AGRIS search engine

The AGRIS search application provides access to a large collection of world literature covering all aspects of agricultural sciences and technology, including grey literature which is not available through normal publication and distribution channels.

The AGRIS repository is continuously updated and currently contains over 2.3 million bibliographic references in the AGRIS AP XML format, from 1975 to date. This data is collected from AGRIS resource centres in over 100 countries worldwide.

http://www.fao.org/agris
Started in: 
1974
Owner: 
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN)
Contact email: 
FAO-Agris-Caris@fao.org
Geographic coverage: 
Global
Thematic coverage
Domain(s): 
Type of service: 
Type of information managed: 
Services from which this service re-uses information: 
AgriFeeds
Services from which this service re-uses information: 
GFAR document repository
Standards & technologies
This section provides information on the technologies used and the standards with which the service is compliant, with indication of the metadata sets, formats and protocols adopted for input in the system and those adopted for output.

KOS adopted: 
AGRIS/CARIS Categories (ASC)
KOS adopted: 
AGROVOC Multilingual agricultural thesaurus (AGROVOC)
Input metadata set(s): 
AgMes metadata element set
Input metadata set(s): 
AGRIS Application Profile
Input format / notation: 
Input protocols / architectures: 
Output metadata set(s): 
AgMes metadata element set
Output metadata set(s): 
AGRIS Application Profile
Output format / notation: 
Instructions
This section provides detailed instructions on how the service can be interoperated, e.g. the URLs, the parameters, the output format etc.

Instructions for getting information from this service: 

This application provides a simple search box into which a user can type a query to search the entire repository. A "Search Assistant" allows for more sophisticated searches. The search results provide metadata (title, author, abstract, publisher, etc.) of bibliographic references and, where available, a link to the full-text document. Additionally, a Google search for the full text document of a bibliographic record can be executed.

Instructions for inputting information in this service: 

The bibliographic records that are searcheable through the AGRIS search engine come from several research centers that send their records in XML files compliant with the AGRIS Application Profile.

Any research center / institution / organization can contribute their records, if relevant to the field of agriculture.

Centers that want to send their records for the first time only need to request a code and then send a first batch of records as Agris AP XML.

Contact address: fao-agris-caris@fao.org  

Example(s): 

http://www.fao.org/agris/search/search.do?query=%2Bsubject%3Afarmers will display a list of bibliographical records indexed with the Agrovoc keyword "farmers" as the subject