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    1. The value of information in agricultural research and development

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Metcalfe, J.R. (author / Director of Information Service, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Slough, UK)
    Format:
    Conference paper
    Publication Date:
    1984
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 85 Document Number: C05406
    Notes:
    In: Hawksworth, D.L., ed. Advancing agricultural production in Africa : proceedings of CAB's First Scientific Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 12-18 February 1984. Farnham Royal, Slough, UK : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, 1984. p. 415-419

    2. Where east meets west : the supply and exchange of agricultural information

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ogbourne, Colin (author / CAB International, Wallingford, United Kingdom) and CAB International, Wallingford, United Kingdom
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    1991
    Published:
    International: International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07972
    Journal Title:
    Quarterly Bulletin of the International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists
    Journal Title Details:
    36 (1/2) : 75-79
    Notes:
    AGRICOLA IND 92017551; Presented at the VIII World Congress of IAALD, May, 1990, Budapest, Hungary, CAB International (CABI) activities that enhance the dissemination of agricultural research results to and from Eastern European countries by close cooperation with national agricultural information centres are reviewed. CABI has been distributing abstract journals throughout Eastern Europe for many years and has regularly received direct from Eastern Europe abstracts of the region's agricultural research literature. In 1958, "World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts" was established with the International Economics Association and IAALD, based in Vienna, and most of the abstracts were contributed by a network of people linked to these two organizations. Input to WAERSA and other CABI journals from individual abstracters in Eastern Europe continues to this day. In the early 1980s AGROINFORM, within the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, began supplying CABI with abstracts of Hungarian agricultural publications. It acquired CAB ABSTRACTS on magnetic tape several years ago and in January 1990 became the first Eastern European country to acquire the database on CD-ROM. In 1988, Hungary became the first Eastern European country to join CABI, bringing its total membership to 30. In November 1989, CABI signed an agreement with VNIITEIAgroprom, the All-Union Research Institute of Information and Economic Studies of the Agro-industrial Complex, Moscow, with the dual aim of enhancing worldwide knowledge of Soviet agricultural research and access by Soviet researchers to global information sources.