cited reference, Agdex is an indexing service to the intermediate literature of agriculture providing a current awareness and retrieval service primarily for agricultural advisers in Scotland. The development of Agdex from 1973 and the progress made from a manual index using optical co-incidence cards to an online bibliographic database is described. The processes involved in its production from the selection of material through indexing to searching the database are explained. Since 1973 the market for the service has expanded to include students involved in agricultural education and training throughout the UK. With the needs of users in mind plans for the future include coverage from a wider spectrum of material using co-operative input and the addition of information abstracts. Long term, Agdex may become a national bibliographic database for the agriculture industry. (original)
Paper presented at the colloquium "Implementing HortBase: Horticulture global information system for decision support" held July 23-26, 1997, Salt Lake City, Utah. Includes references
Smith, Terry R. (author), Eastwood, Basil R. (author), and Radtke, Angela Faris (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24676
Notes:
Pages 511-517 in Fedro S. Zazueta and Jiannong Xin (eds.), Computers in agriculture: proceedings of the 7th international conference on computers in agriculture, Orlando, Florida, October 26-30, 1998. St. Joseph, Michigan: American Society of Agricultural Engineers. 999 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 120 Document Number: C13694
Notes:
Located in J Evans Library, Proceedings of the Vith World Congress of the International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists: "Agricultural Information to Hasten Development". Held at Phillipine International Convention Center, Manila, Philippines, 3-7 March 1980
Thorpe, P. (author / Royal Tropical Institute, Dept of Agricultural Research, Agricultural Information and Documentation Section, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.) and Royal Tropical Institute, Dept of Agricultural Research, Agricultural Information and Documentation Section, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00615
