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Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agriculture. Show all posts

3 June 2019

AGRIS: A global database for Agriculture and related research

The International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) is a multilingual bibliographic database maintained by Food and Agriculture Organization  (FAO) of  the United Nations  Organisation (UNO). It was created in 1975 to give access to rich information in Agriculture Science and Technology, Health and Environment across the globe. The database is a comprehensive collection of research and  technical information on food and agriculture. It helps researchers, students and policy makers for literature needed for their work.

Basically AGRIS is a bibliographical database, but it provide link to more than 2 million full text documents.AGRIS facilitates access to journal articles, monographs, book chapters, grey literature, technical reports, theses, dissertations and conference papers. The items in the AGRIS indexed using AGROVOC, the multilingual thesaurus of FAO. It offers 9,390,683 bibliographic records (as on August 2018) produced by more than 400 data providers from 145 countries. The data providers includes research centers, academic institutions, publishers, governmental bodies, development programmes, international and national organisations. More than 400000 users accessing AGRIS in every month. It is open access so anyone can access it without subscription.

Website: http://agris.fao.org/

19 May 2019

e-KrishiShiksha a portal of ICAR for Agriculture Education in India



Education Division of Indian Council of Agriculture Research coordinate various UG course materials available online. With the financial support of National Agricultural Innovation Project ( NAIP ) interactive & multimedia e-Courseware contents in seven discipline viz. Agricultural Science; Fisheries Science; Dairy Science; Veterinary and Animal Husbandary; Horticulture; Home Science and Agricultural Engineering is available at the e-KrishiShiksha portal. These courseware have been developed by various organisation under ICAR , state Agriculture universities and Institutions deemed to be university. The portal provide 24×7 Agriculture Education content to various stake holders viz. teachers, students and other interested learners. The courses under the portal are;
B.Sc. ( Agriculture )
B.V.Sc. ( Veterinary & Animal Husbandry )
B.F.Sc. ( Fisheries Science )
B.Tech. ( Dairy Technology )
B. Sc. ( Home Science )
B. Tech. ( Agricultural Engineering )
B. Sc. ( Horticulture )

The resources are available both online and can be downloaded to use offline. Access the portal at https://ecourses.icar.gov.in

20 April 2019

Open Access Journals in Agriculture


  1. Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Agricultura
  2. Advances in Agriculture & Botanics
  3. African Journal of Agricultural Research
  4. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development
  5. Agrárinformatika Folyóirat
  6. Agricultura Técnica
  7. Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus (ACS)
  8. Agricultural and Food Science
  9. Agricultural Engineering International : The CIGR e-journal
  10. Agricultural Sciences
  11. Agriculture
  12. AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics
  13. Agronomy Research
  14. American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science
  15. American Journal of Experimental Agriculture
  16. American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
  17. Analele Universitatii din Craiova : Seria Agricultura, Montanologie, Cadastru
  18. Applied and Environmental Soil Science
  19. Asian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
  20. Australian Journal of Agricultural Engineering
  21. California Agriculture
  22. Cercetari Agronomice in Moldova
  23. Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research
  24. Comunicata Scientiae
  25. Czech Journal of Food Sciences
  26. Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities
  27. Hacquetia
  28. International Agrophysics
  29. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
  30. International Journal of Agriculture and Biology
  31. International Journal of Agriculture Sciences
  32. International Journal of Agronomy
  33. International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  34. Journal Agronomy Indonesia
  35. Journal of Agricultural Extension
  36. Journal of Agricultural Science
  37. Journal of Agricultural Sciences
  38. Journal of Agricultural Sciences
  39. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics
  40. Journal of Agriculture and Social Sciences
  41. Journal of Agrobiology
  42. Journal of Agronomy
  43. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
  44. Journal of Central European Agriculture
  45. Journal of SAT Agricultural Research
  46. Journal of Tropical Agriculture
  47. Jurnal Tanah Tropika
  48. Living Reviews in Landscape Research
  49. Lucrări Ştiinţifice : Management Agricol
  50. Madras Agricultural Journal
  51. Natural Product Radiance
  52. Open Agriculture Journal
  53. Plant, Soil and Environment
  54. Research Journal of Agriculture and Biological Sciences
  55. Revista Brasileira de Ciência Avícola
  56. Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental - Agriambi
  57. Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural
  58. Revista de la Facultad de Agronomía
  59. RURALS : Review of Undergraduate Research in Agricultural and Life Sciences
  60. Soil & Environment
  61. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research
  62. Tropicultura
  63. Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
  64. Turkish Journal of Field Crops
  65. Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin
  66. World Journal of Agricultural Science

16 April 2019

Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture is having access to 85 Wiley Journals via Wiley Online Library



WILEY ONLINE LIBRARY is one of the world's most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resource with over 4 million articles from 1,600 journals, 21,000 books, and hundreds of multi-volume reference works, laboratory protocols and databases. Know more at https://www.wileyindia.com/

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