International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) by Gaurav Boudh

Information centers,
Need and Objectives of AGRIS,
Activities of AGRIS,
Services of AGRIS,
Information Products of AGRIS,
AGRIS in India,

1. INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY(AGRIS) Gaurav Boudh

2. CONTENTS Introduction Need and Objectives of AGRIS Activities of AGRIS Services of AGRIS Information Products of AGRIS AGRIS in India Conclusion References

3. INTRODUCTION AGRIS is the International Information System for Agricultural Science and Technology. AGRIS was created in 1974 by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of United Nations. In 1975, it became operational. AGRIS is a Global Public Domain Database bibliographic records in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Russian and Portuguese Languages on Agricultural Science and Technology. AGRIS has been serving users from developed and developing countries through facilitating access to knowledge in Agriculture Science and Technology.

4. CONTD… AGRIS is a Mission-Oriented information system committed to Collect, Manage and Disseminate Agricultural Literary Information around the globe. AGRIS main aim is to build an information system in the field of Agriculture Science and Technology and related subjects. It is a collaborative network of agricultural institutions of the world. The Subject areas of the AGRIS includes various aspects of Agriculture including Forestry, Food, Environment, Animal Sciences, Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries, Human Nutrition and all other aspects related to Agriculture Sciences from participating countries all over the world.

5. STRENGTH AGRIS offers 9,390,683 bibliographic records produced by more than 400 data providers (research centers, academic institutions, publishers, governmental bodies, development programmes , international and national organizations) from 144 countries. More than 4 lakh agricultural and research professionals worldwide access AGRIS resources each month. While AGRIS is predominantly a bibliographic database, it also provides full text links to about 2 million of its records.

6. NEED OF AGRIS AGRIS is essential for knowing the current development and finding literature about Food, Agriculture, Environmental Sciences and related to Social Sciences also. It is used to pursuit of an academic endeavor, research and background studies for policy makers. It is also used to obtain an overview of what has been published in a certain subject area.

7. OBJECTIVES OF AGRIS AGRIS main objective is to improve access and exchange of Information related to Agricultural Research. To provide a comprehensive agricultural information among the nation and to avoid wasteful duplication of work in the field. To meeting the international needs of developing nations and help them to trained their Scientific and Technical Personnel. Establishment of Single, Current Comprehensive inventory of worldwide Agricultural Literature.

8. CONTD…. To provide Current Awareness Service and Selective Dissemination of Information and specialized subject retrieval services and to fulfill the Document Delivery Requests. Thus, the objective of AGRIS is to meet the Information needs of Agricultural Community. To interact with new or existing secondary specialized Information Services so as to increase efficiency and to eliminate unnecessary duplication or gaps of research.

9. ACTIVITIES OF AGRIS AGRIS Search Engine is designed to help users to locate Agricultural Scientific and Technological Information from its publications i.e., Journals articles, Monographs, Book Chapters, and Grey Literature including Unpublished Science and Technical Reports, Theses &Dissertations and Conference Papers in more than 90 Languages. AGRIS provides various search techniques to reach the Information they are looking for through Simple Search and Advanced Search Tool Provides Training for the use of AGROVOC. Provides training to Information and Documentation Personnel from Developing Countries. Training on AGRIS Methodology, Indexing, Abstracting and AGRIS Classification Scheme.

10. SERVICES OF AGRIS INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING SERVICES Every piece of literature reported to AGRIS database is supplied with its bibliographic description and a set of description to indicator subject content. RETROSPECTIVE SEARCHES through the entire database. SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION SERVICE By which users can request the AGRIS processing unit, to keep them informed of any new AGRIS entries on Specific Subject concern to them.

11. CONTD…. NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES It containing all entries generated in a country and those concerning this country and published outside. SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES It can also be prepared upon requests from specialized cooperating centres . REPOGRAPHIC SERVICES It can be prepared on a high resolution laser printer in AGRINDEX format, ready for reproduction by offset and photocopy.

12. INFORMATION PRODUCTS OF AGRIS AGROVOC AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations including Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and Environment etc. It is a thesaurus jointly produced by FAO and the Commission of European Communities (CEC) is a controlled structured vocabulary of Agricultural terminology constructed according to the UNISIST guidelines for the establishment and the development of monolingual and multi-lingual thesaurus. AGROVOC is maintained by FAO in English, French and Spanish Languages. AGROVOC is constantly updated (through the online editing platform VocBench ), and regularly made accessible to users in various formats.

13. CONTD…. AGRINDEX It is Monthly Bibliography in English which deals with the subject covered by AGRIS. AGRIS CD-ROM CD-ROM Technology is thought to provide an excellent solution for the retrieval for centre's which do not have easy access to an online database. AGRIS FHN(Food Human Nutrition) CD-ROM AGRIS FORESTRY CD-ROM are available on AGRIS and its Semiannually updates are also available.

14. CONTD …. WEB AGRIS The new Web AGRIS version 2.0 was released to robust Information Management System have integrated numerous updates, errors fixes and new features. Web AGRIS is a complete Multi-lingual web-based system for distributed data Input, Processing and Dissemination(through Internet or on CD-ROM) of Agricultural bibliographic Information. Web AGRIS also allows to link to documents that are available in Electronic Format.

15. AGRIS IN INDIA India is the Agricultural based Country, which plays an important role in India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), for the development of Agriculture British government established Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on recommendation of Royal Commission Agriculture in 1929. The Council has established so many Institutions, State Agricultural Universities and Krishi Vigyan Kendras etc. 73 Agricultural Universities, 101 ICAR Institutes, 641 Krishi Vigyan Kendras , 08 Agricultural Technology application Research Institutes all the above produced Agricultural Literature on large scale.

16. CONTD….. The Government of India took decision in July 1974 to participate in the AGRIS Database of FAO through a National Input Centre under the ICAR. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN INDIA INDIAN NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY The India has been providing inputs to the Agriculture Research Information Centre (ARIC) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Database since 1975. References provided by ARIC from the Indian Periodicals and other literature in the field of agricultural and allied sciences became available to the users all over the world through AGRIS.

17. CONTD…. ABSTRACTING JOURNALS The publication of AGRIS in India include Indian Agricultural Science Abstracts and Indian Animal Science Abstracts. SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION(SDI) AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY SERVICES(DDS) ARIC provides SDI and DDS free of cost to all Agricultural Scientists, Research Scholars and Students who require specific Information for various purposes like review of literature, research planning and decision making etc. Request for these services are received from Indian as well as foreign nations.

18. CONCLUSION The International System for Agricultural Science and Technology(AGRIS) is a Multi-lingual Bibliographic database that connects users directly to a rich collection of Research and Worldwide technical Information on Food and Agriculture. The birth of AGRIS has been to facilitate our entire society which involved in Agricultural Science and Technology. Since the beginning AGRIS has been set up a fully Computerized Information System based on INIS, and it has grown into one of the successful and comprehensive Information System on the Agricultural Science and Technology.

19. REFERENCES http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/info.action (Website) Kumar, Mohit . (2018). Role of International Information System for Agricultural Sciences and Technology (AGRIS) in Agricultural Knowledge Management and ICAR Participation. (Book) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324537666_Role_of_International_Information_System_for_Agricultural_Sciences_and_Technology_AGRIS_in_Agricultural_Knowledge_Management_and_ICAR_Participation J.K Khanna . “Documentation and Information Services, Systems and Techniques”. Agra, Y.K Publishers, 1999, p-227-247. (Book)