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AGRIS reaches 10,324,047 bibliographic records! (December 2019)

The FAO AGRIS team is pleased to inform all AGRIS data providers and users about the AGRIS December 2019 data release

As of December 2019, the number of AGRIS multilingual bibliographic records has reached 10,324,047 records!

Almost 100,000 new records have been added, of which:

  • 30,464 coming from Agricola of the United States National Agricultural Library
  • 54,984 from more than 30 data providers

The AGRIS team wishes to thank all AGRIS contributors and users!

The next AGRIS data release will take place in early January 2020. 

AGRIS : BACKGROUND

AGRIS (International Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology) is a free of charge service that provides access and visibility to research information resources in agricultural and related sectors.

Since 1975, AGRIS has been maintained by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN), thus helping enhance visibility of agricultural publications produced worldwide by governmental agencies, universities and research centres.

  • Currently, AGRIS network embraces 400 Data Providers (from up to 145 countries) which submit bibliographic data on research papers, reports, multimedia material, grey literature and other content types. 
  • AGRIS is used by students, researchers, lecturers, librarians and other information  professionals, publishers and professional associations and government officials.
  • AGRIS records are (i) fully indexed by Google Scholar and (ii)  indexed (85 % of  AGRIS records) by AGROVOC multilingual Thesaurus, that covers all areas of interest of FAO including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc.   

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