November 17th, 2009 by Doug
OneMine is a collaborative effort among multiple societies to place the world’s most comprehensive collection of mining and minerals based research in one place. This aggregate includes:
Technical Documents
Conference Papers
Articles
Pre-prints
Late Papers
Many other forms of research documentation will be added in the future such as Power Point Presentations, Video Clips, and more.
The goal of OneMine is to collect the most relevant and reliable aggregation of technical papers associated with mining and minerals in one, easy to navigate location. Anyone can search OneMine. Members of participating societies can view, download and print documents at no charge. If a user is not a member, they can choose to purchase papers individually.
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November 17th, 2009 by Doug
AERADE provides access to key aerospace and defence information sources created worldwide. Our team of specialists frequently add new resources, and the service currently includes links to more than 30,000 quality and essential Internet resources including Web sites, specialist databases, full text technical reports, engineering design data, conferences and news.
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November 17th, 2009 by Doug
The IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) Library is responsible for maintaining the Rice Bibliography. Whereas the library catalogue contains a large collection of books and journals of interest to scientists researching rice or rice-related topics, the Rice Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of all books and articles directly pertaining to rice. It endeavours to include all articles and books relating to rice in the world, and is the world’s largest and most complete source of scientific information about rice with almost 8,000 new references added each year. All articles pertaining to rice are sought out for the Rice Bibliography and IRRI Library acquires copies of the article whether or not it holds the particular serial in its collection.
Over the years the Rice Bibliography has been mounted on a total of four software packages. The version on the screen before you contains references from 1970 onwards. Older references, a few going back to the mid-18th century, are available for searching at IRRI Library.
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November 17th, 2009 by Doug
Through AgNIC you can search the world of agriculture or stay up-to-date with the latest agricultural news and events taking place around the world. AgNIC is the Agriculture Network Information Center – a voluntary alliance and partnership of
60 + member institutions and organizations working to offer quick and reliable access to quality agricultural information and sources.
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November 17th, 2009 by Doug
FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.
The national version of FAOSTAT, CountrySTAT, is being developed and implemented in a number of target countries, primarily in sub-saharan Africa. It will offer a two-way data exchange facility between countries and FAO as well as a facility to store data at the national and sub-national levels.
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November 17th, 2009 by Doug
The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) is:
a unique literature collection and information service developed by agricultural communications faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
a service to students, teachers, researchers, professional communicators and others who are interested in communications related broadly to agriculture, food, natural resources and rural affairs.
more than 30,000 documents; the collection involves agriculture-related communications in 170 countries.
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November 17th, 2009 by Doug
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types such as books chapters and government documents are included. AgEcon Search will serve as the permanent archive for this literature and encourages authors and organizations to use this electronic library as the storehouse for additional appropriate scholarly electronic works.
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November 3rd, 2009 by Doug
ARCHEION is a searchable gateway to online descriptions of archival records located in archives across Ontario. Archives are an essential component of our history and culture. They are repositories of unique materials, including diaries, letters, photographs, genealogical records, maps, films, audiotapes, and electronic records.
The components of ARCHEION include:
- Descriptions of archival documents
- The ability to search the descriptions
- Contact information for the archives where the documents can be accessed
Archeion is a subset of Archives Canada
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November 3rd, 2009 by Doug
Archives Canada is a gateway to archival resources found in over 800 repositories across Canada.
Through Archives Canada you can:
- Search archival holdings across Canada
- Access Provincial and Territorial Archival Networks
- View digitized photographs, maps, documents and online exhibits developed around Canada’s history
- Browse digital projects produced through the Archival Community Digitization Program
- Find contact information for repositories where these resources are
held. Archival descriptions and digitized products are added regularly.
Archives Canada is an official archival portal maintained by the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA), and is a joint initiative of CCA, the Provincial & Territorial Archival Networks, and Library and Archives Canada. All archival descriptions and links contained in the searchable database are provided by provincial & territorial councils, their members, and Library and Archives Canada.
The Ontario component of this is Archeion.
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November 3rd, 2009 by Doug
DeepDyve calls itself the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research with over 30 million articles from thousands of authoritative journals. You can view many documents free, others will cost $.99; to print or download you will be connected to the publisher’s site and must pay their fee. All topics are covered; there is no indication of dates of coverage.
[ed note - I found search gave off-topic results with no indication of cause; I would not count on it as a sole source.]
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November 3rd, 2009 by Doug
VITIS-VEA (Viticulture and Enology Abstracts) is an international English-language literature database in the field of viticulture. Publications are accessible on the following areas:
Morphology, physiology, and biochemistry of grapevines, soil science, genetics and grapevine breeding, phytopathology and grapevine protection, cellar techniques, economics of viticulture and enology, enology, microbiology of wine.
Coverage begins in 1969, database language is English and German.
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November 3rd, 2009 by Doug
Search and Discovery strives to provide the latest geoscientific information, especially related to energy sources and other natural resources, to the greatest number of users in the most expeditious time-frame by means of the most appropriate electronic media.
Search and Discovery combines case histories of oil and gas fields and case histories of discoveries of other energy sources, with linkage of spatial information to databases, and present articles describing plays/trends
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November 3rd, 2009 by Doug
Scientific Research Abstracts from the Wine Information Council covers studies carried out in Europe and beyond on the health, social and cultural aspects of wine consumption. The aims of the WIC are to gather such information into a centralized database portail, to make it understandable to all and to make it available for people at large.
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October 16th, 2009 by Doug
The ISDR Library has specialized in disaster risk reduction and related issues such as sustainable development, climate change, early warning systems, human settlements, environment, education, gender.
It collects books, reports, educational materials, periodicals, proceedings of main conferences and workshops, electronic resources to support the programmes and activities of the Inter-Agency secretariat of the ISDR, the Inter-Agency Task Force on disaster reduction, ISDR units in Latin America, Africa, Asia, UN and non-UN partners, governments, NGOs, as well as the international academic, technical and scientific community.
It also collects proceedings of conferences and workshops on disaster risk reduction.
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October 16th, 2009 by Doug
PAHO’s Health Library for Disasters (HeLiD) hosts a variety of information resources on public health for disasters and complex emergencies reduction. The documents include full texts of technical guidelines, manuals, field guides, disaster chronicles, case studies, emergency kits, newsletters, and other training materials. They are in English, Spanish, French, and some even in Russian.
HeLiD was an inter-agency effort, to which more than 20 international organizations have contributed, including United Nations agencies such as UNHCR, UNICEF, ISRD; the Red Cross movement through IFRC and ICRC
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