The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) submitted a new set of bibliographic data to the AGRIS repository, referencing to open access publications from the IWMI Library Catalog, with relevant hyperlinks to the full-text. The data, containing information on water, land resources, irrigated agriculture, wetlands and so on, is now published and available at AGRIS.

IWMI digitizes publications

This new set of records covers publications from the 90's until today. It is indexed manually by cataloguers using the AGROVOC Thesaurus and contains hyperlinks to the electronic version of the documents. In order to achieve this, we actively sought-out our own  “previously unknown” publications and then digitized and indexed them. All newly digitized IWMI publications are now being disseminated to archives, repositories and harvesters.

IWMI & AGRIS

IWMI's collection  ranges from 1986 to-date and contains 6000+ IWMI publications’ records (bibliographic references describing books, reports, proceedings, chapters etc.) A total of 3808 bibliographic records were published in the AGRIS system,  with a very high percentage (more than 90%) containing the URL metadata information linking to the full-text of the publication.

According to IWMI’s mandate all our publications outputs are Global Public Goods. We are using Inmagic DBTextworks as the LIS software. An XSLT was developed to map the IWMI database model to the AGRIS required metadata format and this saved us a lot of work in submitting to AGRIS. It eliminated the need to maintain 2 databases (WebAGRIS etc.) and also we didn’t have to change our own data-model.