverage of the issues relevant to agriculture in the developing countries of
> Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
>
> The 6000 abstracts published in the journal each year are also placed on the
> TROPAG & RURAL bibliographic database, available on CD-ROM and on-line. The
> TROPAG & RURAL CD-ROM, published by SilverPlatter, contains some 116,000
> abstracts from the international literature on tropical agriculture and rural
> development from 1975 onwards. The database's traditional coverage comprised
> the international literature on the cultivation of food and industrial crops,
> animal husbandry, forage and pastures, and post-harvest technology. Its scope
> has gradually been expended to reflect growing international interest in
> farming systems, agroforestry and, especially, in the environmental aspects
> of agriculture.
>
> The bibliographic database and journal, incorporating Abstracts on Tropical
> Agriculture, are produced on a non-profit basis by member institutes of the
> European Consortium for Agricultural Research in the Tropics (ECART), notably
> by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) of the Netherlands and the Centre de
> Coopration Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Dveloppement
> (CIRAD) of France.
>
> For a sample copy of the journal or a one month's free trial of the TROPAG &
> RURAL CD-ROM, please contact:
>
> Sarah Cummings
> Promotion & Marketing Manager
> Information, Library & Documentation
> Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)
> Mauritskade 63
> 1092 AD Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> Tel: (31) 20-5688 347
> Fax: (31) 20-6654 423
> e-mail: IBD@support.nl
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