Abstract
Review: Agro-Librex; Agro-Agen; Agro-Konf: Bibliographic Database By The University of Agriculture Library in Poznan Reviewed by Maria Anna Jankowska University of Idaho Library, USA University of Agriculture Library in Poznan. Agro-Librex; Agro-Agen; Agro- Konf: Bibliographic Data Base (3rd ed.). Poznan, Poland: Main Library, University of Agriculture, 2000. US$100. To order: Main Library, 45 Witosa Street, 61-693 Poznan, Poland, TEL: 4861-8487809. CD-ROM database and searching program; Hardware requirements: Windows 95/98: 16Mb RAM, 8- bit color display, 15Mb free hard-disk space, CDS/ISIS software, and CD- ROM drive. The AGRO database is the largest Polish index to literature on biology, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal science, veterinary, food, wood, technology, and environmental science. One Agro CD-ROM contains three separate databases: Agro-Librex, Agro-Agen, and Agro-Konf. The first database, Agro-Librex, provides bibliographic citations from more than 600 Polish periodicals. The second index, Agro-Agen, offers citations from around one hundred periodicals published in English. The third database, Agro-Konf, makes available citations from more than 8,000 published conference proceedings. The entire Agro database, with over 128,000 bibliographic records, is updated quarterly and produced by librarians from the Main Library and Information Center of the Agriculture University in Poznan. Micro CDS/ISIS advanced non-numerical information storage and retrieval software is used to create the Agro database. Extensive keyword indexing permits users to search the three databases by authors, titles of articles, journals, conference name and place, and keywords. The retrieved citation presents detailed information on title, author, journal title, volume, issue, year, pages, publisher, the main words used in the article, contact addresses for authors or publishers, and language. The Agro database does not contain abstracts but each citation includes carefully selected keywords that represent the main concept of the indexed record. The index has been produced since 1992, when Wlodzimierz Golab, director of the Agriculture University Library, convinced the staff about the importance of creating an electronic tool for locating Polish literature in all areas of agriculture from agricultural administration, laws and legislation, regulations, economics, education and training, engineering, products to horticulture, animal science, entomology, aquatic science, fisheries, food science, food products, forestry, geography, meteorology, climatology, history, home economics, human ecology, household textiles and clothing,
Highlights
Review: Agro-Librex; Agro-Agen; Agro-Konf: Bibliographic Database By The University of Agriculture Library in Poznan
The Agro database does not contain abstracts but each citation includes carefully selected keywords that represent the main concept of the indexed record
In June of 1992, the first CD-ROM version of the Agro-Librex database, the staff of Poznan Agriculture Library fulfilled the need for a Polish agriculture index
Summary
Review: Agro-Librex; Agro-Agen; Agro-Konf: Bibliographic Database By The University of Agriculture Library in Poznan Reviewed by Maria Anna Jankowska University of Idaho Library, USA Poland: Main Library, University of Agriculture, 2000.
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